Date: 09/12/2012 03:59 AM
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Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality says atmospheric conditions – a temperature inversion – could mean poor air quality in the mornings through Saturday in the Central Oregon town of Sisters, as crews battle a forest fire 7 miles to the southwest. The fire began Sunday in the Three Sisters Wilderness area. No injuries have been reported.
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) – The Pierce County, Wash., medical examiner’s office says the second of two bodies recently recovered from a Mount Rainier glacier is that of a 54-year-old Springfield, Ore., man who vanished in January storms. The medical examiner yesterday identified the body of Eunsork “Eric” Yang. His body was recovered Friday on the Paradise Glacier.
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) – A judge has sentenced an Oregon man to life in prison without possibility of parole for attempted murder in the shooting last summer of another man in western Wyoming. A district judge sentenced 34-year-old Roy Fritts, of Union, Ore., yesterday. Fritts pleaded guilty this summer to shooting Edmund Thornell, of Costa Mesa, Calif., in August 2011.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Gov. John Kitzhaber is appealing a judge’s ruling that he has no authority to issue a reprieve from the death penalty for a condemned inmate who has rejected the governor’s clemency. A trial-court judge in Marion County ruled last month that convicted murderer Gary Haugen must accept a reprieve for it to be valid. Haugen had been scheduled to die by lethal injection last December when Kitzhaber stepped in and blocked it. Kitzhaber says he won’t allow executions while he’s governor.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.
Date: 09/12/2012 03:59 AM
OR–1st NewsMinute/267
Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality says atmospheric conditions – a temperature inversion – could mean poor air quality in the mornings through Saturday in the Central Oregon town of Sisters, as crews battle a forest fire 7 miles to the southwest. The fire began Sunday in the Three Sisters Wilderness area. No injuries have been reported.
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) – The Pierce County, Wash., medical examiner’s office says the second of two bodies recently recovered from a Mount Rainier glacier is that of a 54-year-old Springfield, Ore., man who vanished in January storms. The medical examiner yesterday identified the body of Eunsork “Eric” Yang. His body was recovered Friday on the Paradise Glacier.
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) – A judge has sentenced an Oregon man to life in prison without possibility of parole for attempted murder in the shooting last summer of another man in western Wyoming. A district judge sentenced 34-year-old Roy Fritts, of Union, Ore., yesterday. Fritts pleaded guilty this summer to shooting Edmund Thornell, of Costa Mesa, Calif., in August 2011.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Gov. John Kitzhaber is appealing a judge’s ruling that he has no authority to issue a reprieve from the death penalty for a condemned inmate who has rejected the governor’s clemency. A trial-court judge in Marion County ruled last month that convicted murderer Gary Haugen must accept a reprieve for it to be valid. Haugen had been scheduled to die by lethal injection last December when Kitzhaber stepped in and blocked it. Kitzhaber says he won’t allow executions while he’s governor.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.
