Police: FBI helped track Bend Senior HS phone threat to out-of-country caller
Bend Senior High School was placed in “Secure” lockout Thursday afternoon and all other area high schools soon were as well, for close to an hour as…
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Bend nonprofit In Our Backyard returns to Super Bowl, again working to thwart human trafficking
Carly Keenan speaks with the director of In Our Backyard, a Bend-based nonprofit devoted to stopping human trafficking, which has traveled to the…
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Redmond police thank public for helping ID 2 store, ‘porch pirate’ theft suspects; investigation continues
Redmond police this week thanked community members who saw the photos they released to the public and helped them identify a couple sought in a…
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Oregon Supreme Court rejects state AG’s petition to overturn Harney County judge’s ruling, let M. 114 take effect
The Oregon Supreme Court on Thursday denied the Oregon attorney general’s petition to overturn a Harney County judge’s injunction and allow…
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Seattle man jailed, accused of wielding airsoft handgun, knife to rob homeless man at camp near Sisters
A Seattle man was arrested on robbery and other charges, accused of pointing a handgun (that turned out to be an airsoft) and brandishing a knife to…
Continue ReadingPolice shoot, kill man in crisis who pointed gun at them
ALBANY, Ore. (AP) — Two police officers shot and killed a man who was in crisis Tuesday morning after the man pointed a gun at them in Albany,…
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Drug raid on NE Bend duplex finds dangerous lab making psychedelic hallucinogen DMT; 4 residents arrested
A raid Wednesday morning on a northeast Bend duplex that’s been the subject of numerous investigations turned up a surprise – an active,…
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Bend PD adding two DUII-focused officers to patrol the streets on Super Bowl Sunday
The Bend Police Department is adding two additional DUII officers, in addition to one full-time DUII officer, to their force to help patrol the roads…
Continue Reading30 news groups ask Idaho Supreme Court to reject gag order
By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Thirty news organizations have asked the Idaho Supreme Court to overturn a gag order in a…
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Russian cryptocurrency money launderer pleads guilty in Portland to conspiracy charge
A Russian cryptocurrency money launderer who was extradited from the Netherlands to face charges in Oregon pleaded guilty Monday in federal court,…
Continue ReadingNevada lithium mine wins ruling; green energy fights rage on
By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — A U.S. judge has ordered the government to revisit part of its environmental review of a lithium…
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Alleged manager of raided big Alfalfa marijuana grow arrested in Texas — on the job, scooping ice cream
Nearly 18 months after a major raid on a large illegal marijuana grow in Alfalfa run by a Mexican drug cartel, one of the alleged managers of the…
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Bend Police make six drunken-driving arrests in 12 hours; two of the men were arrested twice
Bend police made six drunken-driving arrests in 12 hours Sunday night and early Monday – and for two of the men, it actually was their second…
Continue Reading2 arrested in central California shooting that left 6 dead, including mother clutching 10-month-old son
CNN, KFSN, KMPH By Cheri Mossburg, CNN Two suspects were taken into custody, one after a shootout, in a “cartel-style” massacre last…
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Wyden, colleagues reintroduce bipartisan bill to combat rising catalytic converter thefts
WASHINGTON (KTVZ) — Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., last week joined Senate colleagues from both parties to reintroduce legislation that would combat the…
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Arrest made in stolen yacht rescue, ‘Goonies’ fish incident
By GENE JOHNSON and RIO YAMAT Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A stolen yacht. A dramatic Coast Guard rescue. A dead fish. And the famed home…
Continue ReadingMan sentenced for stealing police rifle during protests
SEATTLE (AP) — A 26-year-old Everett, Washington man was sentenced Friday to 16 months in prison for stealing a high-powered rifle from a Seattle…
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Intoxicated Bend man arrested after refusing to leave Sisters restaurant, making shooting threats
DCSO says he also threatened to return, shoot up restaurant, tried to enter cars in parking lot SISTERS, Ore. (KTVZ) – An intoxicated Bend man who…
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Sunriver man flees deputy on Hwy. 97 at 80-100 mph, is Tasered, arrested after altercation with officers
A 50-year-old Sunriver man was arrested on several charges early Friday morning, accused of speeding 80-100 mph, sliding into a Sunriver snowbank…
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Redmond man sentenced to nearly 19 years in prison in 2020 crash that killed Culver mother, injured 2
A Jefferson County judge sentenced a 31-year-old Redmond man to nearly 19 years in prison Friday for a drunken-driving crash on Highway 97 in…
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