Date: 08/14/2014 09:29 AM
AP-OR–2nd NewsMinute/251
Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – A couple accused of leaving their severely injured 2-year-old daughter at a Mississippi hospital and keeping their other adopted children in putrid conditions have been arrested in Portland. Authorities say the search for Janet and Ramon Barreto began when they skipped bail in 2009 on manslaughter and child abuse charges. They were arrested Tuesday night after a tip led police to a shopping mall in Portland.
VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) – A Vancouver judge has imposed an exceptional 30-year sentence on a Portland man, saying he showed no remorse for beating and raping a former girlfriend. The Columbian reports that Charles Paschal was sentenced yesterday after the judge said she had planned to stay within the standard range but changed her mind after Paschal addressed the court.
ALBANY, Ore. (AP) – Linn County deputies say detectives arrested a 47-year-old man after discovering a marijuana growing operation on private timberland owned by Weyerhaeuser. The sheriff says nearly 2,000 marijuana plants were seized from three different growing plots, and the operation damaged land and streams near the community of Lacomb. Louis Alfonso Arellano-Arellano was booked into jail on drug charges.
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) – Conrad Bassett-Bouchard started his championship Scrabble game yesterday with the word “zilch” and finished with the opposite – the $10,000 prize and the title of national Scrabble champion. The 24-year-old player from Portland won the final round of the five-day 25th National Scrabble Championships in Buffalo, New York.
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