2nd Oregon News Minute from the AP

Date: 09/22/2014 09:25 AM

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Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press

ST. HELENS, Ore. (AP) – Volunteers and deputies with the Columbia County sheriff’s office have been searching overnight for a lost bow hunter. The sheriff’s office says John Hill of Hillsboro failed to return Saturday night, and his family says they last heard from him in a phone call yesterday morning when he sounded disoriented. Hill’s truck was found off Highway 26.

CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) – The Polk County sheriff’s office says an 8-year-old boy is critically injured after falling 20 to 25 feet in a barn south of Monmouth. The boy was helping a relative in the barn on Saturday afternoon when he fell through a hole to the next level below.

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – The Eugene City Council is expected to decide the fate of the shuttered, 50-year-old City Hall on Wednesday. The council voted earlier this month to postpone the demolition of City Hall for two weeks to have another debate about the building’s future. Current plans call for an energy-efficient, three- or four-story building.

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – National advocacy groups for deaf people are demanding that the Oregon Department of Corrections stop using fellow inmates as interpreters. The groups told state’s corrections director Colette Peters that using inmates as interpreters violates federal law and raises issues over “confidentiality, impartiality and conflicts of interest.” Prison officials tell the Statesman-Journal there are 170 deaf and hearing-impaired inmates in custody, but the state doesn’t track how many are being used as interpreters.

 

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