Donny Morrison

Ask anyone and they’ll tell you Pineapple had the biggest heart in Eugene. To friends and family, Pineapple’s selfless nature helped revive their faith in humanity and helped them see the world differently. To the authorities tasked with corralling…

When he began listening to a voicemail and realized it was from an officer of the Portland Police Bureau, the Oregon Democratic Party field organizer and prolific tweeter’s first thought was that he’d been caught illegally streaming movies from his…

The man convicted of stabbing a 20-year-old over a Facebook post and a case of mistaken identity in Florence has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. Gregory Cross pleaded guilty to first degree manslaughter on March 8 in Lane County Circuit Court…

Six years ago, Eric Jackson was a successful East Coast businessman living in New Jersey. He had a wife and two kids and had owned several pizza shops throughout the ’90s and early 2000s. This was before he decided to leave everything behind in 2014…

At Mckenzie Willamette Medical Center, Dr. Mark Brauner works strange hours — and he’s virtually always on call. When COVID-19 began ramping up in March, Brauner flew to New York for a month to help out at Columbia University’s Irving Medical Center.…

About a week before he was murdered, 20-year-old Damien DeTar told his brother and his girlfriend that he was ready to slow down. He’d been arrested in Florence the month before for meth possession and burglary and spent eight days in jail. It seemed…

Since April, 75-year-old Pat Hadley has been living in a tent on a planting strip between busy W. 11th Avenue and the home of a sympathetic Eugene family. You may recognize the house as the one that used to have a gigantic, hand-painted Bernie…

Laura Mills sits in the shade atop a thin piece of mattress padding outside of her blue tent. She’s nursing an Eagle cigarette and staring into a series of trees blocking the sun. She has no plans of moving. It’s May 20, and Mills first rolled her…

The protest started as a reaction to the killing of George Floyd and other acts of police violence against black people that have gone on unstopped in America. As the hour grew late, what had been a peaceful gathering and march became what the Eugene…

Wearing protective masks and gloves — and observing social distancing guidelines — the protesters gathered to raise awareness about the Bureau of Land Management’s decision to allow Seneca to begin logging on its property next to the Thurston…

This is not the first time Portland lawyer Shenoa Payne has come forward about her alleged 2005 sexual assault. She brings the painful story up again now because the man she alleges was her assailant is now in a race to become Lane County’s top…

When Eugene writer Marjorie Celona was working on their (Celona prefers they/them pronouns) first best-selling novel, 2012’s Y, they used money earned from teaching to rent a cabin in upstate New York and committed to hunkering down and finally…

A former University of Oregon public safety whistleblower, James Cleavenger, who won nearly $1 million from the university in 2015, is running against incumbent Patty Perlow for Lane County district attorney. The election is taking place as COVID-19…

It’s not like Eugene-based Khalil Romeo takes any sort of weird pride in producing his own hip-hop music. He isn’t quick to note that he makes his own flyers and album artwork, either. That’s just the way it is for an up-and-coming artist. It’s born…

Truth be told, the switch to online teaching in the age of coronavirus wasn’t that difficult for local piano teacher Matthew Pavilanis. “My earliest teaching experience was actually a remote experience,” Pavilanis says. “When I was in sixth grade, a…

For local rapper Speno, the money is on his mind and his mind is on the money. But on his new EP Hand Me Downs, through his ferocious wit and ability for self-examination, Speno proves that money isn’t everything — even if that’s by virtue of having…

Some of the best conversations I’ve ever had were in the tub. In fact, the first time I’d ever been to Springfield Spas and Tanning, an hourly hot tub rental and tanning salon on Main Street in Springfield, was for the sole purpose of therapy. In…

The idea to house homeless veterans in old, refurbished RVs didn’t come to David Strahan overnight. In fact, he says, it felt more like the summation of his life’s work; every unique skill he’s learned coming together to form what’s essentially a…

He promised that everything would be paid for. The flight. The hotel. The food and transportation. He also promised that the work wouldn’t take more than a few hours and she’d earn $2,000. She could keep her panties on and it would just be…

After living in the Thurston Hills for more than 20 years, Kebrhea Cuellar wasn’t exactly shocked to hear that the Bureau of Land Management was once again attempting to sell off nearly 100 acres of timber to a lumber company, timber on land that…