Date: 12/17/2014 03:59 AM
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Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Police say they’ve recovered four pipe bombs that were tossed from a fleeing vehicle in southeast Portland. The bombs did not detonate. Police say bomb squad technicians recovered the devices yesterday from a street and nearby yards. Police believe the fleeing silver Honda Civic was driven by a 43-year-old man sought on an active arrest warrant from Tillamook County.
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – The University of Oregon’s new, independent board of trustees is considering a big bump in compensation for a new university president. The Eugene Register-Guard reports the board plans to start recruiting after the first of the year, and members are trying to figure out how to structure a package that might range from $600,000 to $800,000 a year. The former president was paid $544,000.
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – An Albany woman who called in three bomb threats to elementary schools has persuaded a federal judge to sentence her to a longer prison term than prosecutors recommended. The Register-Guard reports that 47-year-old Jenelle Pinkston told the judge that the government’s recommended 24-month sentence wouldn’t give her enough time to take full advantage of prison medical and mental health treatment programs. Pinkston will have about 18 months left on her sentence.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – The Oregon state medical examiner’s office says an inmate died in an eastern Oregon prison from blunt force head trauma. Last week’s killing of Terry Goodman has been ruled a homicide. The Oregonian reports that Goodman’s family says an Oregon State Police investigator told them the 54-year-old man was fatally beaten by two inmates.
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