Date: 07/22/2014 09:26 AM
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Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – The arrival last week of an evangelical Christian group in heavily-secular Portland has raised the ire of some residents. The Child Evangelism Fellowship will host child-oriented gatherings called Good News Clubs throughout the city this week. Opponents say the group presents a fundamentalist view of Christianity that should be rejected. They took out a full-page ad in a local newspaper to oppose the outreach.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – The daughter-in-law of Nike co-founder Bill Bowerman is accused of sex abuse offenses involving a 17-year-old boy on a track and field team she coaches at a central Oregon high school. State Police say they arrested 43-year-old Melissa Bowerman yesterday at her home in Fossil. The Oregonian reports that her husband Jon Bowerman says he’s in a “state of shock” and adds he loves his wife “and still will no matter how this thing turns out.”
BEND, Ore. (AP) – The Deschutes County sheriff’s office says an inmate who escaped from a work crew near the jail has been recaptured after an encounter with a police dog. The sheriff’s office says Keith Schmidtke of Tumalo ran through the parking lot Sunday night and scaled a fence. Yesterday detectives acting on a tip tried to arrest Schmidtke at a home but they say he ran. He was bitten after a police dog found him in a backyard.
ASHLAND, Ore. (AP) – The owner of an Ashland medical marijuana dispensary is appealing a state decision that closed his business because he was 10 feet too close to a school. Mike Welch tells the Mail Tribune that the straight-line distance from his Puff’s Smoke Shop to the nearest school is 990 feet. Oregon law requires a 1,000 foot separation.
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