2nd Oregon News MInute from the AP

Date: 11/25/2014 09:17 AM

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Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – A man who shot and killed his estranged wife in her suburban Portland apartment and fled with their young daughter has been sentenced to life in prison. The Oregonian reports Joshua Cavett will be eligible for release after 28 years. Killed was Jessie Doyle Cavett. Court records show she had filed for a restraining order and sought a divorce.

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – A major new student housing complex opened this fall in downtown Eugene, an apartment development with room for 1,300 built for an estimated $90 million. The Eugene Register-Guard reports there have been a few complaints, among them water lines bursting and flooding apartments, broken appliances, and incomplete and shoddy work. The developer acknowledges some issues, but says they were exceptions that represented only a few units.

GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) – A former executive of an Oregon company has pleaded guilty to providing false aircraft weights to the U.S. Forest Service to win a firefighting contract. A helicopter the company provided crashed in 2008, killing nine people fighting a wildfire in California. Steven Metheny of Medford entered guilty pleas in federal court yesterday to two of the 22 counts against him. Metheny was vice president of Carson Helicopters.

NEWPORT, Ore. (AP) – The commercial Dungeness crabbing season is set to open Dec. 1 from southwest Washington to northern California. Fishery managers in Oregon, Washington and California met last weekend and agreed to open commercial crabbing from Klipsan Beach, Washington, to Point Arena, California.

 

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