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FLIGHT SEX ABUSE
Airline passenger accused of groping teen to stay in jail
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An airline passenger accused of groping a 13-year-old girl on a flight from Dallas to Portland will remain in jail for now
At a hearing Monday in Portland, Magistrate Judge John Jelderks agreed with prosecutors to keep Chad Camp behind bars. He will be granted temporary release for drug-and-alcohol evaluation.
Camp pleaded not guilty after his arrest last week on a federal charge of abusive sexual conduct.
The judge noted that 26-year-old suburban Portland man has a history of substance abuse, and warned him that there’s a big difference between “being a drunk and a drunk who abuses youngsters.”
Authorities say a flight attendant saw Camp grope the unaccompanied minor shortly after takeoff on the American Airlines flight.
A witness said Camp had four mixed drinks at an airport bar.
HANFORD VAPORS
Labor demands better protection for workers from vapors
(Information from: Tri-City Herald, http://www.tri-cityherald.com)
RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — Labor unions for workers on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation are demanding better ways to protect employees from chemical vapors.
The Hanford Atomic Metal Trades Council on Monday issued a list of demands to the U.S. Department of Energy and its tank farm contractor, Washington River Protection Solutions. The council is an umbrella group for 15 unions with members doing Hanford work.
The Tri-City Herald reports that chemical vapors at Hanford have been an issue for at least 20 years. But workers continue to experience adverse health effects.
In recent months about 52 workers have received medical checks for possible exposure to chemical vapors at or near the Hanford tank farms.
Hanford has 177 underground tanks that hold waste from the past production of plutonium for the nation’s nuclear weapons program.
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MEDFORD WATER-LEAD
Possible signs of lead pipes found at 15 Medford homes
(Information from: Mail Tribune, http://www.mailtribune.com/)
MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — The Medford Water Commission is working to conduct water quality testing at 15 homes after an inspection of water meters found that the homes could possibly have lead pipes.
The Mail Tribune reports that the Monday inspection looked at more than 300 water meters in the city. Commission spokeswoman Sara Bristol says workers have begun excavating the streets around the 15 homes in search of lead pipes, also known as pigtails, that connect the water service to the main line.
Homes found to have galvanized pipes will be issued a notice telling residents “there is a high likelihood” they have a lead pigtail.
The commission estimates about 4,000 homes will have to be inspected. The houses in question were built prior to 1946 when lead pigtails were originally installed.
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MACHETE ATTACK-ARREST
Man arrested for machete attack in Cornelius
(Information from: KGW-TV, http://www.kgw.com/)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Washington County authorities say a Portland-area man has been arrested for attacking another man with a machete.
KGW-TV reports that the victim of the Monday attack was treated and released from a hospital.
Sheriff’s Sgt. Bob Ray says the victim had been sleeping at a Cornelius home when the 28-year-old suspect, Shawn Kinney, sliced him with the machete multiple times.
Responding deputies found the victim with several deep cuts on his arm. The victim told deputies he had hit Kinney with a steel pipe to put an end to the attack.
Kinney was treated at a hospital and booked into the Washington County Jail.
The incident remains under investigation.
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PORTLAND FATAL SHOOTING
Police: 1 killed, 1 wounded in Old Town Portland shooting
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland police say a man died and a woman was wounded in an Old Town shooting.
Sgt. Greg Stewart says the incident happened late Sunday a few streets north of West Burnside Street. The man died at the scene and the woman was taken to a hospital with an injury not considered life-threatening.
Police detained a suspect — 48-year-old Thomas Dorris — near the Chevron gas station on Burnside. Early Monday, he was booked into jail on a murder charge.
Investigators have yet to release the names of the victims or say what led to the gunfire.
DOUBLE FATAL CRASH
1 of 2 killed in head-on crash south of La Pine identified
LA PINE, Ore. (AP) — Oregon State Police have identified one of the two people who died in a head-on collision in Central Oregon Sunday night.
Police say 29-year-old Alan Eutsler of Bend, who was driving a Lexus, was pronounced dead at the crash site on Highway 97 near La Pine.
Police did not identify the 10-year-old girl who also died at the scene. She was riding with her parents, Donald Adams and Barbara Adams of Rathdrum, Idaho, in a Ford Fusion.
Police say both parents were flown to a Bend hospital with life-threatening injuries. Their 8-year-old boy was treated for minor injuries.
Police said the Lexus was traveling north on Highway 97 when it crossed the centerline, striking the Fusion.
Investigators say speed and unlawful passing by Eutsler are considered leading factors in the crash.
BLM-GOLD BUTTE-BUNDY
2 years after Bundy standoff, BLM returns to Gold Butte area
LAS VEGAS (AP) — More than two years after an armed standoff with rancher Cliven Bundy prompted a pullout of researchers from Gold Butte, federal land managers are returning to the scenic, historic and ecologically fragile area.
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management says work is resuming toward opening the area across the Virgin River from the Bundy ranch for hiking, camping and geological and archaeological exploration.
It says agency national chief Neil Kornze and state director John Ruhs toured the area last week with a Clark County commissioner and a Las Vegas police captain.
Bundy’s lawyer is deriding the effort as misplaced.
Bundy doesn’t recognize federal jurisdiction in the area where he’s accused of illegally grazing cattle.
His attorney, Joel Hansen, maintains that the state owns Gold Butte, not the federal government.
BRIDGE LEAP ARREST
Sheriff: Lyons, Ore., man does bridge leap after car chase
LYONS, Ore. (AP) — Marion County authorities arrested a theft suspect who jumped from a bridge to avoid deputies.
The sheriff’s office says an alarm sounded Sunday, alerting the victims that someone was stealing from their vehicle at a park. The victims and the suspect then got into a car chase toward Lyons, with the suspect firing multiple rounds at his pursuers.
The bullets missed, but persuaded the victims to stop.
A deputy picked up the chase, and spike strips eventually stopped the suspect’s car.
The man then dropped 30 feet from a bridge into the Santiam River. He floated downriver before swimming to shore and running into the woods. Police dogs and a SWAT team arrived.
The suspect — Forrest Frost of Lyons — surrendered at 1 a.m. Monday, nearly six hours after the alarm sounded.
He’s charged with theft, robbery, unlawful entry in motor vehicle, unlawful use of a weapon, attempting to elude police and menacing.
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