PRINEVILLE, OR -- Several sheds and other outbuildings were destroyed in a Wednesday afternoon fire, in Prineville. Crook County firefighters were dispatched just after 2:15 p.m., and arrived on NE 5 1/2 Street to find fire spreading rapidly. They got it under control before flames reached to a nearby triplex.

VALE, OR -- A Redmond man was involved in a fatal crash in Eastern Oregon Tuesday afternoon. According to State Police, 22-year-old Hunter Brucker was eastbound on Highway 20 near Vale, and moved into the westbound lane to pass a commercial truck, just before 4:30 p.m. Brucker drove into the path of a westbound pickup, driven by a 17-year-old.

In an attempt to avoid the crash, both vehicles swerved onto the shoulder. However, the SUV and pickup collided head-on. The teen driver died at the scene. His 13-year-old passenger was flown to a local hospital. Brucker suffered only minor injuries.

The investigation is ongoing.

EUGENE, OR -- A 48-year-old Central Oregon man was sentenced to four years in federal prison Wednesday, for his role in a conspiracy to produce animal crush videos. David Noble, of Prineville, was arrested last year after federal prosecutors say he was caught sending payments to overseas co-conspirators to fund the production of videos showing the mutilation and torture of monkeys. He was indicted by a federal grand jury in Eugene last May and pleaded guilty in January.

Noble was charged in federal court because his actions crossed outside of Oregon. At the time he was arrested, Noble hadn't violated any state laws. The case prompted the legislature to pass a law in the 2024 session making it illegal in Oregon to create photos or videos of animal abuse.

POWELL BUTTE, OR -- The Oregon National Guard’s base in Powell Butte hosts night flight- training missions starting tonight, Wednesday, April 24th.

“You may hear or see Black Hawk helicopters, about 3 to 4, that will be coming through from Washington into the Redmond area. Just the normal rotary aircraft that you, that you would hear,” Biak Training Area Manager Michael Paul says it’s a standard drill, “It’s an active-duty army aviation unit out of joint base, Lewis-McChord out of Tacoma Washington, its active-duty post. They've just asked to do some training in our training area down here to keep their pilots and their back seaters as well mission ready for any real-world missions that they might have.”

He tells KBND News night-training missions are important, “They do have to fly in blackout conditions because obviously real-world missions, combat environment sort of requires that. So that does get them ready for those type of events. That's why they're flying at night. It gets not only the pilots situated to that but also their soldiers in the back seat as well.”

Operations were scheduled all week but due to forecasted weather conditions, they expect to only go out again Monday night, April 29th.

People may hear or see the helicopters from sundown until Midnight in the Powell Butte Area and at the Redmond airport, where they re-fuel.

LA PINE, OR -- A La Pine man faces 20 counts of Encouraging Child Sex Abuse after the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office says he was caught distributing child porn on the internet.

The Southern Oregon Child Exploitation Team in Medford first discovered the material and the suspect’s location in January. Over the past few months, local detectives investigated 32-year-old Cody O’Neal after they determined the material came from his IP address.

O'Neil was arrested Wednesday during a search of his home. Detectives seized several digital devices and have applied for additional warrants to analize their contents.