Crime & Justice

Sisters High employee on leave during investigation

Sisters School District Superintendent Curt Scholl confirmed Thursday that a Sisters High School employee had been placed on…

Crime & Justice

Federal appeals court upholds life sentence after 6th public indecency conviction

A Hillsboro man’s sentence of life in prison without parole after his sixth conviction for public indecency —…

Bend

UPDATE: Police ID Bend pedestrian killed on Parkway

A pedestrian died after being hit by a semitruck Wednesday night on the Bend Parkway near Reed Market…

Bend

Grand jury declines to indict La Pine Uber driver on kidnapping charge

A kidnapping charge against a La Pine Uber driver was dismissed after a grand jury refused to indict…

Bend

Woman’s texts to National Human Trafficking hotline lead to arrest in Bend

Bend Police saved a woman from human trafficking and sex crimes after she texted a national human trafficking…

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Bend man charged with killing his mother had assaulted her before

A 40-year-old Bend man with a history of assaulting his mother now faces a second-degree murder charge in…

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Oregon pays few of the wrongfully convicted since the passage of a new law

When Oregon lawmakers passed Senate Bill 1584 in 2022, they sought to give people who had been wrongfully…

Bend

Deputies: Bend man set home ablaze, blocked firefighters from extinguishing fire

A Bend man who called 911 and said he set his own house on fire was arrested Tuesday…

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Seven arrested in two separate fentanyl busts in Deschutes County

Seven people suspected of trafficking fentanyl in Bend were arrested in two separate busts in the past week,…

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Fights, battery rise in Bend schools above pre-pandemic levels

When her daughter said she was bullied by fellow students at High Desert Middle School, Toreen Taylor armed…

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