Lane County

Facing a $29.2 million budget shortfall, the University of Oregon has embarked on a second round of job cuts, this time affecting 60 staff members. The cutbacks do not affect tenure-track faculty staff - university professors hired for a…

EUGENE, Ore. — Eugene Police Department detectives investigating Friday’s shooting incident in the Walmart parking lot that left one person dead indicated that the person who shot the firearm stayed on the scene and has cooperated with law…

EUGENE, Ore. — An alleged kidnapper who had removed his pre-trial ankle monitor was arrested in Eugene late on Tuesday night and charged with contempt of court and resisting arrest. Jonathon Brian Kelly (45) was taken into custody after…

EUGENE, Ore. — After a 24-hour hostage negotiation crisis at a bank on Willamette Street that brought traffic to a standstill, the Eugene Police Department managed to arrest a man on the roof of the bank’s drive-through. The drama began…

SPRINGFIELD, Ore. — A Springfield driver, 21-year-old David Stewart Hernandez-German, was arrested after fleeing a Lane County Sheriff's Office (LCSO) traffic stop around midnight last night, resulting in a police chase that ended after he…

SPRINGFIELD, Ore. — A Springfield woman, who reported hearing a gunshot from inside her home after fleeing to a neighbor’s house following a domestic violence incident, was later informed that the suspect had died. The incident took…

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.…

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…

EUGENE, Ore. — After rear-ending his girlfriend’s vehicle and chasing her onto Willamette Street, Adam Cole Young (35) was arrested by officers from the Eugene Police Department after a sequence of dramatic events. After the incident…

EUGENE, Ore. — A woman from Eugene will spend more than seven years in prison for setting fire to the home of a former boyfriend’s parents. Jasmine Wright was found guilty on five counts of first-degree arson and multiple other charges…