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Suspect identified in 2012 double killing in Southern Oregon Wednesday Feb 15, 2017 at 12:23 PM Feb 15, 2017 at 12:23 PM By The Associated Press KLAMATH FALLS — A detective testifying in a drug trial in Southern Oregon said investigators have identified a suspect in the deaths of two men who were found buried on a ranch more than four years ago. Eric Shepherd is a former Klamath County sheriff's detective now with Medford police. He identi
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Times reports calls between Trump team, Russia Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a Security Council meeting in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tuesday Feb 14, 2017 at 7:53 PM Feb 14, 2017 at 8:05 PM Members of Trump's campaign had repeated contacts with Russian intelligence officials during the year before the election. The U.S. knew about these contacts through phone records and intercepted calls. The Associated
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Senate will consider blocking rule on guns and mentally ill Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Wednesday Feb 15, 2017 at 6:30 AM The Republican-led Senate is moving to block an Obama-era regulation that would prevent an estimated 75,000 people with mental disorders from being able to purchase a firearm. The Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Republican-led Senate is moving to block an Ob
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Save water, save fish Rogue River Valley Irrigation District Manager Brian Hampson walks across Yankee Creek on a flume that will be replaced by underground pipes near Agate Lake. Mail Tribune / Jamie Lusch Tuesday Feb 14, 2017 at 6:15 PM Feb 14, 2017 at 6:18 PM Mark Freeman Mail Tribune @MTwriterFreeman WHITE CITY — By Rogue River Valley Irrigation District standards, the Yankee Creek flume is something of a youngster compared with mu
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Eno Files: Belle Fiore’s new winemaker drawn to Southern Oregon Wednesday Feb 15, 2017 at 12:01 AM By Kevin Breck for the Mail Tribune Winemakers tend to be journeymen, or in the case of Heather Nenow, Belle Fiore’s new winemaker, journeywoman. Nenow began her career with internships in Napa, Italy and Chile. In California, she was winemaker at a number of wineries, from the small Lucchesi Vineyards in the Sierra Foothills, producing a modest 5,000 cases, t
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Genevieve Windsor Wednesday Feb 15, 2017 at 2:00 AM July 28, 1942 - January 25, 2017 Genevieve "Gen" "Jenny" Windsor of Talent, Oregon left the company of family and dear friends and began her next journey January 25, 2017. Her life on earth was rich in experiences. She was born July 28, 1942 in Los Angeles, California to Mary Jane and Emanuel Windsor. Gen grew up in both Carpinteria and Ojai, Calif. and graduated from Happy Valley School in Ojai. She had wonderful memor
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Shady Cove may vote on pot again Tuesday Feb 14, 2017 at 6:48 PM Feb 14, 2017 at 6:48 PM Damian Mann Mail Tribune @reporterdm Shady Cove voters narrowly defeated recreational cannabis sales last November, but a medical dispensary owner hopes to overturn that rejection by going door to door to get support for a similar ballot initiative this May. "I've been burning it at both ends," said Dan Gilbert, owner of Kush Gardens. A ballot measure last No
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Since You Asked: Cole Rivers Hatchery ponds can't be full of fish all the time Wednesday Feb 15, 2017 at 12:01 AM I've been following this story in the Mail Tribune about privatizing Cole Rivers Hatchery, and it makes me think some private business ought to take it over. Maybe a private company would run it at full capacity, unlike the state. You go up there, and more than half the ponds are empty. Why aren't they all full of fish? — D.D., email submission So we a
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Guest Opinion: DeVos threatens public education Monday Jan 30, 2017 at 12:01 AM By Betty R. Kazmin The Indivisible movement, featured on your front page Jan. 25, raises public awareness of serious flaws in President Trump's nominees for Cabinet posts. As a lifelong supporter of public schools, I am concerned by his selection of Betsy DeVos as secretary of education. At a press conference in Portland on Friday, Sen. Jeff Merkley said, “Betsy DeVos did not go to a p
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SOU hosts six new art exhibits Photography by Jay Zheng, "Life of the Lens," is displayed through Feb. 17 in the Marion Ady Building at Southern Oregon University. Mail Tribune / Vickie Aldous Monday Jan 30, 2017 at 9:00 AM Jan 30, 2017 at 9:41 AM Vickie Aldous Mail Tribune @VickieAldous Jay Zheng is showing her Instagram-inspired photographs in a new exhibit — and inviting viewers to use clothespins to hang their own snapshots alongside h
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This cat was weighed down by five pounds of matted fur; now he's a rising Internet star [video] Courtesy of Anti-Cruelty Society Thursday Jan 26, 2017 at 9:00 AM Karin Brulliard - The Washington Post When Sinbad the cat showed up at the Anti-Cruelty Society, an animal shelter in Chicago, he weighed more than 11 pounds. Five pounds of that was fur. The 8-year-old Persian's hair was gray, matted and laced with excrement and maggots. It was a shocking and stinking sight, th
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Mark L. Hopkins: More on guns and the Second Amendment Monday Jan 30, 2017 at 12:01 AM Mark L. Hopkins More Content Now A few months back I wrote a column entitled, “Guns don’t kill people. Really?” My column usually will draw between 30 and 40 responses each week, some positive and some negative. The “Guns don’t kill people,” column kept me answering emails through much of the next week and beyond. Beginning today, I am going to
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Letters to the Editor, Jan. 30 Monday Jan 30, 2017 at 12:01 AM The first 100 days As he has asked, and without reservation, we should plan to offer our new president the benefit of the doubt — in exactly the same sense as he, his tea party fellow travelers, and the Republican Party “establishment” has ever offered Barack Obama the benefit of the doubt as to his judgement, qualifications, citizenship, patriotism, personhood, principles and intentions.
