Date: 04/11/2014 09:29 AM
AP-OR–2nd NewsMinute/261
Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Officials with Oregon’s troubled health insurance exchange say they’ve narrowed the options for the site’s future to two: Hook up to the federal exchange, or stay with the current technology and hire a new contractor to fix it. An analysis found the least expensive fix for the state’s health exchange would be linking it to the federally run marketplace, at a cost of $4 million to $6 million.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – One person was found dead after a house fire yesterday afternoon in southwest Portland. Portland Fire & Rescue Lt. Rich Chatman says firefighters found heavy fire and smoke coming from a single-family home and heard reports than an elderly man was still inside. Investigators are trying to determine the cause of the fire.
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – A Eugene, Ore., man is suing a church where he says his mother fell on a wet floor and broke her leg three months before she died. The Register-Guard reports that Jesse Breeden’s wrongful death lawsuit alleges that First Christian Church of Thurston officials are to blame for the injury. Breeden contends the injury caused medical complications that led to his 68-year-old mother’s death in 2012.
UMATILLA, Ore. (AP) – The Oregon Corrections Department says a 53-year-old inmate at a state prison in northeast Oregon died unexpectedly yesterday. The agency says Dean Guiley was found unresponsive at about 7 a.m. in his housing unit at Two Rivers Correctional Institution in Umatilla. He was pronounced dead a short time later.
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