Date: 11/19/2014 03:59 AM
AP-OR–1st NewsMinute/270
Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
MCMINVILLE, Ore. (AP) – A prosecutor in Yamhill County says investigators may never know why a 33-year-old man rushed into a McMinnville convenience store last weekend and fatally stabbed a Linfield College athlete. A District Attorney told KGW-TV that toxicology reports are being expedited. Investigators say they’ve found no motive, and no evidence that Moore and his attacker knew each other, or quarreled. Police shot and killed the attacker, Joventino Arenas.
MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) – Two southern Oregon farms are asking a court to end Jackson County’s voter-approved ban on genetically modified crops or force the county to pay the farms $4.2 million. The farmers say that’s the value of the Roundup Ready alfalfa crop they’ll have to destroy if the ban stands. County voters approved the ban in May.
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – A federal lawsuit seeks $5 million from the Lincoln County School District, alleging that district officials failed to protect a developmentally disabled boy from being sexually assaulted by a classmate on campus. The Register-Guard reports the lawsuit alleges that the boy was sexually assaulted more than once.
DAMASCUS, Ore. (AP) – A 13-year-old Oregon mare has been euthanized after the pit bulls that lived across the street got loose and attacked the horse. Alissa Read owned the mare named Paisley and says she hopes the loss brings awareness to dog control. The Oregonian reports that the owner of one dog now held at the Clackamas County dog shelter says she’s stunned that the dogs that had been so gentle with cats and babies could attack a horse.
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