1st Oregon News Minute from the AP

Date: 04/16/2014 03:59 AM

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Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – A 50-year-old man convicted of attempted aggravated murder in a plot to kill his partner in a southeast Portland market has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. The Oregonian reports that Mohdsidek Habibullah was sentenced yesterday. He and 45-year-old Mohammed Absar ran the Stop-N-Go Market.

BEAVERTON, Ore. (AP) – Fire has gutted a portable classroom being used for storage at a Beaverton middle school. The Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue department said the flames rose 40 feet yesterday morning at Highland Park Middle School, but firefighters put them out within about 15 minutes. Nobody was hurt, and no cause of the fire was immediately reported.

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – Oregon State Police say they have identified two teenage boys who may have tossed a cinder block off an Interstate 5 overpass in Creswell, Ore., injuring a Washington state woman riding in a car below. The Register-Guard reports that police say the boys, ages 16 and 17, are cooperating in the investigation, as are their parents. No one has been arrested.

SEASIDE, Ore. (AP) – Visitors to the north Oregon coast town of Seaside are being cautioned to stay well away from the carcass of a 40-foot gray whale that’s washing up on the beach. KATU-TV reports that Seaside Aquarium general manager Keith Chandler warns visitors they don’t want their pets rolling on it. Chandler says once his team is done collecting data from the carcass, the city of Seaside will bury it.

 

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