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A man of Japanese descent is suing Cottage Grove police, saying officers beat him and used racial slurs when they arrested him a year ago after they responded to a report of a possible burglary. Attorneys for Matthew Susumu Waggoner filed a suit in U.S.

You’ve seen him yucking it up with cop buddy Mel Gibson in the “Lethal Weapon” movies.

At age 52, it’s not surprising if you need a bit of surgery, and so it goes for the bridge that carries the Interstate 105 southbound off-ramp over Garden Way and onto southbound Interstate 5.

SPRINGFIELD — a 26-year-old homeless man has been arrested in connection with a robbery involving a knife late Saturday night at the Walmart store on Olympic Street, Springfield police said. Police received a report around 11:42 p.m.

SPRINGFIELD — Winter term ends on Jan. 30, but first-grader Mason Gifford is already done with his core math, language and science classes. Right now, his school day is all about the electives: art and “education technology,” or learning how to learn on a computer.

If there was any obvious takeaway from today’s all-day gang prevention symposium at Lane Community College, it was that, whatever the size of the gang problem in Lane County, solutions won’t be easy to find.

A woman led police on an eventful, 14-mile chase from west Eugene to Junction City early this morning, first in a stolen car, then on a bicycle, according to law enforcement officials.

Donna McGuinness and Paul Moore share things in common. Both are independent business owners with stores within two blocks of each other on a busy stretch of Willamette Street in south Eugene.

Follow along here tonight for live results from our area’s boys basketball games as they’re updated: Mountain West League Lowell 71, Mohawk 69: Alex Norris scored 25 points and Mitch Albertson added 26 as the Red Devils (3-12, 3-4) built a 10-point lead after three quarters and withstood a one-man …

Follow along here tonight for live results from our area’s girls basketball games they’re updated: Midwestern League Springfield 74, Marshfield 35: Mercedes Russell had 25 points, 18 rebounds and five blocks to lead the Millers (10-3, 2-0 Midwestern League) to their fifth straight victory.