AP-OR–3rd NewsMinute,256 Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Portland Police Chief Mike Reese is defending his officers’ use of force by saying they’re confronting twice as many suicidal calls as they were a decade ago. Police took 1,200 such call in 2011, […]

AP-OR–2nd NewsMinute,286 Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press BANDON, Ore. (AP) – The National Earthquake Information Center says a quake with a magnitude of 6.0 off the Oregon coast last night caused no damage and only a smattering of reports from people who felt it as […]

AP-OR–1st NewsMinute,338 Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) – A jury in Medford has found a Jackson County man guilty of manslaughter, but not murder, in the 1996 killing of a 15-year-old girl in the rural community of Ruch (roosh). William Frank Simmons […]

AP-OR–2nd NewsMinute,315 Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – A Creswell couple have pleaded not guilty to second-degree manslaughter in the death of their 16-year-old son. The Lane County sheriff’s office contends Austin Sprout died Dec. 20 of an unspecified condition that doctors […]

AP-OR–1st NewsMinute,303 Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) – For the second time, help from a Democrat has allowed Republicans to put the brakes on one of Gov. John Kitzhaber’s health initiatives. GOP lawmakers in the House targeted a bill creating a health […]