Date: 09/11/2012 09:28 AM
OR–2nd NewsMinute/273
Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Portland is the largest city in the United States that has yet to approve fluoridation to combat tooth decay. That’s expected to change when the city council meets tomorrow. Mayor Sam Adams and two city commissioners have announced their support, ensuring a majority on the five-member panel. Critics say fluoridation is unsafe and violates an individual’s right to consent to medication.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Investigators have determined the Salem man who killed his family in May also killed a man walking in the neighborhood. Marion County prosecutors said yesterday that Nikolay Lazukin stomped and beat Devin Matlock with a bat just blocks away from the family’s home. Investigators say Lazukin shot his wife and two young children and suffocated a baby before setting the home on fire. He later killed himself.
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) – A Medford man has been sentenced to more than two years in federal prison for identity theft linked to car prowls at Mount Rainier National Park. Prosecutors say Matthew Mortinson broke into vehicles at trailheads and campgrounds, stealing computers, credit cards and other valuables. Co-defendant Pamela Williams of Tacoma was sentenced in April to two years in prison.
ASHFORD, Wash. (AP) – A Mount Rainier National Park spokesman says one of two bodies recently recovered from a glacier on the mountain is that of an Atlanta woman who was among four people who vanished in January storms. The Pierce County medical examiner’s office has identified the body of Michelle Trojanowski. The body of her climbing partner was found Aug. 6. Two climbers also were reported missing nearby at the same time.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.
