Date: 07/17/2013 03:59 AM
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Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – An Oregon Forestry Department spokesman says fire crews have completed a fire line around a wildfire that has burned across nearly a square mile of private forest land in central Oregon. Spokesman Rod Nichols said yesterday evening the Box Springs Fire, about 25 miles northeast of Prineville, was 25 percent contained. The lightning-caused blaze started Sunday.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Portland police say a man fell to his death from the Vista Bridge, just weeks before suicide barriers were due to be installed. Sgt. Pete Simpson says officers responded to the scene before sunrise yesterday. The city last week announced plans to erect temporary, anti-suicide screens by mid-August at the span known as “The Suicide Bridge.”
PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) – Representatives of Northwest wheat growers say they’re cautiously optimistic about prospects for Japan to resume buying their grain. Sales were suspended after an Eastern Oregon farmer found unapproved genetically modified wheat in a field. The trade group U.S. Wheat Associates tells the East Oregonian a Japanese agency hasn’t found any GMO material in their tests of 1.2 million metric tons.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -The newly appointed administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration has been replaced amid an investigation over hiring practices. An email from a deputy secretary of Energy to BPA employees on Monday said the acting deputy administrator, Elliot Mainzer, will fill in on an interim basis. The email from Deputy Secretary of Energy Daniel Poneman does not mention Bill Drummond, who was hired in January.
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