Date: 03/22/2016 09:14 AM
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Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – An Oregon City School District teaching aide suspected of recording himself sexual abusing a child has pleaded not guilty to federal charges. The Oregonian reports James McGlothlin was arraigned in Portland yesterday on three federal child pornography charges. Investigators say they found sexually explicit videos of a baby girl and a man suspected to be McGlothlin.
JUNCTION CITY, Ore. (AP) – The Oregon State Hospital’s $84 million Junction City campus has only filled about half of the beds at its mental health facility one year after its opening. The Register-Guard reports that the hospital opened with space for 174 patients. Officials say the hospital is at full capacity with 75 patients because only three of the six 25-bed housing units are staffed and operational.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Federal regulators are looking at how to divvy up the water stored behind 13 dams in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. The Capital Press reports that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently started collecting information on water needs from the public and will also consider future irrigation demands calculated by Oregon officials.
GEARHART, Ore. (AP) – A bald eagle has died at a wildlife rescue center in Oregon after being badly injured in a fight with another eagle. The Daily Astorian reports that two men saw the eagles fighting, possibly over a mate, at Gearhart’s Necanicum Estuary Friday. The eagle was taken to a rescue center, where it died.
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