ONTARIO – The 19-year-old man who held police at bay for hours last week in Ontario died in a Boise hospital Monday. Authorities said Heriberto “Eddie” Ortega, 19, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound that ended the siege last Thursday in southeast Ontario. Ortega was the passenger in a car[Read More…]

CRANE – Eight people are dead after a head-on collision Monday morning on Oregon Highway 78 near milepost 30 south of Crane. Oregon State Police Lt. Mark Duncan said police are still investigating the crash. Both vehicles caught re after the crash, he said. Few details were available at press[Read More…]

Photo is a screenshot from the Ontario Police Department lip sync video. ONTARIO — It appears that the Ontario Police Department has some rhythm. This week the department participated in a national movement of police departments that are revealing their lighter side by making lip sync videos. The video was[Read More…]

Holden Martin, 19, of Northport, WA died in a crash on Thursday involving a tractor. (Photo courtesy of the Oregon State Police) ONTARIO – A Northport, WA man was killed in a three-vehicle crash on Oregon Highway 201 late Thursday morning, said the Oregon State Police. Holden Martin, 19, of[Read More…]

Police seized a car and a motor home as they investigate a fatal shooting the night of July 9, 2018, at a camp site along the Owyhee River (The Enterprise/Max Egener)’ ADRIAN – Out of the dark late at night, the blue Toyota drove into the remote camp, blinding the[Read More…]

Malheur County Sheriff Brian Wolfe recently created a volunteer group to dig into cold cases. (Malheur Enterprise/Pat Caldwell) VALE – May Hori’s death has lingered for Malheur County Sheriff Brian Wolfe. Near the end of March 2001, the 43-year-old Hori, a nurse at what was then Holy Rosary Medical Center,[Read More…]

Malheur County Sheriff Brian Wolfe chats during the Vale Chamber of Commerce banquet recently. Wolfe urges local school districts to place a school resource officer in each facility and believes teachers should be trained to carry concealed weapons. (The Enterprise/Les Zaitz) VALE – Malheur County Sheriff Brian Wolfe said schools[Read More…]

NYSSA – Police investigated reports at Nyssa High School last week that a student threatened to bring a rifle to school and shoot it up. They determined there was no threat. The tip came last Wednesday, the same day a student went on a shooting rampage 3,000 miles away at[Read More…]