Jack Moran
The Register-Guard
Eugene, OR, United States
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Rallies planned across the nation in support of 'climate kids' case
Rallies are scheduled across the country on Monday in support of a youth-led climate case that's on hold pending Supreme Court review.A trial in the → Read More
Rail tunnel near Odell Lake may not reopen until June 15, Union Pacific says
OAKRIDGE — It's taking Union Pacific crews far longer than anticipated to complete repairs on a collapsed railroad tunnel along Highway 58, → Read More
Eugene climate trial date set
A group of youths is scheduled to go to trial against the federal government this fall in Eugene, a magistrate judge announced Thursday. Over the objections of government attorneys, U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas Coffin said a trial in the potential landmark climate case will begin Oct. 29. “Climate science will finally have its day in court and the plaintiffs will be ready,” one of the youths’… → Read More
Former Eugene investment advisor’s troubles now include drug charges
Nearly two years after his Eugene firm shut down, former investment adviser Stephen Alison is facing potential trouble on two fronts. For one, there’s the Security and Exchange Commission’s announcement this week that it has launched a probe into allegations that Alison pocketed more than $250,000 at his former clients’ expense. Alison, 54, faces fines and administrative sanctions in that case. → Read More
Blue Top Fire up McKenzie grows slightly to 33 acres
MCKENZIE BRIDGE — Keeping Highway 126 open and protecting water quality in the McKenzie River remain top priorities of officials overseeing firefighting efforts on a blaze burning 12 miles northeast of McKenzie Bridge. The Blue Top Fire had grown to 33 acres as of early Wednesday, up from 21 acres the previous day, according to U.S. Forest Service officials. → Read More
Fate of man accused of shooting at Lane County deputies is now in hands of jury
A Lane County jury has begun deliberations in a case in which a Cottage Grove man is accused of using a semiautomatic rifle to try and kill three county sheriff’s deputies. Attorneys gave closing arguments in Carlos Roa’s trial before the jury went out just after noon. Chief Lane County Deputy District Attorney Erik Hasselman told jurors that enough evidence was presented at trial to find Roa… → Read More
Malheur Refuge occupier sentenced to probation in separate case
A former Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupier was sentenced Monday in Eugene to five years’ probation in a separate case in which he took over Bureau of Land Management property in Southern Oregon last year while challenging the government’s ownership of public lands. Kenneth Medenbach, 63, returned to U.S. District Court in Eugene more than three months after a jury found him guilty of… → Read More
Officers tell jury of nighttime search for Cottage Grove man charged with using AK-47 to shoot, wound deputy
Carlos Roa had no fight left in him when a police dog tracked him down and bit him hours after he allegedly used a semiautomatic rifle to fire on Lane County sheriff’s deputies in a shootout that left him and one of the deputies wounded, an officer testified Thursday at the Cottage Grove man’s attempted murder trial. “He made a very calm statement that the K9 — the dog — ‘has my arm,’” Eugene… → Read More
Deputy shot by man in rural Cottage Grove testifies: “It was a gunfight, plain and simple”
Lane County sheriff’s dispatchers often field after-hours calls from people who report hearing shots fired in their neighborhoods. “It’s just not an uncommon thing to go to that kind of call,” sheriff’s deputy Todd Olson testified Wednesday in a trial for a Cottage Grove man who stands accused of shooting him with a semiautomatic rifle last fall. Olson, a 44-year-old Air Force veteran and father… → Read More
Man sues Lane Circuit Judge McAlpin over bicycle-SUV accident
Lane County Circuit Judge Jay McAlpin is being sued by a man who suffered multiple injuries when his bicycle collided with the jurist’s sport utility vehicle in south Eugene. Gaelan Brewer is seeking $431,500 in the lawsuit, which was filed Tuesday in Lane County Circuit Court. Brewer alleges the judge’s negligence caused the wreck. → Read More
Trial set to begin for Cottage Grove man charged with attempted murder of Lane County sheriff’s deputies
