Date: 04/03/2015 03:59 AM
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Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
SALEM, Ore. (AP) – An Oregon Senate committee is postponing a vote on a controversial bill requiring background checks on all private gun sales between people who aren’t related. The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said he’s delaying the vote because an amendment has been introduced. He says the committee will now be voting on Monday.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Campaign advisers to former Gov. John Kitzhaber are asking a judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed against them by Oracle America Inc. Oracle sued the advisers, alleging they influenced the state plan to ditch the troubled Cover Oregon health insurance exchange, costing Oracle millions of dollars. The five advisers say Oracle’s lawsuit interferes with their free speech rights.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) – The Oregon Department of Justice has rejected former first lady Cylvia Hayes’ request for the state to cover her legal bills in her fight to keep emails out of the public eye. Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum’s office has ruled that Hayes was a public official and ordered the former first lady to give her emails pertaining to state business to The Oregonian, which requested them under the public records law.
HILLSBORO, Ore. (AP) – A convicted rapist has pleaded not guilty to aggravated murder in the death of a 29-year-old suburban Portland woman. The Oregonian reports that Jaime Tinoco turns 18 today. He was sentenced last week to more than 14 years in prison for raping and beating a woman outside Autzen Stadium last September. A grand jury indicted him this week in the Aug. 19 killing of Nicole Laube.
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