Date: 09/25/2014 09:32 AM
AP-OR–2nd NewsMinute/297
Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – As an immigrant activist’s stay at an Oregon church to avoid deportation nears a week, he’s gaining supporters, including Portland’s mayor. But court documents reveal more details about the troubled past of Francisco Aguirre, who came to the U.S. from El Salvador nearly two decades ago and is facing deportation due to an old drug conviction and a previous deportation. Portland leaders say they will nevertheless stand by Aguirre because of his contributions as an immigrant rights’ organizer and a family man.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – A man who broke into a Portland home and raped a woman has been sentenced to 27 years in prison. Dechavien Parks had been convicted in Multnomah County Circuit Court of attempted aggravated murder and rape for the 2013 attack on the 18-year-old. The Oregonian reports Parks didn’t know the victim but had been to her house earlier in the day as a friend of one of her relatives.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Police say a Pomeranian dog was mauled to death by a pit bull last night on a Portland streetcar. The Oregonian reports that a witness said a woman and her pit bull boarded the car in northwest Portland and the larger dog almost immediately lunged at the Pomeranian already on board. Witness Cole Vliet-Sutten says the pit bull put its mouth over the other dog’s head.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) – A Christian group says Oregon regulators are thwarting its plans to expand youth camps at a site notorious in the 1980s when a guru from India and his followers took over the area. The group Young Life told legislators last year it wants to add 1,500 beds in the sparsely populated area near Bend once known as Rajneeshpuram.
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