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3rd Oregon News Minute from the AP

AP-OR–3rd NewsMinute/295 Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — New data show Oregon high schools send six in 10 graduates to college. That’s a lot fewer than the state’s goal of having 80 percent of its young people earn a community college or […]

2nd Oregon News Minute from the AP

AP-OR–2nd NewsMinute/226 Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon officials will release statewide unemployment figures for March on today. The jobless rate was 8.8 percent in February — the same as the month before. The rate has mostly been falling the past […]

1st Oregon News Minute from the AP

AP-OR–1st NewsMinute/335 Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Lane County sheriff’s officers say an 84-year-old Eugene man who left a note expressing anger toward his wife of 60 years apparently shot her to death, then turned the gun on himself. Sgt. Cliff […]

NW Sports from the AP

AP-NW–1st SportsMinute/268 Here is the latest Washington, Oregon and Alaska sports news from The Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Marcin Gortat had 20 points and 10 rebounds and Steve Nash had 13 assists to pace the Phoenix Suns to a 125-107 win over the Portland Trail Blazers last night. The […]

Viking Sports

Siuslaw Track and Field Siuslaw’s Hayden Schaffner ran the fastest time in the 800 meters Saturday evening at the Jim Robinson Pepsi Twilight meet in Roseburg. Schaffner’s 1:56.24 was not only the best at the meet, but the best in Oregon so far this season in any class.  Schaffner along […]

3rd Oregon News Minute from the AP

AP-OR–3rd NewsMinute/243 Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — About 150 Occupy Portland protesters went on a field trip to Washington state this weekend to protest nuclear war, nuclear energy and nuclear waste. They visited Richland, next to Hanford nuclear reservation. Activist Helen […]

2nd Oregon News Minute from the AP

AP-OR–2nd NewsMinute/261 Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Prosecutors have dropped animal neglect charges against owners of 120 high-end horses rescued last year from a snowbound ranch in northeastern Oregon. The owner, 78-year-old Byrde Lynn Hill and her former husband Frank Baxter […]