Date: 12/05/2014 03:59 AM
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Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – A day-long mediation session has failed to resolve a strike by graduate teaching assistants at the University of Oregon. The Register-Guard reports that the session ended after more than 11 hours. The newspaper says talks may resume today. Members of the Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation went on strike Tuesday after contract talks stalled over medical and maternity leave benefits.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Oregon’s largest county has adopted at $15 minimum wage for its employees. The Multnomah County Board of Commissioners approved the wage hike that will be phased in over the next three years. The county agreed to the minimum wage as part of its new contract with union workers. Officials say about 500 workers will benefit. That’s 9 percent of the county’s workforce.
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) – The state of Wyoming continues to try to pressure Oregon to permit a coal terminal on the Columbia River that could allow export of coal to Asia. Oregon this summer rejected the proposal to build the terminal at Port of Morrow. Oregon ruled building the terminal would threaten its water resources. It later rejected an appeal from Wyoming, ruling the state lacked standing.
SPRINGFIELD, Ore. (AP) – Oregon State Police say a trooper who pulled over the driver of a Dodge Charger reportedly traveling 92 mph in a 65 mph zone on Interstate 5 noticed a package of what appeared to be oxycodone tablets on the passenger’s lap. A police K-9 called to the scene near Springfield found nearly 800 tablets of the powerful painkiller, as well as 10 grams of marijuana.
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