Wildlife officials captured a 25-pound snapping turtle found wandering through a Harrisburg pasture late last month, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife said Thursday. The invasive species, which poses a threat to native fish and wildlife habitats, not to mention human hands and feet, was a product of illegal turtle trafficking.
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A Bend man caught trespassing at a southwest Bend home late Wednesday night jumped a fence and ran through the neighborhood when police arrived, but was tracked down with the help of a K-9 team and arrested, police said.
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The U.S. House on Thursday passed H.R. 467, the HALT Fentanyl Act, which would make the class-wide scheduling order for fentanyl-related substances permanent, supply law enforcement with the tools needed to keep these dangerous drugs off the streets, and support research efforts to understand the effects of fentanyl-related substances on people’s health.
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Bend officer Tyler Bergeron reminds drivers the Bend Parkway is NOT a freeway.
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Detectives with the Deschutes County Illegal Marijuana Enforcement team and the Central Oregon Drug Enforcement Team wrapped up a several-month investigation Tuesday with five Bend and La Pine raids involving a group based in a La Pine-area home who allegedly grew and processed illegal marijuana and delivered it to the Midwest and East Coast.
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Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum on Tuesday joined in a multi-state nationwide lawsuit against Avid Telecom and its principals for allegedly initiating and facilitating billions of illegal robocalls to millions of people.
Continue ReadingBy Emma Tucker and Paradise Afshar, CNN (CNN) — The father of slain University of Idaho student Kaylee Goncalves said he felt “rage” in the courtroom on Monday as he attended the arraignment for the man accused of killing his daughter and three other students. “You go through all kinds of emotions, but rage is
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Security photos in a Sunriver Police social-media post generated a tip that led to the arrest Wednesday of a 22-year-old Sunriver man who allegedly spray-painted “Jesus Loves U’ messages on several buildings in Sunriver and Corvallis last month.
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SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek is asking a state legislative panel for changes to a Senate bill that would address a constitutional crisis that has left thousands of people accused of crimes without attorneys. Kotek’s letter comes after lawmakers and policy experts have spent over than a year crafting the legislation, Oregon
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A welfare check on a reported victim of domestic violence and her two young children at a Tumalo-area home Monday morning led to a six-hour Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office presence, including the SWAT team, a warning to area residents to stay inside and a Bend man’s eventual arrest.
Continue ReadingALBANY, Ore. (AP) — The names of the farmworkers killed and injured Thursday in one of Oregon’s deadliest highway crashes have been released. The Oregon State Police on Monday released the names of the seven people who died and the four who were injured when a semitruck left Interstate 5 and slammed into a van
Continue ReadingBy Dakin Andone and Jason Kravarik, CNN (CNN) — An Idaho judge entered not guilty pleas on behalf of Bryan Kohberger, the man accused of killing four University of Idaho students last fall, during an arraignment in a Latah County Court on Monday. Judge John Judge read aloud Kohberger’s rights and each of the murder
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A 2-year-old Nampa, Idaho boy who was the subject of an Amber Alert received across a wide area, including Central Oregon, has been found, police said Saturday. They are still seeking his non-custodial father, accused of felony domestic battery with traumatic injuries.
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ALBANY, Ore. (AP) — The victims of one of Oregon’s deadliest highway crashes were farmworkers traveling in a van at an hour when agricultural laborers typically commute home after toiling in the harvest, the state’s farmworkers union and Mexican officials said. Authorities have not yet released the names of the seven who died or the
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After four hours of deliberation, a Jefferson County Circuit Court jury convicted a 22-year-old Madras man of murder and other charges Friday in the July 2020 fatal shooting of an 18-year-ol Madras resident.
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ALBANY, Ore. (AP) — Truck driver in Oregon crash that killed 7 arrested on suspicion of DUI, manslaughter, other charges.
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PHOENIX (AP) — A woman who was convicted in Idaho last week in the deaths of her two children and a romantic rival has been indicted for a second time in Arizona, this time on charges that she conspired to kill her niece’s ex-husband. Lori Vallow Daybell was found guilty last week of conspiring to
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A grand jury has indicted a man who was already charged in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students, allowing prosecutors to skip a planned week-long preliminary hearing that was set for late June. Bryan Kohberger was arrested late last year and charged with
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Mother-and-son poachers who shot two bear cubs near Siletz last October must pay $15,000 in damages, lost hunting privileges for three years and will be on bench probation for five years, according to Lincoln County court documents.
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Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (OR-05) joined Rep. Michael McCaul (TX-10) to introduce the FEND Off Fentanyl Act, which seeks to combat the fentanyl crisis by targeting the illicit drug’s global supply chain.
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