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Thanks to a strong customer response, sales from Friday, May 3 at Dutch Bros. raised $271,579 to the Muscular Distrophy Association (MDA) in honor of company co-founder Dane Boersma, who died from ALS or Lou Gerigh's Disease in 2009. Since 2007, the drive up coffee and drink retailer has raised nearly $900-thousand dollars to the MDA.Read More »

The US Forest Service says Bear Camp Road is now officially open for the 2013 season. They say that due to lower snow levels this year, road crews have made quick progress of plowing the road. All seasonal gate closures, including gates off the Peavine-Serpentine and Galice Access Roads, have been lifted. Motorists are advised to use caution when driving through slide areas.Read More »

Mount Ashland has announced the National Ski Areas Association has awarded them a $5,000 grant under its Sustainable Slopes initiative. The grant will help fund twenty watershed restoration projects the ski area will implement this summer.Read More »

State economists say a slow, steady economic recovery means the state treasury will take in more money than previously expected. The quarterly forecast released Thursday said revenue from tax collections will be up by more than $270 million since the last projections.Read More »

Rangers plan to remove about half of the 25 pay tubes at federal park sites along the Oregon coast.Read More »

Medford police say an argument over a car resulted in gunfire, stray bullets hitting the front window of a nearby home, and officers swarming a neighborhood in search of two men. The Medford Mail Tribune reports that two friends got into an argument Wednesday with the car's owner, and three shots were fired as the car owner walked away. Two bullets hit the window of a couple aslRead More »

Police have arrested a Medford man and a woman from Central Point for allegedly stealing a gun from relatives of the female suspect. 29-year old Crystal Carol Hoyt and 30-year Kenneth Duane Vinzant Jr. are lodged in Jackson County Jail.Read More »

Over 30 officers were deployed this morning to bring into custody a man involved in an early morning shooting in the area of Tennessee Street in Medford around 3 a.m. Two women were brought into custody with the man. No names have been released as of yet. Officers surrounded a home on De Barr Avenue in Medford. The man and two women were taken into custody.Read More »

A newspaper report says more than 300 law enforcement officers have arrested dozens of people in raids described as an effort to dismantle a drug and weapons distribution ring uncovered after a double killing last year in Klamath County. The Klamath Falls Herald and News reports the raids began about 3 a.m.Read More »