Date: 10/05/2015 04:00 AM
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Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) – An Oregon pastor says a student who was spared by a gunman during a deadly rampage on a college campus received an envelope with a flash drive from the shooter and had to watch as his classmates were killed. Randy Scroggins, whose daughter also survived Thursday’s shooting at Umpqua Community College, spoke at his church yesterday as his daughter and the other student, 18-year-old Mathew Downing, sat together in the congregation. Scroggins’ daughter Lacey had told him gunman Christopher Sean Harper-Mercer gave an envelope to another student in the class and told him to give it to police.
BEND, Ore. (AP) – Developers have proposed building more than 1,500 apartment units in rental-starved Bend. The surge in planned apartment complexes follows a lull between 2004 and 2013, when there were almost no applications to build apartment complexes. But it still lags behind demand for rental housing. Most of the applications remain on the drawing board or in review by city planners. Two projects are under construction, and a public housing complex opened this summer.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Police say a shooting at a party for gang members at a Portland hotel left two females injured on yesterday morning. Portland police in a statement say officers responded to the Red Lion Jantzen Beach Hotel where a suspect or suspects fired multiple rounds from outside the building and hit the building numerous times. Five rooms at the hotel on Hayden Island are part of the crime scene. Police say the females were transported to Portland hospitals and are expected to survive.
PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) – An Oregon National Guard unit is preparing to deploy to Kuwait. Approximately 60 soldiers will transport people and equipment throughout the region using CH-47 Chinook helicopters. At a mobilization ceremony Saturday in Pendleton, Sgt. August Radke told the East Oregonian that it will be interesting to see another part of the world but difficult to part with his wife and two children. The unit recently provided helicopters to support firefighting efforts over the summer.
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