Date: 12/09/2014 09:28 AM
AP-OR–2nd NewsMinute/258
Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
MCMINNVILLE, Ore. (AP) – Three weeks after an Oregon college student-athlete was stabbed to death at a convenience store, a prosecutor says the investigation confirms the young man did not know his attacker and they had no altercation. The Oregonian reports the Yamhill County DA said yesterday that authorities have found no motive for the attack on Parker Moore, a Linfield College student. Police shot and killed Joventino Bermudez-Arenas when he returned to the McMinnville store shortly after the Nov. 15 stabbing.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – An Oregon hospital says last week’s death of a patient who was given the wrong medication occurred because of the error of a hospital pharmacy worker who inadvertently filled an IV bag with the wrong drug. The mistake was one of several revealed yesterday by the St. Charles Health System that led to the death of 65-year-old Loretta Macpherson at its hospital in Bend.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Portland police say a 39-year-old man who pleaded guilty to aggravated murder and related charges in the Christmas 2012 killing of a woman has been sentenced to life in prison. Sgt. Pete Simpson says Michael James Kirkland pleaded guilty yesterday to the death of Jaime Lyn Larson in southwest Portland.
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – Both sides in a week-old strike by graduate teaching assistants at the University of Oregon have met for another mediation session. The Oregonian reports that the union says the Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation asked for yesterday’s session through a state mediator and the school agreed.
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