Josephine County News

The Josephine County sheriff's Office has started shutting down departments after voters turned down a $12 million a year levy to make up for the demise of a federal subsidy for timber counties.

The prosecuting attorney says 27-year-old David Tompkins abused her from 2003 to 2009.

This week, the County Budget Committee decided to move $425,000 from the Public Works Department's million-dollar road fund to help may for three sheriff's deputies this year.

County officials got together Thursday morning to lay out a plan detailing how many inmates will stay in the jail to the legal issues that could arise once the jail capacity is reduced.

Josephine County has tapped a one-time source of federal funds to keep three deputies on patrol for the time being after the failure of a public safety levy forced the sheriff to make deep cuts.

The National Sheriffs' Association says there's not much it can do to help Josephine County.

Law enforcement in Southern Oregon has received several reports of attempted kidnappings; it's a threat that has both police and parents on high alert.

The Josephine County Sheriff's Office says the body of a 19-year-old man who slipped on a rock and fell into the Rogue River two weeks ago has been recovered.

Early Friday morning a Pheonix officer spotted a driver in a van talking to a young girl waiting at a bus stop.

A local resident who was shot in the leg late Friday night near the entrance to Forks Park went home and fell asleep without realizing he was shot, according to a Josephine County Sheriff's Office news release.

The body of a 19-year-old Rogue River man who fell into the Rogue River more than two weeks ago was discovered Saturday morning, according to a Josephine County Sheriff's Office news release.

Aaron Webb of Rapids, Wis., and Matt Lauer of Portage, Wis., team up to hunt for gold with a suction dredge on the Klamath River near Happy Camp, Calif., on Aug.

In just over a month Josephine County will start the fiscal year with a drastically smaller budget.

A Josephine County man survived an often-deadly bacterium, but did lose a portion of his leg.

Soon, sheriff's deputies won't be the only emergency crews not responding in Josephine County.

Officials are handing out pink slips and cutting law enforcement to the bone in an Oregon County where voters have rejected a levy to plug a $12 million budget gap.

A failed levy vote in an Oregon county is taking a toll: government workers facing dismissal, a pending prisoner release, and crimes such as misdemeanor domestic assault and shoplifting likely to go unprosecuted.

Josephine County will release up to 75 jail prisoners and cut 125 positions, 70 of them in the sheriff's office, as a result of Tuesday's property tax levy defeat.

The sheriff of Josephine County got ready to hand out pink slips for deputies and draw up release forms for jail inmates after the failure of a $12 million a year levy to make up for the loss of federal timber subsidies.

The sheriff of Josephine County says he will be handing out pink slips to 70 of his staff, and releasing about 90 inmates due to the failure of a $12 million levy to make up for the loss of a federal timber subsidy.