Douglas County and the Douglas County Jail are facing a $500,000 lawsuit from a Drain man who claims that mistreatment by a corrections deputy led to the loss of the tips of two of his fingers.
Douglas County and the Douglas County Jail are facing a $500,000 lawsuit from a Drain man who claims that mistreatment by a corrections deputy led to the loss of the tips of two of his fingers.
A woman has filed a complaint against a Sutherlin contractor, claiming she stepped through a subfloor he had installed, causing her to be injured.
A woman who reportedly slipped on a wet spot inside the Safeway in Roseburg has filed a complaint against the company and a beverage distributor, and is seeking nearly $400,000 in damages.
Things are going from bad to worse for Douglas County homebuilder Joseph Russi.
A former Roseburg convenience store clerk has settled a complaint alleging that the manager of the store created a hostile work environment that included acts of sexual assault and battery and sexual harassment against her.
The long-awaited sobering center, which is intended as a safe alternative to jail or the hospital for severely inebriated individuals, has finally opened at 251 NE Patterson St., off of Diamond Lake Boulevard and about 3 miles east of downtown.
A Sutherlin woman was sentenced to 90 months in prison as a result of an October 2020 drunken driving crash that killed a Roseburg man.
It looks like the civil complaint filed against a man accused of swindling an Elkton woman out of 30 acres may be coming to a close.
A Myrtle Creek woman befriended an elderly Canyonville man and then stole money and valuable personal belongings from him, including his rings and a watch, according to a complaint filed Friday in Douglas County Circuit Court.
On Sept. 19, 2020, William McCullough IV and Mark Ritter were leaving a friend’s house, heading to Ritter’s home to work on his resume.
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Tristan Ray Stanton, a Roseburg man convicted on 29 counts of various sex crimes against four juvenile girls, was sentenced to 300 years in the Oregon Department Corrections in Douglas County Circuit Court Tuesday.
A Riddle lumber company, a Roseburg-based trucking company and an individual driver are all named as plaintiffs in a multi-million-dollar lawsuit stemming from a near-fatal crash that happened on May 16, 2017.
A California man was sentenced to 81 months in the Oregon Department of Corrections after being convicted of methamphetamine delivery.
Pretrial arguments continue in a lawsuit against Pacific Power and its parent company, PacifiCorp, in which the plaintiffs allege the power utility was responsible for igniting small fires which eventually grew to the 131,000-plus-acre Archie Creek Fire last September.
A former Reedsport school bus driver who pleaded guilty to a series of sexual assaults was sentenced to 30 years in prison in Douglas County Circuit Court Wednesday afternoon.
Over the past year, the coronavirus pandemic has had a significant impact on virtually every aspect of society.
A former Roseburg school bus driver was sentenced to 150 months in the Oregon Department of Corrections on Friday after being convicted of first-degree sodomy and first-degree sexual abuse.
A Eugene man was sentenced to more than nine years in federal prison earlier this month for his involvement in a string of violent and drug-related robberies led by a Reedsport man.
A former Douglas County Emergency Communications dispatch supervisor has filed a lawsuit against the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office citing age and sex discrimination.
Larry Saccato has filed suit against Douglas County Chief Financial Officer Jessica Hansen.
Deputies arrested an Oakland man Wednesday after he crashed a stolen car while speeding away from police near the Pilot Travel Center in Rice Hill.
A Roseburg man was arrested Tuesday after he allegedly broke into the Douglas County Courthouse over the weekend, according to police.
Cascadia Wildlands and a group of other environmental organizations filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday over protections for the northern spotted owl.
A Myrtle Creek man entered a guilty plea Tuesday to charges of second-degree manslaughter and DUII stemming from a fatal car accident which occurred July 10 in southeast Roseburg.
Troy Russell Phelps was sentenced Tuesday to nearly seven years in prison as a result of the events which occurred in May 2017, at Lawson Bar near Myrtle Creek, as well as prior crimes.
Troy Russell Phelps was found not guilty Tuesday of the 2017 murder of Brandon Michael at Lawson Bar along the South Umpqua River near Myrtle Creek.
Alec Anton Vincent Berard of Roseburg was sentenced to more than four years in prison for a multitude of crimes committed in the past six months.
A Douglas County woman has filed a complaint against a man who she says lied to her about building veterans housing on land she donated to him and his nonprofit, then got her to sign over a parcel of land she owned in Elkton without her realizing what she was doing.
Douglas County deputies arrested a Roseburg man Wednesday on three failure-to-appear warrants related to crimes committed earlier this year.
Rebecca Machain, who was a 15-year-old Sutherlin High School sophomore back in 2004 when she shot and killed her 14-year-old nephew while he was playing video games, was released from prison Tuesday following clemency granted by Gov. Kate Brown.
Roseburg City Manager Nikki Messenger, who has been in the post a little over a year, has put Roseburg on notice that she intends to sue the city on several grounds, including gender discrimination, retaliation and defamation.
On Aug. 12, Douglas County Circuit Court held its first jury trial since March 15, when the courts came under the COVID-19 restrictions limiting the number of people that could be in a courtroom.
A California man convicted of an attempted murder in Sutherlin from a motor home sale gone bad in 2017, only to have the conviction overturned, pleaded guilty to a lesser charge Wednesday morning.
