1st Oregon News Minute from the AP

Date: 09/19/2014 03:59 AM

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Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Activists opposed to oil train shipments are blockading the tracks that lead to an oil-by-rail terminal on the Columbia River at Port Westward near Clatskanie. Portland and Western Railroad, which operates the line between Portland and the Clatskanie terminal, did not immediately return calls for comment. Activists say oil trains fuel climate change.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – A missing 87-year-old man from Eugene has been found safe in sparsely populated southeast Oregon, and the state police are giving credit to cattle. According to police, Trooper Tim Thomas spotted the car driven by Warren Tucker because Highway 20 traffic was stopped because of cattle crossing the road. Tucker’s relatives were on their way to Burns to reunite with him.

BEND, Ore. (AP) – The Bend City Council will hear an appeal filed by a group opposed to a land-use decision concerning the proposed OSU-Cascades campus. The group Truth In Site contends the campus will have a greater impact on traffic than has been acknowledged. The branch campus of Oregon State University wants a larger space as it expands to a four-year institution.

PILOT ROCK, Ore. (AP) – An Oregon State Police trooper shot and killed a black bear that wandered near an elementary school in Pilot Rock. The East Oregonian newspaper reports that the school with 200 children went into lockdown Tuesday as the trooper arrived to help corral the bear. The trooper shot the animal when it couldn’t be shooed away after about 90 minutes.

 

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