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NW Sports from the AP

Date: 07/28/2015 05:00 AM AP-NW–SportsMinute/305 Here is the latest Washington, Oregon and Alaska sports news from The Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) – Paul Goldschmidt hit his 22nd homer of the season in the first inning and scored the go-ahead run in the 10th on Jake Lamb’s sacrifice fly as the […]

1st Oregon News Minute from the AP

Date: 07/28/2015 04:00 AM AP-OR–1st NewsMinute/284 Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Authorities in Oregon are investigating suspicious packages sent to government buildings around the state. Oregon State Police said Monday that some of the packages contained an unknown substance. Oregon State […]

Power rate increases expected by 2016

27 July 2015 Bonneville Power raising wholesale rates The Bonneville Power Administration announced last week wholesale electricity rates will be going up on average 7.1-percent over the next two years. The impact that will have on retail rates on the central coast haven’t yet been determined, but Chris Chandler with […]

2nd Oregon News Minute from the AP

Date: 07/27/2015 09:15 AM AP-OR–2nd NewsMinute/245 Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – Eugene police say they’ve arrested a 78-year-old man in a woman’s suspicious death last week. The Register-Guard reports police said they arrested Howard Richard Stull on a murder charge as […]

NW Sports from the AP

Date: 07/27/2015 04:59 AM AP-NW–SportsMinute/247 Here is the latest Washington, Oregon and Alaska sports news from The Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) – Franklin Gutierrez homered with one out in the bottom of the 10th inning yesterday to give Seattle a 6-5 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays, a game the […]

1st Oregon News Minute from the AP

Date: 07/27/2015 03:59 AM AP-OR–1st NewsMinute/255 Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office says it arrested a 34-year-old woman for boating while intoxicated after the propeller of the pontoon boat she was steering struck a swimmer’s leg. KGW-TV […]

Armed response at Siuslaw High School draws spectators

24 July 2015 Training for the worst case… The armored personnel vehicle lumbered up to one of the front doors at Siuslaw High School yesterday afternoon, as armed and armored police officers ringed the perimeter. It was just a training exercise; one of several different scenarios that officers with the […]

2nd Oregon News Minute from the AP

Date: 07/24/2015 09:15 AM AP-OR–2nd NewsMinute/249 Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – An Oregon winemaker has sued a neighboring farmer, claiming herbicide drifted from the grass-seed field and destroyed one of his grape crops. The Oregonian reports that Willamette Valley Vineyards’ lawsuit […]