Date: 11/10/2015 03:59 AM
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Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
SEATTLE (AP) – Washington state health officials say they have found no source for the E. coli outbreak related to Chipotle and the chain’s Pacific Northwest restaurants could reopen later this week. A Washington state epidemiologist says all the tests of food from Chipotle stores in Washington and Oregon came back negative for E. coli. Chipotle did its own testing, and those results came back negative as well.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) – An Oregon judge who refused to perform same-sex marriages is scheduled to go before a judicial disciplinary commission. The two-week hearing will determine whether Marion County judge Vance Day should be sanctioned. The Commission on Judicial Fitness and Disability says Day committed several ethics violations. Day is a former chairman of the Oregon Republican Party.
BEND, Ore. (AP) – A National Park Service decision has reignited century-old tensions over the ownership of irrigation canals that bring water to central Oregon. The Bulletin reports that the NPS recently decided not to recognize the Central Oregon Irrigation District as the owner of Pilot Butte Canal, which draws water away from the Deschutes River. The district operates the canal. The NPS decision means the irrigation district can’t formally object to a 1 ½ -mile section of the canal being listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Police say a man attempting to steal $700 worth of goods sprayed bug spray in the faces of two grocery store employees who confronted him. Authorities say 52-year-old Lawrence Dorris also threatened to ignite the flammable liquid. The Oregonian reports he has been arrested.
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