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In 1977, 16-year-old Lliana Gay Adank and 17-year-old Eric Shawn Goldstrand, both North Eugene High School students, went fishing and had a picnic and never returned. They were later found shot to death. Forty-four years police say they have solved their homicide. This week, the Lane County Sheriff's Office announced they solved and closed the cold-case homicides of Adank and Goldstrand. In 1977, the victims' parents notified the Lane County Sheriff’s Office, who reportedly found Adank at the secluded picnic area, Goldstrand in the nearby brush a few hours later. “ The female victim had been sexually assaulted and both...

A Eugene man was charged with reckless burning and criminal mischief after throwing a lighted firework at a person in a Eugene U-Haul parking lot, setting fire to a man stealing gas and to several trucks. Dylan Hannah, 28, was arraigned Monday in Lane County Court on charges of second-degree criminal mischief and reckless burning. Eugene police responded to a 5:45 a.m. Sunday report of several trucks on fire at U-Haul Storage of Santa Clara, 150 Oroyan Ave. After investigating, police learned that Hannah, sitting inside his vehicle, and a woman in her 30s, standing near the vehicle, appeared to...