Date: 12/05/2012 10:29 AM
OR–3rd NewsMinute/324
Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – A federal trial is under way in a lawsuit that accuses Harrisburg school officials of failing to protect a boy with Tourette’s syndrome. The boy’s mother testified yesterday that he was shoved, slapped and taunted with anti-gay slurs from others who perceived his neurological disorder as homosexual. She pulled him out of the seventh grade in 2010 and they now live out of state. The Register-Guard reports the district lawyer says it has policies and training to discourage bullying but middle school students don’t always treat each other kindly.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – A Las Vegas man has pleaded guilty in federal court in Portland for his role in a drug ring accused of illegally selling painkillers and laundering $1.7 million. Kingsley Osemwengie is being held for sentencing on Feb. 19. The Oregonian reports he an 18 others accused of dealing oxycodone across the country were taken down in a drug task force investigation known as “Trick or Treat.”
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – A woman who worked as a caregiver has been sentenced in Eugene to more than four years in prison for taking more than $26,000 from an 85-year-old man. The woman — 56-year-old Bimla Boyd –pleaded guilty to stealing assets between March 2010 and last April. A Lane County Circuit Court judge gave Boyd a longer sentence than she might have received because she was on parole at the time for a 2002 manslaughter.
SPRINGFIELD, Ore. (AP) – A not guilty plea was entered in Springfield Municipal Court for a 62-year-old woman charged with attempted animal abuse for throwing two cats in the Willamette River. Police says Betty Ann Gould is a Persian cat breeder. They say she put two of her cats in a bag Friday and threw them in the river. The Register-Guard reports police found the bag stuck in a tree branch and rescued the animals.
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