Date: 05/23/2014 09:19 AM
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Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
OREGON CITY, Ore. (AP) – A woman who used a Clackamas County credit card to pay for her personal airfare, her daughter’s wedding expenses and Botox pleaded guilty to theft and related charges. Starla Jo Schur of Wilsonville was sentenced to 90 days in jail and 90 days home detention yesterday in Oregon City. Schur was an administrative assistant in the Clackamas County Tourism Department in 2012 and 2013.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – One of the defendants charged in a large cockfighting case in Eastern Oregon is scheduled for a change-of-plea hearing on June 12. Prosecutors won’t discuss the terms of the plea agreement with Apolinar Munoz-Gutierrez. The trial is scheduled for July. One of the co-defendants is Princess Irina Walker, the daughter of the last king of Romania.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – The Oregon state medical examiner says last week’s death of a 22-year-old man who jumped off a Portland bridge into the Willamette River was an accident. Another man had told Portland police that his friend wanted to go swimming in the river at 3 a.m. last Thursday. The Columbian reports that the medical examiner determined that Tyler Fisher of Ridgefield, Washington, died of blunt force trauma and drowning.
IRVING, Texas (AP) – Former Oregon coach Mike Bellotti has been elected to the College Football Hall of Fame. Bellotti will be formally inducted along with the other members of this year’s Hall of Fame Class on Dec. 9 in New York. Bellotti coached at Oregon for 14 seasons and was the school’s all-time winningest coach. He is the Ducks’ eighth overall member of the Hall of Fame and first since Ahmad Rashad in 2007.
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