Douglas County News

The second of a pair of Idaho fugitives shot by police March 6 in north Medford was released from the hospital Friday and is in jail, police said.

Mark Allen Vanderhoof of Lookinglass is seen in Douglas County Circuit Court in April 2013, on the day he was sentenced to life in prison for the death by abuse of 2-year-old Dennis Young.

Glide-based 4H club AbsentMinded Geniuses discuss the group's robot, Bob, during a meeting in Glide Tuesday.

The man accused of shooting another man in a Winston trailer park pleaded not guilty to both charges against him this week.

Tuesday was the last day to file for open Douglas County positions, and county assessor Susan Acree will have two people trying to unseat her.

Representatives from the Oregon Coast Aquarium are bringing their Aquari-Van to Douglas County schools this week to deliver special marine science assemblies.

Mick Fummerton makes his opening comments Monday during the Roseburg Area Chamber of Commerce lunch forum featuring four of the six candidates for Douglas County commissioner.

One of two Idaho fugitives shot by police after he tried to ram an officer's car last week has been moved from a hospital bed to a jail cell.

Douglas County Sheriff's deputies arrested a 63-year-old man who lives in Winston on Saturday on suspicion of child sex abuse.

A man who police say drove his pickup into a building in Roseburg, Oregon early on Sunday morning has been arrested again.

Mark Vanderhoof had a lengthy history of brutalizing young children. In 1980, he was convicted of child abuse for the physical assault of his 4-month-old daughter in Nevada.

The Pavilion Arena is seen Wednesay at the Douglas County Fairgrounds. About $1.2 million of a $1.3 million plan to renovate the pavilion has been raised in grants and donations.

Samuel Adam Lawson, wrongly convicted of aggravated murder in Douglas County in 2005, was finally freed Thursday when Oregon's Department of Justice determined it did not have sufficient evidence to proceed with a second trial.

The man who police say drove his pickup into a building in Roseburg early Sunday morning has been arrested again.

A roadside mechanic is killed and a passenger in a truck in an accident on Interstate 5 on Sunday.

Two people are dead after a crash involving two semi trucks south of Canyonville.

A Roseburg man was arrested early Sunday morning, after police say he was impaired and drove into the side of Papa Murphy's Pizza at One Champion Plaza.

The art of tunefully breaking one's voice has become a fad in some Asian nations.

A man started coming onto the Roseburg High School campus Tuesday morning swinging a billy club, but was intercepted by a school employee who told him to leave, officials said.

A winter mudslide on ground logged last year in Douglas County illustrates the trouble U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden's timber plan could cause, two environmental groups said Thursday.