Date: 09/12/2014 03:59 AM
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Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
VALE, Ore. (AP) – A treatment plant designed in 2005 to extract arsenic from the water in the Eastern Oregon town Vale isn’t working. City officials say they’ve shut down the two wells that contribute the most arsenic to the water supply in the town of 2,000 people, along with the plant.
UNDATED (AP) – A 5-year-old boy fighting for his life in a Washington hospital after becoming infected with the bacteria E. coli has been upgraded to serious condition. A spokeswoman for Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital in Tacoma says Brad Sutton is doing much better. Relatives say he fell ill along with a 4-year-old girl after a Labor Day family gathering on the Oregon Coast. Serena Profitt of Otis, Oregon, died.
MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) – A southern Oregon grand jury says Medford police were justified in last month’s fatal shooting of an armed 52-year-old U.S. Marine Corps veteran. Officials say despite previous reports that Stephen McMilon fired at least one round from his shotgun before police shot him on Aug. 24, physical evidence from the scene shows he never fired. The officers say they believed he was about to open fire on another nearby officer.
ASTORIA, Ore. (AP) – Just like any vessel over 100 feet long, yachts are required by Oregon law to use a maritime pilot to cross the Columbia River Bar, where the river meets the Pacific Ocean. The captain of a 164-foot yacht found that out after crossing the bar Sunday. He captain could face a fine of more than $5,000.
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