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Thomas Renn, the bankruptcy judge overseeing the Chapter 11 reorganization of Eugene financial firm Berjac, on Tuesday OKed bringing in a mediator to help resolve the complicated case, in which more than 400 creditors are owed $48 million.

Saying the case reads like a “small novel,” a federal judge turned the page today on a fraud case against a former nurse who helped a convicted rapist try to obtain a new identity.

Twenty protesters disregarded posted signs and police instructions, and instead decided Monday night to face criminal prosecution for remaining in the Wayne Morse Free Speech Plaza outside the Lane County Courthouse past its official 11 p.m. closing time.

A former Eugene man was sentenced to almost six years in prison Tuesday for holding up a Wells Fargo bank last July. U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken sentenced Ryan Lee Hayes, 26, to 71 months in a federal prison.

A Eugene woman who used a cell phone resale scheme to defraud a local company of more than $300,000 pleaded guilty Tuesday in U.S. District Court.

A former Walterville resident who had been accused of shooting another man in the leg avoided prison in that case but will serve time behind bars for dealing marijuana.

A reward of up to $2,500 is now being offered for information leading to an arrest and conviction of those responsible for throwing a rock over a fence from an Interstate 5 overpass south of Rice Hill on Nov.

Eugene police arrested 14 people this morning on misdemeanor charges of frequenting a place where controlled substances are used, after monitoring an apartment in the 500 block of Jefferson Street.

PORTLAND — Oregon authorities made public the final name among the nine people killed Dec. 30 in a charter bus crash on Interstate 84 near Pendleton. Oregon State Police officials identified the ninth victim as 19-year-old Richard Michael Sohn of Bellevue, Wash.

LIMA, Peru — Investigators picked through the wreckage Tuesday of a U.S.-owned cargo helicopter that crashed in the Peruvian jungle, killing five American and two Peruvian crew members. The heavy-lift, tandem-rotor Chinook BH-234 chopper, owned by Columbia Helicopters, Inc.