It’s a truly amazing story. An Iraqi boy is back in Oregon after losing contact with the volunteers and doctor that helped save his life. How they found him after ten years.

 

Recently I have been working on the issues of homelessness we face in our community and went downtown to talk to some folks about the issues they see and experience. What I ran into was a group of kids sleeping in downtown Eugene.

Lane County Public Health has released it’s 2018 point in time count data. The annual one night homeless count is for sheltered and unsheltered people. After a consistent decrease of homeless youth since 2010, the numbers have increased the past two years.

The numbers reported on homeless youth has officials concerned, please take a look.

The number of homeless youth has doubled from last year, that’s according to a Lane County homeless count. I found out what this means for our community.

A new Lane county homeless count came out this month saying homeless youth has doubled from last year. While the county works to address the issue, there are educational programs to help kids in problematic situations. I spoke with a former student with the MLK Education Center who went from a 2nd grade education to a high school graduate in less than a year.

A first year student at OSU is in emotional distress, he sets off sprinklers in Hawley Hall and starts a fire in his dorm room before jumping out the fifth story. The student survived and now students and staff say they’re shaken from last nights crisis.

A local Springfield teacher creates an entirely new way of teaching and grading, in return, students are able to change the way they think about education.

We tell you about all the scams going on, but what happens once you get scammed? Now that your identity is stolen, what are you supposed to do? I talk with a man in this exact predicament.