Date: 04/02/2014 10:56 AM
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Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) – A herd of 175 starving alpacas that was rescued in December from a Polk County ranch is recovering at the Oregon State University College of Veterinary Medicine. The university says they have regained strength and many have been adopted. Two of the impounded animals died. The Statesman Journal reports the owners who lost control of the herd at the ranch in Falls City are scheduled for a pre-trial conference Monday on animal neglect charges.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) – A 46-year-old man has been sentenced to life in prison for the shooting death of his wife, a Russian he met online and brought to Oregon. David Paul Eaton pleaded guilty last month in Marion County Circuit Court to the murder of his 31-year-old wife, Elena Nikolaevna Lobodina Eaton. He shot her in 2012 at their home in Salem during an argument over their pending divorce.
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – A man who spent 27 years in prison for a Lane County murder is facing aggravated murder charges in a new trial in Eugene that could put him on death row. Jury selection began yesterday for David Ray Taylor, who’s accused of killing Celestino Gutierrez of Eugene in 2012 and then using his car in a bank robbery. Taylor was convicted of killing a gas station attendant in 1977 and was released in 2004.
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – Police in Eugene, Ore., say 12 advocates for the homeless have been cited for second-degree criminal trespass after refusing to end their sit-in at the city manager’s office when it closed late yesterday afternoon. The Register-Guard reports the 12 were briefly detained, then released.
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