Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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A collared gray wolf blamed for a three-day livestock killing spree east of Ashland in June 2016 was illegally shot dead in western Klamath County sometime before last spring, and federal officials are asking the public to help solve the case. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Wednesday announced the death of wolf OR-33 after a recent necropsy at the service's Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory in Ashland matched DNA from the carcass to DNA banked from OR-33 when it was collared in 2015
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Jackson County Commissioners heard a broad range of opinions about whether the name of Dead Indian Memorial Road should be changed. Dozens of local residents offered conflicting views Wednesday night during a public hearing. Commissioners are continuing to take input on the issue through the end of this month. They will discuss the topic in November. In 1855, white settlers found two deceased Native Americans in the area where the road was later built. How they died remains a mystery. After the
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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WASHINGTON — House Republicans are moving to restrict the president's ability to protect millions of acres of federal land considered historic, geographically significant or culturally important. Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, said presidents of both parties have misused the 1906 Antiquities Act to create oversized monuments that hinder energy development, grazing and other uses. Bishop, chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, introduced a bill that would prevent presidents from desi
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Erickson aircranes are frequent fliers wherever wildfires erupt. The fires in California's wine country are no exception, with an aircrane nicknamed Jerry flying into the heat of the battle in and around Santa Rosa. The aircrane is under contract with Cal Fire, the state agency coordinating firefighting, and began flying missions over the weekend. The aircrane, based in Santa Rosa along with a six-man crew, has been deployed throughout Northern California this year. But with more than 2,000 stru
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Harry & David said today it will open about 20 pop-up stores nationwide this holiday season to augment its 46 year-round retail locations. The pop-up stores target what are described as key markets, expanding Harry & David's store footprint during its critical second fiscal quarter. Harry & David holiday stores have already begun to open and are expected to close shortly after the holiday season. Three of the pop-up shops are in California and six in Illinois, with four in New Jersey and Virgini
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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  North Medford’s football team has had to dig its heels in plenty this season, but last Friday something different happened when that opportunity arose: the Black Tornado also pushed back. Facing a 24-6, third-quarter deficit against Roseburg in a must-win game should North Medford entertain any state playoff hopes, the Black Tornado rallied in remarkable fashion to secure a 30-27 overtime victory. North Medford senior Vicente Borja gave his team a huge lift with a 98-yard kickoff r
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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SANTA ROSA, Calif. — Hundreds more firefighters and law enforcement officials headed Tuesday to Northern California to battle wildfires that have killed at least 13 people, including a 100-year-old man and his 98-year-old wife who were unable to escape their burning home. Authorities hoped cooler weather and lighter winds would help crews get a handle on the fires, which are among the deadliest in California history and are still burning completely uncontained. "The weather has been worki
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Oak Grove Elementary School will be Medford School District's first K-5 elementary school after officials approved a proposal to move all of its sixth-graders to McLoughlin Middle School starting next year. "We were able to make this happen purely based on enrollment," said Jeanne Grazioli, Medford's director of elementary student achievement. "We would like to be able to offer this to another school next year — it just depends on what the enrollment looks like at that time." Sixth-graders
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Developing a golf course punctuated by 18 greens takes patience. It's a bit like playing the game itself: Stay on the fairway and sink your putts, chances are you'll break par. Eagle Point Golf Course has been on the leader board for much of its 21-year existence, crowned by its signature 16th hole. It's taken a while for the surrounding ambiance envisioned by designer Robert Trent Jones Jr., to come to fruition. But owners Bob and Chana Hyer have meticulously moved forward since acquiring the 7
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Nearly a year after voters turned down a levy to fund the Southern Oregon Historical Society, the now all-volunteer nonprofit hopes to partner with the library to add a part-time staff member to the payroll, while giving library cardholders new benefits. On Thursday afternoon, the Southern Oregon Historical Society Board of Trustees will make its pitch to the Jackson County Library District, in the hopes that free access to the historical society's extensive and indexed archives, among other exp
