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Medford Uses National Opioid Settlement to Tackle Teen Drug and Vaping Use
MEDFORD, Ore. — The City of Medford has concluded three-year National Opioids Settlement Fund funding agreements for a teen substance abuse prevention program launched in schools in late March that has already supported 56 students across…
Oregon Secretary of State Refuses to Give Trump Administration Sensitive Voter Details Amid DOJ…
Oregon’s Secretary of State (SoS) has refused to provide President Donald Trump’s administration lawyers with personal information about state voters.
Lawyers Told They Can Obtain a Copy of Public Records Available to Anyone for…
Four Suspected Drug Dealers Arrested in Portland After Bike Squad Sergeant Spots Street Deal
PORTLAND, Ore. — Four suspected drug dealers were arrested in Portland yesterday, and police took possession of dealer-level quantities of fentanyl, a replica firearm, an illegal knife, a stun gun, and drug packaging materials.
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Roseburg Man Arrested After Drilling Hole in Church Van’s Fuel Tank to Steal Gas
ROSEBURG, Ore. — The Roseburg Police Department arrested a local man who admitted drilling a hole in the fuel tank of a van at the Roseburg Christian Fellowship- with the intent to steal fuel.
The confession came when law enforcement…
Springfield Police Arrest 60-Year-Old Robbery Suspect Minutes After Wells Fargo Hold-Up
SPRINGFIELD, Ore. — A sixty-year-old man from South Carolina robbed the Wells Fargo Bank in Springfield on Thursday morning, threatening cashiers with a concealed weapon.
Andrew Boaden McKissack was arrested shortly after the 11.30 a.m.…
Anchorage Man Convicted in Portland of COVID Relief Fraud Faces 20 Years in Prison
A Cameroonian national who lives in Anchorage, 64-year-old Peter Igwacho, faces a possible 20 years in prison after a federal jury in Portland found him guilty of Covid-19 relief-related wire fraud on Thursday.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office…
Oregon Man Pleads Guilty After Girlfriend Jumps From Vehicle to Flee Pistol Whipping on Warm Springs…
A resident of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation faces 10 years in prison after pistol- whipping his girlfriend around the head, resulting in life-threatening injuries when she jumped from a moving vehicle to escape him.
Henry Jonathan…
Federal Judge Rules Oregon School District Cannot Discipline Social Worker for Displaying Gender…
The Oregon Inter-mountain Education Service District has been ordered by U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew D. Hallman not to impose disciplinary action against a clinical social worker for displaying books in his office that could offend…
West Nile Virus Found in Eagle Point Mosquitoes Prompting Warnings Across Jackson County
JACKSON COUNTY, Ore. — The West Nile virus, typically spread in the US by a mosquito called Culex, which is found across the country, was detected in a mosquito pool in Eagle Point after the Jackson County Vector Control District collected…
Oregon Woman Pleads Guilty to Embezzling $560,000 From Eugene Public Housing Agency
Miranda Renee Wilcox (60), a payroll specialist at the Public Housing Agency in Eugene, has been found guilty of embezzling upwards of half a million dollars from Homes for Good.
Charged and pleading guilty to six counts of first-degree…