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1st AP Oregon Minute

OR–1st NewsMinute/354 Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) – Emergency officials say a tour bus that careened through a guardrail along an icy Oregon highway and several hundred feet down a steep embankment yesterday, killing nine people, was en route from Las Vegas […]

Coast Radio News

Local News – Minimun Wage Increases – Crabbing Season Opens Monday – OSP To Man Roads

Minimum Wage Earners Set for Increase. Approximately 96-thousand low wage workers in Oregon will be getting a raise next week when the Oregon Minimum Wage increases from $8.80 to $8.95 an hour. That’s half as much as last year’s increase, and puts Oregon’s minimum second only to Washington state’s $9.04. […]

Local Sports

Prep Girls Basketball: The Siuslaw girls opened the Les Schwab Holiday Basketball tournament yesterday morning with a 51 / 27 lost to the Coquille Red Devils.  On the Schedule: Collegiate hoop action Saturday pits Oregon State against Towson at 12:30 in Corvallis… Number 13 ranked Oregon State is on the […]

3rd AP Oregon Minute

OR–3rd NewsMinute/286 Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – The year is ending with more than 50 inches of rain falling in 2012 in Portland. The National Weather Service office tells The Oregonian it will be the fourth-wettest calendar year since 1940 when […]

AP Northwest Sports

NW–SportsMinute/262 Here is the latest Washington, Oregon and Alaska sports news from The Associated Press RENTON, Wash. (AP) – Seattle cornerback Richard Sherman has won his appeal of a four-game suspension for use of performance enhancing substances, making him eligible for the NFL playoffs. Sherman posted “I won,” on his […]

2nd AP Oregon Minute

OR–2nd NewsMinute/258 Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press UNDATED (AP) – Dock workers are on the job at several Pacific Northwest grain terminals, working under contract terms they rejected last weekend. The owners implemented the terms after declaring talks at an impasse. The International Longshore and […]

1st AP Oregon Minute

OR–1st NewsMinute/308 Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Portland police say a woman in her 20s was stabbed by a stranger without provocation. Police say the assailant, another woman, walked up to the victim and stabbed her last night. The victim was […]