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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.
via (the South County Spotlight)
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 [...]