Douglas County News

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.

The new Douglas County veterans service officer is off to a great start, despite having to follow the overwhelming success of his predecessor, Mary Newman.

Alex Campbell, executive director for The Partnership for Economic Development in Douglas County, is seen in a 2011 file photo.

According to the Department of Public Health, the risks of electronic cigarettes are not yet fully understood.

I read that the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife came out with its annual wolf report stating Oregon has 64 confirmed wolves.

Health Care for All Oregon organizer Ross Lampert leads a Feb. 19 discussion at the Douglas County Library in Roseburg about a movement to get universal health care legislation passed in 2015.

About: Robbin is transplanted from Atlanta, Georgia, married to a native Oregonian who brought her to Roseburg to follow his career as an attorney.

Roseburg police say although there are a few people in town who are claiming to have former ties to gangs, they are not trying to set up shop in Douglas County.

Three men suspected of stealing $550 worth of prescription medications and other items from a Glendale home were arrested Sunday morning, according to the Douglas County Sheriff's Office.

Photo courtesy of MARICO FAYREThe site of Steamboat Inn, shown here as it appears today, has drawn anglers to the North Umpqua River since the 1920s.

Pete Serafin stands in the trophy room of his Roseburg home in 2007. Behind him is a Marco Polo ram from Afghanistan.