Jackson County News

Ashland police will turn over a child pornography investigation involving Ashland resident James Auchincloss, half-brother to the late Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, to the Jackson County District Attorney's Office next week, the police chief said.

A salary hike of nearly 10 percent that will boost Jackson County's top administrator's pay to $170,060 is justified, commissioners said Thursday after signing off on an almost-perfect performance review.

Jackson County authorities say a White City man was critically injured when his pickup crashed into an irrigation ditch.

A seasonal campground at Hyatt Lake has been illegally converted into a year-round, high-density recreational vehicle park, a Greensprings neighborhood group charged during a Jackson County public hearing Monday.

A bat found dead in a Central Point neighborhood last week has tested positive for rabies.

A pit bull bit two people, including a Medford police officer, Monday and landed in quarantine for 10 days while Jackson County Animal Control investigates.

Lost Creek Lake had its scarlet "A" officially removed Monday when public health officials - buoyed by reports proving that its toxic algae bloom was over - lifted the advisory against water contact there.

An intoxicated Jacksonville man pointed a gun at two people walking by his recreational vehicle at the Emigrant Lake campground and threatened to kill them on Sunday afternoon, according to the Jackson County Sheriff's Department.

By Andrea Pettes A June 23, 2009 A PHOENIX, Ore. - Fire officials are investigating another fire along the Greenway.

A 30-year-old California trucker has been charged with money laundering by purchasing laptop computers at Wal-Mart stores and then returning them for cash.

MEDFORD - Defense attorneys in Medford have asked juvenile court judges to stop shackling children and teens when they appear to face criminal charges.

By Andrea Calcagno A June 22, 2009 A ASHLAND, Ore. --Jackson County's 'Creek Safety Watch' group is issuing a seasonal creek warning for the summer.

Jackson County has company in Monday's announcement of its record jobless rate. Thirty-three of the state's 36 counties posted unemployment rates of at least 10 percent in May.

A traumatized 14-year-old girl is receiving counseling after two men allegedly plied her with alcohol at a party Thursday night, then raped her, Medford police say.

Jackson County prosecutors say the extradition process has begun for a man arrested in Mexico and sought in the 2005 freeway murder of a Southern Oregon woman.

Ronald Allan Green, 46, of Medford, Oregon, pled guilty in federal court on Tuesday to the October 8, 2007 escape from the Jackson County Work Release Detention Center and to the March 17, 2008 robbery of a Medford, Oregon branch of Washington Mutual Bank.

Jackson County is on the list to get nearly $20 million in federal bonding authority to help finance bridge, road, water, school and transit projects and capital projects by private businesses.

A man from Talent will spend 40 days in jail for slaying a litter of puppies and then dumping them at a local shelter.

By Tove Tupper A June 17, 2009 A CENTRAL POINT, Ore. - The Oregon Department of Forestry has announced Friday as the official start date for fire season.

Fire season starts Friday on forest and brush lands in Jackson and Josephine counties.