Eagle Point News

A White City man remains in critical condition today at Rogue Valley Medical Center after he nearly drowned when his pickup crashed into an irrigation ditch off East Antelope Road, according to a hospital spokesman.

A former Harry & David financial planning manager is the Eagle Point School District's new business manager.

Ashland police will turn over a child pornography investigation involving Ashland resident James Auchincloss, half-brother to the late Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, to the Jackson County District Attorney's Office next week, the police chief said.

A White City man remained in critical condition Thursday after he nearly drowned when his pickup crashed into an irrigation ditch off East Antelope Road, police said.

MEDFORD - Eagle Point police say a 2-year-old girl died when she climbed out of bed without her parents' knowledge and drowned in the family swimming pool.

By Andrea Pettes A June 29, 2009 A EAGLE POINT, Ore. - Police say an Eagle Point toddler has drowned after climbing into the family pool Sunday night.

A 2-year-old girl drowned Sunday night in Eagle Point after apparently climbing out of bed and going into the family pool without her parents' knowledge, according to Eagle Point police.

Allen Almarco Winston, 19, of Kent, Wash. An Oregon State Police trooper Thursday arrested Winston on charges of possession of synthetic drugs, first-degree possession of a forged instrument, identity theft and giving false information to police.

A 14-inch trout rolls on the surface of the upper Rogue, and fly-fisher Chuck Campana is prepared to see whether this fish wants one more serving of the bug world's equivalent of a T-bone steak.

Realtor Rob Skinner of Ashland makes many of his business calls on his hand-held cell phone while driving between appointments.

The horses' tack clinks and clangs musically in the morning air. Unperturbed by the young couple braced behind the draft team, birds swoop toward the freshly turned furrows, eager to snatch displaced bugs.

Governments involved in a complex, nine-year effort that could expand city boundaries by about 30 percent plan to amass a $100,000 legal defense fund to fend off potential appeals.

The week that the Daily Tidings broke the news that Ashland resident James Auchincloss was being investigated by police for allegedly possessing child pornography, the half-brother to the late Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis canceled his membership to the Ashland Family YMCA, the executive director of the gym said.

Rogue Community College will present this year's outstanding citizen award to Mark Knouff, president of the Homebuilders Association of Jackson County.

The Southern Oregon High-Tech Crimes Task Force has seen a 9 percent increase in cases involving child pornography and child sexual exploitation over the past year, according to task force officials.

Granite Man Endurance Weekend at Applegate Lake started Saturday with four running events: the Grouse Gap 5K, 11-mile Mountain Run, 30K Trail Run and 60K Ultra Trail Run.

Most school districts in Jackson County reported record graduation rates this year, continuing what has become an annual trend in the past few years, according to school officials.

Police chased a man who was slowly driving a semi-tractor with no trailer attached across parts of rural Jackson County early this morning before they laid spike strips across a road to stop him.

An Oregon National Guard soldier bound for Iraq would like to know his missing best friend is OK before he leaves.

Thousands of Medford and Central Point schoolkids start their summer vacations this afternoon as city schools wrap up the final day of instruction until fall.