Date: 12/06/2012 09:31 AM
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Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
SALEM, Ore. (AP) – A legal challenge to an obscure Oregon tax law has the potential to blow a big hole in the state budget. Experts peg the cost at about $100 million a year in lost revenue if the state loses. It’s still in an early stage and could take years to resolve, but officials are keeping a nervous eye on it because of the amount of money involved and because the State of California lost a very similar case.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – Doctors still don’t know what caused a Utah State basketball player from Oregon to collapse at practice and stop breathing. But school officials said last night that Danny Berger is improving and making good progress, although he player remains in critical condition. Berger went to high school in Medford and played basketball at Chemeketa Community College in Salem before joining Utah State.
ALBANY, Ore. (AP) – A preliminary report on the investigation of a deadly crash of a light plane last week near Albany says a witness saw one wing fold upward during a turn, and the wing apparently hit the canopy, shattering its glass. The Albany Democrat-Herald reports the brief document from the NTSB didn’t say why the wing detached from the plane. Two people died in the crash.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The Obama Administration has awarded Oregon a $20 million grant for the state’s effort to improve early-childhood education. The money will be used to improve training for preschool teachers and to measure the effectiveness of programs that are supposed to prepare children for kindergarten.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.
