Date: 10/09/2012 03:59 AM
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Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
SEATTLE (AP) – Alaska Airlines says flights are running close to normal after a fiber-optic outage temporarily shut down its ticketing system, causing the airline and its regional carrier to cancel 78 flights, affecting nearly 7,000 customers. More than 130 other flights departed, but some were delayed up to four hours. Spokeswoman Marianne Lindsey says the airline doesn’t anticipate any problems today. The cities most affected were Portland; Seattle; Los Angeles; Anchorage and the San Francisco area.
COTTAGE GROVE, Ore. (AP) – Authorities say a missing 79-year-old Seattle man has been found dead on a logging road near the Douglas-Lane county line in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. Seattle police Detective David Ogard told The Register-Guard on Monday that Sherman Davis suffered from dementia and disappeared last month from an independent living facility in Seattle.
CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) – Police in Corvallis say a young man has been found dead in a parking lot with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The Corvallis Gazette-Times reports the body was found in a parking lot adjacent to a fraternity house near Oregon State University. The newspaper reports the lot is bordered by apartment buildings as well. Lt. Cord Wood told the newspaper it wasn’t immediately clear whether the young man had any connection to the nearby Pi Kappa Phi fraternity house.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – A lawyer who has represented victims of sexual abuse in lawsuits against the Boy Scouts of America has published an index of decades worth of records from the Scouts’ so-called perversion files. Seattle attorney Tim Kosnoff posted the index on his website yesterday. It includes a list of 1,900 volunteers who were expelled from the organization between 1971 and 1991 for allegedly having inappropriate sexual contact with children. He has not released copies of the files.
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