The Ashland Police Department is now posting all of their cases on crimereports.com, a Web site that maps the location of crimes within the city.
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On Wednesday, the Interfaith Care Community-Ashland, a homeless center near Shop 'n Kart, will close its doors for good. 'Now everybody's going to be bathing in the fountain. It's gonna be a revolution,' said one attendee at the farewell barbecue.
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Complaining they'd been kept in the dark, then suddenly forced to choose between park lands and affordable housing, a score of Ashland residents urged the city Parks Commission not to trade two acres of pristine Westwood Park to get land for a soccer field adjacent to proposed Clay Street workforce housing.
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'This is War: Memories of Iraq,' the award-winning documentary on the Oregon National Guard's experience in Iraq, is on a road show throughout Oregon and will play tonight in Ashland.
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Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Memorial Day, is marked each year by a solemn ceremony, led by Rabbis David Zaslow and Marc Sirinsky, that alternates between Temple Emek Shalom and Havurah Shir Hadash.
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The American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon has joined booksellers to challenge a state law restricting the sale or provision of sexually explicit material to children, saying it could affect constitutionally protected material.
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A letter from Oregon Secretary of State Bill Bradbury in the state Voters' Pamphlet urges people to call an 800 telephone number if they need assistance. Callers to that number are directed to another 800 number.
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A sixth-grader at Ashland Middle School participated in the prestigious, invitation-only Football University camp Friday through Sunday at Highline Memorial Field in Seattle, Wash.
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Lawrence Jackson and John Carlson had better things to do than sit captive to the phone when the Seahawks called during the draft.
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Surprise, NBA. The first team to advance in the Eastern Conference playoffs wasn't the heavily favored Boston Celtics or the battle-tested Detroit Pistons.
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After getting the easy stuff out of the way, BCS officials will start tackling he tougher issues on the second of three days of meetings in balmy South Florida.
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Frank Thomas is looking pretty spry these days after returning to Oakland.
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Members of the Austrian family victimized by a man who imprisoned his daughter for 24 years and fathered seven children with her have had an 'astonishing' meeting.
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A federal judge has ordered the Interior Department to decide within 16 days whether polar bears should be listed as a threatened species because of global warming.
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The number of U.S. homes heading toward foreclosure more than doubled in the first quarter from a year earlier, as weakening property values and tighter lending left many homeowners powerless to prevent homes from being auctioned to the highest bidder, a research firm said Monday.
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Weary residents and business owners, some awakening in emergency shelters, braced themselves to see what was left of their homes and livelihoods today after three tornadoes smashed houses, piled cars on each other and injured more than 200 people.
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Los Angeles Times editorial
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The Wine Whisperer: By Lorn Razzano
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Talk Newspaper: By Jeff Golden
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By Froma Harrop
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The Youth Symphony of Southern Oregon will perform three concerts in Grants Pass, Medford and Ashland the weekend of May 16.
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You're sitting at home online and suddenly you get an irresistible urge. You absolutely have to belt out R. Kelly's 'I Believe I Can Fly' and share it with the world.You now have that ability, thanks to the new MySpace Karaoke, to be launched today by the social networking site.
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Letters, drawings, as well as numerous other local stories, Jewish traditions and around 200 donated artifacts are featured at the Jewish Museum Milwaukee, which opened Monday.
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Some modern detective work has brought new insight into a collection of 15th-century panels that once adorned a church altar in Spain.
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Dear Abby
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