U.S. pressing ahead on security after Benghazi

Syria escalation

May 21, 2013 4:00 am

Smoke and fire rise after explosives were dropped by a Syrian government warplane Monday in Yabroud near Damascus, Syria. Also Monday, Hezbollah was pulled more deeply into Syria’s civil war as 28 guerrillas from the Lebanese Shiite militant....MORE

Sports On the air

May 21, 2013 4:00 am

TodayBASEBALL Time TV/RadioMLB, New York Yankees at Baltimore or Tampa Bay at Toronto 4 p. m. MLBCollege, Oregon at Oregon State 5:30 p. m. KICE-AM 940MLB, Seattle at Los Angeles Angels 7 p. m. RootHOCKEYNHL, playoffs, Boston at New York Rangers 4:30 p.....MORE

Sports in Brief

May 21, 2013 4:00 am

FootballFormer Beaver arrested — Former NFL wide receiver and Oregon State University standout Chad Johnson was arrested on charges that he violated probation stemming from an altercation with his now ex-wife, TV reality star Evelyn Lozada.....MORE

NFL

Seahawks opens OTAs with off-field distractions

May 21, 2013 4:00 am

RENTON, Wash. — Pete Carroll and the Seattle Seahawks started organized team activities on Monday with little talk about anything that took place on the field. That was understandable, considering the recent news about suspensions and arrests.....MORE

Scoreboard

May 21, 2013 4:00 am

ON DECKTodayBoys lacrosse: OHSLA state playoffs, second round: Bend at Jesuit, 7 p. m. WednesdayBaseball: 5A state playoffs, first round: Pendleton at Bend, 4:30 p. m.; Liberty at Redmond, 5 p. m.; 4A state playoffs, first round: Astoria at Sisters,....MORE

NHL Playoffs

Red Wings top Blackhawks, take series lead

May 21, 2013 4:00 am

DETROIT — The young Detroit Red Wings have made the mighty Chicago Blackhawks look vulnerable, beating them two straight times to gain an advantage in their last playoff matchup as Western Conference rivals. Gustav Nyquist and Drew Miller....MORE

Police close case on missing Utah mom

May 21, 2013 4:00 am

WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah — For the first time, Utah police said Monday they believe Susan Powell’s brother-in-law was “heavily involved" in getting rid of her body, even as they announced they couldn’t solve the sensational ....MORE

News of Record: Police Log, Bend Police Department, Prineville Police Department, Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, Oregon State Police

May 21, 2013 4:00 am

Police LogThe Bulletin will update items in the Police Log when such a request is received. Any new information, such as the dismissal of charges or acquittal, must be verifiable. For more information, call 541-383-0358. Bend Police DepartmentDUII....MORE

Profile: David Karp

Mom’s advice to Tumblr’s founder: Quit school

May 21, 2013 4:00 am

NEW YORK — When David Karp was 14, he was clearly a bright teenager. Quiet, somewhat reclusive, bored with his classes at the Bronx High School of Science. He spent most of his free time in his bedroom, glued to his computer. But instead of....MORE

Manzarek, 74, played keyboards for The Doors

May 21, 2013 4:00 am

Ray Manzarek, a founding member of the 1960s rock group The Doors whose versatile and often haunting keyboards complemented Jim Morrison’s gloomy baritone and helped set the mood for some of rock’s most enduring songs, has died. He was....MORE

In Salem

House votes for Hatfield statue

May 21, 2013 4:00 am

SALEM — The Oregon House voted Monday to pull a statue of Oregon pioneer Jason Lee from a prominent place in the U. S. Capitol and replace it with one of the late Mark Hatfield, one of the most influential politicians the state has seen.....MORE

Eugene

Homeless village seeks residents

May 21, 2013 4:00 am

EUGENE — A village for homeless people modeled on one in Portland could be open this summer in Eugene. Organizers of Opportunity Village Eugene are accepting applications in hopes of finding a dozen homeless people and opening the village in....MORE

Shooting under investigation

May 21, 2013 4:00 am

The Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a shooting that occurred in Crooked River Ranch Monday afternoon.“The victim and the shooter are acquaintances, so there’s no danger to the public whatsoever," Sgt. Troy Gotchy ....MORE

