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KPOV, Bend’s community radio station, will broadcast live today from the Locals Only Stage at the Bend Fall Festival downtown. The broadcast is part of the station’s fall membership drive.KPOV live-broadcasts local music festivals to help local bands gain exposure as well as to promote community festivals.

The Central Oregon 2013 Toys for Tots campaign will kick off today and Sunday at the Bend Fall Festival downtown.New, unwrapped toys will be accepted at the group’s booth, with the goal to fill as many pickup beds with toys as possible.Building Solutions of Bend will be supplying the pickup.

The Bulletin wants to know where you were when President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed almost 50 years ago on Nov. 22, 1963. How did you find out the news and how did it affect your life?

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Police LogThe Bulletin will update items in the Police Log when such a request is received. Any new information, such as the dismissal of charges or acquittal, must be verifiable. For more information, call 541-383-0358.Bend Police DepartmentTheft — A theft was reported at 9:38 a.m. Sept.

The two Baker County men who were shot to death at a cabin near Granite late Wednesday have been identified as Michael Piete, 43, and Kenneth Gilliland, 64.Piete was the foster father of the 14-year-old boy suspected of shooting the men, Grant County Sheriff Glenn Palmer said Friday.The two men lived on Dry Creek Road off Highway 30 southeast of Baker City, Palmer said.

The Redmond woman killed by a train Thursday was identified Friday by Redmond Police Department.Billie Fern Fifer, 40, of Redmond, was likely too close to train tracks near Hemlock Avenue and U. S.

ON DECKTodayFootball: Bend at Summit, 7 p. m.; Crook County at Redmond, 7 p. m.; Pendleton at Mountain View, 7 p. m.; Ridgeview at The Dalles Wahtonka, 7 p. m.; Sisters at Junction City, 7 p. m.; La Pine at Cottage Grove, 7 p. m.; Regis at Culver, 7 p. m.; Camas Valley at Gilchrist, 4 p.

A woman struck by a train was killed Thursday afternoon in Redmond.The incident occurred near Hemlock Avenue, where the railroad tracks run parallel to U. S. Highway 97, according to Redmond Fire & Rescue Chief Tim Moor.

• Westside Pet Hospital, of Bend, has been certified by the American Association of Feline Practitioners as a cat friendly practice. The program was created to improve the treatment, handling and health care of cats.• Healing Touch Massage Therapy has opened at 1012 S. E. Cleveland Square Loop, Suite 4 in Bend.