Date: 10/16/2014 03:59 AM
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Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – The parents of a Lincoln County girl who died last month of E. coli bacteria say public health officials suspect the 4-year-old was infected by droppings from the family’s goat. However lab tests have not been conclusive and the investigation continues. Health officials said they found no E. coli at a restaurant where the girl shared a turkey sandwich with a 5-year-old Tacoma boy. He recovered from bacterial infection at a Seattle hospital.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Police say a small explosive device blew up yesterday, damaging two vehicles in the parking lot of an apartment complex next to a southwest Portland elementary school. No one was hurt. Investigators and bomb technicians are trying to learn more about the device and exactly where it was located.
ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) – A hunter missing the past week in the Cascade Range of southwestern Oregon has been found dead. The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office says the body of 20-year-old Travis Anderson was found yesterday. It appeared he had fallen down a waterfall on Squaw Creek in the Rogue-Umpqua Divide country about 15 miles east of Tiller.
ONTARIO, Ore. (AP) – Onion growers in eastern Oregon say they’re relieved by revisions to water quality rules under consideration by the federal government. The Food and Drug Administration is working on the rules to guard against bacterial infection, such as E. coli. Onion farmers tell the agricultural publication Capital Press the revised proposal would allow them to show that there’s enough time between the last irrigation and harvest for the bacteria to die off.
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