Redmond’s St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Store has been broken into eight times over the past month, resulting in property and vehicle damage and the theft of various items used to stock the store, according to an employee.
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Bend city councilors voted to have the city join a federal class-action lawsuit against 3M and DuPont de Nemours after a small amount of PFAS, also known as “forever chemicals,” was found in a city well during testing earlier this year.
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A Bend man who was excluded from Deschutes County’s downtown Bend campus due to alleged “bad behavior” was arraigned on an indictment Monday, 10 days after his arrest on charges of breaking into and setting a fire in a peer support center after emptying its fire extinguishers.
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A transient arrested after he allegedly pointed a gun at a touring family and fired a shot near a girl off China Hat Road south of Bend made his first court appearance Monday and told the judge he wants to represent himself. Mean while, the tour guide operator said he felt “horrible” about what had occurred and won’t bring future tours to that area.
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A 59-year-old Crescent man was arraigned Monday on a second-degree murder charge, accused of shooting his younger brother several times after finding him in his trailer Sunday night, Klamath County authorities said.
Continue ReadingBy Celina Tebor, Eva McKend, Khalil Abdallah and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — Three Palestinian college students were shot in Burlington, Vermont, on Saturday evening, prompting calls from civil rights organizations and the victims’ families for authorities to look into possible bias by the attacker. The 20-year-old men are all receiving medical care, according to
Continue ReadingBy LISA RATHKE Associated Press BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Three college students of Palestinian descent out for a walk in Vermont were seriously injured over the weekend when a man shot them at close range on a city street — an attack being investigated as a possible hate crime, authorities said Monday. Jason J. Eaton,
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By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd, was stabbed by another inmate and seriously injured Friday at a federal prison in Arizona, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. The attack happened at the Federal Correctional Institution, Tucson, a medium-security prison
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — For many Oregonians, Black Friday and Cyber Monday are the perfect time to check items off their holiday shopping lists. For others, it’s an opportunity to trick people out of their money and sensitive personal information. “In the midst of all the holiday excitement, it is important to be aware of
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Several picnic tables at Stone Creek Park in southeast Bend were covered with racial slurs and other crude imagery recently. Bend Park and Rec crews removed the graffiti Wednesday morning. The tables are in a covered area directly across from Silver Rail Elementary School. As of Wednesday afternoon, Bend Police said
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Madras has seen a recent string of car thefts, many tied to the cold weather and people warming up cars who leave them unattended, keys in the ignition.
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Starting next May, The Oregon State Bar will be moving away from required, traditional standardized testing, meaning law students won’t be required to pass the bar exam in order to start practicing law.
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The 2023 holiday shopping season is here, and the Oregon Division of Financial Regulation is reminding people to watch out for financial scams that can target their pocketbook, particularly gift card scams.
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By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A voter-approved Oregon gun control law violates the state constitution, a judge ruled Tuesday, continuing to block it from taking effect and casting fresh doubt over the future of the embattled measure. The law, one of the toughest in the nation, was among the
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WASHINGTON (KTVZ) — Oregon Senators Ron Wyden, Jeff Merkley and Senate colleagues announced Monday they introduced legislation that would prevent domestic violence abusers from buying firearms. Federal law protects domestic violence survivors from gun violence by preventing their abusers from buying or having a firearm – but only once the court has issued a final
Continue ReadingBy Jillian Sykes and Sarah Dewberry, CNN (CNN) — The suspect in the disappearance of a Washington couple who went missing from their home last week and may be dead was a tenant who was about to be evicted, the sister of the missing woman said Monday. Karen Koep and her husband, Davido, have been
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By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press The judge overseeing the case of a man accused of stabbing four University of Idaho students to death late last year is banning members of the media and the public from using cameras and audio recording devices in the courtroom, saying they jeopardize the defendant’s right to a fair trial.
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Wendy Swales of Redmond says she has used Facebook for nearly 15 years, but last month, all of that changed. Swales was sent a direct message from what appeared to be Facebook, telling her to update her app. But what she didn’t know was: It was a fake account from a hacker.
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By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s first-in-the-nation law that decriminalized the possession of small amounts of heroin, cocaine and other illicit drugs in favor of an emphasis on addiction treatment is facing strong headwinds in the progressive state after an explosion of public drug use fueled by the proliferation
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By GENE JOHNSON and ED KOMENDA Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — The suspicious letters sent to vote centers and government buildings in six states this month were undeniably scary, some containing traces of fentanyl or white powder, accompanied by not-so-veiled threats and dubious political symbols. Harkening back to the anthrax attacks that killed five people
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