Date: 05/22/2013 03:59 AM
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Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – The mayor of Portland has conceded defeat in an effort to add fluoride to the city’s drinking water. With more than 80 percent of the expected ballots counted last night, the Multnomah County election website showed the proposal failing, 60 percent to 40 percent. Mayor Charlie Hales calls the result “disappointing” but says he accepts the will of the voters.
(AP) – Three Oregon timber counties that asked voters to raise taxes to restore deep cuts to law enforcement are seeing three different results. With a majority of ballots counted last night, Lane County voters were passing a five-year public safety levy – 56 percent to 43 percent. In Curry County, voters were rejecting a five-year levy that would start at $4 million a year, 44 percent to 56 percent. And in Josephine County, a three-year levy proposal was trailing 49 percent to 51 percent in early returns.
BEAVERTON, Ore. (AP) – Police say shots fired into a residence early yesterday wounded a Beaverton man. The victim was taken to the hospital and later released. Police say he was hit more than once “in his extremities,” but wouldn’t be more specific. The Oregonian reports he’s identified as 34-year-old Brandon Jesse Frison.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – The mother of a 5-year-old Portland boy who investigators say died of abuse has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and received a 12-year sentence. The Oregonian reports that Valisha Eteuati entered her plea yesterday in last year’s death of her son, Mahonarye Noa. Her husband, Kalman Eteuati, pleaded guilty to the same charge Monday and was sentenced to 18 years in prison.
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