A 65-YEAR OLD MEDFORD MAN DIED FRIDAY MORNING IN A BICYCLE VERSUS TRUCK COLLISION. MEDFORD POLICE REPORT A FED EX TRUCK WAS EXITING A PARKING LOT ON EAST MCANDREWS NEAR POPLAR AND WAS STOPPED OVER THE SIDEWALK. THE BICICYLIST STRUCK THE TRUCK AND BECAME TRAPPED UNDERNEATH THE FED EX TRUCK. THE MAN WAS TAKEN TO A LOCAL HOSPITAL AND LATER DIED. NO CITATIONS ISSUED, AND THE MAN’S IDENTITY IS BEING WITHELD.
THE OREGON DIVISION OF FINANCIAL REGULATION (DFR) ANNOUNCED MONDAY IT’S ISSUED AN ORDER OF SUPERVISION TO ATRIO HEALTH PLANS. THE STATE’S CONCERNED ABOUT THE COMPANY’S FINANCIAL CONDITION, ATRIO HAVING SUFFERED EXCESSIVE OPERATING LOSSES OVER THE LAST YEAR, AND MANY PROVIDERS ARE NOT GETTING PAID. AROUND 35,000 OREGONIANS ARE ENROLLED IN ATRIO’S MEDICARE ADVANTAGE PLANS, MANY IN JACKSON AND JOSEPHINE COUNTIES.
IN SANCTUARY STATE NEWS A FEDERAL JURY IN PORTLAND HAS FOUND A HONDURAN NATIONAL, ILLEGALLY LIVING IN OREGON, GUILTY OF DISTRIBUTING FENTANYL, WHICH LED TO THE OVERDOSE DEATH OF A PORTLAND MAN. 51 YEAR OLD HUGO GOMEZ-SOTO WAS CONVICTED MONDAY, WILL BE SENTENCED IN JULY AND IS FACING LIFE IN PRISON.
THE TOP FOUR REPUBLICAN GOP GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATES SQUARE OFF IN A DEBATE THIS THURSDAY IN HILLSBORO. FOUR LEADING CANDIDATES—DANIELLE BETHELL, ED DIEHL, CHRISTINE DRAZAN, AND CHRIS DUDLEY ARE TAKING PART IN THE DEBATE, WHICH WILL WILL BE LIVESTREAMED AND YOU CAN SIGN UP TO VIEW IT ON OREGON DOT GOP.