Earth2o's Emery Oregon's 'Small Biz Person of Year'
Oregon Business Development Commissioner Steve Emery, president and CEO of Culver's Earth2o, chosen as 2010 Oregon Small Business Person of the Year by U.S. Small Business Administration.
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Transient gets eight years for abusing teen at homeless camp
Transient arrested last summer for sexually abusing a teenage boy at a Bend homeless camp is sentenced to more than eight years in prison, but continues to profess his innocence after jury's conviction.
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Telfer one of four seeking state treasurer's post
Bend state Sen. Chris Telfer files to follow in Ben Westlund's footsteps and be state Treasurer, notes her CPA background; three Democrats plan to run, including Ted Wheeler, appointed by the governor to interim post.
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La Pine residents react to deadly cougar attack
A cougar attacked and seriously injured a horse in La Pine over the weekend, to the point where it had to be euthanized. But the troubling part, residents say, is where officials believe the big cats are calling home.
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Redmond soldier visits class to say 'thanks'
They've been writing to him for months now. And now, finally, Specialist John Montgomery visited Karen Brockway's third-grade classroom at Lynch Elementary.
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Bend, Salem memorials set for Ben Westlund
The public is invited to two memorial services for state Treasurer and former Central Oregon legislator Ben Westlund, who died Sunday of cancer at the age of 60.
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Booming COCC plans to add staff, hike tuition
Central Oregon Community College recently won voter approval of a bond measure to build new facilities; now, it plans to boost tuition in each of the next several years, to help make sure staffing and services can keep up.
| Randy Guzek motions hearing under way in Bend
A 23-year-old local murder case is front and center once again, as the man convicted of brutally slaying a Terrebonne couple is back in a Bend courtroom.
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Flaherty running to unseat Deschutes DA Dugan
For the first time in 20 years, Deschutes County District Attorney Mike Dugan faces an election foe, as defense lawyer, former prosecutor Patrick Flaherty files candidacy.
| Ex-Warm Springs detective sentenced in evidence theft
Federal judge sentences a former Warm Springs police detective for stealing nearly $5,000 in cash evidence nearly three years ago.
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'Bank of Cascades' phishing scammers making calls
Oregon attorney general's consumer fraud hotline gets surge of calls about automated calls purporting to be from Bank of the Cascades - a 'phishing' scam callers should ignore and provide no personal info to.
| Bend man charged in attack on ex-girlfriend
Bend man faces attempted murder, kidnap, assault and other charges in an attack on his ex-girlfriend that left her with minor injuries, police say; victim's neighbor offers reaction.
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