An Ashland man who shot at law enforcement before fleeing on foot was arrested Saturday morning near mile marker 15 on Interstate 5, according to law enforcement reports. The interstate was closed for a period of time during the incident. No injuries were reported.
A surge in harassment and spam calls to a statewide hotline for victims of hate and bias crimes, and an unusual decrease in legitimate bias complaints being reported, is prompting calls for reform from state officials.
The Oregon Department of Human Services is offering free emergency kits and power stations for older adults and qualified people with physical disabilities. The emergency kits include flashlights, blankets, first aid items, food and other supplies. The power stations are portable and have rechargeable batteries.
What to do before, during and after an evacuation are among the topics Ashland emergency officials will discuss during an evacuation preparedness meeting on Wednesday.
A 19-year-old man fell from a cliff and drowned in a swimming hole at a rock quarry reservoir 14 miles east of Ashland off Dead Indian Memorial Road Thursday evening, according to a news release from the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office.
“If that deer needs to be lethally removed, it falls to us,” Ashland Police Chief Tighe O’Meara said. “It’s not unusual to have to put down injured deer — we do that fairly frequently — but I’m not sure if this has happened before.”
Ashland resident Lola Jackson is scheduled to attend a hearing and pre-trial conference Monday, June 30, following a June 12 arrest where police allege she struck a pedestrian in a motorized wheelchair with her vehicle, according to an Ashland Police Department press release.
Changes in reporting policy, more police on the streets, and more arrests by officers led to a statistical increase in incidents regarded as uses of force by the Ashland Police Department, but the spike in stats is no cause for alarm, the city’s chief of police said Monday.
An Ashland advocate for the homeless alleges city police are aggressively enforcing rules and regulations at the city’s “night lawn” camping location to practice entrapment through issuing citations with expensive fines, all to harass the unhoused and possibly force them to move on elsewhere
Ashland Police Chief Tighe O’Meara said kids speeding through town on electric bikes have crossed a threshold of risk where law enforcement needs to respond with speeding tickets.
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After a successful production of “The Vagina Monologues” and raising more than $2,000 for Planned Parenthood of Southwestern Oregon, Ashland actor and director Lia Dugal intends for “The Climate Monologues” to premiere in Oregon in late 2025 or early 2026 at the Bellview Grange in Ashland.
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Herbert Rothschild: Whether visualization and intention by themselves can effect broad social change is impossible to determine, but the question merits sustained consideration.
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