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Troy Heie

Oregon

City Editor at Rogue Valley Times

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  • 6 days ago | rv-times.com | Troy Heie

    Published 5:30 pm Friday, April 18, 2025 Family and community members rally behind incarcerated wildland firefighter who was involved in an altercation with a fellow firefighter and convicted in Josephine County last yearSupporters of imprisoned wildland firefighter Brian “Hakiym” Simpson and a defense attorney who represented him in court are sending an almost 3,000-signature petition and letter to Oregon Gov.

  • 6 days ago | rv-times.com | Troy Heie

    Published 11:06 am Friday, April 18, 2025 A Romanian national living in Garden Grove, California, was sentenced to federal prison Thursday for 2023 crimes of installing skimming devices in multiple ATMs across Oregon and Maine. The man, Florin George Ionita, 45, stole more than $176,000 with the skimming devices and was sentenced to 54 months in federal prison and a five-year term of supervised post-prison release. Ionita was also ordered to pay $176,922 in restitution to his victims.

  • 6 days ago | rv-times.com | Troy Heie

    Published 9:37 am Friday, April 18, 2025 ArrestsFailure to appear — Andrew Cole Drane, 31, of the 700 block of Welch Street, Medford. Medford police arrested Drane Thursday on warrants for failure to appear on charges of second-degree burglary, second-degree theft, second-degree criminal trespass and third-degree criminal mischief. Drane was lodged in the Jackson County Jail without bail.

  • 6 days ago | rv-times.com | Troy Heie

    Published 8:31 am Friday, April 18, 2025 The Jackson County District Attorney’s Office announced the dismissal of charges, including second-degree murder, against a Mexican national, citing new evidence in the case. In November 2022, Jose Alfredo Sotelo-Palma of Sinaloa, Mexico, was indicted on charges to include second-degree murder in connection to a homicide that occurred at a marijuana growing and processing facility outside Jacksonville. The victim was identified as Luis Ayala-Zavala.

  • 6 days ago | rv-times.com | Troy Heie

    Southern Oregon University added 51 U.S. Bank Academic All-Cascade Conference honorees to its total for the spring season, the CCC office announced on Wednesday. Including the fall and winter seasons, SOU produced 173 academic all-conference student-athletes in 2024-25 – a new department record and 46 more than the 2023-24 school year.

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