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An Oakridge-area man is facing DUII and other charges following a Wednesday night two-vehicle injury crash along Highway 58 east of Pleasant Hill, the Oregon State Police said this morning. OSP is continuing the investigation. On Wednesday at about 7:59 p.m., a 1999 Chevrolet Suburban driven by Kenneth W.

ASHLAND — The city of Ashland is rethinking its proposal to set up a day center for homeless people after no social service organization stepped forward to apply for $100,000 in city grants.

SPRAY, Ore. — Landowners around Spray in Eastern Oregon’s Wheeler County say about two-dozen ownerless horses are starving to death this winter. One homeowner, Janet Wilson, told The Oregonian ( http://is.gd/mZZqio ) there could be as many as four-dozen horses.

SALEM — Oregon parents have until Feb. 20 to make sure their children’s immunizations are up to date or they could be excluded from school. The shots are required by law. Schools keep records.

Wind and rain should clean out the southern Willamette Valley’s dirty air over the weekend, but until then authorities are urging residents to cut back on or stop using their woodstoves.

SPRINGFIELD — With changes in the U.S. economy, cities have to learn to get by with less and Springfield must be creative to make ends meet, Mayor Christine Lundberg said in her State of the City address Wednesday at City Hall.

A small but growing number of elected lawmen in Oregon have now gone public with their opposition to potential federal laws that could affect law-abiding gun owners, but Lane County Sheriff Tom Turner isn’t one of them.

GOSHEN — At first glance a peafowl appears to be a handsome graceful bird.

CORVALLIS — Police are trying to identify a man who assaulted a woman on the Oregon State University campus late Tuesday night. The assault occurred just after 10 p.m., when a 20-year-old Corvallis resident was walking near the corner of S.W. 30th Street and S.W. Campus Way.

SPRINGFIELD — Springfield police arrested a murder suspect from California on Tuesday evening. Jacob James Kober, 24, of Livermore, Calif., had been wanted in connection with a killing that occurred in his hometown in late December, police said.