1st Oregon News Minute from the AP

Date: 07/02/2014 03:59 AM

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Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Oregon has hired a tech firm to help transfer the botched Cover Oregon health insurance exchange to the federal exchange website and finish building the state’s Medicaid system. The Oregon Health Authority will pay Deloitte (deh-LOYT) Consulting, LLC up to $18.4 million to be the systems integrator that oversees the transition. The transition will be finished by the next open enrollment in November.

BEND, Ore. (AP) – A reward for information about a fire that threatened west Bend earlier this month has grown to $43,000. The Bulletin newspaper of Bend reports investigators are still conducting interviews about the Two Bulls fire. The Deschutes County sheriff’s office has described it as human caused, and possibly a case of arson. The fire burned nearly 11 square miles.

SCIO, Ore. (AP) – A Linn County sheriff’s officer says a missing 91-year-old man with dementia has been found dead in a creek. Ashby Getz was reported missing late Monday night from a residence outside Scio. The man’s body was found by the Oregon Air National Guard yesterday morning in the middle of Thomas Creek.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – People in the Pacific Northwest are feeling the heat. While the South roasted under triple-digit temperatures, Portland residents sweated through their tank tops yesterday, the city’s hottest day so far this year at 99 degrees. Meteorologists declined to classify one hot day as a heat wave.

 

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