2nd Oregon News Minute from the AP

Date: 03/31/2015 09:29 AM

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Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – The Oregon House is scheduled to vote today on the $7.3 billion budget proposed by Democratic legislative leaders. Education interest groups have criticized the proposal as inadequate. They say it won’t allow school districts to make improvements and will require some to increase class sizes.

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Ski areas are asking the Oregon Legislature for better protection from lawsuits after the state Supreme Court invalidated the broad liability waivers often printed on the back of lift tickets. Ski facility executives say they may have to raise their prices if they aren’t shielded from lawsuits. They say they’ll face higher bills for lawyers and insurance.

NEW YORK (AP) – A mentally ill British man pleaded guilty in New York City yesterday to federal charges he plotted to set up an al-Qaida training camp on a ranch in a remote part of Oregon that was likened to Afghanistan. Haroon Aswat admitted he traveled to Bly, Oregon, in 1999 at the direction of Mustafa Kamel Mustafa, a double-amputee and radical cleric based in London.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A Brookings, Oregon, man is among 20 people being honored with medals and cash from the Pittsburgh-based Carnegie Heroes Fund Commission. Terry Brown helped rescue a 14-year-old boy from drowning in surf near a state park beach in June 2014. The commission investigates stories of heroism and awards medals and cash several times a year.

 

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