Jackson County News

ASouthern Oregon pain management doctor at risk of losing his license for allegedly overprescribing opiates to high-risk patients said narcotics are under a larger, more critical microscope than they were 15 years ago.

A car crash Sunday near the intersection of North Foothill and Coker Butte roads left a 26-year-old woman dead after she lost control of her Subaru and veered into an oncoming pickup truck, authorities said.

Ashland has received two business license applications for medical marijuana dispensaries in the days since a city ordinance allowing the dispensaries went into effect.

The sheriff's department, Medford police, Jackson County Health and Human Services and Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center will discuss the issue 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, March 18, at the Smullin Education Center on the Rogue Regional Medical Center campus, 2825 E. Barnett Road, Medford.

On Tuesday, the last day to file for the primary, four Republicans had filed to run for the two open seats but no Democrats.

The Oregon University Extension Service helps Southern Oregon residents and fire agencies get ready for the summer fire season with a new Citizen Fire Academy.

Oregon State Police investigators probe a freeway shooting east of The Dalles last summer.

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.

A mass meeting of the fruit growers of Jackson County is being held at the Library building this afternoon to discuss the resigation of Professor P.J. O'Gara as county pathologist and the appointment of a successor.

Sunday's heavy rains set a record in Medford and swelled Southern Oregon streams, replenishing parched reservoirs but resulting in little if any flooding as waters receded Monday.

Jackson County is considering joining the trap-neuter/spay-return movement to help reduce the high rate of euthanasia among cats at the animal shelter, county officials say.

Jackson County's seasonally adjusted jobless rate slipped under 9 percent in January and neighboring Josephine County stayed below double-digits as well.

Jackson County health inspectors evaluated 80 restaurants in February. All passed their semiannual inspections, and 50 received perfect scores of 100.

A man living on rural Savage Creek Road outside Rogue River faces attempted murder and assault charges after beating a 74-year-old neighbor with a crowbar, police said.

Our 16-year-old granddaughter is living with us. She wants to get a job this summer.

A man arrested for setting at least five fires in vacant west Medford houses was seen videotaping flames at some of the scenes and posted some of them on the Internet, arousing police suspicion last summer, authorities said.

A small fire that started inside a living room wall filled a family's Central Point home with smoke Wednesday afternoon, killing a pair of pet dogs, authorities said.

Last fall Jackson County road crews bladed the side of the road on Highway 238W into the Applegate valley.

Southern Oregon University student Bryan Coghill says smoking marijuana in high school didn't seem to affect his grade-point average, which was the same then as it is today, when he no longer uses.

Professor P.J. O'Gara, who six years ago left the department of agriculture to become pathologist for Jackson county at a salary of $5,000 a year has resigned to become chief in charge of agricultural investigation for the American Smelting and Refining company at a salary of $15,000 a year.