Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2025-08-23
Springfield Police Arrest 60-Year-Old Robbery Suspect Minutes After Wells Fargo Hold-Up Crime & Courts By Lucille McNamara On Aug 23, 2025 SPRINGFIELD, Ore. — A sixty-year-old man from South Carolina robbed the Wells Fargo Bank in Springfield on Thursday morning, threatening cashiers with a concealed weapon. Andrew Boaden McKissack was arrested shortly after the 11.30 a.m. ‘hold-up’ when his description – a thin white male wearing a green shirt and white hat – gave him away to officers from
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2025-08-22
Excessive Heat Warning Issued as Dangerous Temperatures Grip Southern Oregon This Weekend News By Diane Megaw On Aug 22, 2025 Following the National Weather Service’s (NWS) Extreme Heat Watch warning issued earlier this week, the Medford National Weather Service Office issued an Excessive Heat Warning in Southwest Oregon from 1 p.m. Friday, August 22, until 8 p.m. Monday, August 25. Here’s how to stay safe and reduce health risks. Stay Safe & Reduce Health Risks In Oregon During
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2025-08-22
Oregon Woman Pleads Guilty to Embezzling $560,000 From Eugene Public Housing Agency Crime & Courts By Lucille McNamara On Aug 22, 2025 Miranda Renee Wilcox (60), a payroll specialist at the Public Housing Agency in Eugene, has been found guilty of embezzling upwards of half a million dollars from Homes for Good. Charged and pleading guilty to six counts of first-degree aggravated theft, 21 identity theft charges were dropped as part of a plea deal A spokesperson for the Eugene Police Departm
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2025-08-16
Police Find Roseburg Burglar Enjoying Breakfast After Breaking Into Stranger’s Home Crime & Courts By Lucille McNamara On Aug 16, 2025 ROSEBURG, Ore. — After stealing a phone, a charger, and a small quantity of marijuana, a 33-year-old Roseburg man cooked himself a hearty breakfast before police arrived and took him into custody. The home owners 17-year-old son alerted the Roseburg Police Department at 9 a.m. on Thursday about the presence of an unknown person inside the residence. On their
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2025-08-16
Texas Duo Who Posed as DEA Agents During Oregon Marijuana Raid Sentenced to Prison Crime & Courts By Lucille McNamara On Aug 16, 2025 Last updated Aug 16, 2025 MEDFORD, Ore. — Two men from Texas, in their early twenties, have been sentenced to federal prison for posing as Drug Enforcement Administration agents during an armed robbery in Oregon, involving the attempted theft of more than 200 pounds of marijuana. Juan Jose Manuel Lopez (24) received a sentence of five years and three months be
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2025-08-15
Douglas County Narcotics Raid in Curtin Uncovers Illegal Pot Grow, Meth, and Guns Crime & Courts By Diane Megaw On Aug 15, 2025 DOUGLAS COUNTY, Ore. — A Douglas Interagency Narcotics Team (DINT) investigation into an illicit marijuana grow in Curtin culminated in the detention of 8 people on Wednesday. Two were arrested. Armed with a search warrant obtained after an investigation established the likelihood of illegal activity, DINT detectives executed the search warrant, with assistance from
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2025-08-15
Oregon Woman Gets Seven Years for Setting Ex-Boyfriend’s Parents’ Porch on Fire Crime & Courts By Lucille McNamara On Aug 15, 2025 Last updated Aug 15, 2025 EUGENE, Ore. — A woman from Eugene will spend more than seven years in prison for setting fire to the home of a former boyfriend’s parents. Jasmine Wright was found guilty on five counts of first-degree arson and multiple other charges for setting fire to the front porch of the Eugene home in the Crescent Meadows neighborhood in July 202
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2025-08-15
Oregon Man Arrested in $1 Million Mobile Shopping and Cryptocurrency Fraud Case Crime & Courts By Lucille McNamara On Aug 15, 2025 An Oregon man is among eight individuals from four states indicted by a federal grand jury yesterday for stealing more than $1 million in a nationwide scheme to defraud two mobile shopping service companies. Abdulkadir Mohamed Ali (31) of Portland, along with seven other individuals, is charged with eight counts of wire fraud, one count of conspiracy to commit wi
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2025-08-15
Toxic Algae Prompts Recreation Advisory for Odell Lake in Klamath County News By Diane Megaw On Aug 15, 2025 KLAMATH COUNTY, Ore. — The Oregon Health Authority (OHA) placed a recreational use advisory on Odell Lake in Klamath County yesterday following the discovery of algae blooms. The OHA advisory, issued about a month after a similar advisory for toxic algae spreads in the Upper Klamath Lake , arises from the presence of microcystin, a toxin produced by cyanobacteria, at levels exceeding reco
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2025-08-14
Jackson County on Alert as Scenic Fire Races Through High Cascades Forest News By Diane Megaw On Aug 14, 2025 Last updated Aug 14, 2025 JACKSON COUNTY, Ore. — The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office (JCSO) warned yesterday that the Scenic Fire burning in Douglas County, east of Highway 230 along the Rogue River, was headed towards Jackson County. The Scenic Fire on the High Cascades Ranger District near National Creek had covered approximately 83 acres yesterday, with 5% containment. Crews est
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2025-08-14
Klamath Community College Lands Major Federal Grant to Support Future Oregon Tech Talent Education By Lucille McNamara On Aug 14, 2025 Campus de Klamath Community College, Klamath Falls, Oregon | Credit: Roberto J. Galindo KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — High-achieving, low-income students studying Cybersecurity and computer engineering at the Technology Department of the Klamath Community College (KCC) will receive financial support from a generous National Science Foundation (NSF) federal grant.
