Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-29
There’s little question Cascade Christian and St. Mary’s are high school rivals. It just hasn’t seemed so in football. St. Mary’s coach Jamie Young always thought it’d be “a cool thing” to be looked at in that light. “I’ve never seen it that way,” says Young, whose Crusaders have been on an uphill climb in his nine seasons as head coach while the Challengers have been among the state’s best Class 3A teams over the same period under coach Jon Gettman, also in his ninth year. “So to me,” says Youn
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-29
Police in Bartow, Florida, say they arrested two middle school girls Tuesday who brought butcher knives and a pizza cutter to school and told detectives that they had been planning to stab more than a dozen students to death. "They told us they were Satan worshipers," Bartow Police Chief Joe Hall said at a news conference on Wednesday. "They did make comments that they were willing to drink blood and possibly eat flesh." The two preteens, aged 11 and 12, were enrolled in sixth and seventh grade,
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-29
Cascade Christian’s boys and St. Mary’s girls cross country teams qualified for the state championships at the district meet Thursday at Valley of the Rogue State Park. The Challenger boys got a second-place finish from freshman Jake Saroni and came in second in the Class 3A District 4 behind Brookings-Harbor, which scored 31 points to Cascade Christian’s 48. In the girls District 4 competition, for classes 3A, 2A and 1A, St. Mary’s scored 71 points to place second behind Lakeview, which tallied
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-29
Trader Joe's and REI are coming to Medford. Or are they? If a sign erected Friday afternoon at the intersection of highways 99, 62 and 238 is to be believed, then those venerable retailers are on their way to the new Northgate development across from Rogue Valley Mall, along with Petco and Ulta Beauty. Problem is, the sign was taken back down hours later, so it's hard to say what's true at this point. At least from an official standpoint. Because officials for the stores weren't returning phone
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-29
In Southern Oregon, it’s common to see semi trucks driving on the shoulder of Interstate 5 as they go up and over the passes. How can that possibly be legal? I’ve not seen that in any other state. Is just a Southern Oregon thing? Can you tell me where in the ORS it says that’s allowed, because I have searched for it and I can’t. — Nancy M., Medford Technically, it is illegal, Nancy, likely a violation of ORS 811.370, which is failure to drive within a lane of traffic. That said, drivers typicall
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-29
One day after a split grand jury ruled Eagle Point police Officer Daniel Cardenas' shooting of 33-year-old Matthew Graves on Sept. 19 was justified, the Jackson County District Attorney's Office has released Cardenas' raw bodycam video. The bodycam falls to the ground during a struggle that lasts roughly a minute from police's first contact with Graves to Cardenas firing two shots into Graves' upper back on the bathroom floor at Carl's Jr. The other officer who responded, C.J. Davis, was also cl
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-29
PITTSBURGH (AP) — They were professors and accountants, dentists and beloved doctors serving their local community. A day after the shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue that left 11 dead, officials released the names of the victims. The oldest of them was 97. The youngest was 54. They included a pair of brothers and a husband and wife. Said Stephen Cohen, co-president of New Light Congregation: “The loss is incalculable.” CECIL AND DAVID ROSENTHAL: ‘SWEET, GENTLE, CARING MEN’ Cecil and David Rosen
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-29
After four years of drug addiction, Margarita Moody reached her lowest point when she found out she was pregnant but couldn’t stop using heroin. “I hated myself for that. You know, I would beg myself to stop, and I wanted to stop so bad. I wanted to quit. I didn’t want to kill my baby,” she said. Under a doctor’s guidance, Moody began taking a daily dose of methadone at the Allied Health Services clinic in Medford to curb her cravings for heroin and block flu-like withdrawal symptoms. Doctors of
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-29
A century ago, hope had vanished and terror had returned. Like an unwelcome relative with no place to go, the “Spanish Lady” had come to town. People were overconfident, so certain that she was gone for good. Now, the streets were empty again and behind every locked door someone was waiting to die. The “Lady” was influenza, and 100 years ago, she was promising to end the world. One March morning in Kansas in 1918, a Fort Riley Army private skipped breakfast and reported to sickbay with a sore th
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-28
PAC money, normally associated with high-profile political campaigns, has filtered down to local races. Phoenix Mayor Chris Luz received financial contributions of $1,500 from a home builders association political action committee and $1,000 from a former city councilor. City Councilor Stuart Warren, who is challenging Luz, says he is limiting his campaign contributions to $750, the threshold at which a candidate must form a committee and make financial reports to the Secretary of State’s office
