1st Oregon News Minute from the AP

Date: 05/27/2014 03:59 AM

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Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Oregon’s rural poor often have difficulty reaching social services centered in urban areas. So a Polk County initiative aims to bring multiple disparate social services to one place. The Statesman Journal reports Polk County opened a social services hub in Dallas where low-income families can find everything from rental assistance to help with the Oregon Health Plan.

CENTRAL POINT, Ore. (AP) – Oregon State Police say the agency’s crime lab has positively identified the remains of the second body found on a ranch in southern Oregon in January. They belonged to 59-year-old Stephen Frank Delicino, who worked as a handyman on the 20-acre property. Ranch owner Susan Monica is already charged with murdering Delicino in 2012 as well as another handyman, Robert Haney, last year.

MANNING, Ore. (AP) – Oregon State Police say a 19-year-old man caused a three-car crash when he fainted while holding his breath as he drove through a tunnel northwest of Portland. According to a news release, Daniel J. Calhon, of Snohomish, Washington, told investigators he fainted Sunday afternoon while holding his breath in the Highway 26 tunnel near the community of Manning. Four people suffered non-life-threatening injuries.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – A climber who fell hundreds of feet down Mount Hood was rescued by a helicopter and transported to a Portland hospital. A Clackamas County Sheriff’s Deputy told KGW that the 59-year-old Tualatin (TWAL’-uh-tihn) man fell on the south side of Mount Hood on Saturday. Michael Adams appeared to have a fractured leg, possible rib fractures and other minor injuries.

 

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