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A Baker County grand jury has indicted a Hermiston building contractor on felony theft charges for failing to do work for a Baker City couple after they paid him $150,000

On the third straight day that New Hampshire had a record number of COVID-19 hospitalizations, health workers are calling the situation overwhelming.

BAKER CITY — The attorney for Shawn Quentin Greenwood, the Vale man accused of murdering a woman in Baker City in January 2020, has filed a motion seeking to dismiss criminal charges because several phone calls from the Baker County Jail between Greenwood and the attorney in 2020 were allegedly recorded, and that officers from the Baker City Police Department allegedly listened to the recordings. James A. Schaeffer, a La Grande attorney, filed the motion June 25, 2021. Schaeffer writes in ...

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"Thanks to the papers in our local community, I have been the topic of discussion," Harvey said. He didnt elaborate. "This is my own statement. It has no reflection on anybody here or staff members in any department," Harvey said. Among the topics he mentioned: • That he has intimidated department heads. "I have not heard this before and it is not true," Harvey said. "If it is true, its only by a very few and none have come forward personally to visit with me about it." • That he and ...

BAKER CITY — An investigator for the Oregon Government Ethics Commission found a “preponderance of evidence” that Baker County Commission Chairman Bill Harvey tried to use his position to benefit himself, his son and his son’s business and that he failed to disclose conflicts of interest last year. In a report, investigator Susan Myers recommends that the Ethics Commission make a preliminary finding that Harvey committed eight violations of state ethics laws. The Ethics Comm...

While COVID-19 hospitalizations in New Hampshire dropped slightly Wednesday, there is concern about the general upward trend of hospitalizations, nearly doubling in less than a month.

Updated: 11:15 PM EDT Apr 14, 2021 Jean Mackin News Anchor/Reporter Gov. Chris Sununu says the mask mandate in New Hampshire will be ending soon, despite hospitals reporting a rise in younger patients. The statewide mask mandate is set to expire on Friday but its unclear if the governor will renew it. During a virtual event with the Greater Portsmouth Chamber on Wednesday, Sununu cited New Hampshire as having one of the lowest death rates and fastest vaccine distrib...

BAKER CITY — A former guard at the Powder River Correctional Facility, who has spent nearly a year behind bars at the Baker County Jail, will spend the next 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to child pornography charges on Tuesday, March 9, in Baker County Circuit Court. Judge Matt Shirtcliff sided with District Attorney Greg Baxter in taking the harsher end of a plea agreement that ranged from five years to 15 years in prison in sentencing David Leon Cernazanu. As part of the agree...

After brutal months, health care workers see light Dr. Dawn Barclay of Portsmouth Regional Hospital. —Courtesy Published: 2/16/2021 4:31:57 PM Before COVID-19 emerged last year, the 18-bed ICU at Portsmouth Regional Hospital was already a busy place, full of post-surgery patients and emergency admissions: people suffering from heart attacks, strokes and pneumonia. There, Dr. Dawn Barclay and her staff put their decades of experience, and centuries of medical knowledge, to use every day to gui...