Date: 11/24/2014 03:59 AM
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Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
LAKE OSWEGO, Ore. (AP) – An Oregonian attending the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington, has been selected for a prestigious Rhodes scholarship. The Rhodes Trust announced yesterday that William Rathje of Lake Oswego was among 32 Americans selected. Rathje is a senior studying computer science and English literature. Rhodes scholarships provide all expenses to study at the University of Oxford in England.
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – Two top brain researchers are leaving the University of Oregon, taking their labs and research grants to the University of Chicago. The move is a setback for a university that is trying to recruit top talent. Professors Ed Awh and Ed Vogel have been central to a hiring effort the UO was pursuing. The UO says the Institute of Neuroscience will still have about 17 people.
WILSONVILLE, Ore. (AP) – Authorities detained two teenagers who allegedly broke into a Wilsonville elementary school and stole property. The Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office says deputies responded to an alarm from Boones Ferry Primary School Friday evening and spotted four teens leaving. They were carrying the stolen property, which authorities have not identified.
REDDING, Calif. (AP) – A tour bus that had already crashed earlier in the day overturned just off Interstate 5 in Northern California, killing one person and sending dozens to hospitals. California Highway Patrol Officer Jeff Borgen says the bus traveling from Los Angeles to Pasco, Washington, crashed yesterday morning about 100 miles south of the Oregon border. It had hit a restaurant earlier in the morning, but no one was hurt.
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