Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-21
Hayes-Brousseau III Julie Hayes and Robert Brousseau III, both of Eagle Point, plan to marry Sept. 2 at the South Stage Inn and Resort in Medford. Hayes is the daughter of Marianne and Russell Hayes of Eagle Point. A 2006 graduate of Eagle Point High School, she is a mother. Brousseau is the son of Lorraine and Robert Brousseau II of Gold Hill. A 2004 graduate of Crater High School in Central Point, he is an alignment technician with Les Schwab in Medford. Skinner-Graham Brittany Skinner of Medf
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-18
Beneath green surgical sheets and a tangle of tubes, a healthy young ewe is undergoing a heart-lung bypass procedure to help answer one of several urgent questions about a pillar of modern medicine: anesthesia. Almost two centuries after anesthetics revolutionized surgery, a growing body of research is pointing to disturbing side effects that range from delirium to cancer-proliferating immune suppression. Researchers knocked out the sheep last month at the University of Melbourne to try to under
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-19
A quarter-mile of South Pacific Highway frontage in Medford is under the control of the Coquille tribe after it spent more than $6 million over the past three years for properties around a proposed casino. "We've always thought about hotels," said Brenda Meade, chairperson of the Coquille Indian Tribal Council. "We've thought about having a venue for a conference center." Five lots totaling 2.36 acres just north of Charlotte Ann Road and south of Habitat for Humanity Rogue Valley were attained D
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-19
In a funeral procession fit for a dignitary, 91-year-old Gene Baker was laid to rest at the Eagle Point National Cemetery Thursday by nearly 1,000 of his brothers and sisters in uniform and residents from across Southern Oregon and Northern California. Representatives of every military branch, local emergency services personnel, four to five dozen motorcycle riders — who provided transport and a flag line for Baker’s coffin — and hundreds of others looked on as Baker’s se
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-19
Talent residents are being asked to weigh in on whether the city should restrict fireworks, including whether to ban them altogether. Police Chief Tim Doney suggested the survey, offered on the city's website, at a January City Council session where he gave a report on fireworks in Talent. So far about three dozen responses have been received. "Fireworks is one of those topics that people are pretty passionate about on either side the fence," Doney said Wednesday. "Sometimes that can be a little
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-19
The Medford City Council has approved changes to zoning laws allowing the sale of recreational marijuana within city limits. The council voted unanimously Thursday night with six members in favor to allow permits for Oregon Liquor Control Commission-licensed marijuana dispensaries in commercial areas zoned “community commercial,” "regional commercial" and "heavy commercial." Councilor Clay Bearnson recused himself from discussion as an Oregon Health Authority dispens
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-19
PORTLAND — A woman walking on the beach in Cape Cod, Massachusetts found a memorial bracelet in the sand that was engraved with the name of a Portland soldier who was killed in action in Afghanistan in 2014. Liz Maloney-Triplett returned the bracelet to John A. Pelham's family after an internet search turned up his name in a recent story that was published by KATU-TV in Portland to commemorate Veteran's Day, the station reported. Maloney-Triplett contacted KATU to find out how to reach th
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-19
The Mt. Ashland Ski Patrol member who died Saturday had fallen upside-down into loose snow near a backwoods tree and suffocated, authorities said. An autopsy conducted Monday on the body of 23-year-old Johnathan Patrick Likeke "Johnny" Walke r concluded his cause of death, according to the Jackson County Sheriff's Office. Walker had been skiing with two other patrol members outside the Mt. Ashland Ski Area boundary on the south side of the mountain when he fell into a tree well and suffocated in
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-19
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California and 15 other states filed a lawsuit Monday against President Donald Trump’s emergency declaration to fund a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra released a statement Monday saying the suit alleges the Trump administration’s action violates the Constitution. “President Trump treats the rule of law with utter contempt,” Becerra said. “He knows there is no border crisis, he knows his emerg
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-17
Annemarie was 15 years old when some baseball players from Prospect Charter School on a bus coming back from a game solicited her for naked photos. "I want nudes," was sent to her phone just before 8 p.m. on April 24, 2018. "Lets see it babe? For 200 maybe? Cmon spread em," came a few messages later. "You would ... I know how you are," another text said. Annemarie, whose name has been changed to protect her identity, said the texts made her feel "really confused and disappointed and upset" &mdas
