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Oregon Ducks’ Dan Lanning Sentimental Comments On Senior Night In Autzen Stadium
The No. 1 Oregon Ducks will honor its senior class vs. the Washington Huskies on Saturday, Nov. 30 in Autzen Stadium. In Oregon’s regular season home finale, the Ducks will say farewell to a special group of seniors (26 in total) that have helped the team to a 11-0 record and berth to the Big Ten Championship game.
This group of seniors includes a group of players who have spent their entire careers at Oregon and some transfers players who are finishing their college careers as Ducks.
Oregon coach Dan Lanning offered sentimental comments on an “unbelievable group of seniors.”
“We’ve got an unbelievable group of seniors that have worked really, really hard,” Lanning said ahead of senior night. “Some that got here when I was here, and some that have you know, come over time, but they certainly deserve our best this Saturday.”
The Oregon seniors include: Dillon Gabriel, Jordan Burch, Terrance Ferguson, Tez Johnson, Patrick Herbert, Jeffrey Bassa, Traeshon Holden, Kobe Savage, Bryce Boettcher, Tysheem Johnson, Brandon Johnson, Jestin Jacobs, Jabbar Muhammad, Dontae Manning, Nikko Reed, Connor Soelle, Nishad Strother, Marcus Harper II, Ajani Cornelius, George Silva, Matthew Bedford, Jamaree Caldwell, Keyon Ware-Hudson, Josh Simmons, Andrew Boyle and Kam Alexander.
“I’m very proud of those guys,” Lanning continued. “More than believing in me, I’m proud of them for believing in themselves and what they can create. It’s a player-led team. Those guys have done an unbelievable job of setting our culture and creating what we’ve been able to accomplish so far this season.”
For Oregon-natives Boettcher and Herbert, the emotions of senior night could be heightened.
“It’d be silly to say it doesn’t mean a lot to them, right? It certainly does,” Lanning said of Boettcher and Herbert. “But those guys prepare the same, regardless, which is something you value about them and how they work.”
Herbert and Boettcher have had a massive impact on the Oregon program, on the field and off. A dual-sport athlete who joined the football team as a walk-on in 2022, Boettcher is having a career season. Boettcher is Oregon’s leading tackler this season with a career-high 69 tackles while adding five tackles for loss, a sack, an interception and three pass breakups.
Boettcher was drafted in the 13th round of the 2024 MLB Draft by the Houston Astros but elected to return for one final season with the football team.
Ferguson is another Duck who stands out as a player who played his entire career in Eugene despite coaching changes, an uncommon path in the transfer portal era.
“It starts with Terrance’s work ethic, right? And his leadership, right?” Lanning said on Wednesday. “He’s done an unbelievable job in those two areas this season. Continuing to get better. He’s a coach on the field for those players around him, which I think is elite. He’s had some really high moments this year. I’m hoping he continues to have some high moments for us as we finish out.”
In his final season, Ferguson is on the cusp of becoming the most accomplished tight end in Oregon football history. Among UO tight ends, Ferguson is currently second all-time in receptions (122), tied for second in receiving touchdowns (14) and third in receiving yards (1,388).
“I’m so blessed,” Ferguson said on Wednesday. “I look back on my career and just to be a part of this program, God has put me in a great situation. I got to play four years at the University of Oregon, so I just look back at it and, honestly, I’m just so blessed and thankful for this program, the fans, my teammates and coaches. It’s crazy how fast it goes, but it’ll be a fun experience to be out there in Autzen.”
There is a chance that the Washington game is not the final game in Autzen Stadium this season. If Oregon does not get a first-round bye in the expanded 12-team College Football Playoff, the Ducks could host a playoff game in Eugene.
“It’s potentially their last opportunity to play here in Autzen,” Lanning said. “You want to make sure you send them off the right way. The later you get in your career, the faster and faster these seasons and moments go by. I think this will be a special moment for all those guys stepping onto the field. We want to give them the opportunity to enjoy their senior day.”
The Ducks host rival Washington at Autzen Stadium on Saturday, Nov. 30 at 4:30 p.m. PT on NBC. Oregon hopes to send off its senior class with a big win over Huskies (6-5, 4-4 Big Ten) to reach a 12-0 record and maintain its No. 1 College Football Playoff ranking.
