STAR, Idaho (AP) — A man described as suicidal died after a police officer fired at him in Idaho, authorities said. Police officers in the city of Star, northwest of Boise, were called around 5:30 p.m. Thursday by a person who said 41-year-old Christopher Huffman was threatening to harm himself and making suicidal statements, according
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum announced Saturday an agreement in principle with national grocery giant Kroger that will require the grocery chain to pay a total of $1.37 billion to participating state and local governments for their role as a dispenser of opioids in the country’s ongoing crisis. Oregon will receive
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — Governor Tina Kotek on Saturday ordered all flags at Oregon public institutions to be flown at half-staff until sunset on Monday, September 11 in remembrance of the nearly 3,000 civilians and first responders that were killed in the 2001 terrorist attacks. Governor Kotek issued the following statement in remembrance of 9/11:
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CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – Oregon State University researchers will play key roles in a new multi-institution earthquake research center dedicated to the study of the Pacific Northwest’s Cascadia Subduction Zone, which is capable of producing earthquakes comparable to the largest recorded globally. The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded $15 million over five years to the Cascadia
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – The Oregon Department of State Lands announced Friday a statewide workgroup to guide newly funded efforts to address hazardous boats, ships and other vessels in public waterways. In June, the Oregon Legislature approved $18.8 million to begin removing vessels from waterways and developing a statewide abandoned and derelict vessel (ADV) program. The unprecedented
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CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – A crisis helpline dedicated to serving Oregon’s agricultural and forestry communities is now open. The Oregon Agristress Helpline – 833-897-2474 – is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, by call or text. The voice line can be accessed in up to 160 languages with the help of interpreters,
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CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – Oregon State University and Washington State University, the two remaining members of the Pac-12 Conference, initiated legal action Friday, seeking “to confirm the governance structure of the conference, gain access to business information, and protect the conference’s assets.” This is a critical step that allows the two universities to continue to
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By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business New York (CNN) — Kroger and Albertsons are selling roughly 400 stores to Piggly Wiggly’s parent company in an attempt to win antitrust approval for the mega merger between the grocery stores. C&S Wholesale Grocers will pay $1.9 billion, with the deal expected to close in early 2024 subject to
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PORTLAND, Ore (KTVZ). — Following their conviction at trial, three former executives of Aequitas Management, LLC, and associated companies were sentenced to federal prison terms Thursday for their roles in a vast fraud conspiracy wherein the executives raised nearly $300 million from defrauded investors. Robert J. Jesenik, 63, former chief executive officer of Aequitas and
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Study highlights microglia degeneration in brain caused by iron toxicity PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Researchers at OHSU say they have discovered a new avenue of cell death in Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia. A new study, led by scientists at Oregon Health & Science University and published online in the journal Annals of Neurology on Aug. 21, reveals
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CHRISTMAS VALLEY, Ore. (KTVZ) – A recent Oregon State Police raid on an allegedly illegal marijuana growing operation in Christmas Valley turned up nearly 1,600 plants and led to the arrest of a Fresno, California man, troopers said Thursday. OSP’s Drug Enforcement Section Southwest Region Marijuana Team executed the search warrant on August 30 in
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle Police Department has achieved “full, sustained and lasting compliance” with most of the provisions of a federal settlement agreement that was intended to transform the department, a federal judge ruled. U.S. District Judge James Robart announced the ruling on Wednesday, The Seattle Times reported. The ruling brings an end to
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WASHINGTON (KTVZ) – As thousands of Oregonians struggle to find safe, affordable places to call home, and as homelessness continues to rise across the United States at a record-setting rate, Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (OR-05) is backing two proposals that would result in the construction of new affordable homes. The Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act would support
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CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – Oregon State University research has uncovered a possible clue as to why glaciers that terminate at the sea are retreating at unprecedented rates: the bursting of tiny, pressurized bubbles in underwater ice. Published Thursday in Nature Geoscience, the study shows that glacier ice, characterized by pockets of pressurized air, melts much more
Continue ReadingTACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Two men have pleaded guilty to vandalizing power substations in Washington state in attacks that left thousands without power on Christmas Day. Jeremy Crahan, of Puyallup, admitted Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Tacoma that he and Matthew Greenwood conspired to cut electrical power in order to break into ATM machines
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CRATER LAKE, Ore. (KTVZ) – The fire danger level within Crater Lake National Park has dropped from extreme to high, due to recent moisture and predicted cooler temperatures. Effective Thursday at 12:01 am, Crater Lake National Park will rescind the fire ban implemented on July 28. To ensure public safety and to provide the highest
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — In the predawn hours of March 20, 1998, a neighbor heard screams coming from the home in Salem of Harriet “Sunny” Thompson and then saw a white man run from the house, leaving Thompson inside dead of stab wounds. Yet a Black man, Jesse Johnson, was
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PENDLETON, Ore. (KTVZ) — A poacher will pay $75,000 in fines and serve jail time after killing numerous deer and elk near Pendleton in what officials called a wildlife crime spree. Walker Erickson, 28, of Pendleton, pleaded guilty to 22 charges including illegally killing deer and elk, leaving game animals to waste and trespassing. All
Continue ReadingBy Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — Lori Vallow Daybell, the Idaho woman serving a life sentence for murdering her two children, has appealed her convictions to the state Supreme Court, court documents show. In the motion filed last week, Vallow Daybell’s attorney said her legal team intends to raise whether Vallow Daybell was mentally competent
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Oregon Health Authority, in collaboration with Oregon Housing and Community Services, announced Wednesday proposed timelines to begin offering new Medicaid benefits that eligible Oregon Health Plan members would receive under Oregon’s ground-breaking 1115 Medicaid waiver agreement with the federal government. If the federal government agrees to the proposal, eligible OHP
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