Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-23
New bicycles for an 8-year-old boy and his 7-year-old sister aren’t the only gifts to give this Eagle Point family momentum in the new year. Car repairs donated by a White City business will help to keep the kids’ mother in school and working to provide for their needs while the children attend therapy to heal from sexual abuse. The 33-year-old pregnant mother and her children are one among many households experiencing a happier holiday season because of generosity shown by readers o
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-23
Never before had South Medford girls basketball coach Tom Cole seen such emotion from Ashley Bolston, his lanky but talented freshman. The observation came four years ago in a Class 6A state consolation game against Tigard in Portland. Senior Hannah Curtius had fouled out late in the contest, prompting Cole to send in Bolston. The Panthers lost in overtime, but not without a fight from the first-year player. "I remember watching her face and seeing how competitive she was and seeing the frustrat
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-23
Senior U.S. District Judge Owen M. Panner died Wednesday night in Medford. He was 94. Panner spent 38 years on the federal bench after practicing for 30 years as a trial lawyer in Bend. Until recently, Panner still came to work twice a week at the court in Medford, though he stopped hearing cases in 2015. He was born July 28, 1924, in Chicago but grew up in Oklahoma. He enrolled at the University of Oklahoma in 1941 but two years later enlisted in the Army, where he reached the rank of lieutenan
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-23
On Saturday, Medford's air quality index had not recorded a 24-hour period of measurably "good" air for more than three weeks. {br class="hardreturn" /} Oregon Department of Environmental Quality data show the last full day of lung-preferred air was July 28, two days before the Stouts fire launched a smoke column into the sky that was visible from Medford and Eugene. Then, on Aug. 1, came two lightning-sparked fires that comprise the National Creek complex near Crater Lake. {br class="
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-23
A former Jackson County sheriff who worked in the department for more than three decades has died. Robert O. Kennedy, who served as Jackson County’s sheriff for two terms through 2002, is remembered as an “out of the box” thinker who was years ahead of current trends in law enforcement, according to former officers who worked Kennedy in his 33 years of law enforcement experience. Kennedy died Wednesday at the age of 71, according to a death notice issued Friday. Ed Mayer of Sha
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-23
Capt. Nate Sickler is the new Jackson County sheriff. Jackson County commissioners voted unanimously today to appoint Sickler as sheriff, filling a vacancy created when Sheriff Corey Falls left his post at the end of December to become the new director of police services and 21st century policing in Gresham. Sickler took the oath of office this morning following the commissioners' vote. "I feel deeply honored to fulfill this role," he said. Sickler will finish out the last two years of Falls' fo
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-23
Jackson County Sheriff Corey Falls will step down in a few weeks to become director of police services in Gresham. "It is the best decision for my family," Falls said in a news release. He did not elaborate further, but his daughter, Jasmin, a former basketball star at South Medford High School, is now in her freshman year at Portland State University. Falls, who was elected sheriff in 2014, has been named director of police services and 21st-century policing, the city of Gresham annou
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-23
Ashlanders are lucky. We live in a great community, have an amazing quality of life and we also benefit from the long legacy of investment in the future of our children. One reason our family chose Ashland was for the schools, and we haven’t been disappointed. However, as much as Ashlanders support our schools at the local level, the state of Oregon doesn’t provide funding for capital repairs and renovations, so a bond issuance is needed to insure our schools remain healthy, safe and
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-23
A 13-year-old Rogue River girl killed Monday morning while waiting for the school bus died from a blow caused by a vehicle part such as a mirror or cargo extension, according to autopsy findings, and detectives say it's possible the driver didn't realize he hit a person. It had been trash day the morning Meadow Grace Boyd was found on the ground with fatal injuries outside her driveway at 7:29 a.m. in the 5100 block of East Evans Creek Road outside Rogue River, Jackson County sheriff's Sgt. Juli
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-23
Shane McDaniel posted photos on Facebook of him and his twin sons surrounded by enough chopped wood to fill 80 standard-size pickup trucks. They'd spent months chopping and stacking the firewood, valued at about $10,000. But they had no intention of selling it - they were giving it away to people in need. "No one goes cold in our hood this holiday season," McDaniel, 47, wrote in his post, offering to deliver wood, free of charge, to neighbors who needed a hand heating their homes near Lake Steve
