SEATTLE (AP) — A new unit aimed at solving cold cases of missing and murdered Indigenous people will be established in Washington state, a result of the latest law to address a decades-long crisis. House Bill 1177 was recommended by a state task force, passed unanimously in the Legislature and was signed last week by
Continue ReadingBy Cheri Mossburg and Jean Casarez, CNN One of the surviving roommates in a stabbing attack that left four University of Idaho students dead has agreed to speak to defense attorneys for suspect Bryan Kohberger after initially resisting efforts by his legal team to compel her testimony. In a court filing made Wednesday, obtained by
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A wanted Prineville man pulling a camp trailer with two flat tires refused to stop for Crook County sheriff’s deputies Wednesday, leading them on a lengthy chase until the trailer came unhooked, then speeding onward at speeds over 100 mph. They later found out why he left it behind – over 350 pounds worth of reasons, as in marijuana.
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Oregon’s parole board has granted release from prison to Seth Koch, the second-youngest of the “Redmond 5” convicted killers and the one who at age 15 shot and killed Barbara Thomas with a hunting rifle in March 2001 at her home on the Bend-Redmond Highway after beating her with empty wine bottles.
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Kook’i, a bakery truck that sits in the Doghouse Brew Yard food truck lot, recently had thousands of dollars worth of supplies used to help run their business stolen out of their truck while parked at the Best Buy parking lot in Bend.
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More than 40 years after Jeffrey Spoonire admitted to fatally shooting a woman jogging west of Bend in one of the region’s most notorious killings — and was dubbed the “thrill killer” at the time — the state Parole Board has once again denied his request for release from prison.
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A pair of recent Oregon State Police traffic stops on Interstate 84 near La Grande and I-5 near Salem led to the arrest of two drug trafficking suspects and federal charges and seizure of large amounts of fentanyl, cocaine and other drugs found in their vehicles, authorities said Tuesday.
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A trial connected to a $1.6 billion class action lawsuit against utility PacifiCorp over the catastrophic Labor Day 2020 wildfires in Oregon started Tuesday in Portland. The fires in 2020 killed nine people, burned more than 1,875 square miles (4,856 square kilometers) in Oregon and destroyed upward of 5,000 homes and
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A Bend man speeding through downtown at about 70 mph early Monday morning ran flashing red lights, struck an object and went airborne, with his car crashing into the steel pergola outside the Deschutes County Courthouse, police said. He was arrested on DUII and other charges.
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The Crook County School District has announced that two full-time School Resource Officers will now be assigned to protect local students and staff.
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho Supreme Court on Monday rejected a request by 30 news organizations to lift a gag order in the criminal case of a man accused of stabbing four University of Idaho students to death. The high court did not weigh in on whether the gag
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The Celebration of Life will be held for Corporal Joseph “JJ” Johnson on Saturday at 11:00 A.M. (Mountain Time), at the Nyssa High School, 824 Adrian Blvd, Nyssa, Oregon. The public is invited to attend, and it will be livestreamed.
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Three Redmond residents were arrested by police and the region’s SWAT Team at a location south of the city Friday afternoon, two accused in a Redmond armed robbery last week that sent a man to the hospital with injuries. The third was taken into custody on several outstanding warrants.
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April is Child Abuse Prevention Month, and local advocates say case numbers in Central Oregon have skyrocketed.
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A Bend man pleaded not guilty Friday to assault, hit-and-run and other charges in an alleged road rage incident last week east of Alfalfa in which Crook County authorities said he rammed an Idaho man’s car from behind several times during a high-speed pursuit, causing a rollover crash.
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A La Pine man arrested at his Sunriver business last month after a teen seeking a job told her mother he’d been sending her sexually explicit messages pleaded guilty Wednesday to a charge of luring a minor, admitting he did so with an undercover police officer who continued the exchanges.
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The latest attempt in the Oregon Legislature to pass a measure known as Ezra’s Law, to toughen the sentence for assaults that leaves victims with life-long injuries, has failed, officials say.
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A drone team has helped authorities find the body of a Warm Springs man who had been missing since leaving home on a firewood-cutting trip early last month, prompting several searches, police said Tuesday.
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The suspect in Saturday night’s fatal shooting of a Nyssa reserve police officer was arrested Monday morning at a home in Ontario, about 13 miles away, Malheur County District Attorney David Goldthorpe said.
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