Date: 02/04/2015 09:24 AM
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Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – Health officials in Lane County say a second University of Oregon student has been diagnosed with the potentially deadly bacterial blood infection that causes meningitis. The Register-Guard reports that County health spokesman Jason Davis says while the first student diagnosed with the infection lived off-campus, the second student lived at a campus dormitory.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Homicide detectives have made an arrest in the death of a man who was found with a head injury last October across the street from the Portland Rescue Mission. The Oregonian reports 42-year-old Robert Lewis Browne was arrested on assault and manslaughter charges.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – The wife of Seattle triple murderer Melvin Johnson has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for her role in a tax-fraud scheme. Loretta Johnson of Portland married her husband while he was in prison for the 1999 deaths of his half-sister, niece and grandniece. Melvin Johnson has also been sentenced in the scheme.
SEATTLE (AP) – The National Weather Service says a series of storms are headed for the Northwest that will bring waves of rain with short breaks through the weekend. The strongest storm arrives with winds tonight and tomorrow. Forecasters say there could be more than 2 inches of rain in the Cascades and an inch of rain in the lowlands on the west side.
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