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-22
WASHINGTON — White House negotiators left the Capitol late Friday, and the House and Senate adjourned without a spending deal, all but ensuring a partial government shutdown at midnight with President Donald Trump demanding billions of dollars for his long-promised Mexican border wall. Trump's top envoys were straining to broker a last-minute compromise with Democrats and some of their own Republican Party's lawmakers. But Vice President Mike Pence, incoming White House chief of staff Mick
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-23
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress gaveled open for a rare Saturday session days before Christmas as America's elected leaders partially shut down the government, unable to find a compromise over money for President Donald Trump's promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Trump is demanding $5 billion, but congressional Democrats are refusing to accede in a stalemate that provides a chaotic coda for Republicans in the waning days of their two-year reign controlling government. The president jett
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-22
The Medford School District is taking steps to reduce radon levels in several classrooms after recent testing showed levels slightly above standards set by the Environmental Protection Agency. The test results aren’t an excuse to play hooky, the district says, and the students will be safe. As required by a 2016 state law, the school district has begun testing classrooms for the naturally occurring but unhealthful gas, finding most schools within safe levels and others fixable with improve
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-22
Central Point resident Doug Mills thinks that most hardcore holiday decorators probably have a story behind their obsession. Some do it because of childhood memories of an exuberant light-hanging dad, while others might have a competitive streak mingled with a passion for Christmas. But the reason Mills’ home, at 659 Ridgeway Ave., can be seen from space is that it’s a tribute to his big brother. “My neighbors probably think I’m crazy, because I’m out there every we
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-22
Why not us? I’ve grown sick of breathing wildfire smoke the last few summers. There has been a lot of talk about smoke and fire over the last year. It seems pretty basic and there is general agreement that a combination of putting out fires and less logging leaves a lot to burn out there in the forest. Congress has given new tools to help thin forests and prevent fire, but from your article it appears these don’t help us in Southern Oregon. That’s frustrating. Senator Wyden ref
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-22
A Merlin man faces felony charges accusing him of molesting a boy, but Oregon State Police believe more victims could be out there. Mark Christopher Boothe, 50, of the 1600 block of Crow Road, faces four counts each of first-degree sodomy and first-degree sexual abuse, alleging he inappropriately touched a 9-year-old victim’s genitals and subjected the child to oral sexual contact on multiple occasions. The Josephine County District Attorney’s office says the alleged abuses occurred
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-23
A Shady Cove woman was killed and two others were injured Saturday morning when the Honda Accord they were riding in crashed into the back of a parked semi-truck. Jackson County Sheriff's Office deputies responded to a 911 call at 2:29 a.m. of a crash on Highway 62 just south of Brophy Way, according to a JCSO news release. Investigators said the 25-year-old woman was not using her seat belt and was partially ejected from the front passenger, according to the release. The driver, Cody Dylan Lowe
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-22
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court says Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had surgery to remove two malignant growths from her left lung. It's Ginsburg's third bout with cancer since she joined the court in 1993. The court says the 85-year-old Ginsburg had the surgery Friday in New York and will remain in the hospital for a few days. The court says doctors found "no evidence of disease elsewhere in the body." The court says no additional treatment is planned currently. The growths were found during
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-21
Kiegan Schaan put up a game’s worth of statistics in the first half for Cascade Christian in 3A District 2 football Friday. Schaan, a first-year starting quarterback, passed for five touchdowns and ran for one — all before halftime — as the Challengers romped to a 59-20 victory over Brookings-Harbor at U.S. Cellular Community Park. Defending Class 3A state champion Cascade Christian (7-1, 4-0 Dist. 2) led 52-7 at halftime, marking the sixth straight game the Challengers have sc
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-21
Felony arrests ID Theft — John Fitzgerald Riddle, 40, of the 2400 block of North Pacific Highway, Medford. Medford police arrested Riddle Monday on a felony charge of identity theft and misdemeanor charges of second-degree theft and fraudulent use of a credit card. He was booked in the Jackson County Jail Monday and released Tuesday because of overcrowding. Body Armor — Christopher Robert Agudo Socia, 27, of the 2000 block of Mt Pitt Road, Medford. Central Point police arrested Socia