A teenage boy from Rimrock Trails Adolescent Treatment Services who had been on a hike in the Mill Creek area with other boys and a counselor allegedly attacked the counselor, stole a van, and ran over one of his companions twice, authorities reported. Crook County Sheriff’s deputies received a report of a motor vehicle crash near milepost 28 on Highway 26 East on Saturday, and as they were enroute an updated report advised that the ... [full story]

Flags to be lowered Tuesday, May 8, 2007 in honor of Army Sgt. Michael Louis Vaughan   Army Sgt. Michael L. Vaughan SALEM, Ore – Today Governor Ted Kulongoski ordered all flags at public institutions be flown at half-staff on Tuesday, May 8, 2007, in memory of Army Sgt. Michael Louis Vaughan. Vaughan, 20, of Lincoln City, died Monday, April 23, 2007 in As Sadah, Iraq.  He was assigned to the 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat ... [full story]

Improperly discarded cigarette ashes dumped into a garbage can in the garage of a northeast Bend home Saturday night was likely the cause of a blaze that caused $20,000 in damage, fire officials reported. A dozen firefighters responded to the two-story home of Lawrence Asplind at 20770 Amber Way about 8:20 p.m. May 5, said Bend Fire Battalion Chief Bob Madden. Upon arrival, heavy smoke was coming from an attached garage, and a car and ... [full story]

LibertyBank North American Pond Skimming Championships will be held on Closing Day, Sunday, May 20 Mt. Bachelor has announced that Sunday, May 20th will be the final day for skiing and riding for the 2006-2007 season.  With two weeks remaining, there is plenty of snow and fun filled events to wrap up the season. To honor mothers this season, Mt. Bachelor will offer a special for the first time on Mother’s Day.  On ”Bring Your ... [full story]

30,000 square-foot building currently occupied by Bend Tarp and Liner is purchased by Aspen Devco Sperry Van Ness, one of the nation’s largest commercial real estate brokerage firms, has completed the sale of a 30,000-square-foot industrial building to Aspen Devco from Oregon and California for $3.5 million.   The property is located within Basalt Business Park at 20845 Sockeye Place in Bend, Oregon. Michael Baron of Sperry Van Ness in Redmond, Oregon represented the buyer, Aspen Devco, ... [full story]

SISTERS, Ore. — Deschutes National Forest fuel specialists, in cooperation with the Oregon Department of Forestry, are planning a controlled burn near Sisters today, May 7th. The burn will be located south of the McKenzie Highway (approximate three miles west of Sisters) and directly adjacent to the Crossroads subdivision.This 60-acre underburn is part of a series of controlled burns designed to reduce fuels on federal lands surrounding the Crossroads subdivision. The objective of the project ... [full story]

State Senator Ben Westlund, Oregon AFL-CIO President Tom Chamberlain, Bend City Councilor Linda Johnson, and Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 757 President Jon Hunt will join ATU members, union allies, bus riders, and community supporters from across Oregon in a Solidarity Rally for Bend Area Transit (BAT) union rights 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, May 12, at Bend's Juniper Park. The rally will include messages addressing the issues of labor law reform, workplace rights and ... [full story]

U.S. Sen. Gordon H. Smith (R-OR) continued his efforts to protect an additional 128,600 acres of wilderness surrounding Mount Hood and the Columbia River Gorge. During a hearing of the Public Lands and Forests Subcommittee, Senator Smith joined Oregonians John Sterling of the Outdoor Industry Conservation Alliance, Ron Suppah, Chairman Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation and Martha Schrader, Clackamas County Commissioner in championing the “Lewis and Clark Mount Hood Wilderness Act of 2007.”    Senators ... [full story]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a letter to Director of National Intelligence, Michael McConnell, members of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence raised concerns about the State Department’s recent characterization of the Sudanese government as a “strong partner in the War on Terror.”  Citing the state-sponsored genocide that has killed hundreds of thousands of people in the Darfur region of Sudan, U.S. Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR), Russ Feingold (D-WI), Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and Sheldon Whitehouse ... [full story]

BEIJING - Thousands in China are belatedly able to express openly their grief over a 1994 incident in which 288 children died in a fire. The Times of London reported on Internet campaigners in China who only recently were able to expose the truth -- that the children perished because they were ordered to take their seats in a theater so Communist party officials could escape the fire first. The fire occurred in a theater ... [full story]