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May 17, 2013 10:43 pm Associated Press, News, Sports

8 AM SALEM, Ore. (AP) – State economists say a slow, steady economic recovery means the Oregon treasury will take in more money than previously expected. The quarterly forecast released yesterday said revenue from tax collections will be up by more than $270 million since the last projections three months ago – which anticipated $16.6 [...]

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May 16, 2013 9:41 pm Associated Press, News

Date: 05/16/2013 10:26 AM OR–3rd NewsMinute/257 Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Portland’s TriMet mass transit system has 70 executives and managers earning more than $100,000 a year. KOIN reports that compares to 51 high-paid executives for the Denver transit system which carries a similar number [...]

2nd Oregon News Minute from the AP

May 16, 2013 9:01 pm Associated Press, News

Date: 05/16/2013 09:22 AM OR–2nd NewsMinute/272 Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Former Beaverton middle school teacher Logan Storm has been arraigned in Portland on sex abuse charges dating back to 2007. Multnomah County prosecutors had originally charged Storm in 2011 with inappropriately touching two girls [...]

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May 16, 2013 7:48 pm Associated Press, Sports

Date: 05/16/2013 05:50 AM NW–SportsMinute/368 Here is the latest Washington, Oregon and Alaska sports news from The Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) – The man behind the bid to return professional basketball to the Puget Sound region is sounding down, but not out, following the vote by the NBA Board of Governors against his proposal [...]

1st Oregon News Minute from the AP

May 16, 2013 7:46 pm Associated Press, News

Date: 05/16/2013 03:59 AM OR–1st NewsMinute/268 Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) – The father of missing Utah mother Susan Powell says authorities have spent two days searching a rural Oregon property for her remains. Chuck Cox says the search didn’t turn up any sign of his [...]

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May 15, 2013 10:00 pm Associated Press, News

Date: 05/15/2013 10:29 AM OR–3rd NewsMinute/278 Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press HOOD RIVER, Ore. (AP) – Two women planning their marriage say they were denied a wedding cake by a Hood River baker because they are lesbians. Erin Hanson and Katie Pugh told KATU when they went for a [...]

2nd Oregon News Minute from the AP

May 15, 2013 9:00 pm Associated Press, News

Date: 05/15/2013 09:28 AM OR–2nd NewsMinute/252 Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Two names were favored in an online public survey to name two new ODOT trains that will haul Amtrak passengers between Eugene and Vancouver, British Columbia. Following the tradition of naming Northwest trains after [...]

1st Oregon News Minute from the AP

May 15, 2013 7:57 pm Associated Press, News

Date: 05/15/2013 03:59 AM OR–1st NewsMinute/251 Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press AP () – – A Seattle man trying to dribble a soccer ball 10,000 miles to Brazil in time for the 2014 World Cup has died after being hit by a pickup truck on the Oregon Coast. Police in [...]

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May 15, 2013 7:56 pm Associated Press, News

Date: 05/15/2013 05:29 AM NW–SportsMinute/350 Here is the latest Washington, Oregon and Alaska sports news from The Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) – The Sacramento Kings’ future may finally be decided. The NBA Board of Governors will meet today in Dallas to possibly resolve the tug of war over the Kings between a group in [...]

3rd Oregon News Minute from the AP

May 14, 2013 9:42 pm Associated Press, News

Date: 05/14/2013 10:36 AM OR–3rd NewsMinute/318 Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – An ethanol plant on the Columbia River that was built with the help of $36 million in Oregon state loans and tax credits is now being used to store and ship crude oil from [...]