Date: 11/21/2013 04:00 AM
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Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
SALEM, Ore. (AP) – People who want health coverage beginning in January through Oregon’s troubled insurance exchange need to act fast. State officials say they don’t expect to have the online enrollment system working by the first of the year. And paper applications must be mailed within just two weeks, by Dec. 4.
MYRTLE POINT, Ore. (AP) – Authorities say a man was killed in Coos County and detectives are searching for a person of interest who is believed to be the victim’s half-brother. Sixty-one-year-old Lance Lucero died yesterday at a hospital, less than an hour after paramedics were called to a Myrtle Point home on a report of a severely injured man.
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – Police in Eugene, Ore., say an officer fatally shot a 44-year-old man near Churchill High School. Police spokeswoman Melinda McLaughlin says the man who was killed yesterday was armed with a handgun. Nearby schools were locked down for a bit.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – The Oregon Parks and Recreation Commission has approved a complex land exchange involving property on the coast and in Eastern Oregon. In the deal, 280 acres of Bandon State Natural Area would be traded to Bandon Biota, which would transfer 208 acres in the Bandon area and help buy oceanfront property and a ranch.
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