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Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — Thousands of acres in Oregon’s drought-stricken Klamath Basin will have to go without irrigation water this summer. The Klamath Tribes and the federal government yesterday exercised newly confirmed powers that put the American Indian tribes in the driver’s seat over the use of water. A judge ruled in March that the tribes have the oldest water rights in the upper basin.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A man serving 30 days for contempt of court has died after being stabbed by another inmate last week in the county jail in Salem, Ore. A Marion County sheriff’s spokesman said yesterday that Gavin Lee Siscel died Sunday night at a Portland hospital. Officials say inmate David Ray Bartol pleaded not guilty yesterday to the stabbing.
CASCADE LOCKS, Ore. (AP) — Oregon state troopers say motorists kicked at the windows of a burning car to rescue a Washington state woman. Authorities say 60-year-old Ketsy Roeder of Kennewick, Wash., was treated at a Portland hospital. Troopers say the car appeared to lose control and went over an embankment off Interstate 84 near Cascade Locks.
WILSONVILLE, Ore. (AP) — A TriMet transit agency spokeswoman says transit workers rescued a baby deer they spotted sleeping on the main track out of a commuter rail facility in Wilsonville, Ore. Spokeswoman Roberta Altstadt said a worker carefully put a blanket over the fawn yesterday morning and picked it up. But the fawn woke up and ran to an open field, where the its mother was waiting.
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