Date: 08/01/2013 03:59 AM
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Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – A U.S. House committee has advanced legislation aimed at increasing timber harvests on former Oregon & California Railroad lands in Western Oregon. The provision was included in a sweeping federal forests bill that passed the Natural Resources Committee in a voice vote yesterday. The Oregonian reports the legislation advances to the full House with an eye toward setting up negotiations with the Senate.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) – An Oregon prison escape serving time for marijuana and child neglect convictions is back in custody. The State Police said yesterday an anonymous tip led them to 34-year-old Daryl Manuel Hernandez at a Salem-area house. Authorities say he and 25-year-old Franco Armando Moreno walked away July 18 from the minimum-security Mill Creek Correctional Facility.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Police searching for an Oregon woman who vanished on the Fourth of July say they want to speak with a group of young men seen at the Ruch (roosh) Country Store that day. The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office says the men are not considered suspects in the disappearance of Stephanie Warner. The 43-year-old woman was last seen by her boyfriend at the store.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – A 10-year-old boy who is recovering from three skull fractures after tumbling 150 feet down a steep, rock-strewn hill on Oregon’s Mount Hood is talking about his ordeal. Cole Hancock expressed disbelief from a Portland hospital yesterday that he was alive. His father, Kim Hancock, tells The Oregonian his recovery has been “phenomenal” since the July 23 fall.
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