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Washington Dock likely From Japan A scientist who examined the dock that has washed ashore on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula last week says it looks just like the one that came ashore on a central Oregon beach last summer. John Chapman, an assistant professor of fisheries at Oregon State University’s Hatfield […]
OR–3rd NewsMinute/254 Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) – Emergency officials say a tour bus that crashed along icy Interstate 84 in eastern Oregon highway was en route from Las Vegas to Vancouver, British Columbia. Oregon State Police say nine people died when […]
OR–2nd NewsMinute/263 Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) – The stretch of I-84 in rural Oregon where a tour bus crashed yesterday is so notorious that highway officials have published a specific advisory warning of its dangers. Nine people were killed and more […]
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 […]
NW–SportsMinute/281 Here is the latest Washington, Oregon and Alaska sports news from The Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) – Russell Wilson tied Peyton Manning’s record for most touchdown passes by a rookie with 26, and his 1-yard TD run with 1:39 left gave Seattle a 20-13 win over the St. Louis […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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