Jail beds — After Josephine County voters turned down a tax increase to fund the jail, the Grants Pass City Council has decided it wants to continue paying extra to keep some jail cells open for local criminals. The council directed its staff on Monday to write an ordinance creating a utility fee to generate $1 million a year. That would guarantee 20 to 30 jail beds will be available for people arrested by city police. The failure of the $8 million county levy last month meant jail capacity was going to go down from 100 local beds to 70. As federal logging revenues have dwindled, Josephine County has been struggling to pay for basic services.

GMO labeling campaign — The campaign to put a genetically modified labeling initiative on the November ballot in Oregon has raised nearly $1 million; $591,000 of it has been spent with a signature-gathering firm.Campaign finance disclosures show the political action committee Oregon GMO Right to Know spent the money with Fieldworks LLC. The committee has raised $936,000 trying to put the measure before voters.

Federal wrongful death suit — A lawsuit filed in the 2012 shooting death of a 20-year-old Medford man seeks $2.7 million from the U.S. government. James Georgeson was fatally shot by federal marshals in a supermarket parking lot. They alleged he rammed his SUV into cars carrying officers trying to arrest him for violating his probation from a 2009 conviction for assaulting a deputy marshal. A wrongful death lawsuit was filed Monday in federal court on behalf of Georgeson’s estate and a passenger in the vehicle. The complaint says the estate is seeking $1.5 million. Kaiden Haight is seeking $1.2 million for pain, mental distress, lost income and personal injuries. The complaint says Haight and Georgeson were best friends. According to the complaint, marshals shot into the vehicle at least 20 times.