Date: 11/17/2014 03:59 AM
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Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
MCMINNVILLE, Ore. (AP) – Authorities say a 20-year-old Linfield College student from Washington state was fatally stabbed Saturday in a convenience store near campus, and police shot and killed the suspect. Linfield College president Thomas Hellie identified the victim as Parker Moore, a Woodinville native who was majoring in business management. A motive for the stabbing wasn’t clear.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Searchers say they have recovered the body of a climber who fell from a mountain. Benjamin Newkirk’s body was discovered yesterday, after a multiday search complicated by extreme weather. The 39-year-old from Bend was on Middle Sister, a 10,052-foot volcanic peak in the central Oregon’s Three Sisters Wilderness, with another climber Wednesday night when he fell about 900 feet off the mountain’s southeast ridge.
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – A pair of passers-by helped rescue a Eugene man from a burning minivan that crashed with a load of ammunition inside. The Eugene Register-Guard reports Rick Wetzel and Josh Stevens happened upon the accident Friday afternoon, just before flames spread across the van. The ammunition began heating up and discharging, sending rounds through the van.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – The outcome of a little-noticed ballot measure in strongly Democratic Oregon may serve as a warning to President Barack Obama and his party about the tricky politics of immigration. By a wide margin, voters in liberal Oregon repealed a state law that would have provided driver’s licenses to people who are in the United States illegally. It’s an idea strongly opposed by Republicans.
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