Date: 02/20/2013 03:59 AM
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Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Authorities say a 50-year-old convict eligible for release instead skipped out on an appointment at a halfway house and robbed a Clackamas County bank last week before Portland police officers shot him to death. The man was identified yesterday as Merle Mikal Hatch. Police killed him Sunday after he showed up at Portland Adventist Medical Center with a handgun and threatened an employee. Hatch had been serving time at a prison in Sheridan, Ore., for a Colorado bank robbery.
MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) – Police in Medford say they’ve arrested a transient accused of firing a .44-caliber black powder revolver at young people walking on a bike path, causing minor injuries to two of them. Police say 53-year-old Joseph Matejko was arrested for investigation of attempted murder and second-degree assault. Lt. Mike Budreau said an 18-year-old man and a 17-year-old woman reported they were walking yesterday with a friend when they encountered the man, who had threatened them.
WILSONVILLE, Ore. (AP) – Oregon State Police say they’ve arrested a Tacoma, Wash., man accused of trying to run another motorist off Interstate 5 south of Portland. Trooper Scott Kinch says police were watching for a 2012 Chevrolet with Washington plates after another motorist reported the vehicle passing on the shoulder and trying to run another vehicle off the highway yesterday afternoon. Thirty-six-year-old Danial James Carpenter was arrested for investigation of DUI and other charges.
RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) – A Northwest lawmaker whose home state neighbors the nation’s most contaminated nuclear site says the committee he chairs will hold several hearings about cleanup troubles there. Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon is the new chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. Wyden toured south-central Washington’s Hanford nuclear reservation yesterday, and says he is planning to move nuclear waste issues up the list of priorities in Washington D.C.
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