Police have announced that Redmond will be the focus of the next planned Multi-Agency Traffic (MAT) team enforcement detail to be held Wednesday, November 14. Law enforcement officers from Bend and Redmond Police Departments, Oregon State Police troopers, and Deschutes County Sheriff’s deputies will be out in force from noon until about 5 p.m., enforcing speed and all other safety-related violations. According to Sgt. Kurt Koester with the Bend Police Department, the goal of the ... [full story]

A 29-year old Bend man was arrested early this morning after he allegedly crashed his friend’s pickup into a power box in a drunk-driving collision police say caused power outages to numerous homes in the northeast part of the city, and then fled the scene.   Brian Christopher Blanton - DCJ photo Bend Police were first alerted to the incident about 12:25 a.m. Tuesday when several citizens called to report hearing a loud explosion before the power ... [full story]

The City of Bend invites community members to attend a Stakeholder Sounding Board meeting on November 15. The meeting is being held to review preliminary evaluation results for design concepts to improve the intersection of Highway 97 and Cooley Road. The Stakeholder Sounding Board is an advisory committee that provides on-going feedback on the project. Participation is open to all interested people.The meeting will be held from 12:30 to 2:30 on Thursday, November 15 in ... [full story]

A Tumalo-area farm-owner who thought a fire from burning yard debris two days earlier was completely extinguished was surprised when the pile reignited on Monday morning, and an ember traveled over 60-feet to set a hay shed on fire and burn over a dozen bales of hay. Bend Fire sent one engine company, one water tender, and one wildland company to 65725 Gerking Market Road, a Tumalo-area farm off Cline Falls Highway owned by William Gardner, ... [full story]

Although the fire was extinguished within a few minutes, over $10,000 in damage was done to a house and vehicle in northwest Bend when improperly discarded ashes from a wood stove ignited, fire officials reported. Over a dozen firefighters with Bend Fire responded to 236 NW St. Helens Place, a home owned by Matt Calanchini and occupied by Rachelle Templin, about 12:20 a.m. on Sunday morning.  They found the rear of the home ablaze and ... [full story]

Window-breaking vandals have been at it again, this time in northeast Bend.  Police reported that a dozen vehicles were vandalized over the weekend when their windows were shot out by a small “bb-type projectile”. On Sunday morning, police discovered three vandalized vehicles, and as the day progressed, nine more reports were received. None of the cars had been entered and nothing was stolen. “No suspects have been identified at this time,” Bend Police Lt. Ken ... [full story]

BAGHDAD - The war criminal known as "Chemical Ali" remains in U.S. military custody as Iraqi officials debate the legality of his execution by Iraq.Ali Hassan al-Majeed, Sultan Hashem Ahmed and Hussein Rashid were to be executed within 30 days after an Iraqi appeals court upheld their sentences in early September, CNN reported Tuesday. The three Sunnis were convicted of war crimes against the Kurds in the late 1980s during the reign of Saddam Hussein.Various ... [full story]

MOSCOW - A man imprisoned for killing an air traffic controller for the death of his family was greeted Tuesday by supporters in Moscow after an early release.Vitaly Kaloyev, who lost his wife and two children in a 2002 plane crash, two years later stabbed to death the only air traffic controller on duty at the time a Russian Bashkirian Airlines passenger plane collided with a DHL cargo jet over southern Germany, in airspace managed ... [full story]

About 156,000 Canadians are without electricity after a massive windstorm Monday night downed power lines and toppled trees on Canada's west coast.BC Hydro said it could take until Wednesday to restore electricity to its customers in British Columbia."Based on the damage we are seeing, we are advising customers that it will be one to two days that power will be out and they should prepare for one to two days of outages," company spokeswoman Gillian ... [full story]

KABUL, Afghanistan - NATO-led forces in Afghanistan are exposing detainees to torture, Amnesty International charged Tuesday.NATO-led forces have transferred detainees to Afghanistan's intelligence service, the National Directorate of Security, despite consistent reports of torture by the NDS, including whippings, beatings, starvation and exposure to extreme cold, said Claudio Cordone, senior director for research at Amnesty International."Such transfers should be suspended until effective safeguards are in place," Cordone said.Most of the transfers to the NDS came ... [full story]