Associated Press

1st Associated Press Regional News

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – Lane County prosecutors have dropped kidnapping charges against a Florence man who picked up an 11-year-old runaway girl from Junction City. The district attorney’s office filed new charges against 23-year-old Michael Libario Cassaro of custodial interference and recklessly endangering. KVAL reports the girl ran away from […]

2nd Oregon News Minute from the AP

Date: 08/28/2012 09:29 AM OR–2nd NewsMinute/255 Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press   SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Rats have infested the Barbara Roberts Human Services Building in Salem, home base for Oregon’s health and social service agencies. Tom Barrows of the state Department of Administrative Services […]

NW Sports from the AP

Date: 08/28/2012 05:29 AM NW–1st SportsMinute/257 Here is the latest Washington, Oregon and Alaska sports news from The Associated Press   MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Felix Hernandez struck out five in a five-hitter and Eric Thames hit a solo homer in the eighth inning to lift the Seattle Mariners to a […]