Date: 10/13/2015 09:20 AM
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Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Oregon Gov. Kate Brown has denied clemency for the state’s oldest death row inmate. KPTV-TV reports lawyers for 67-year-old Mark Pinnell had asked that he be allowed to spend his final days in hospice instead of prison as he dies from severe chronic pulmonary disease. Pinnell’s been on death row since 1988 after he and a co-defendant robbed and killed a man in 1985.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) – A Salem man has been sentenced to 18 days in jail after being convicted of poisoning nine cats with antifreeze. The Statesman Journal reports a judge also sentenced Antonio Ramos-Perez to 18 months of probation for misdemeanor animal abuse charges. Ramos-Perez was accused of putting antifreeze on a piece of meat in a container and placing it outside his home in an uncovered garbage can.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Authorities have identified the woman found dead along a rural gravel road in Marion County. Sheriff’s detectives say 36-year-old Brenda Bautista of Woodburn was found dead yesterday near Donald, a community about 30 miles south of Portland. Investigators are calling the death suspicious.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Police say a Portland man has died after his SUV crashed in a high-speed wreck near Willamina. The Oregonian reports state police say Bradley Gene Jones’s SUV veered off the road at the Oregon 18B off-ramp and ended up down a steep embankment near the Yamhill River. Troopers say it isn’t clear whether alcohol played a factor in the crash.
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