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Emergency services, Jan. 27 Friday Jan 27, 2017 at 12:05 AM Felony arrests Drugs — Jesus Magadan Valle, 42, of Los Angeles, California. Oregon State Police troopers arrested Valle Wednesday on felony charges of possessing methamphetamine and heroin. He was booked in the Jackson County Jail Wednesday and released Thursday because of overcrowding. Theft — Joshua Michael Murray, 21, of the 900 block of La Loma Drive, Medford. Central Point police arrested Murr
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Since You Asked: Poverty rate is key to free school meals Monday Jan 30, 2017 at 12:01 AM Who decided that all schools in White City get free meals, while in Eagle Point, which is in the same School District 9, we have to pay $3.00 per meal. Not everyone in Eagle Point lives on the golf course. — Robert N., Eagle Point In 2015, 21.67 percent of students in the Eagle Point School District 9 lived at or below the federal poverty line, according the U.S. Census Burea
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Mail Tribune 100, Jan 30, 1917 Monday Jan 30, 2017 at 12:01 AM Jan. 30, 1917 HIGH SCHOOL GAINS HUNDRED PUPILS IN YEAR The enrollment of pupils in the high school has increased practically 100 since this time last year, according to P. H. Daily, principal of the high school. Four hundred and forty students are now registered, as against 381 last semester and 350 last year at this time. Two new subjects have been added to the high school curriculum this semester — a
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Former Bates chief of staff now SOU legislative liaison Monday Jan 30, 2017 at 12:35 PM Jan 30, 2017 at 12:35 PM A former chief of staff for the late state Sen. Alan Bates has been hired as Southern Oregon University’s new liaison to state and federal lawmakers. Director of Government Relations Julie McFadden will work with elected officials, legislative staff members and others on measures that will benefit the university, its s
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English reggae band UB40 will play at Britt Original members of UB40 have reunited and will play at Britt this summer. Monday Jan 30, 2017 at 10:21 AM Jan 30, 2017 at 10:22 AM English reggae band UB40 will play on the Britt Festivals stage this summer in the first concert announced for the 2017 season. A Britt news release said founding members Ali Campbell, Astro and Mickey Virtue have reunited with the band to bring back hits that dominated the
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Trump's immigration actions worry local Latinos, could threaten Oregon's sanctuary law Ricardo Lujan, an undocumented Southern Oregon University student living in Ashland, says the Trump administration's immigration policies are sowing fear. Mail Tribune / Jamie Lusch Sunday Jan 29, 2017 at 12:01 AM Nick Morgan Mail Tribune @mtcrimebeat "Undocumented and Unafraid" may have read the sign Ricardo Lujan carried in downtown Ashland at the Women's March, but it doesn't d
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A passion for poetry Sho Sugita, an Ashland High graduate, has translated a collection of poems by Hirato Renkichi, which Sugita believes will be the first collection of Japanese futurist poetry to appear in the English language. Sugita will read from the collection Wednesday at SOU's Schneider Museum of Art. Photo courtesy Sho Sugita Monday Jan 30, 2017 at 12:01 AM By Joe Zavala for the Mail Tribune Sho Sugita’s long road to the world of historical poetry transla