Crook County News

Investigators, neighbors, friends and family of 14-year-old Justin Butler are trying to make sense of the tragic events which took his life.

Crook County Sheriff Rodd Clark says Brandon Hornseth of Lonepine was arrested Monday night on suspicion of first-degree manslaughter in the death of Justin Butler of Culver.

On Sunday, November 8, 2009, at about 3:43 am the Crook County Sheriff's Office responded to a ranch onA NW Lone Pine Road in Terrebonne to investigate the shooting death of a 14-year-old boy.

Authorities say a 14-year-old boy was shot to death while sleeping inside a motor home at a hunting camp in Central Oregon.

Today is Election Day in Oregon. Residents of Central Oregon will be voting on a $41.5 million construction bond for Central Oregon Community College.

As flu season continues to build throughout the area, one thing school districts need not fear is a shortage of substitute teachers.

The COCC bond passes but not everyone is celebrating. A "Deschutes won the contest, Crook county lost the contest," said Robert Hiscock of Prineville.

The state of Oregon has shut down a boarding school for troubled teens in Central Oregon after allegedly finding a pattern of child abuse and neglect of its students, forcing parents around the country to scramble to bring home their children.

Federal regulators are ordering a North Bend company and its owner to finish cleaning up the owner's former ranch in Crook County.

What: Sherman Alexie at The Nature of Words Details: * Reading and signing with Alexie, Karen Karbo and Matthew Dickman - 7 p.m. Thursday at the Tower Theatre, 835 N.W. Wall St., Bend; tickets are $15, available at the Ticket Mill in the Old Mill District , or the Tower Theatre box office * Sherman Alexie Unplugged - 9 to 11 a.m. Friday at Pinckney ...

Central Oregon Community College students and officials are just days away from finding out whether their school will be able to build new facilities to accommodate a more than 45 percent enrollment increase over the past two years.

A Bend-area man who was behind the wheel of a truck that crashed in September, injuring him and killing his passenger, was arrested Thursday in Douglas County by Oregon State Police on suspicion of Manslaughter in the First Degree and Criminally Negligent Homicide.

Starting with the 2010-11 school year, Central Oregon high schools Redmond, Bend, Mountain View, Summit and Crook County will make up a five-team "hybrid" league.

A student rally Thursday, in support of the forty one point three million dollar COCC bond on the November ballot in Deschutes, Crook and Jefferson counties.

Winston resident Jim Fowler searches for job listings Monday at the Roseburg office of the Oregon Employment Department.

For a month, Jefferson County Assessor Patsy Mault has been hearing from people whose property values have plummeted.

Oregon State Police is asking for the public's help to complete an investigation into a reported stolen vehicle that was later found partially submerged in a canal along Highway 370 in Crook County.

On October 10, at 11:30pm the Crook County Sheriff's Office, Oregon State Police and Crook County Fire and Rescue responded to a single vehicle rollover on Mill Creek rd just North of Hwy 26E.A The passenger of the vehicle, Donald Ray Carter age 24 of Prineville was ejected from the vehicle during the crash and was lying at the rear of the 1991 ...

BEND, Ore. - The majority of calls that came in about 14 malnourished, lice-infested horses in Crook County last April were from neighbors and concerned citizens who could see the horses as they drove past on the highway.

The investigation team with Crook County Fire & Rescue has determined the cause to be accidental for the mobile home fire early Saturday morning in Prineville.