Deschutes County Sheriff Shane Nelson, under fire from a county commissioner and others for not checking the work background of a consultant he hired this summer on homeless issues who now faces criminal charges, acknowledged his error Saturday and said the department’s policies have been tightened as a result.
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By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press Law enforcement officials came across a staggering find after being tipped off about possible drug-dealing: dozens of dog-food-size bags of psychedelic mushrooms worth an estimated $8.5 million at a home in rural Connecticut. A drug task force including federal, state and local authorities raided the property Thursday in Burlington, about
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Oregon needs a more integrated, over-arching strategy to better combat domestic violence, according to the state Audits Division, which just released an advisory report assessing the state’s role in addressing this issue and offering suggestions for improvement.
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By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Three passengers sued Alaska Airlines on Thursday, saying they suffered emotional distress from an incident last month in which an off-duty pilot is accused of trying to shut down the engines of a plane while catching a ride in the cockpit from Washington state to San Francisco.
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A Bend City Council meeting that began with a bit of history and a sung Warm Springs tribal prayer had other emotional moments, from the district attorney’s unnerving recollection of a “horrifying” rash of homicide cases to a letter read aloud from a Bend father who lost his teen son in an e-bike-car collision this summer, voicing support for planned safer cross-town bikeways.
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WASHINGTON (KTVZ) — Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore, and Representatives Anna G. Eshoo, D-Calif., and Debbie Lesko, R-Arizona, on Thursday reintroduced their bipartisan, bicameral legislation to help prevent domestic abusers from using technology to stalk, harass or control survivors. “Domestic abuse survivors are already recovering from tough situations – they shouldn’t also have to worry about
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More than a month after work began and days after a formal groundbreaking ceremony, a federal district this week dismissed a lawsuit initiated by the Save Arnold Canal group seeking to halt the Arnold Irrigation District’s Main Canal piping project, the district announced.
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REDMOND, Ore. (KTVZ) – The Central Oregon Emergency Response Team surrounded and negotiated the surrender of a 35-year-old Redmond man Wednesday morning on assault, robbery and other charges after a domestic violence incident in which the victim was injured, police said. The suspect was identified as the perpetrator of an assault in which he tried
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By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press An Idaho woman and her son have been charged with kidnapping after prosecutors say they took the son’s minor girlfriend out of state to get an abortion. Court documents show Idaho police began investigating the mother and son earlier this summer after a 15-year-old girl’s mother told authorities her daughter
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A pursuit of an armed suspect who crashed into a Salem home and shot and critically injured a woman Tuesday morning, then headed east on state Highway 22E toward Central Oregon ended near Detroit, where police said the man stopped his pickup and shot and killed himself.
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Central Oregon continues to benefit from the critical work and services of J Bar J Youth Services’ at:project (Anti Trafficking Project), which recently learned they have received a $941,000 grant over three years from the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Victims Crime’s Integrated Services for Minor Victims of Human Trafficking.
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A Bend woman’s standing offer to plead guilty to lesser charges in a head-on DUII crash on Highway 26 that killed three members of a Warm Springs family nearly a year ago apparently is still opposed by prosecutors, so Monday’s scheduled plea/sentencing hearing turned out to be neither.
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Bend Police and two Bearcat armored vehicles from the Central Oregon Emergency Response Team blocked in an RV parked on Northeast Second Street Monday afternoon and arrested a 32-year-old man who was inside on assault and other charges in a recent stabbing in the area.
Continue ReadingBy Soyoung Kim Click here for updates on this story SALEM, Oregon (KPTV) — Two people are dead after a reported shooting followed by a police chase and crash in Salem early Sunday, according to the Salem Police Department. At about 6:30 a.m., police responded to reports of shots fired at an apartment complex on
Continue Reading PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Oregon announced Friday that the former CEO of Sunwest Management and associated companies, who previously admitted to orchestrating one of the largest financial fraud schemes in Oregon history, was ordered to pay over $74 million in restitution to more than 1,400 victims. Jon
Continue ReadingBy John Miller, Evan Perez, Josh Campbell, Aya Elamroussi and Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — A US Army reservist accused of killing 18 people and injuring 13 others in a shooting rampage in Maine this week was found dead Friday evening – apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot – after a two-day manhunt, a state official
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A Portland man accused of planning a mass shooting attack at a Smith Rock climbing event before he was stopped and arrested last week in Deschutes County with several guns and many rounds of ammunition in his car made his first court appearance Friday afternoon and remains held on $10 million bail.
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A recent head-on crash on Highway 97 north of Bend sent both drivers to the hospital and led to the drunk-driving arrest of a Redmond man, as well as another DUII driver found waiting in traffic, Oregon State Police said Friday, shining a spotlight on the dangers of impaired driving.
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Caleb Cegers, the 20-year-old Bend man accused of fatally shooting Redmond resident Taylor Wyss, 33, in downtown Bend back in August, made his first court appearance Friday morning, having just been returned to Oregon after two months in a Tennessee jail.
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Oregon Division of Financial Regulation announced Thursday that, in partnership with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and 29 other state regulators, it has reached a settlement with Safeguard Metals LLC and Jeffrey Ikahn in a federal lawsuit. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of
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