His helmet tucked under his arm, sweat forming on his brow below the sunglasses propped up on his head, Scott Thurman locks his blue eyes on the woman as she teeters on the edge of crumbling into wails of grief. "We’ll do everything we can,” he says.

The Family of Nate Jaqua comes to the soccer stars defense, after a woman filed a lawsuit accusing him of sexual assault.
 

Eugene police Detective Jeff Donaca said Thursday that Samuel Sourikoff had "two lives" between May 2007 and December 2008, when the 22-year-old robbed a Eugene restaurant four times and targeted jewelry stores in Eugene, Nevada and California.

(7/03/09) A slow economy has many communities around the country either canceling or scaling back their July 4th fireworks this shows year.

 And that's also happening right here in the Rogue Valley. Fireworks celebrations in Medford and Ashland will light up the southern Oregon skies Saturday night.

But both shows will have less sparkle than in years past. The Ashland Chamber of Commerc...