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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

AP-OR–1st NewsMinute/364 Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press TURNER, Ore. (AP) — A man who gave himself up following a standoff with police in Turner is a worker with the state Department of Corrections. KATU reports that 39-year-old Michael Wilson Yann turned himself in at about […]

AP-OR–3rd NewsMinute/265 Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland Mayor Sam Adams says he won’t implement an arbitrator’s ruling that a police officer fired after he shot an unarmed man in the back in 2010 should be reinstated. Adams said yesterday he […]