Date: 03/12/2015 09:20 AM
AP-OR–2nd NewsMinute/247
Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
SALEM, Ore. (AP) – A bill to pressure Oregon parents to get their kids vaccinated has been abandoned. It was dropped because of formidable opposition in a state that has the nation’s highest rate of immunization exemptions that aren’t for medical reasons.
SPRINGFIELD, Ore. (AP) – Police in Springfield say citizens sprang into action, grabbing and holding a man who tried to rob a grocery store bank branch. The Register-Guard newspaper reports that police say the robber displayed what turned out to be a replica gun yesterday afternoon at a U.S. Bank branch inside an Albertsons. Officers say the suspect, Daniel Naillon-Webb of Kelso, Washington, was on a federal parole release for bank robbery.
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – A Eugene woman who says she pulled over on I-5 when she noticed a woman rocking back and forth along the highway with her head in her hands says she called 911, then heard the woman screaming, “Kill me!” The Register-Guard reports that Christina Carmichael then saw the woman step into traffic Tuesday night, lying down in the middle of the road. Carmichael says she picked the woman up and moved her out of the highway. Albany police soon arrived.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – LaMarcus Aldridge had 26 points and 14 rebounds, and the Portland Trail Blazers held off the Houston Rockets 105-100 last night. The Trail Blazers limited James Harden to 18 points and tied the Rockets for third place in the Western Conference.
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