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1st Oregon News Minute from the AP

Date: 08/08/2012 03:59 AM OR–1st NewsMinute/244 Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press   GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) – Firefighters have been granted special permission to use mechanized equipment – helicopters and chain saws – to battle several small wildfires in a wilderness area along the Oregon-California […]

3rd Oregon News Minute from the AP

Date: 08/07/2012 10:42 AM OR–3rd NewsMinute/258 Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press   MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) – A Medford woman who caught a burglar in her home says he was begging her to call police after the beating she gave him. Kathlene Brown says she found […]

2nd Oregon News Minute from the AP

Date: 08/07/2012 09:39 AM OR–2nd NewsMinute/246 Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press   RAINIER, Ore. (AP) – The Coast Guard is searching for a crewman who fell overboard from the Queen of the West sternwheeler while the boat was moored to a dock in the Columbia […]

NW Sports from the AP

AP-NW–1st SportsMinute/313 Here is the latest Washington, Oregon and Alaska sports news from The Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Chris Tillman took a three-hit shutout into the eighth inning to extend a run of successful starts by Baltimore pitchers, and the Orioles beat Jason Vargas and the Seattle Mariners 3-1 […]

1st Oregon News Minute from the AP

AP-OR–1st NewsMinute/246 Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press SISTERS, Ore. (AP) — A fast-moving new wildfire is threatening about 100 vacation homes in central Oregon. A Central Oregon Interagency Dispatch Center spokeswoman says the Geneva 12 wildfire had burned across about 1,600 acres or 2½ square […]