Oregon House Republicans introduced legislation Thursday for next month’s “short session” that they said would “end the crises of drugs, homelessness, and crime that have been exacerbated by the failed Measure 110.”
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The trial of a Portland man accused of coming to Central Oregon with several guns and a plan to shoot several people at a Smith Rock climbing event last fall has been pushed back nearly five months after a defense motion to suppress evidence because authorities found him at a campsite through a “warrantless ping” of his cellphone.
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A disturbing incident outside a bar caught on camera has prompted Prineville Police to put Officer Jacob Gentry on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of an investigation. Another, months-long investigation involving the police chief and captain, also on leave, has been completed, but no details or decision have yet been released.
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EUGENE, Ore. (KTVZ) —A former Prineville resident pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court for his role in a conspiracy to produce and distribute videos depicting the torture, mutilation and murder of monkeys in exchange for money raised by an online animal abuse group the man administered, prosecutors said.
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By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The Oregon Supreme Court will soon decide whether to remove Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 ballots because of the 14th Amendment’s “insurrectionist ban.” A liberal advocacy group, Free Speech For People, filed the Oregon lawsuit last month on behalf of a group of voters. They went directly to the state’s
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – Truck drivers are learning about the crime of human trafficking – how to recognize it, how to report it and how to help prevent it – in a statewide effort involving ODOT’s Commerce and Compliance Division, Oregon Trucking Association, trucking companies, law enforcement and safety advocates. January is National Human Trafficking
Continue Reading PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon judge has entered the final order striking down a gun control law that was narrowly approved by voters in 2022. Harney County Circuit Court Judge Robert Raschio signed the general judgment on Monday. The judgment finalizes the opinion Raschio issued in November finding the law violated the right to
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A former longtime Deschutes County sheriff’s deputy and detective, recently convicted by a judge of two counts of official misconduct, was sentenced Friday afternoon and began serving a week in the Crook County Jail, records indicated.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Downtown Bend Business Association Executive Director Shannon Monihan announced Monday that she has filed for the Oregon Senate District 27 seat that GOP Senator Tim Knopp currently holds — and Knopp endorsed her bid, if the legal fight over the Republican walkout last session means he can’t seek re-election. The Oregon
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – Caleb Cegers, the 20-year-old Bend man accused of fatally shooting Redmond resident Taylor Wyss, 33, on the sidewalk outside a downtown Bend bar last August, pleaded not guilty Monday to second-degree murder and three other charges, and a Jan. 7, 2025 trial date was set in the case. Cegers also pleaded
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REDMOND, Ore. (KTVZ) – Redmond police requested the community’s help Monday in finding a 40-year-old resident who left his workplace Saturday and had not been seen since. He was found in Bend a short time later, police said in an update. David Holmes left his place of work around 12: 30 p.m. Saturday, and around
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SISTERS, Ore. (KTVZ) – A Prineville man under investigation for allegedly trafficking large quantities of fentanyl pills and methamphetamine into the region was arrested Saturday morning after a drug-detection K-9 alerted to their presence in his car during a traffic stop on Highway 20 near Sisters. The Central Oregon Drug Enforcement Team wrapped up a
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A Bend man who killed his two roommates with a hatchet in 2021 will spend the rest of his life behind bars, without any possibility of parole, a judge ruled Friday at Randy Kilby’s sentencing hearing.
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At:project, Central Oregon’s local responder for the federal Office on Trafficking in Persons and Office of Victims of Crime, is observing Human Trafficking Awareness Month in January .
Continue ReadingBy MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday allowed Idaho to enforce its strict abortion ban, even in medical emergencies, while a legal fight continues. The justices said they would hear arguments in April and put on hold a lower court ruling that had blocked the Idaho law in hospital
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – After a week of prosecution testimony, no defense witnesses and almost six hours of deliberation, a jury last month found Randall Kilby guilty of two counts each of first- and second-degree murder in the March 2021 hatchet killings of his two roommates at their home in southwest Bend. His sentencing is
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The Moon Country Snowbusters’ warming shelter at Wanoga Sno-Park was hit by damaging vandalism over the Christmas Break, according to a post on Facebook. And another group also was hit in a similar timeframe.
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THE DALLES, Ore. (KTVZ) – Seven ODOT road signs were cut down and removed along U.S. Highway 97 and two other highways in Wasco County last month and found discarded together by a roadway. Oregon State Police said Thursday they are looking for information to solve the crimes. OSP responded on Dec. 21 to the
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EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — A judge in Oregon has rejected a U.S. Department of Justice request to dismiss a 2015 lawsuit brought by young people that alleges the federal government knew the dangers posed by carbon pollution but that it has continued through policies and subsidies to support the fossil fuel industry. U.S. District Court
Continue ReadingBy CLAIRE RUSH The Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Authorities are investigating the theft of medication prescribed to patients at a southern Oregon hospital, police and state medical officials confirmed Wednesday, following a local news report that two people died and others were sickened after a nurse replaced fentanyl intravenous drips with tap water.
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