http://www.NRToday.com Serving Douglas County, OR Thu, 23 May 2013 07:40:19 -0600 en 30 http://www.NRToday.com/news/crime/6621097-113/block-car-county-douglas http://www.NRToday.com/news/crime/6607183-113/block-roseburg-county-douglas http://www.NRToday.com/news/crime/6558473-113/block-highway-police-roseburg http://www.NRToday.com/news/crime/6544709-113/block-suspicion-county-douglas http://www.NRToday.com/news/crime/6530641-113/marijuana-roseburg-arrested-police http://www.NRToday.com/news/crime/6530431-113/block-police-roseburg-road http://www.NRToday.com/news/crime/6508353-113/teller-crash-jack-road http://www.NRToday.com/news/crime/6518223-113/cited-driving-truck-county http://www.NRToday.com/news/crime/6516953-113/block-roseburg-suspicion-unlawful http://www.NRToday.com/news/crime/6517228-113/body-office-river-south http://www.NRToday.com/news/crime/6503857-113/office-sheriff-body-woman http://www.NRToday.com/news/crime/6504392-113/officer-syringe-allegedly-bissonnette http://www.NRToday.com/news/crime/6503626-113/roseburg-police-suspicion-unlawful http://www.NRToday.com/news/crime/6467073-113/block-vehicle-degree-suspicion http://www.NRToday.com/news/crime/6454205-113/block-road-county-douglas http://www.NRToday.com/news/crime/6438642-113/suspicion-methamphetamine-unlawful-block http://www.NRToday.com/news/crime/6413146-113/block-reported-suspicion-possession http://www.NRToday.com/news/crime/6348610-113/road-block-roseburg-caller http://www.NRToday.com/news/crime/6335508-113/block-roseburg-degree-reported Things are not going smoothly for the Douglas County Men’s Softball Association. Players arriving Monday evening for games at Sunshine Park in Roseburg found the park’s three ballfields ungroomed. Overnight, thieves stole the all-terrain vehicle that pulls a heavy metal screen over dirt infields to smooth the surface before each game. It was the second time in six weeks that an ATV parked in a fenced and locked enclosure at the Roseburg city park has been taken. The first time, thieves cut a chain to get into the enclosure. Sometime late Sunday or early Monday, the thieves were unable to … ]]> http://www.NRToday.com/news/crime/6316956-113/agee-softball-thieves-atv http://www.NRToday.com/news/crime/6335874-113/woman-body-homicide-101 TILLER — A popular Douglas County campground will be closed until Memorial Day weekend because of vandalism. The Umpqua National Forest and Cow Creek Umpqua Tribe are offering a $1,500 reward for information leading to the conviction of the vandals who left a muddy mess at the South Umpqua Falls Campground by tearing up grass with a vehicle. The campground is off South Umpqua Road, about 20 miles east of Tiller in the Tiller Ranger District. Grass will have to be reseeded, and the campground needs time to “heal up,” District Ranger Donna Owens said Monday. She said the damage … ]]> http://www.NRToday.com/news/crime/6317013-113/campground-umpqua-falls-south http://www.NRToday.com/news/crime/6314390-113/body-bay-county-douglas http://www.NRToday.com/news/crime/6312563-113/block-reported-police-roseburg Douglas County fire officials say conditions are shaping up for a severe wildland fire season. A combination of hot weather and strong winds drove a fire Friday that burned nearly an acre of private forestland at 1287 Snowberry Road in Melrose. Nine firefighters spent 6 1/2 hours and used 12,000 gallons of water battling the blaze. “We really expect this in mid-July,” Douglas County Fire District No. 2 Fire Marshal Josep Pedrola said today. “(Friday’s fire) was an eye-opener.” The National Weather Service is forecasting unseasonably hot temperatures again this week, approaching 90 degrees by the weekend and with no … ]]> http://www.NRToday.com/news/crime/6312633-113/fire-district-friday-burn Douglas County’s lone animal control deputy, Lee Bartholomew, drives about 250 miles each shift. One morning last month, Bartholomew had to get to Oakland for a dog chasing goats; then to Riddle, where senior services was concerned about the welfare of an elderly couple’s dog; then to Yoncalla for a pit bull that bit a 15-year-old girl; then Myrtle Creek for a report of dogs terrorizing humans on Chickering Street. By the time Bartholomew got to Myrtle Creek, the dogs were gone and another call from elsewhere in Douglas County (5,134 square miles) had come in. The Animal Control division … ]]> http://www.NRToday.com/news/crime/5717150-113/county-dog-pit-control http://www.NRToday.com/news/crime/6270777-113/block-roseburg-suspicion-police http://www.NRToday.com/news/crime/6256776-113/sheriff-counter-according-arrested http://www.NRToday.com/news/crime/6255169-113/block-roseburg-road-reported http://www.NRToday.com/news/crime/6240023-113/block-reported-roseburg-suspicion http://www.NRToday.com/news/crime/6242445-113/beer-cited-coffee-money http://www.NRToday.com/news/crime/6226053-113/block-reported-roseburg-police http://www.NRToday.com/news/crime/6227035-113/fire-county-douglas-suspected Child killer Mark Allen Vanderhoof’s silence made the mother of his victim gasp. Convicted of abusing to death a 2-year-old boy and facing the prospect of spending the rest of his life in prison, Vanderhoof, 53, of Lookingglass declined to speak at his sentencing Monday. “I wanted him to talk,” said the victim’s mother, Brianna Snow. “It’s a slap in the face. It’s like he’s saying we don’t deserve to know what happened.” Vanderhoof didn’t testify at his four-day trial last month in Douglas County Circuit Court, after which Judge Ronald Poole found him guilty in the Jan. 26, 2011, … ]]> http://www.NRToday.com/news/crime/6215243-113/vanderhoof-snow-dennis-sentenced http://www.NRToday.com/news/crime/6213441-113/roseburg-chain-police-arrested http://www.NRToday.com/news/crime/6172654-113/woman-crash-grundy-march http://www.NRToday.com/news/crime/6172637-113/block-reported-woman-road http://www.NRToday.com/news/crime/6158476-113/fire-winston-25000-brush http://www.NRToday.com/news/crime/6157505-113/block-roseburg-road-reported A Tenmile man who hit his girlfriend in the head with a baseball bat, wrapped her in plastic and left her for dead on a county road last September was sentenced to 90 months in prison Wednesday in Douglas County Circuit Court. Marcus Anthony Toler, 49, pleaded no contest to the felonies of attempted murder and kidnapping, and the misdemeanor of assault constituting domestic violence. The latter charge was connected to an earlier attack on another woman. Restitution to the victims, both former girlfriends, will be assigned once paperwork is filed with the court. Toler also will undergo 36 months … ]]> http://www.NRToday.com/news/crime/6143115-113/toler-woman-attack-court http://www.NRToday.com/news/crime/6141330-113/reported-block-street-degree http://www.NRToday.com/news/crime/6127501-113/police-officer-sutherlin-according http://www.NRToday.com/news/crime/6125662-113/block-roseburg-road-police http://www.NRToday.com/news/crime/6114512-113/boice-driving-duii-sentenced http://www.NRToday.com/news/crime/6127030-113/mill-riddle-arrested-office http://www.NRToday.com/news/crime/6115538-113/county-douglas-accidents-milepost http://www.NRToday.com/news/crime/6111477-113/building-hospital-police-3000 http://www.NRToday.com/news/crime/6110028-113/block-woman-roseburg-police http://www.NRToday.com/news/crime/6110709-113/power-fire-roseburg-customers http://www.NRToday.com/news/crime/6073190-113/wiggins-according-gardiner-mill