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Posts from ‘October, 2009’
Hunter killed in altercation
The Wheeler County Sheriff’s Office says the Oct. 7 shooting death of a 61-year-old Portland hunter came during an altercation with a Scappoose family.
Sheriff Bob Hudspeth says Frank Means got into a fight with three men and an 11-year-old boy also hunting at a remote site along the John Day River. The Oregon State Medical [...]
Oregon City medical marijuana grower robbed at gunpoint
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Three masked men, one of them armed, ransacked a home on Hughes Street Wednesday, tying up three children and stealing one-and-a-half pounds of medical marijuana.
The marijuana grower, a father of three who lives on the 1100 block of Hughes Street, told police that someone knocked on his door around 8:30 a.m., and said [...]
New $10 million recycling plant near St. Helens
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An Oregon business partnership, ORPET, plans to build a $10 million state-of-the-art plastic bottle recycling plant on Port of St. Helens-owned property, promising to create 50 new jobs when it begins operation next year.
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Funding a Desire Named Streetcar
The federal government has delivered on its promise to provide Portland with $75 million for a major streetcar extension. The funds represent redoubled efforts by the Obama administration to support electrified streetcar projects under a seven-year-old program designed to support small-scale urban transport improvement.
Peter Rogoff, the administrator of the Federal Transit Administration, and Representative Earl [...]
Prosecutors decline to pursue charges in Sandy youth football ruckus
Clackamas County prosecutors said today they will not be charging a player or parent in a sideline squabble that broke out during a recreational youth football game.
Deputy District Attorney Gregory D. Horner said prosecutors reviewed police reports on Saturday’s incident in Sandy, concluding that there was no evidence of a crime. Sandy police sent [...]
Medford swine flu patient fighting for life
A 30-year-old Medford woman with swine flu has been placed on lifesaving equipment at a Portland hospital.Jacquelyn Cordero was in Legacy Emanuel Medical Center late Thursday, where she was connected to a machine that provides cardiac and respiratory support to patients whose heart and lungs are severely diseased or damaged.
No such machine was available in [...]
4.1- magnitude earthquake hits off the Oregon coast
A moderate earthquake struck deep in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Oregon early this morning.
The U.S. Geological Survey says a 4.1 magnitude quake hit shortly after 1:40 a.m., about 130 miles west-northwest of Bandon.
The quake’s epicenter was 6.2 miles deep — as deep as a temblor that hit the area on Wednesday — [...]
BPA Proposes new I-5 Corridor 500 Kilovolt transmission line
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The Bonneville Power Administration is proposing construction of a new 500-kilovolt transmission line to meet increasing demands for electricity along Washington and Oregon’s I-5 corridor. The line would meet growing local and regional energy demands and help bolster the BPA transmission system to accommodate energy deliveries, including wind power. The [...]
Rumor – Fourth “Twilight” movie, Breaking Dawn, to be filmed in Oregon
It’s official; filming of Twilight : Eclipse in Vancouver is coming to a close. On Tuesday, the movie’s director, David Slade tweeted, “Just one week and a few days to go to complete principle photography, the finish line seems still so far.” It probably can’t come soon enough for Rob Pattinson and Kristen Stewart who get stalked daily by [...]