Date: 09/12/2013 09:28 AM
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Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – The National Weather Service reports record-breaking heat in parts of western Oregon. Yesterday’s high at Portland International Airport was 95, beating the old record for the date of 94 set in 2009. Hillsboro hit 97, beating the old record of 95 set in 1944. Salem in the Willamette Valley tied its Sept. 11 high record of 96, set back in 1922. Forecasters expect temperatures in the 80s the rest of the week.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Firefighters say flames from a trash bin spread to an apartment building in Portland. Tualatin fire officials say all the residents got out safely around midnight before firefighters arrived at the Chateau hills Apartments. They found flames spreading up the exterior of the two-story building. The Red Cross is helping four residents who are displaced.
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – Police in Eugene have arrested at least four members of a homeless protest group. During one confrontation yesterday outside the Lane County Public Service Building, police say a man kicked an officer in the head. The Register-Guard reports that in addition to the arrests, police issued tickets to several other people for violating a city ordinance that bans camping on public property.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – A Portland man accused of violence against his girlfriend and of repeatedly punching her cat has pleaded guilty to domestic violence assault and aggravated animal abuse. Oregon Humane Society representatives investigating Travis Warner-Tamerius last March in the case of the injured cat found evidence of domestic violence against the man’s then-girlfriend and told Portland police.
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