Date: 04/10/2014 03:59 AM
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Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
OREGON CITY, Ore. (AP) – The Clackamas County, Ore., sheriff’s office says the reward for information leading to the arrest of a suspect in the murder of a county weighmaster has reached $16,000. The sheriff’s office is working with U.S. marshals to find Dirck White, who has been identified as the prime suspect in the Feb. 6 death of Weighmaster Grady Waxenfelter.
NEWPORT, Ore. (AP) – The body of a missing Newport man has been found on the Oregon coast. The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office says the body of 37-year-old Michael Lanpheare was found along the surf line in the Lost Creek area, about five miles north of Seal Rock. An autopsy will be done this week.
JOSEPH, Ore. (AP) – Wallowa County Commissioner Paul Castilleja is trying to raise money for a countywide dog control program that could include a limit on the number of dogs allowed per household. The La Grande Observer reports that Castilleja’s list of proposals for the program includes one that would limit each household to a maximum of two dogs. Another would prohibit dogs from city and county parks.
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. (AP) – Farmers on the Klamath Reclamation Project straddling the Oregon-California border are facing irrigation cutbacks for the third year in a row due to an ongoing drought. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation operations plan shows only 61 percent of the water needed for full irrigation is available to the 1,200 farms on the project.
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