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Hakomi founder Ron Kurtz died this morning of a massive heart attack in Ashland, friends and colleagues say. He was 76. Kurtz was known nationally for developing Hakomi, a body-centered psychotherapy that incorporates the principles of…

Gov. Ted Kulongoski has appointed attorneys Benjamin Bloom and Timothy Gerking to fill Jackson County Circuit Court vacancies left by the retirement of judges Mark Schiveley and Raymond White. Bloom, best known for representing Jackson and…

A Shady Cove teenager is in custody on suspicion of setting a cat on fire in December. The Jackson County Sheriff's Office arrested the 17-year-old boy on a charge of first-degree aggravated animal abuse, a class-C felony, at 12:50 p.m.…

The state labor board has ordered author and conspiracy theorist Michael C. Ruppert, to pay more than $125,000 to a former female employee he was accused of sexually harassing. State Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian, ordered the former…

Tai Babilonia wears a gold half-moon charm around her neck, given to her by Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac. The only time it ever came off was at the 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid, New York; she will never take it off again. That year, an…

Being a year older and wiser is turning out to be a charm for The Great Rubber Duck Race, which will be held in Lithia Park on July 11. More prizes, support and ducks are being offered this year as the race raises money to maintain the…

The documentary film "Between the Folds" is breathtaking. Think of it: artists, scientists, mathematicians, seemingly eccentrics all, have devoted their lives to origami, meaning folding squares of paper and thereby creating metamorphic…

Homes in the Verde Village subdivision will be environmentally friendly from the ground on which they sit to their roofs, according to the team that designed the development. Land owners Greg and Valri Williams recently won approval from…

The Ashland City Council approved a subdivision that the Oregon Department of Energy has identified as a state-wide model for environmentally friendly housing. Ashland residents Greg and Valri Williams and their team of consultants have…

As an infant, Isabelle Prichard beat back brain cancer using a combination of western and alternative medical treatments. She had four surgeries to remove the glio blastoma multiforma, a rare form of brain cancer she was born with. But it…