Date: 10/15/2014 09:12 AM
AP-OR–2nd NewsMinute/281
Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Election time has arrived in Oregon. Today state election officials begin mailing more than 2 million ballots, and tens of thousands of Oregonians will vote each day between now and Nov. 4. That means mailboxes will be stuffed with election mail for the next three weeks, and the volume of political TV commercials will be multiplying.
MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) – Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley and Republican challenger Monica Wehby stuck to familiar themes as they met in their only debate. Meeting at KOBI-TV in Medford, Wehby repeatedly criticized Merkley as a “rubber stamp” of the Obama administration. Merkley repeatedly criticized Wehby for getting her economic plan from former presidential candidate Mitt Romney and the Koch brothers, businessmen who have poured millions of dollars into conservative causes.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – An Oregon judge has reduced bail for a woman charged in the death of her newborn baby girl from $10 million to $5 million. The Oregonian reports that a lawyer for Sarah Mangus had asked that bail be lowered to just $50,000. Judge Henry Kantor said yesterday he worries that if freed, Mangus would immediately use drugs and possibly even get pregnant again. She has lost custody of all six of her children, with the exception of the 12-hour-old infant who died April 12.
VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) – An Amber Alert for a 9-year-old Vancouver boy has been canceled. Clark County dispatchers say he was found safe early today in Hood River, Oregon. Amberalert.com tweeted the boy was camping with his father. Vancouver police had said they were concerned for the safety of Andrey Voronenko after he was picked up yesterday by his father.
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