Dutchman closed to snowmobiles

May 21, 2013 4:00 am

The Deschutes National Forest closed Dutchman Sno-park’s snowmobiling access last weekend, citing early snow melt. According to a news release, the closure is earlier than normal; often snowmobilers can access high country from Dutchman Sno-....MORE

Closures planned for DMV offices

May 21, 2013 4:00 am

All Oregon DMV offices will close for a statewide furlough day Friday and for Memorial Day Monday. Because waiting times tend to be longer on days before and after DMV office closures, customers are asked to do any business by mail or online if....MORE

Oregon news

Animal-rights worker arrested for taping rodeo

May 21, 2013 4:00 am

JORDAN VALLEY — A member of an Illinois-based animal-rights group has been arrested after refusing to stop videotaping at an annual Eastern Oregon rodeo where horses are roped by the legs in an event the state Legislature is considering....MORE

Around the State

May 21, 2013 4:00 am

Controversial cross — A cross in a public park in Coos Bay that has been at the center of a controversy over religious symbols in public places has been vandalized. Police say someone wrote the word “Remove" in the middle of the cross....MORE

Deaths Elsewhere

May 21, 2013 4:00 am

Deaths of note from around the world:Barbara Brenner, 61: Led the group Breast Cancer Action and shaped it in her own combative image, pillorying the medical establishment, industrial polluters and even other advocates. Died May 10. Lothar Schmid,....MORE

Senate confirms federal judge for Oregon

May 21, 2013 4:00 am

WASHINGTON — The Senate confirmed Multnomah County Circuit Judge Michael J. McShane to a seat on the Eugene bench of the U. S. District Court of Oregon on Monday. McShane, 52, becomes the first openly gay federal judge in Oregon history. He....MORE

Park board candidates weigh in on leash issues

May 21, 2013 4:00 am

The Bend Park & Recreation District board election has prompted several candidates to wax poetic on their canine companions. Justin Gottlieb reminisced about his dog Archie, Craig Chenoweth recalled exploring the outdoors with his family dog and....MORE

Sawyers appeal rulings, sentences

May 21, 2013 4:00 am

The Bend couple sentenced to federal prison April 30 for their roles in a real estate fraud scheme have appealed their convictions. Former Bend Police Capt. Kevin Sawyer and his wife, former real estate broker Tami Sawyer, pleaded guilty in January....MORE

Bombs away

May 21, 2013 4:00 am

Harry Fuller, left, and Ann Hodgkiss, dancers participating in a '30s-'40s swing dance party, view the B-17G Flying Fortress “Aluminum Overcast" WWII bomber, one of 13 Fortresses still flying, Monday at the Bend Municipal Airport. The restored....MORE

Jets may get more airspace

• Proposal would expand training area over Central Oregon

May 21, 2013 4:00 am

A 2,500-square-mile section of airspace over parts of Central and Eastern Oregon could become training space for F-15 fighter jets. The U. S. Air Force and the National Guard Bureau are proposing to expand the amount of airspace used in the state for....MORE

Munkres for Redmond schools

May 21, 2013 4:00 am

Ron Munkres is my choice for the Redmond School Board. Munkres went to Redmond schools and then had a very distinguished career as an educator and administrator. As principal of the only vo-tech school in Oregon, Sabin Skill Center, Munkres spent....MORE

Add schools without raising tax rate

May 21, 2013 4:00 am

Here is some good news. Thanks to the retirement of existing bonds and refinancing of old bonds, we have an opportunity to build new schools and deliver much-needed projects without raising our current tax rate. Our community continued to grow — ....MORE

Vote yes for schools

May 21, 2013 4:00 am

We are growing and our buildings are feeling those achy pains that come with fast growth. Hundreds and hundreds of students have been enrolling in our schools each year — and our buildings are bursting at the seams. Schools are filling up very ....MORE

Values emerge in the burying of Tamerlan Tsarnaev

May 21, 2013 4:00 am

If you don’t believe in souls or an afterlife, then a corpse is just a body — potentially a teaching tool, a source of life-saving organs, but little more. In 1829, taking such thinking to the extreme, a radical British pamphleteer named....MORE