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-17
John Anderton looks forward to the one weekend a month when he gets a break from being a full-time foster parent. Respite caregivers, known as relief parents, take over for 48 hours, easing the burden on full-time foster parents who have taken in abused and neglected children. “I think it’s essential, and we’re really grateful when it comes around,” Anderton said of the monthly breaks. “It gives the foster parents a much-deserved and much-needed break so they can ca
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-18
Oregon is facing an unprecedented environmental challenge: wireless technology. Our cellphones, towers, “smart” meters, security systems, routers, etc. expose us to microwave radiation that is billions of times stronger than that which occurs in nature. The wireless industry assures us this technology is safe, but is it? FCC safety standards set back in 1996 claim there are no biological or harmful effects from microwave radiation below thermal heating of tissue, but thousands of new
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-17
Songs about heartbreak are rich in emotion, says blues-soul singer Danielle Kelly. Especially when you know it from experience. “I’ve had my heart broken a million times, going back to high school, when I was this angsty teen,” she says. “I’m such a hopeless romantic.” But these days, Kelly and her Soul Project band are gravitating toward feel-good music. “We try to get people to forget their worries, like the song ‘Feelin’ Alright,’&rd
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-17
CENTRAL POINT — Eagle Point’s hopes at a potential upset in Midwestern League girls basketball got a boost by the early results for No. 7-ranked Crater on Wednesday but, unfortunately for the Eagles, that didn’t last long enough at Crater High. Crater missed shot after shot to leave the Comets with only an 11-8 advantage through one quarter of play, but the lid soon came off the basket and that meant trouble for Eagle Point in a resulting 67-32 runaway win. “We just didn&
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-17
A Medford man whose previous trial ended with a hung jury was sentenced to 7½ years in prison after a new jury found him guilty of abusing a toddler and withholding medical care. Petey Ray Henthorne, 28, was sentenced Thursday evening in Jackson County Circuit Court after a jury unanimously found Henthorne guilty of first-degree assault and first-degree criminal mistreatment. Assault in the first degree carries a mandatory minimum 90-month sentence under Oregon's Measure 11 law. A previous
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-17
SALEM — Caseworkers strained to the breaking point, a drop in available foster homes for 11,000 youngsters and management shortcomings were cited as serious problems in an audit released Wednesday by the Oregon secretary of state. "This is a statewide problem. This isn't a problem for the governor to fix, not a problem for the Legislature just to fix. It's our problem. These are our children," said Secretary of State Dennis Richardson, who along with his wife adopted a girl 27 years ago.
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-17
The Oregon Legislature is off on the wrong foot in its attempt to address a toxic culture of sexual harassment. It’s unclear who’s at fault, although the federal government shutdown may have played a role. The important thing is to get newly instituted staff training sessions back on track, and quickly, before disillusioned staffers give up and refuse to attend. Training last fall reportedly went well, but last week, staffers who attended a session conducted by a trainer from the fed
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-17
A member of Mt. Ashland’s ski patrol died in an apparent accident just outside the ski area boundaries. The as-yet unidentified 23-year-old man was skiing with a group of ski patrol members along back country on the south end of the mountain when he reportedly struck a tree about 1:31 p.m. Saturday, according to a release issued by the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office. Other ski patrol members rushed to his aid, and transported the man back up the slope to the ski area. Medical person
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-16
Friday, Feb. 15 Breakfast: The Rogue Valley New Day Network Breakfast will meet at 8 a.m. Friday, Feb. 15, at the Bellview Grange, 1050 Tolman Creek Road, Ashland. Southern Oregon Climate Action Now (SOCAN) co-facillators Alan Journet and Kathy Conway will present “Can Oregon Assume Moral Leadership? The Oregon Climate Action Program proposal.” Learn about the basics of cap, trade and invest, and how HB 2020 proposes to achieve greenhouse gas emissions reductions in Oregon. Guests ca
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-15
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump announced Friday that he will declare a national emergency to fulfill his pledge to construct a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Trump said he will use executive powers to bypass Congress, which approved far less money for his proposed wall than he had sought. He plans to siphon billions of dollars from federal military construction and counterdrug efforts for the wall. The move is already drawing bipartisan criticism on Capitol Hill and expected