MEDFORD, Ore. — The city of Medford is continuing its efforts to clean up Hawthorne Park after it removed dozens of homeless people who were camping on the property on Tuesday. The tent city sprang up within the last week ...
MEDFORD, Ore. — “People are dying out here because they have no where to go. You know, they get on drugs, alcohol and they use that to survive,” said Yolanda Diad, who was camping in Hawthorne Park. A chaotic scene ...
MEDFORD, Ore. — The city of Medford says it’s perfectly legal for it to remove the homeless from Hawthorne Park. Deputy City Attorney Eric Mitton says this was a situation where the entire park was closed to the public, which ...
MEDFORD, Ore. – A local journalist was arrested as police cleared out an unauthorized homeless camp Tuesday. Over the last week, an unauthorized tent city materialized in Hawthorne Park. A self-proclaimed group calling itself “Hawthorne Mutual Aid” said they organized ...
MEDFORD, Ore. – Police broke up what they called an “unauthorized campground” in Medford Tuesday. In the days following the Almeda Fire, a tent city sprang up in Hawthorne Park. A self-proclaimed group of citizens, calling itself “Hawthorne Mutual Aid,” ...
MEDFORD, Ore. — “It’s hurtful. It’s hurtful out here. It’s hurtful the way people treat mankind like we’re not mankind. Like we don’t matter,” said Christine Marie, who is living at Hawthorne Park. Marie is one of dozens of homeless ...
MEDFORD, Ore. — Nearly one week after Jackson County officials declared a public crisis over the drug epidemic, they’re joining forces with addiction recovery groups. Officials partnered with Oregon Recovers Friday evening and held a “Walk for Recovery” at Hawthorne ...
MEDFORD, Ore. — “I saw the look on his face and he started to panic… because he just realized ‘oh my god, I just stabbed one of my best friends’… I’m probably going to go to prison,” said Cameron Bursell, a ...
MEDFORD, Ore. – A suspect was arrested in connection with a stabbing that occurred in a Medford park. The Medford Police Department said on Monday evening, Marcus Dwayne Harper stabbed a man in the abdomen at Hawthorne Park. Harper threw ...
MEDFORD, Ore.— Just before seven Monday evening, Medford Police responded to a report of a stabbing at Hawthorne Park in Medford. Sergeant Steve Furst says when MPD arrived at the scene, they found one man had been stabbed and another ...