MEDFORD (AP) — Poor air quality in wildfire-plagued parts of Oregon has kept people indoors ahead of the long U.S. Labor Day weekend, and there's no end in sight as hot, dry, fiery days are forecast through the holiday.

MEDFORD (AP) — Oregon State Police say two men have been arrested in a southern Oregon convenience store robbery in which the robbers' "hoods" were actually boxer brief-style underwear in a camouflage pattern.

MEDFORD (AP) — Police are warning Medford residents to be wary of a smiling man with a Bible who recently was outside businesses seeking to shake hands with shoppers. Police say he’s a 40-year-old sex offender who has used magazine sales in the past to grope women during good-luck hugs.

MEDFORD (AP) — The man accused of bombing the Jackson County District Attorney’s Office will be tried in federal court.

MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — Medford Fire battalion chief Ron Nelson says a blaze at a vacant home this week was intentionally set. The Mail Tribune reports the fire heavily damaged the garage and caused smoke damage to the interior.