Jury selection is underway in a trial for a man charged with trying to kill three Lane County sheriff’s deputies last fall south of Cottage Grove. Carlos A. Roa, 39, of Cottage Grove, is charged with three counts of attempted aggravated murder with a firearm, two counts of recklessly endangering another person and single counts of unlawful use of a weapon and first-degree assault. → Read More
Man arraigned in Springfield child neglect case; boy’s mother wants son back
A judge has set bail at $500 for a Springfield man arrested Sunday on misdemeanor child-neglect charges after his 3-year-old stepson was found walking alone about one block from the family’s home. Kyle Ray Row, 26, is being in the Springfield Municipal Jail. Police said they arrested Row on Sunday afternoon — seven hours after passersby approached the child in the 4200 block of Main Street,… → Read More
Springfield cat killer to be sentenced to 3 years and 9 months in prison
A convicted cat killer from Springfield admitted Monday to violating probation in the felony animal abuse case, and is expected to be sentenced to prison. Tim Bigelow, 51, pleaded guilty to a charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm, in addition to acknowledging he broke probation requirements by possessing drugs and guns. Bigelow’s court-appointed attorney, Robert Manders, said his… → Read More
Woman sues Florence hotel, claims sex discrimination
A woman, who says she quit her job as manager of a Florence hotel after her bosses refused to pay her the same amount as her male predecessor earned, has filed a $1 million lawsuit that accuses the inn’s owners of sex discrimination. Leisa Perkins alleges in the suit, filed last week in U.S. District Court in Eugene, that Pier Point Inn owners Daniel and Elisa Corr owe her unpaid wages and… → Read More
Federal jury awards Eugene man $576,457 for on-the-job injuries
A federal jury in Portland has sided with a Eugene man who alleged a gas-distribution company is to blame for the broken jaw and other injuries he sustained in an on-the-job accident three years ago. The jury on Thursday awarded Harley Firestone $576,457 in damages in his case against Praxair, Inc., a Delaware firm that bills itself as one of the largest industrial gases companies in the world.… → Read More
City of Eugene reaches $115,000 settlement with man assaulted by police officer at jail
The city of Eugene has agreed to pay $115,000 to a man who threatened to sue after he was assaulted by a city police officer at the Lane County Jail. The settlement in Arik Bumpas’ case comes nearly one month after a judge found officer John Sharlow guilty of misdemeanor assault and official misconduct in connection with a Sept. 11, 2014, incident that was captured on video by a jail… → Read More
Son guilty but insane in knife attack on his Eugene father
A 24-year-old Eugene man on Thursday was found guilty but insane in attacking his father with a knife at the family’s southwest Eugene home in November. Lane County Circuit Judge Charles Zennache announced the verdict at the conclusion of a brief, stipulated-facts trial in which Nicholas Taylor Wu did not dispute the allegations against him. Wu will initially be sent to the Oregon State Hospital… → Read More
Man accused of murdering his Bethel landlady states in court he “killed a woman”
A 79-year-old Eugene man charged with murdering his landlady blurted out in court on Thursday that he had “killed a woman” and said that’s why he needed to fire his court-appointed attorney. “If I’d have killed a man, this woman could have defended me,” Howard Stull said of Eugene attorney Elizabeth Baker, who was assigned to represent the Eugene man in December after he had requested his… → Read More
Eugene law firms go to court over how to share $4.2 million in attorney fees
Months after teaming to help a brain-injured Springfield man win a massive jury verdict in a medical malpractice case, two Eugene law firms are now fighting in court over how to fairly split their $4.2 million in attorney fees. Corson & Johnson — whose lawyers assumed a lead role during Lee Lyman’s trial — says in court filings that Jet Harris of Harris Law Group didn’t complete all of her… → Read More
Washington state woman pleads guilty after Oregon State Police find 24 pounds of meth in her SUV
Teri Baker is expected to be sentenced next month to nearly 5 years in prison → Read More