Jackson County News

Most Americans treasure their constitutional right to free speech. Very few would have ever thought this important personal freedom would have been tested on the open road, however.

Coty Hammond and Ryan Longley were arrested by OSP and accused of having about 45 pounds of marijuana in their car.

On Sept. 11, 2001, Darleen Anderson was trapped for 40 minutes under rubble and dust in her apartment after the World Trade Center collapsed across the street.

The Jackson County Budget Committee on Thursday approved a $306.3 million county budget that includes one year of funding for the county library system and significantly expands mental health services.

At the request of the Jackson County Sheriff's Office , Oregon State Police detectives are investigating an incident in which a deputy sideswiped an armed man attempting to flee authorities, OSP said.

A Jackson County sheriff's candidate who is the subject of a criminal investigation by the Oregon Department of Justice said he's being accused of using a sheriff's department employee roster to solicit campaign funds.

I see the city of Medford is building a new half-million-dollar evidence locker using money recovered from fraud cases.

Ex-Marine Bourne Paraday Huddleston was found guilty Wednesday of murdering his wife and on charges related to a contract-killing scheme he plotted against her and another man, a Jackson County Circuit Court jury decided.

There's much to talk about in Ashland-a southern Oregon winter so dry that, for the first time in 50 years, the local ski mountain failed to open, or the fare at this year's Oregon Shakespeare Festival .

Editor's note: Columnist Wm. Willard Greene is on a spirit quest in the Rockies.

Jacob Allen Golden, 20, no known address. Medford Police Monday arrested Golden on charges of possession of methamphetamine, possession of a schedule I controlled substance, third-degree theft and first- and second-degree criminal mischief.

DID YOU FILE YOUR TAXES? If not, you've got until the end of the day when the post office closes.

The postcard's message is brief, written along its edge in fading pencil: "Arrived in Portland at 8 o'clock.

Headlight flashing to warn others of law enforcement in the area isn't against the law, an Oregon judge has ruled.

A registered sex offender has been arrested on suspicion of seeking sexual gratification by bumping against women at grocery and department stores.

Bourne Huddleston said Monday that he plans to testify today in his trial on charges that he killed his wife in 2012 after trying to hire two others to kill her and then initiated another murder-for-hire scheme to kill a witness against him.

When hackers infiltrated the state's website tracking everything from business names to voter registration in February, the political heat intensified to the point Secretary of State Kate Brown dodged lawmakers.

United Way is asking for donations of college T-shirts from throughout the U.S. and beyond as part of its Big Idea, an initiative to ensure that all 1,200 sixth-graders in Jackson County graduate from high school on time in 2020.

Hauling a truckload of logs to a Southern Oregon mill last fall, Chris Hill noticed a sheriff's deputy behind him and flashed his lights to warn a UPS driver coming the other way.

The six-month shuttering of Jackson County's 15 branches in 2007 because of cuts in federal funding is still fresh in her mind.