A FORMER DOG TRAINER WHOSE SYSTEM CONSISTED OF STARVING AND BEATING DOGS, AGREED TO A PLEA DEAL FRIDAY THAT WILL PUT HIM BEHIND BARS FOR YEARS. ACCORDING TO THE DAILY COURIER, 40-YEAR-OLD JOSEPH LARUE SAID “GUILTY” 12 TIMES FOR HIS PLEA IN JOSEPHINE COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT TO CHARGES THAT INCLUDED FIVE COUNTS OF SECOND-DEGREE ANIMAL NEGLECT, TWO COUNTS OF FIRST-DEGREE THEFT AND ONE COUNT OF AGGRAVATED FIRST-DEGREE THEFT. PROSECUTORS ALSO RELEASED NEW DETAILS ABOUT THE CASE WHICH STARTED IN FALL 2022 WITH THE DISCOVERY OF 13 SEVERELY EMACIATED DOGS LIVING IN FILTH AT PAWSITIVE K-9 SOLUTIONS, A KENNELING AND DOG-TRAINING BUSINESS OWNED AND OPERATED BY LARUE AND HIS THEN-WIFE, DANIELLE, IN DOWNTOWN GRANTS PASS.
KLAMATH WATER USERS ASSOCIATION WARNING ITS MEMBERS AND 40,000 ACRES OF FARMLAND WILL BE IDLED DUE TO NO WATER BEING AVAILABLE. THE ASSOCIATION TELLING FARMERS AND RANCERS TO EXPECT A LESS THAN FULL WATER SUPPLY. CAPITAL PRESS REPORTS DETAILS ARE STILL NOT KNOWN BUT GIVEN THE DISTRICTS DELIVER IRRIGATION WATER TO MORE THAN 170,000 ACRES — ROUGHLY A QUARTER OF THAT LAND COULD GO DRY THIS SUMMER.
THERE WILL BE NO MORE TEMPORARY COMMERCIAL DRIVERS LICENSES ISSUED FOR PEOPLE LIVING LEGALLY IN THE U.S. BUT WHO ARE NOT PERMANENT RESIDENTS OF OREGON. A RECENT DECISION STOPPED A PROGRAM THAT ISSUED THESE TRUCK DRIVING LICENSES TO OREGON RESIDENTS. THIS IS TO STOP THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION FROM PULLING MILLIONS OF FEDERAL TRANSPORTATION DOLLARS FROM OREGON.
THE SHELVES ARE BARE AT ROC FOOD PANTRY IN JOSEPHINE COUNTY AND THEY’RE ASKING FOR THE COMMUNITIE’S HELP. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, SHONNA BOUTELLER TELLS NBC 5 DEMAND HAS BEEN HIGH LATELY, LIKELY DUE TO FACTORS LIKE INFLATION, HIGH COST OF LIVING, AND RECENT CHANGES TO SNAP ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS.