Local News

As the sun rose through tips of the pines in the west Bend trees Wednesday morning, a sound not heard in six days cut through the cold morning air: the babble of children pouring into school.   Those William E. Miller Elementary students — and thousands of others across Bend-La Pine Schools — returned to […]

Six days after the shooting inside a special needs classroom at Silver Rail Elementary, recovery continued for the seven-year-old girl and 54-year-old staffer wounded in the tragedy.   Meanwhile, the community and families continued to mourn the dead, including a teacher working her “dream job” and a “vivacious” five-year-old — the youngest person ever killed […]

Skyler Laughlin’s daughter’s desk sits next to a window near the front of the school at Lava Ridge Elementary in northeast Bend. When he toured the classroom earlier this year, he was excited about the prospect of his daughter getting more natural light to help her learning.   Now — days after a 16-year-old gunman […]

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 […]