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Highway crash kills 1, sends 4 to hospital
One person has died, four other people hospitalized, following a head-on crash on Highway 101 in Coos County. Oregon State Police (OSP) responded to a three-vehicle crash on Highway 101, near milepost 250, at approximately 4:35 p.m. May 13. According to OSP, the preliminary investigation indicated a northbound Nissan Frontier, operated by Tracy Martin Goforth (63) of Gold Beach, crossed into the southbound lane for unknown reasons and struck a...
Guest Column: An elemental matter
What if I were to tell you that bringing a criminal matter before the court is akin to a matter of chemistry? In order for the Coos County Sheriff’s Office to make a case, we must establish that a crime did, in fact occur. In order to do that, we must meet the element of the crime as set forth in Oregon Revised Statute. Only if the elements come together can we make an arrest, or refer a matter to the Coos County District Attorney’s Office with a referral for prosecution. ...
Curbing severe wildfire in Oregon depends on urgency, scale of controlled burns by state and feds
State and federal agencies are coming around to indigenous knowledge, science, around the need for low-intensity fires to pre-empt severe ones. Jesse Jackson stands proudly, flute in hand, on several hundred acres of forest near Roseburg that the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians fought to get back from the federal government in 2016 after more than 160 years of private and federal management and decades of heavy logging.
Son of Oregon senator barred from reelection wins Republican bid for father’s seat
Noah Robinson, son of state Sen. Art Robinson, has won the contentious Republican primary to replace his father in representing the 2nd District in the Oregon Senate. Partial results as of 10 a.m. Wednesday morning showed Robinson of Cave Junction with 60% of the vote across the district that spans Douglas, Jackson and Josephine counties.
Oregon man accused of killing 18,000 pre-smolt salmon fails to make court appearance
Douglas County authorities have issued a warrant for the suspect in last month’s destruction of 18,000 juvenile salmon at a Reedsport hatchery. 20-year-old Joshua Alexander Heckathorn of Gardiner was a no-show at court on Monday. He had been scheduled for his first court appearance on May 16, but told officials he had transportation issues and couldn’t make it.
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