The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is searching for the person who stabbed a baby seal multiple times on a beach in Oregon. The seal survived the March attack in a cove in the small town of Neskowin, which sits along the Pacific Ocean, NOAA said Monday. The administration’s marine stranding team was able to…
A highly invasive species of crab — capable of climbing over 13-foot-high concrete structures — has been spotted in the Pacific Northwest for the first time, wildlife officials said. A commercial fisherman caught what officials identified as a Chinese mitten crab last week in the Lower Columbia River, just south of the Washington state border,…
The quiet city of Medford, Oregon was shaken by Maggie Friar’s desperate 911 call in the early morning hours of Oct. 2, 2017. MAGGIE FRIAR to 911: I don’t know where my ex-husband or my oldest daughter is. 911 OPERATOR: I understand that. MAGGIE FRIAR to 911: Something happened at the house. Something happened over…
Sierra Friar, 18 years old at the time of her exclusive interview with “48 Hours,” talks about the morning of Oct. 2, 2017, when her father, Aaron, and 15-year-old sister, Ellie, vanished. Sierra Friar wakes up to yelling At left, Sierra Friar, 18, during her interview with “48 Hours” in December 2024. She was 11…
When Aaron Friar, 50, and daughter, Ellie, 15, vanished from their Medford, Oregon, home on Oct. 2, 2017, investigators quickly deduced that there was foul play. “They saw blood spatter behind the couch, on the ceiling, all the way across the room,” said lead Detective Bill Ford. “There was … a potential that this was…
Yet another list Bend has made its way to, the top 40 “Most Charming Downtown Areas in the Country” according to HGTV. The popular television channel says Bend earned its spot through its beer scene, recreational opportunities, and its walkability. The article also mentions Bend as the location for the world’s last Blockbuster. Bend is…
Public school administrators in Portland, Oregon, are facing a federal civil rights probe over a transgender student-athlete’s alleged participation in a girls’ track and field meet last week, the U.S. Department of Education said Tuesday. The department’s Office of Civil Rights has opened an investigation into Portland’s school district and the Oregon School Activities Association,…
[This story originally aired on October 31, 2020.] In April 2017, Moscow native Anna Repkina was found murdered on a remote Oregon logging road. Fifty-five hundred miles from home, investigators were puzzled as to what she was doing there and who could possibly want her dead. Turns out she’d met American Will Hargrove online and…
A Russian bride-to-be was found dead 5,500 miles from home. Investigators would soon learn Anna Repkina was unwittingly caught up in a love triangle and that her fiancé frantically researched time travel after her death, writing to strangers on WhatsApp: “… best friend made a mistake. I want to go back to keep from losing…
Brits going over to the USA for a holiday often reminisce about the ‘good old days’, when you could get two dollars for every pound. But, although that excellent exchange rate hasn’t been seen since 2007, there’s still so much you can buy in the States at a fraction of the UK price. In fact,…