Date: 07/11/2014 03:59 AM
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Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Oregon Department of Transportation officials say a stalemate in Congress threatens highway projects slated to begin next year. ODOT warned this week that the state may need to spend as much as $110 million to cover the federal share of highway work now underway. The money would eventually be repaid.
ESTACADA, Ore. (AP) – The Clackamas County sheriff’s office says a man in his 60s is dead after a tree fell on him near a campground east of Estacada in the Mount Hood National Forest. The sheriff’s office said campers were improperly trying to cut down a tree when the top section broke off and landed on an Estacada man. The victim’s name was not released pending notification of relatives.
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – An inmate has been convicted a second time for attacks on other inmates at the Federal Correctional Institution at Sheridan. The Eugene Register-Guard reports 49-year-old Thomas Cornelius was convicted of using a razor blade to slash the throat of a handcuffed inmate. Authorities said Cornelius was angered because inmate hadn’t delivered a letter to a female prisoner on his behalf.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Oregon State Police say they’ve arrested the owner of a company called Whoops Towing as he tried to haul off an undercover vehicle. Police say they’d gotten reports that a towing business operating without the required certificate was posting its own impoundment warning signs in parking lots and using a spotter to generate tows. Police arrested 35-year-old Michael Selmer of Falls City.
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