A federal judge has affirmed a ruling in a long-running lawsuit over the 2018 suicide of a Josephine County Jail inmate that sets the case on a path toward trial or settlement.

The lawsuit was filed in 2020 by Connie Dence on behalf of her daughter, Janelle Marie Butterfield, 34, who was diagnosed as suffering from a form of schizophrenia shortly before she hanged herself in jail on Sept. 5, 2018.

On a night when the Grants Pass defense posted its first shutout in four years, the Cavemen offense got a much-needed boost of energy with the return of senior quarterback Jordan Rossetta.

After entering the game in the second quarter, Rossetta threw three touchdown passes in the second half as Grants Pass clobbered Sprague 35-0 in Friday’s non-league football game at Mel Ingram Field.

The Ashland City Council is at odds on how to spend the $4 million that it received from Asante following the downsizing of the former Ashland Community Hospital.

How to spend the payment has been a topic in several study sessions, and on Tuesday the Ashland City Council tried and failed several times to reach a majority consensus on how to divvy up the windfall.

To fabric and textile artist Bonnie Campanoli, there’s only one way to adequately display clothing and fashion: on a live model.

“Clothing really needs to be seen on somebody, and moving,” she says. “Clothing on the wall or a static display just doesn’t cut it.”

That philosophy is the driving force behind the fall fundraiser for the Southern Oregon Guild.