Date: 12/05/2012 08:29 AM
OR–2nd NewsMinute/295
Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – A Utah State basketball player from Oregon who collapsed at practice and stopped breathing has been hospitalized in critical condition. USU says emergency responders had to use a defibrillator to get Danny Berger breathing again during practice yesterday. Berger is a junior from Medford and is a starting forward for the Aggies.
MOLALLA, Ore. (AP) – A sheriff’s spokesman says a Clackamas County sheriff’s deputy rescued a suicidal woman from the Molalla River with a strong rope and encouraging words. Deputies were alerted last night after a mother called 911 to say her 48-year-old daughter was planning to kill herself in the river. Deputy Corey Saffer got there in time to see the woman jump into the fast-moving water. But he was able to loop a rope over the woman’s torso around his waist. He held on, talking to her until a river rescue team arrived.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) – The Environmental Protection Agency says it will look for a possible connection among several cancer cases in West Salem. The federal agency told the Statesman Journal it will to proceed with a site assessment after receiving correspondence from people in the area. Several cases of osteosarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer, have been seen in young people in recent years.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – A California elephant rental company agrees with the Oregon Zoo’s assertion that the Portland facility will retain possession of the country’s newest baby elephant. A breeding contract gives ownership of the calf to Have Trunk Will Travel. But Oregon Zoo director Kim Smith says the elephant will live out her life at the zoo. Have Trunk Will Travel told the AP last night that it never intended to take the calf.
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