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-29
A new bus system linking Klamath Falls to the Southern Oregon coast via Medford and Grants Pass begins rolling Monday. Dubbed the Southwest POINT, short for Public Oregon Intercity Transit, the system is being organized by the Oregon Department of Transportation. "Our research showed there is a large group of people who don't have access from Klamath Falls to Medford," explained ODOT spokeswoman Shelley Snow. "A lot of them were people coming in on Amtrak who needed to get over to the valley. Th
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-29
A federal judge Wednesday sentenced convicted bank robber Bradley Monical to 32 years in prison for a string of robberies throughout the Pacific Northwest, bringing one of the region's longest running criminal sagas one step closer to its conclusion. Monical's sentence follows a June 29 plea that resolved three federal bank robbery cases in Oregon, Washington and Idaho, and will run concurrently with a 34-year sentence he's already serving for the April 2011 robbery of a Sterling Savings Bank in
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-28
Amid drumming, chants, stories and quiet sobs, some 200 people from many faiths prayed Saturday evening at Ashland’s Havurah Shir Hadash for help in “what we are supposed to do with our grief and anger” over the murder of 11 Jews at a Pittsburgh synagogue that morning. “Our tears will water the Earth,” said Rabbi David Zaslow of Havurah. “May peace descend on our nation and each of us and our families … and help us know what we are supposed to do with our grief and anger. Remember that as light
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-26
Playwright Joe Calarco’s charming comedy about two women — a liberal named Margaret and a conservative named Patty — grounded at an airport during a storm, focuses on a difficult, revealing and frank conversation that results in mutual understanding between the political opposites in "Walter Cronkite is Dead." Jeannine Grizzard directs. Presila Quinby and Elizabeth Suzanne play the roles. Performances are set for 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 28, then 8 p.m. Saturdays, Nov. 3, 10 and 17, and 2 p.m. Sunday
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-27
From more video cameras to snow fencing to equipment updates, Mt. Ashland had a busy off-season preparing for winter. Some of the work was aimed at improving amenities in the event of low-snow years. “Even in a good winter, we would like to open earlier and stay open later,” said Hiram Towle, general manager. “Sometimes that isn’t supported by the amount of snow on the ground.” The ski area has shifted it approaches with variable snowpacks in mind. Since not opening in 2013-14, the ski area has
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-27
A trio of cattle deaths in the Fort Klamath area earlier this week are being blamed on OR-7’s Rogue Wolf Pack. The carcasses of three yearling heifers were found — one each on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday mornings — by Butch Wampler, who oversees cattle grazing on Wood River Valley ranch lands owned by Bill Nicholson and leased to DeTar Livestock of Dixon, Calif. The remains have been sent for examination before an official determination is made. Following the discovery of the first heifer Mond
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-27
Willow-Witt Ranch, co-owned by Jackson County commissioner candidate Lanita Witt, has been warned by the county that it might be in violation of regulations by holding weddings and other events without proper permits. The ranch, on Shale City Road near Dead Indian Memorial Road northeast of Ashland, received the warning Oct. 9 and has until Dec. 1 to come into compliance. “We didn’t know we needed permits to host weddings,” said Witt, who is running against Jackson County Commissioner Colleen Ro
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-27
The man who kidnapped and killed a lesbian couple in Medford in 1995 in one of Jackson County’s most infamous murder cases has died. Robert James Acremant, 50, died this morning on death row at the Oregon State Penitentiary, state prison officials said. The Oregon State Police has been notified and the medical examiner will determine Acremant’s cause of death, said Tonya Gushard, spokeswoman for the Oregon Department of Corrections. Acremant was found dead in his solitary cell during a routine m
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-27
Ballot Measure 106 is the third attempt in Oregon to forbid the use of public money to pay for abortions. The first two failed with no votes of 52 percent in 1978 and 55 percent in 1986. This one, which barely made the ballot, should suffer a similar fate. Oregon is one of 17 states that use state tax dollars to cover abortions for low-income women (federal law forbids using Medicaid funding for abortions except in the case of rape or incest). But it’s not just low-income women who would be affe
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-27
Chetco River anglers will have their bobbers-only fishing for fall chinook salmon extended indefinitely because of low-water conditions, but there are no plans to close the fishery until rains materialize, state fish managers say. In order to prevent snagging, Chetco anglers are required to use bobbers and leaders no longer than 36 inches when fishing for chinook with bait or lures. The restrictions were scheduled to end Nov. 4, giving way to the regular complement of fishing options. But the re