Jefferson County News

County clerks in Deschutes and Crook counties say today is the last day to mail your ballots if you expect them to reach the clerks' offices by election Tuesday.

Four World War II veterans, five Vietnam veterans and one who served in the Korean War -- all left Tuesday, ready for the trip of a lifetime.

A state program set up to help Deschutes County homeowners refinance their underwater mortgages is expanding into Crook and Jefferson counties.

Last time voters in the Madras Aquatic Center Recreation District were asked to tax themselves to help keep the district operating, the Jefferson County Sheriff opposed the idea.

The suspect is 24 year old Montana Marlatt. He is the older brother of one of the other men hunting.

A Sunday shooting that left a Madras teen dead was intentional, the Jefferson County Sheriff said Monday, but the motive is still a mystery.

An armed fugitive who was shot by an Oregon State Police trooper near Madras on Friday has been identified as Zande Joshua Barnacascel, 56.

A 24-year-old man is facing murder and manslaughter charges in Jefferson County this morning following the death Sunday of another man on a hunting excursion south of Madras, according to Sheriff Jim Adkins.

Investigators studied the scene of an officer-involved shooting Friday. The area was covered in brush and trees, about three miles northeast of Madras.

A man was shot dead while rabbit hunting with his friends early this afternoon near the Crooked River National Grassland south of Madras.

A man shot by an Oregon State Police trooper during a pursuit north of Madras Friday is in critical condition at St.

An Oregon State Police trooper shot and wounded a burglary suspect northeast of Madras Friday afternoon, ending a nearly three-hour manhunt that involved several police agencies, a tracking dog and search plane, authorities said.

At the end of a three-day trial, a Jefferson County jury deliberated for about 90 minutes Wednesday and acquitted a former Culver 4-H leader of sex abuse charges.

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