Southern Oregon News

GRANTS PASS, Ore. — The Grants Pass Police SWAT team arrested a felony suspect, 51-year-old Barney Clem, yesterday, who had threatened to kill a woman before fleeing into a nuisance house in a bright orange shirt. After a three-hour…

JACKSON COUNTY, Ore. — A 55-year-old intoxicated boater with four teenagers and another man onboard was arrested on Tuesday night at Lost Creek Lake after he was reported speeding recklessly near the shore. After being notified by ECSO…

GRANTS PASS, Ore. — On Monday, the Grants Pass Police Department arrested 20-year-old Kassandrea Sinks, a female suspect in a May 1 altercation in Baker Park that escalated into the victim being slashed across the side of the head with a…

JOSEPHINE COUNTY, Ore. — After responding to reports of a single-vehicle crash on Highway 199, near milepost 35, in Josephine County on Friday, at 9:08 a.m., Oregon State Police (OSP) investigators determined that 37-yer-old William Robert…

A convicted felon who is now allowed to own firearms has been charged with allegedly accidentally shooting a 13-year-old boy in Myrtle Creek, Oregon. Cory Albert (44) told deputies from the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office that as he shot…

JACKSON COUNTY, Ore. — The Jackson County Sheriff Oregon (JCSO) issued a scam alert yesterday, alerting the public to a new scam: Scammers leave messages that say "Sheriff Aaron Grissom" has civil documents for them to pick up and ask them…

KLAMATH COUNTY, Ore. — Oregon State Police (OSP) responded to a fatal two-vehicle crash on Highway 58 at the intersection with Crescent Lake Highway in Klamath County on Saturday at 12:23 a.m., after 47-year-old Terryl Thomas Ball of…

GRANTS PASS, Ore. — Grants Pass Police Department officers found and arrested the suspect in Tuesday's assault in 7th Street Park, 23-year-old James McClung, near Bakers Park yesterday afternoon. A man bleeding profusely from the head-…

MEDFORD, Ore. — The federally required Medford Regional Water Reclamation Facility upgrades at the Kirkland Road wastewater treatment plant in White City moved closer to completion on Friday after the city named Slayden Constructors Inc. as…

ROSEBURG, Ore. — A Roseburg dog training company owner has been sentenced to more than three years in Douglas County Jail after pleading no contest to two charges of first-degree animal neglect. Haden Dorsey (45) was investigated by the…