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• Protests follow arrests - 5/24/2013
  

  Drug cops raided four Jackson County marijuana dispensaries Thursday, making four felony arrests and leaving behind a crowd of angry medical...

• Robbery suspect dies after apparently hanging himself - 5/23/2013
  

  The suspect in a Central Point 7-Eleven armed robbery in March died Monday after apparently hanging himself while incarcerated in the Jackson County...

• Rogue River Ranch barn fire smolders - 5/23/2013
  

  CENTRAL POINT — A fire that roared through a hay barn and caused at least $500,000 in damage a day after the Cow Creek Indians took possession...

• Rogue River home robbery remains $171,000 mystery - 5/22/2013
  

  ROGUE RIVER — More than $171,000 worth of property pilfered from a safe in a Rogue River house between mid-April and early May has not been...

• Fire levels barn on tribal land - 5/22/2013
  

  CENTRAL POINT — Less than a week after purchasing the Rogue River Ranch at the base of the Table Rocks, the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of...

• iPhone app helps police capture alleged burglar - 5/21/2013
  

  Need to find a burglar who broke into your home and made off with $1,600 of your electronics? There's an app for that.

• 'Look' leads to bus station stabbing - 5/21/2013
  

  A 68-year-old transient was arrested on a felony assault charge Monday afternoon in downtown Medford after allegedly stabbing another man because of...

• Most banned scofflaws leave Ashland, cops say - 5/21/2013
  

  Nine people have been banned from downtown Ashland in the wake of a new law meant to curb repeat illegal behavior there.

• Police: Kidnapped woman assaulted for days in local hotel - 5/19/2013
  

  A man with two out-of-state warrants for his arrest allegedly kidnapped a woman and assaulted her multiple times in a Medford hotel room, police...

• Emergency services - 5/19/2013
  

  Felony arrests

• On the house - 5/18/2013
  

  Jackson County sheriff's Deputy Phil Cicero says he's pleased with the agency's new "shoot house" that will be used for SWAT training and training...

• Beware of fraudulent Walmart email - 5/18/2013
  

  If you receive an email thanking you for buying a flatscreen TV from Walmart's website this week, do not open it.

• Stolen handgun leads to charges for two local felons with histories of theft and drug possession - 5/17/2013
  

  Two convicted felons are back in jail after allegedly swiping a handgun from a family member's Central Point home and selling it earlier this week,...

• Police ID student believed to have set fire at the Ashland Middle School on Tuesday - 5/17/2013
  

  ASHLAND — Police say they have identified a student who intentionally set fire to a paper-towel dispenser in the boys' bathroom at Ashland...

• Shooting, standoff in Medford - 5/16/2013
  

  Police say a petty dispute over a car led to shots being fired in a north Medford neighborhood Wednesday morning, drawing a swarm of police and SWAT...

• Police trained on vets under stress - 5/16/2013
  

  As a combat veteran of Iraq, Jackson County sheriff's Deputy David Duke knows about the stresses of war.

• 8 lives left - 5/16/2013
  

  Chyna's singed whiskers and blistered ears and paws tell the tale of how at least one of this cat's nine lives was used up surviving Monday's fire in...

• Knife-toting shoplifter pleads guilty to robbery charge - 5/16/2013
  

  An Eagle Point man who pulled a knife on a Food 4 Less employee after being caught shoplifting in March pleaded guilty to a felony robbery charge...

• Teen sought for west Medford drive-by shooting - 5/15/2013
  

  Police are on the hunt for a 15-year-old boy whom investigators have identified as the alleged shooter in a May 7 drive-by shooting in west Medford.