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The second week in the federal trial of Negasi Zuberi included testimony from another alleged victim and the police who arrested him.

The U.S. District Court trial of Negasi Zuberi, accused of kidnapping and raping two women, began this week in Medford. One alleged victim gave testimony about how she was abducted from Washington — and how she escaped.

Corey Murphy grew up in Klamath Falls. His father was one of thousands who emigrated from Ireland to Oregon in the mid-19th and -20th centuries, seeking work as sheepherders and cowboys. Today, Murphy studies, arranges and performs songs related to the Irish diaspora in South Central Oregon.

The two deaths over the weekend have shocked the Klamath Falls community. Friends and family mourn while police look for answers.

The incumbent is barred from serving another term under a voter-passed law that bars legislators from serving subsequent terms when they have too many unexcused absences.

The power of geothermal energy has been tapped for heating homes and offices for decades in Klamath Falls. But high maintenance costs — and the geographic availability of hot water — help explain why not everyone there uses geothermal energy.

Through October, the Klamath County Museum offers flashlight tours of the four-story, historic Baldwin Hotel Museum.

A federal judge set an Oct. 17 trial date for an Oregon man accused of posing as an undercover police officer, kidnapping a woman in Seattle and locking her in a cinder block cell until she bloodied her hands breaking the door to escape.

A woman who escaped her kidnapper by punching her way out of a cinder block cell at a home in Southern Oregon may have spared other women from a similar fate by alerting authorities to a man they now suspect in sexual assaults in at least four more states, the FBI said.

Negasi Zuberi was charged in federal court today with kidnapping and sexually assaulting a Seattle woman.

Containment of two major wildfires in Southern Oregon continues to improve.

In May, the Klamath County Board of Commissioners decided to cancel a library-sponsored social justice book group over concerns the programming could be perceived as political.