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• Authorities ease into citing drivers on cells - 2/7/2010
  

  The first month of Oregon's ban on the use of a cell phone while driving has yielded few tickets, but plenty of warnings, law enforcement officials...

• Medford woman cited for hitting men on Riverside - 2/6/2010
  

  The driver who struck and injured two pedestrians on Riverside Avenue last month has been cited for careless driving and failure to yield to a...

• Police search for 3 boys who beat, robbed woman - 2/6/2010
  

  Medford police are looking for three teenage boys who allegedly beat and robbed a 54-year-old woman walking near Donahue-Frohnmayer Park Monday night.

• Car chase leads to arrest of Medford-area transient - 2/6/2010
  

  MEDFORD — A Medford-area transient is in jail after allegedly leading police on a brief car chase after he was spotted driving a vehicle stolen...

• Police arrest suspect in Central Point man's murder - 2/5/2010
  

  Police have arrested a Union City, Calif., man in connection with the murder Tuesday of two men, one from Central Point.

• Central Point man killed while crossing Hwy. 101 - 2/5/2010
  

  A Central Point man died after he was struck by a car Wednesday night crossing Highway 101 in Curry County.

• Bay Area homicide has local, tragic tie - 2/4/2010
  

  A Central Point truck driver was stabbed in a double homicide Tuesday morning at a wholesale auto auction yard in an industrial area of Hayward,...

• Pair settles over faulty fuses blaze - 2/4/2010
  

  A disabled Medford man and his teenage son are back on solid financial ground after being compensated for the loss of their belongings in a fire that...

• Juvenile jailed in duplex arson - 2/4/2010
  

  MEDFORD — A 17-year-old juvenile was arrested Tuesday in connection with an attempted murder and arson in which he and two other men reportedly...

• Machete robbery report subject of investigation - 2/3/2010
  

  CENTRAL POINT — Police are investigating the validity of a reported armed robbery involving a machete that occurred in Central Point's Pfaff...

• Woman jailed for extortion - 2/2/2010
  

  Medford police have arrested a Washington woman suspected of blackmailing a Medford man by threatening to go to his wife with a story about having a...

• Crash closes Highway 140 - 2/2/2010
  

  Highway 140 was closed for more than an hour Monday afternoon after a sport-utility vehicle slid off the snowy road and plunged 250 feet over a steep...

• 'Bored' teens face tire-slashing charges - 2/2/2010
  

  Two Medford men who told police they slashed tires on nearly a dozen parked cars around Medford Sunday evening because they were bored will face...

• A role for ham radio - 2/1/2010
  

  MEDFORD — After an earthquake rocked Haiti to its foundation in January, only amateur radio operators were left to relay vital messages in the...

• Arrest made in home invasion case - 1/30/2010
  

  The Josephine County Sheriff's Department has arrested one suspect and named a second in a home invasion burglary that left a Cave Junction man...

• Cops raid home of suspected Crips member - 1/29/2010
  

  MEDFORD — Acting on a tip that members of the Crips street gang were dealing drugs near Jackson Elementary School, Medford police arrested a...

• Crowbar attack leads to attempted murder charges - 1/29/2010
  

  A Shady Cove man has been charged with attempted murder after he allegedly beat an acquaintance in the head with a crowbar Monday evening.

• Alleged major figures in meth trade arrested - 1/29/2010
  

  The Rogue Area Drug Enforcement team arrested two men whom investigators claim were major players in methamphetamine distribution in the Grants Pass...

• White City man facing DUII No. 8 - 1/28/2010
  

  MEDFORD — A White City man with seven previous drunken-driving convictions is in jail again after reportedly crashing his SUV into the back of...