A Clackamas man who lost control of his snowmobile and crashed into several small trees west of Bend was rescued Saturday in a joint effort by deputies, search and rescue team members, state troopers, fire department paramedics, and U.S. Forest Service personnel. About 3:50 p.m., Deschutes County 911 dispatch received a report of a snowmobile accident with injuries in an area about ½ mile west of FS Road 45 on snowmobile trail 40, Deschutes County Sheriff’s ... [full story]

A 26-year old Bend man was killed and his brother injured in a rollover crash on Knott Road early Sunday morning that deputies say was alcohol-related. According to a news release update prepared by Deschutes County Sheriff’s deputy Lt. Shane Nelson, a Bend Fire Department ambulance came across the crash about 12:30 a.m., December 9, as it was returning from an unrelated medical call.  “They arrived just as an unknown caller contacted 911 dispatch to ... [full story]

State, county and city police officers teamed together Friday afternoon to arrest a man who attempted to elude a state trooper along Highway 97 about five miles north of Bend. Robert Burdick, a 23-year old Bend man, failed to stop when a trooper tried to stop his 1974 Chevrolet pickup for an equipment violation on Highway 97 near Deschutes Junction about 1:40 p.m., December 7, Oregon State Police (OSP) reported.   Robert Burdick - DCJ photo Burdick drove ... [full story]

One person died and two others were injured early Sunday morning when an elderly wrong-way driver crashed head-on into an oncoming vehicle on Beltline Road just west of River Road in Eugene, Oregon, police reported.    Jack Lawrence, 80, was killed Sunday when he crashed head-on into an oncoming vehicle as he drove the wrong-way on Beltline Road - OSP photo Oregon State Police (OSP) said that 80-year old Jack Lawrence of Eugene was traveling east in the westbound lane of Beltline ... [full story]

Teachers, principals and support staff from Vernonia Middle School and Vernonia High School met with their peers from Scappoose High School Sunday. The noon meeting in the library of Scappoose High School began with introductions and food, and quickly progressed to the details of running three schools in one. Scappoose High School principal, Sue Hays, handed out a large envelope to each guest teacher full of items such as bell schedules, a map of the ... [full story]

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Television talk-show host Oprah Winfrey helped attract about 29,000 people to a rally for Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barrack Obama in South Carolina.   Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is joined by Oprah Winfrey before he addresses supporters at a rally at the Hy-Vee Conference Center in Des Moines, Iowa on December 8, 2007. Iowa voters head to the polls for a caucus on January 3, 2008.Obama and his leading rival, Sen. ... [full story]

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- A second leader of a major Pakistani political party announced the group won't boycott January parliamentary elections in Islamabad.Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said his Pakistan Muslim League members would participate in the Jan. 8 vote after talks with another former prime minister and opposition leader failed to bring unity on boycotting Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's bid for re-election, Washington Post correspondents reported.Benazir Bhutto said her Pakistan People's Party members would vote ... [full story]

GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba -- More than 100 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, were sent to Saudi Arabia under a program that requires counseling, vocational training and religious classes."Our goal is to transfer out as many individuals from Guantanamo Bay as we can," Sandra Hodgkinson, U.S. deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs, told The Washington Post. "... We believe this is a very, very good program."The United States once held 138 Saudis at Guantanamo ... [full story]

ALGIERS, Algeria -- Reports emerged from Algeria Monday that al-Qaida militants in the country attacked a military bus last week, but gave up and fled.A security source who asked not to be identified told Med Basin Newsline about 12 men carried out the 15-minute attack Wednesday near Yakourene, 60 miles east of Algiers."There were injuries and perhaps casualties among the terrorists," the source said. There was no report of military deaths.It was the first al-Qaida ... [full story]

DENVER -- Police and federal agents in Colorado Monday sought links between two church shootings a day earlier that killed five people and wounded five others.The first shooting was in the town of Arvada about 12:30 a.m., where a gunman shot four people, killing two of them after being denied a place to sleep at the Youth With a Mission center, police said. A little more than 12 hours later, a gunman opened fire at ... [full story]