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The City Council voted unanimously Thursday to allow Measure 109 without asking city residents to vote on a ban. A vendor packs psilocybin mushrooms at a pop-up cannabis market in Los Angeles in 2019. The Medford City Council decided Thursday not to seek a ban on the medicinal use of the mushrooms. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel) Medford will allow psilocybin treatment centers next year, the City Council decided unanimously Thursday night. A proposed November ballot measure asking Medford voters to approve either a two-year ban or a permanent ban on psilocybin therapy was rejected. Instead, Medford staff will develop time, place…

Ashland fire chief says too many calls, not enough staff Rescue personnel from Ashland Fire & Rescue and Jackson County Fire District No. 5 practice extrication. [Mail Tribune/ file photo] Ashland Fire and Rescue Chief Ralph Sartain appeared before the Ashland City Council Tuesday and painted a picture of a fire department under fire. Ashland Fire & Rescue personnel are often in the position of responding to overlapping calls — fire and medical calls coming in at the same time, Sartain said. Ashland Fire & Rescue is the ambulance and fire service for the city of Ashland, responding to both…

AUSTIN, Texas – (AP) – A Texas jury ruled Friday Alex Jones of Infowars to pay $49.3 million in total damages to the parents of a slain first grader the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacrewhich the conspiracy theorist falsely called a hoax orchestrated by the government in order to tighten US gun laws. The amount is less than the $150 million sought by Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, whose 6-year-old son Jesse Lewis was among the 20 children and six educators killed in the deadliest classroom shooting in US history united The judgment is the first time Jones has…

Today, the FDA approved darolutamide in combination with docetaxel chemotherapy for patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (mHSPC). This means that patients with mHSPC (prostate cancer that has spread beyond the prostate and is responding to hormone therapy, or who have not yet received hormone therapy) have an additional treatment option. Darolutamide (Nubeqa) is a new hormone therapy that works by blocking the androgen receptor. Androgens are the hormones that act as the “fuel” for prostate cancer. The approval is based on the results of a large phase 3 clinical trial called ARASENS. This trial compared outcomes between 1,300 patients…

James Benton is reunited with his dog Patches at the Rescue Ranch in Yreka. Benton feared Patches had been killed when McKinney’s fire engulfed his home. [Photo courtesy of Natalie Golay] James Benton shot this photo hours before a fire tornado from the McKinney Fire tore through his property. His German shepherd, Trooper, seen here, is still missing. The man is hopeful that at least one of his missing dogs has survived and is found After narrowly escaping the flames of the McKinney wildfire last Friday, 42-year-old James “Mac” Benton couldn’t hold back the tears Sunday when he was reunited…