Date: 11/26/2014 03:59 AM
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Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Police in Portland used pepper spray and made several arrests as roughly 300 demonstrators protested a grand jury decision not to indict a Missouri police officer in the killing of an unarmed teenager. A smaller protest group marched across a major Willamette River bridge into east Portland after a downtown rally and march that drew about 1,000 people wound down. Bus and light rail traffic was disrupted.
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – An Oregon man who shot and wounded a customer who intervened in a fight at his yard sale has been sentenced to seven years in prison. Phillip Bregg pleaded guilty to charges of attempted murder and assault. After the victim interfered, police say Bregg went back inside and opened fire from a window, wounding the man in the shoulder and leg.
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – Eugene police say a Eugene woman was fatally struck by a train as she chased her dog across the tracks. The woman was identified as 35-year-old Shannon Essick. Police said she didn’t have ID with her, and a public appeal for information resulted in calls that led to the identification. The dog was unhurt.
CENTRAL POINT, Ore. (AP) – It took sewer workers in southern Oregon a couple of days of looking, but they finally found a 1920 wedding ring a local woman lost in a church toilet. The regional sewer agency sent out four workers, with two trucks and portable closed-circuit television cameras to inspect the line and find the ring. The ring’s owner says it’s been cleaned up and repaired and resized.
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