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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OnTrack Inc. will close its residential teen program and not allow former executive director Rita Sullivan to have any involvement in the business. OnTrack, the Oregon Health Authority and the Oregon Department of Human Services signed a settlement agreement in September that spells out conditions for Southern Oregon's largest addiction treatment provider. In the agreement, OnTrack agreed to close its teen residential program, which had been located at the corner of Holly and Fifth streets. DHS
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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A Southern Oregon University student has filed a civil rights lawsuit against the school for two failing grades, saying the school has inconsistently accommodated his learning disabilities. Mikhail Savona, 22, claims he failed two classes because the university denied him reasonable test-taking accommodations, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court. The complaint seeks damages "not to exceed" $1 million. Savona's lawyer Chris Cauble said Savona has thrived in classes that
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Local report A Medford man was sentenced to 8½ years in prison Wednesday after admitting he drove drunk and caused a wreck that severely injured two people on a motorcycle. Jose Guadalupe Medina-Galan, 21, was sentenced in Jackson County Circuit Court for causing an August wreck between Medford and White City that broke a man's femur and cost a woman a portion of her leg and her entire left arm. Medina-Galan pleaded guilty to second-degree assault, impaired-driving and resisting arrest. The
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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MEDFORD -- Volunteers for Compassion Highway Project and the "Central Point What's Happening" Facebook community group banded together late Tuesday to get homeless people into hotel rooms and out of the freezing rain and snow. Debbie Saxbury, administrator for the Facebook group, said she was inspired by social media posts arranging to get warm drinks and extra blankets to area homeless people as temperatures hovered around freezing. Saxbury said she couldn't fathom not trying to "do something"
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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SALEM, Ore. (AP) -- An Amtrak train with almost 200 people aboard hit downed trees during a blizzard and got stranded in the Oregon mountains for a day and a half, but passengers and crew banded together during the ordeal that ended Tuesday. “It was really nice to meet people pulling together,” passenger Tracy Rhodes, of Scottsdale, Arizona, said in a phone interview after the train that had been traveling from Seattle to Los Angeles rolled back into the college town of Eugene, Orego
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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A Grants Pass couple stranded in Puerto Rico for a week following Hurricane Maria are contemplating legal action against United Airlines for allegedly failing to accommodate travelers marooned after the storm. Micah Pitts and Dawn Dalton planned a weeklong vacation in mid-September. By the time they returned home to Southern Oregon, they’d been gone for over two weeks, endured the aftermath of two hurricanes, held a spur-of-the-moment wedding and, they said, were abandoned by United Airli
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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The recent spate of heavy snows amid strangely behaving storm fronts has caused Southern Oregon's snowpack to do a big U-turn, creeping this week above normal after spending almost the entire winter in the red. The Rogue River Basin limped into mid-January with a snowpack of just two-thirds of normal, but it reached average levels Monday and climbed Tuesday to 106 percent of normal — with more snow still falling. While the numeric change appears like a great hydrological victory, think of
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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ASHLAND — Kristi Mergenthaler strolls along the upper bank of Ashland's Clay Creek scanning the tree bark for a little, no-neck bird walking head-first down a tree trunk. The Oredson-Todd Woods here are lousy with red-breasted nuthatches, but the tiny, pointy-billed birds are tough to see and only faintly heard. "It kind of does a 'neep, neep, neep,' " Mergenthaler says. "Some people describe it as a little bugle. I like to think of it as the sound of a big truck backing up." Visitors to
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Congressional lawmakers voted Tuesday to protect one of the last and largest old-growth forests in Oregon’s coastal mountains as well as hundreds of miles of rivers throughout the state. The U.S. House approved a scaled-down version of the Oregon Wildlands Act as part of the largest federal conservation bill to win authorization in more than a decade. Passed with bipartisan Senate support earlier this month, the sweeping public lands package now heads to the White House for President Donal
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Like a house guest who wouldn't leave, Tuesday's surprise snowstorm baffled meteorologists, sent schoolchildren home early and canceled flights and events as more than 4 inches fell on the valley floor by 6 p.m. The snowstorm hitting Southern Oregon as far north as Roseburg and down to the California border closed the Medford airport's main runway at 2 p.m., according to the Jackson County Airport Authority. Afternoon and evening flights scheduled to arrive from San Francisco, Portland, Santa Ba