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2025-08-14
Portland Trail Blazers Sold for Over $4 Billion With Promise to Stay in City News Basketball By Evan D. Brooks On Aug 14, 2025 FILE - Moda Center in Portland, Oregon | Photo by Seth Smigelski After months of concern over the sale of the Portland Trail Blazers- mainly that they would shift their home base from the Moda Center, the iconic team has a new owner- NHL Carolina Hurricanes owner Tom Dundon, who expressed the intention to keep the team in Portland. Portland Trail Blazers Sold For
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2025-08-17
Portland State Study Finds COVID and Fentanyl, Not Measure 110, Drove Oregon’s Spike in Drug Deaths Top Stories By Diane Megaw On Aug 17, 2025 FILE - Portland State University, Oregon | Photo by Seth Smigelski A recently released report by Portland State University (PSU) researchers into the effect of Measure 110 on Oregon’s spike in drug-related deaths reveals that the Covid-19 pandemic- specifically the increased use of fentanyl, played a significant role. Oregon Drug Deaths Spike
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2025-08-17
Oregon Sues to Block Federal Cap That Could Gut State-Run Energy Programs News By Diane Megaw On Aug 17, 2025 Courtesy: www.ashland-solar.coop Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield joined a 20-member coalition of attorneys general in a lawsuit seeking to shut down the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) plan to impose a new funding cap on vital state-run energy programs. Oregon Joins Lawsuit Opposing Funding Cap On State-Run Energy Programs The new DOE policy would limit reimbursement for ke
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2025-08-17
Porch Pirates Push Oregon Into the Top 10 States With the Highest Rate of Home Thefts News By Lucille McNamara On Aug 17, 2025 Credit: Meanwell Packaging Online shopping, with its advantage of front-door deliveries, has created a new genre of thieves. Known as porch pirates, this category of theft has pushed Oregon into the Top 10 States with the highest rate of home thefts. Research undertaken by Nevada-based personal injury lawyers H&P Law analyzed data for thefts from buildings. The infor
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2025-08-13
Portland Suspect Claims Fatal Shooting of Girlfriend Was Accident as Charges Drop Crime & Courts By Diane Megaw On Aug 13, 2025 PORTLAND, Ore. — After initially being charged with murder over the death of his girlfriend, Kimberly Venegas-Gonzalez, the charges against Leonel Macias-Silva of Portland have been reduced to manslaughter after he claimed the deadly shooting on August 10 was an accident. Court documents indicate that a distraught man called 911 to report that his girlfriend was dea
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2025-08-13
Oregon to Give People With Disabilities More Control Over Their In-Home Care Services News By Lucille McNamara On Aug 13, 2025 Credit: MyFuture Individuals with disabilities, who will in the future have more control over their in-home care services, are one of two important changes that the Oregon Department of Human Services will be making to Medicaid-funded services. Oregon’s Office of Aging and People with Disabilities (OAPD) collaborates with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Servi
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2025-08-13
Dispute Between Known Individuals Sparks Shooting in Vacant Klamath County Residence Crime & Courts By Diane Megaw On Aug 13, 2025 KLAMATH COUNTY, Ore. — The Klamath County Sheriff’s Office (KCSO) is investigating a shooting between two known individuals in a vacant house in the area of South Lalakes Avenue and Charley Street on Monday afternoon. KCSO and Oregon State Police (OSP) deputies responded to reports of the shooting on Monday at 12:52 p.m. Their investigation revealed that th
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2025-07-12
Portland Woman’s Lawsuit Over Protest Noise Prompts ICE Camp Shutdown News By Diane Megaw On Jul 12, 2025 PORTLAND, Ore. — After a Portland woman, Cloud Elvengrail, filed a lawsuit under the city’s noise ordinances claiming that the protesters camping outside the ICE facility had created a nuisance, the city of Portland cleared the small protest camp on Friday afternoon. Protesters Camp Near Portland ICE Facility Removed In the lawsuit, Elvengrail alleged that the city failed to enf
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2025-07-08
Eugene Wood-Treatment Plant Becomes One of Oregon’s Most Toxic Chemical Leak Sites Environment By Lucille McNamara On Jul 8, 2025 The J.H. Baxter chemical wood treating plant in Eugene, which released hazardous substances into the soil and groundwater during decades of operations, has been added to the Superfund National Priorities List (NPL). Poses a Significant Threat to Residents and the Environment The NPL lists sites throughout the U.S. and territories where releases of hazardous sub