The long-running Pawsitive K-9 case is near an end after the leading figure, a dog trainer whose system consisted of starving and beating dogs, agreed to a plea deal Friday that will put him behind bars for years.

Hidden Valley’s red-hot start to the 2026 baseball season cooled a bit on Friday afternoon.

The fifth-ranked Mustangs saw their five-game season-opening winning streak snapped with an 8-3 non-league defeat against Class 3A South Umpqua in Murphy.

Hidden Valley (5-1) managed just three hits after scoring at least nine runs in all of its first five games.

A man accused of committing more than a dozen commercial burglaries in Grants Pass entered guilty pleas on Thursday and faces nearly seven years in prison.

Anthony Boyd Mooney, 32, was convicted in Josephine County Circuit Court of 16 charges of theft, burglary and criminal mischief, with prosecutors agreeing to dismiss another 19 counts.

A new take on a classic Agatha Christie mystery opens Friday at Oregon Cabaret Theatre in Ashland, the second show of OCT’s 2026 season.

“Miss Marple: Murder at the Vicarage” features iconic amateur sleuth Jane Marple on the Cabaret stage for the first time.

“There’s a reason this is one of Agatha Christie’s most popular novels,” says Cabaret Executive Director Rick Robinson, who adapted the novel for the stage.