The operator of a small private boat that sank after a collision in 2024 with a Hellgate Jetboat Excursions tour boat, injuring several people, filed suit against the company, the third lawsuit in connection with the crash.

Mitchell G. Johnson is seeking more than $6.6 million in damages against Hellgate, alleging the sightseeing tour boat company’s negligence was responsible for the collision.

EUGENE — Cade Pettersen and Blake Patereau each homered to lead a Medford Mustangs offense that finished with 14 hits in their 7-2 victory over Lydo’s Lab of Eugene to wrap up the American Legion Triple-A regular season on Tuesday afternoon at Marist High School.

Both Pettersen and Patereau finished with three hits on the day. Pettersen had two RBIs, while Patereau’s home run was a solo shot in the top of the sixth to put Medford (28-9) up 7-0.

In Medford, gunplay outside a liquor store and rocks thrown at cars led to separate arrests on Tuesday.

A 41-year-old man from the Provolt area was arrested in connection with a report at 4 p.m. of shots fired in the parking lot of Spirits World, 790 Stevens St. in Medford.

Medford police said David Michael Somers, 41, was in a vehicle and got into a verbal dispute with another motorist about parking.

When Lane Hawley fires up his 1973 De Tomaso Pantera, the car really lives up to its name.

Pantera is Italian for “panther.” And Hawley’s sleek car rumbles and growls with the fierce power of the sleek jungle cat it’s named for.

“It has an Italian body and an American engine,” Hawley says of the car that stands only 44 inches high. “It’s not the most practical but it’s fun to drive.”