The Bulletin’s endorsements

May 21, 2013 4:00 am

The deadline is 8 p. m. tonight to have your vote count on money measures and candidates for local boards. It’s too late to mail your ballot, but drop sites are listed on the websites of your county clerk and the Oregon secretary of state.....MORE

City must take care of Pilot Butte Cemetery

May 21, 2013 4:00 am

Bend’s Pilot Butte Cemetery is a link to the community’s past unlike any other. In it are buried some of the city’s earliest residents and some far more recent, as well. The city of Bend owns the cemetery, the city’s oldest,....MORE

Editor's choice

White House had IRS notice earlier

May 21, 2013 4:00 am

WASHINGTON — The White House offered a new account Monday of how and when it learned that the Internal Revenue Service had improperly targeted conservative groups, saying that some senior officials were informed of the findings but that....MORE

Whatever happened to ... Madras boxer Jovany Medina

Out of the ring, but 'I'm back'

May 21, 2013 4:00 am

MADRAS — When Jovany Medina gets up each morning and goes into the kitchen for breakfast before his shift at Central Oregon Seed Inc., he sees a bookshelf filled with trophies, medals and photos of himself in boxing gear and graduation gown.....MORE

Hospital tax in Salem

$1.9B in doubt if bill fails

May 21, 2013 4:00 am

SALEM — Billions of dollars in federal funds floated to the state to overhaul the health care system could be on the line if lawmakers don’t approve a measure extending a tax on hospitals and nursing homes. The normally noncontroversial....MORE

Youth Football

Survey shows few concussions

May 21, 2013 4:00 am

BOSTON — Fewer than 4 percent of youth players surveyed in a USA Football-sanctioned study suffered concussions in the 10 leagues examined. Most injuries among nearly 2,000 players on more than 100 teams in six states were minor, with the....MORE

Major League Baseball

Three strikes and you’re average these days

• Strikeouts in the major leagues continues to go up each season

May 21, 2013 4:00 am

When Rafael Soriano took the mound to begin the ninth inning of the Washington Nationals’ game last Wednesday, in stepped Austin Jackson of the Detroit Tigers. At that point, the Nationals clung to a two-run lead. The Tigers needed base....MORE

Twister tracked path of 1999 tornado

May 21, 2013 4:00 am

NEW YORK — Monday’s powerful tornado in suburban Oklahoma City loosely followed the path of a killer twister that slammed the region in May 1999. The National Weather Service estimated that the storm that struck Moore, Okla., on Monday....MORE

Oklahoma tornado

Mile-wide tornado kills at least 91 'Hearts are broken'

• Death toll is mounting, and two elementary schools are crushed • Photos from the devastation • Deadliest tornadoes since 1900 • In the path of a 1999 twister, A5

May 21, 2013 4:00 am

MOORE, Okla. — A giant tornado, a mile or more wide, killed at least 91 people, 20 of them children, as it tore across parts of Oklahoma City and its suburbs Monday afternoon, flattening homes, flinging cars through the air and crushing at....MORE

Iraq killings raise fears of sectarian conflict

May 21, 2013 4:00 am

BAGHDAD — A wave of car bombings and shootings hit cities in Iraq late Sunday and Monday, killing at least 76 people and wounding more than 250, medical and security officials said. Some news agency reports put the overall toll even higher, at ....MORE

Major League Baseball

May 21, 2013 4:00 am

StandingsAll Times PDT———AMERICAN LEAGUEEast DivisionW L Pct GBNew York 28 16 .636 —Boston 27 18 .600 1½Baltimore 23 21 .523 5Tampa Bay 23 21 .523 5Toronto 18 26 .409 10Central DivisionW L Pct GBCleveland 26 17 .605....MORE

Google server breach yielded sensitive data

May 21, 2013 4:00 am

WASHINGTON — Chinese hackers who breached Google’s servers several years ago gained access to a sensitive database with years’ worth of information about U. S. surveillance targets, according to current and former government....MORE

Motor Sports

Allmendinger taking life one day at a time

May 21, 2013 4:00 am

CHARLOTTE, N. C. — A. J. Allmendinger’s parents attended their first Indianapolis 500 in 1979, when they camped in a grassy lot and watched Rick Mears win his first 500. Their son was born two years later — Greg Allmendinger named him ....MORE