Police arrested Marisa Rochelle Dionne, 24, and charged her with first-degree arson and attempted murder after an incident early Sunday morning in Ontario. (Photo courtesy of the Malheur County Sheriff’s Office). ONTARIO – Fast action by an Ontario police officer extinguished a small fire early Sunday morning but the blaze[Read More…]

A four-year-old cold case shooting death in Washington may heat up after police obtained DNA from Clement Garcia Cerda, 22, Walla Walla in early December. Cerda is an inmate at Snake River Correctional Facility. (The Enterprise/File). ONTARIO – A cold case shooting death in Washington state led to a prison[Read More…]

Malheur County Sheriff Brian Wolfe spends time out on the road every week, bolstering his patrol staff as part of a new blueprint to extend law enforcement coverage. (The Enterprise/Pat Caldwell). VALE – As most of Malheur County slept one recent early morn, the man charged with protecting them awoke[Read More…]

ONTARIO – A driver going the wrong way on Interstate 84 led police on a 38-mile chase for almost an hour before she was stopped and arrested in Baker County. Police said Lori Michelle Sorahan, 49, Fort Bragg, Calif., was driving a maroon 1999 Cadillac west in the eastbound lanes[Read More…]

UPDATE Sunday, Oct. 7: The victim in the fire was Efren Amaral Pacheco, 40, according to Travis Johnson, Malheur County undersheriff. According to relatives, he was married and the father of five. A fundraising drive is underway to help the family with housing and funeral expenses. NYSSA – Fire and[Read More…]

Victor Dunkelberger, 33, of Rocklin, Calif, died in an Aug. 11 crash south of Jordan Valley. A Malheur County grand jury issued an indictment Thursday that charges Jaila Aguilera-Pinder, of Las Vegas, with felony counts of first and second-degree manslaughter and negligent homicide. (The Enterprise/file). VALE – A Las Vegas[Read More…]

Eight people died in a head-on collision near Crane in Harney County Monday morning. (Photo courtesy of the Oregon State Police). VALE – Over a span of five days, 11 people were killed in traffic crashes across eastern Oregon, underscoring a lethal nexus that stretched from Baker City to Harney[Read More…]

The Oregon State Police are investigating a fatal crash in Harney County that killed eight people. (The Enterprise/File). CRANE – Eight people are dead after a head-on collision on Oregon Highway 78 near milepost 30 south of Crane. Oregon State Police Lt. Mark Duncan said police are still investigating the[Read More…]

A California man died and four other people were injured in a head-on crash south of Jordan Valley Saturday afternoon. (Photo courtesy of the Oregon State Police). JORDAN VALLEY – A U.S. Army veteran who served two tours of duty in Afghanistan was killed and four other people injured in[Read More…]

A Nyssa man was arrested by police last weekend after he tried to hide under a pile of clothes and garbage in a garage on Clark Boulevard. (The Enterprise/File). NYSSA – A man’s escape from local police ended in the back of a garage under a pile of dirty clothes[Read More…]