Peter Madsen

The parents of Rhoam Summer, one of three children killed at the mass shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School in southeast Bend on Oct. 15, have retained legal representation from three law firms as of Monday.  The law firms Dwyer Williams & Cherkoss, Simon Greenstone & Panatier and Worthington & Caron announced that they have […]

National news outlets, including The New York Times, have identified the Silver Rail Elementary School shooter’s mother as Shauntai May Nickerson. Citing anonymous law enforcement officials not authorized to speak on the matter, outlets also say the shotgun the 16-year-old used to kill three children and a teacher, and critically injure another student and a […]

Authorities have identified Griffin J. John II as the suspect in the Oct. 15 shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School that resulted in the deaths of three children and a teacher, and the critical injuries of another teacher and student. Speaking at a press conference Friday afternoon at Bend Municipal Court, Bend Police Chief Mike […]

A sunset reunion of two high school sweethearts was cut short last December in Tumalo in a pedestrian-driver crash, according to a wrongful death lawsuit. Filed in Deschutes County Circuit Court on Oct. 2, the lawsuit asserts that Deschutes County is to blame for letting the markings of a busy crosswalk across Cook Avenue in […]

No matter how you intend to vote, the midterm election on Nov. 3 already had plenty riding on it. Now, at least three voters who received printed voter pamphlets from Deschutes County have more unknowns to contend with: 24 missing pages in the booklet intended to share perspectives about the election. Deschutes County Clerk Steve […]

Teens riding electric bicycles and e-motorcycles keep making local headlines; most recently, on Oct. 2, when two 13-year-olds, in separate incidents, collided with vehicles. Both survived, yet the boy riding an electrical motorcycle was admitted to St. Charles Medical Center in critical condition, and the other kid, riding a Veo e-bike, suffered significant road rash. […]

As if the race for Deschutes County sheriff wasn’t sufficiently fraught, another investigation has been added to the hopper.  On Aug. 5, the Oregon Government Ethics Commission moved to investigate Interim Sheriff Ty Rupert’s alleged misuse of county resources during his current campaign for sheriff. Rupert was appointed interim sheriff by Deschutes County commissioners in […]

A collision between a driver and an electric motorcycle rider on Oct. 2 in Bend’s Medical District has left the 13-year-old rider in critical condition. At approximately 7:58 pm, the Bend Police Department responded to a motor vehicle crash between a white Dodge minivan and a Sur-Ron e-motorcycle at the intersection of NE Neff Road […]

Sydney Gladu, an investigative journalist podcast producer, lives in Seattle. But growing up in Bend, she worked as a bagger at Newport Avenue Market.  That’s where she realized she loved hearing people’s stories. Customers’ and coworkers’ gossip and news — she couldn’t get enough. And podcasts like “This American Life” lit up Gladu’s interest not […]