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FALLS CITY, Ore. — A 63-year-old was sentenced to life in prison for shooting and killing a man with a shotgun during a fight at a Falls City, Oregon property back in 2024.
A jury convicted Terry Lawrence Allwen of second-degree murder back on March 20, the Polk County District Attorney’s Office said.
He was sentenced Friday to serve life in prison with the possibility of parole after 25 years.
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Allwen was also convicted of other charges like manslaughter, assault, and felon in possession of a firearm, but the sentences for those crimes will be served concurrently with the life sentence.
Court records show that Allwen was staying in an RV parked on a property owned by the victim, 79-year-old Bo Johnson.
At about 9 a.m. on May 31, 2024, Allwen and Johnson got into a verbal fight over some personal property. During that fight, Allwen got a shotgun from his trunk and shot Johnson once, killing him.
“Mr. Johnson had many more years to spend with his family. His senseless murder destroyed the dreams and plans of so many that loved him. I hope that the fact Mr. Allwen today received the maximum possible sentence will bring the family of Mr. Johnson some relief and sense of justice.”
If Allwen is granted parole, the judge also ordered that he have a lifetime of post-prison supervision.
The Oregon Supreme Court has overturned the conviction of a Lane County man who once photographed child beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey and was convicted in 2021 on several child pornography charges.
Randall DeWitt Simons, 73, of Oakridge, was charged in 2019 with 15 counts of first-degree encouraging child sex abuse. He was later convicted on every count and sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Simons was first arrested after authorities began investigating a report from a restaurant in Oakridge that someone had been using the restaurant’s Wi-Fi to download inappropriate and concerning images.
Law enforcement officers directed the business to track, log, and report all of the user’s internet activity to the investigating officer for more than a year, without a warrant.
Police tracked the computer’s IP address from the restaurant’s Wi-Fi system, which led officers to a man who lived near the restaurant and had given Simons a computer, according to a probable cause affidavit filed in Lane County Circuit Court. Investigators obtained a warrant to search the laptop in Simon’s home, relying on information they had collected over time. He was subsequently arrested.
On March 26, the court ruled warrantless internet surveillance on public Wi-Fi violates privacy.
In an opinion written by Justice Bronson D. James, the court held that the Oregon Constitution recognizes people have a right to privacy in their internet browsing activities and the right is not extinguished when they use a publicly accessible wireless network. It’s even true in cases where that access is conditioned on a person accepting a terms-of-service agreement that says a provider may monitor activity and cooperate with law enforcement, James wrote.
During criminal proceedings in the Lane County Circuit Court, Simons moved to controvert the warrant and suppress the evidence obtained by police, arguing the business was a “state actor for purposes of Article I, section 9, and that its year-long warrantless surveillance was an unconstitutional, warrantless search attributable to the state,” the Supreme Court opinion said.
The Circuit Court denied Simon’s motion. The Oregon Court of Appeals affirmed the trial court’s decision in part and stated Simons had no cognizable privacy interest in his internet activities performed on a third-party network.
The Oregon Supreme Court rejected the state’s argument.
“The mere fact that a person accesses the internet through a public network does not eliminate their Article I, section 9, right to privacy in their online activities,” according to James. “Even when access is expressly conditioned on a user’s acceptance of terms-of-service provisions purporting to alert the user that the provider may monitor activity and cooperate with law enforcement.”
Justice K. Bushong suggested in a partial dissent the Court should reconsider its approach in a future case to what constitutes a “search” under the Oregon Constitution. The court’s decision reverses the Court of Appeals and sends the case back to the Lane County Circuit Court for further proceedings.
Simons has maintained his innocence since he was arrested in 2019.
Simons had been a photographer for 6-year-old Colorado beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey a few months before her still-unsolved 1996 murder, the Associated Press reported in 1998.
In October 1998, Simons was arrested on a charge of indecent exposure in Lincoln County, Colorado. According to the book “Perfect Murder, Perfect Town” by Lawrence Schiller, Simons was arrested in 1998 for allegedly walking nude down a residential street in the small town of Genoa, Colorado. Simons allegedly offered to the arresting deputy unprovoked, “I didn’t kill JonBenét.”
Haleigh Kochanski is a breaking news and public safety reporter for The Register-Guard. You may reach her at HKochanski@gannett.com.
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