Date: 11/01/2012 09:45 AM
OR–2nd NewsMinute/251
Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Studded tires are now legal on Oregon roadways. The Oregon Department of Transportation allows the tires from Nov. 1 to April 1 for winter driving. They’re banned the rest of the year because they cause ruts in the pavement.
MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) – A former Montana man now living in Oregon has been sentenced for stealing money while loading ATMs for a bank in southwestern Montana. Prosecutors say Thomas L. Beckner of Newport was sentenced yesterday to three months in prison and was ordered to pay $49,000 in restitution. He pleaded guilty to embezzlement by a bank employee.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Jurors will decide whether an Iraq War contractor is responsible for respiratory ailments and the fear of future illness that Oregon National Guard soldiers blame on a carcinogen present at a water plant they defended. The contractor — Kellogg, Brown and Root — says the substance was in concentrations so small it was harmless. The Portland jury received the case late yesterday.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – A federal grand jury has indicted a Ukrainian man now living in Portland for drunkenly disrupting a Delta Air Lines flight and trying to bribe the FBI agents who arrested him. Authorities say Anatolly Baranovich had been drinking heavily before he ran to the back of a Salt Lake City-bound jetliner and tried to open an emergency exit. Baranovich told investigators he was visiting family in the Ukraine and got drunk for 50 straight days. He was headed home to Portland.
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