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Medford nurse accused of fentanyl swap battles in civil, criminal courts
A southern Oregon nurse accused of repeatedly replacing patients’ fentanyl with tap water at a Medford hospital has successfully disqualified two judges overseeing her trial and is asking a court to delay a related civil lawsuit against her. The developments come a month after police arrested Dani Marie Schofield...
Medford Police Association donates school supplies to Salvation Army
MEDFORD, Ore.- The Medford Police Associate makes a large donation of school supplies to the Salvation Army. The Medford Police Association is an internal non-profit organization made up of MPD employees. The association frequently looks for worthwhile causes within the community to donate to. Tuesday, that included the Salvation Army’s...
'I knew instantly who it was': Radiologist's remains found through tip in unrelated case
In the nearly 14 months after Medford radiologist Graham Rhode Case was first reported missing, Jackson County Search and Rescue Cmdr. Sgt. Shawn Richards and his team spent more than 200 hours searching by air, land and water for the 47-year-old father of three. In the end, it was a...
What Two Wildfires Reveal About the Cracks in Our Emergency Response
The wind was the first thing Erica Ledesma noticed on Sept. 8, 2020, when she woke up around 5 a.m. It’d been blazing hot and bone dry in Medford, Oregon—typical late-summer weather. But the howling wind was unlike anything Ledesma, who’s now 31 and was born and raised in the area, had experienced. “I was like, what is that noise? Everything was moving, the trees and everything. It all just felt off,” she recalls. “Everything felt really eerie and really dry.”
State May Not Deny Grants to Charity Based on Its Religious Discrimination in Employment, When
From Thursday's decision in Youth 71Five Ministries v. Williams, decided by Judge Kenneth Lee, joined by Judges Bridget Bade and Danielle Forrest:. Youth 71Five Ministries (71Five) is a Christian organization that serves and mentors at-risk youths of all backgrounds, including those who are not Christian. But 71Five hires only those who share its faith and can thus advance the group's mission and message. Once the state of Oregon learned of this hiring practice, it canceled $410,000 in grants to 71Five, asserting that the group violated the state's non-discrimination policy. The district court denied 71Five's motion for a preliminary injunction, and 71Five has now filed an emergency motion seeking an injunction pending appeal of the district court's order.
Man sentenced to 20 years for Medford motel heart-attack homicide
A Central Point man will serve two decades behind bars after pleading no contest to a manslaughter charge among other crimes in connection with a robbery at the Sis-Q Motel in Medford that culminated in the manager dying of cardiac arrest. Brian Matthew Smith, 31, was sentenced Monday in Jackson...
Kids Unlimited Academy Pioneers Later Start Times with Year-Round Schooling
MEDFORD, Ore. – At Kids Unlimited Academy (KUA), students begin their school year earlier than others, but are starting their day later at 9 a.m. The kindergarten through fifth grade public charter school was the first in Oregon to expand its academic calendar to 11 months. Now they are opening their doors at 7:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. to allow students to arrive for breakfast and participate in morning enrichment, which includes academics, movement, and mindfulness. The schedule caters to working families, who can utilize KUA’s extended day as an alternative to childcare.
SOU’s 50th anniversary celebration of its pipe organ
(Ashland, Ore.) — There will be cake. There will be festivities marking a half-century milestone. And most certainly, there will be music. Southern Oregon University will observe the 50th anniversary of the SOU Music Recital Hall’s Worth Harvey Pipe Organ – and the history behind it – with a celebration and concert at 2 p.m. on Friday, August 23. The massive and much-celebrated pipe organ itself will be at center stage.
Southern Oregon floating offshore wind clears one bureaucratic hurdle in a long process
Oregon’s coast is inching closer to generating renewable electricity using floating offshore wind turbines, though any construction is still years away. On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, or BOEM, announced it has finalized an environmental assessment. The assessment looked at potential impacts from issuing leases to develop floating offshore wind in the region. BOEM is the federal agency tasked with identifying, proposing and leasing the ocean areas.
Oregon voters could see Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the ballot with We The People
Oregon voters could see independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the ballot in November after a petition received enough signatures to create a new minor political party in Oregon, according to the Oregon Secretary of State’s office.
Oregon Coast Visitors Association launches biking homepage
The Oregon Coast Visitors Association website is now a central hub for all things biking on the coast! For the past few years, we’ve been actively involved in supporting the creation of three coastal mountain bike trail systems (Klootchy Creek in Seaside, Big Creek in Newport, and Whiskey Run in Coos County), and have sponsored mountain biking events like Ride the Dirt Wave and Mountain Bike Oregon, as a way to elevate mountain biking as a coastal experience for visitors and locals. ...
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