Date: 09/15/2015 09:12 AM
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Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
SALEM, Ore. (AP) – The Salem City Council has voted to permit anyone over the age of 21 to buy recreational pot from existing medical marijuana dispensaries starting Oct. 1. The Statesman Journal reports that the measure will advance to a second reading at the Sept. 28 council meeting.
MOLALLA, Ore. (AP) – A 21-year-old woman has died and two others are seriously injured after a vehicle crash near Molalla on Highway 211. State Police say Rosio Gonzalez of Woodburn died yesterday after her car drifted across the centerline and collided head-on with an oncoming pickup truck yesterday. A 21-month-old child in Gonzalez’s car and the driver of the truck were both seriously injured and taken to a hospital for treatment.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – The Corps of Engineers has resumed killing double-crested cormorants so the birds eat fewer juvenile salmon migrating down the Columbia River despite an ongoing legal battle with conservation groups. The Oregonian reports that contract workers shot 200 cormorants last week on East Sand Island to help reduce the size of North America’s biggest cormorant nesting colony by 57 percent over four years.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Trial has been pushed back for an Oregon man accused of supplying a powerful synthetic drug that led to several drug overdoses in North Dakota. Proceedings for Brandon Hubbard of Portland were scheduled to begin today but his defense attorney asked for the delay because the case is complicated.
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