Date: 04/14/2015 03:59 AM
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Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
SALEM, Ore. (AP) – The Oregon Legislature is opening debate about several proposals to boost the minimum wage as high as $15 an hour. Legislative committees held three hearings on the idea yesterday but took no formal action. Raising the minimum wage is hugely popular with voters and interest groups on the left, but it’s far from clear whether it has sufficient support in the Legislature.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Hand dryer decibel levels could be the latest thing Oregon lawmakers decide to tackle. The Senate Committee on Business and Transportation held a public hearing on a measure creating uniform standards for hand dryers in public restrooms. The bill’s sponsor said powerful hand dryers used to trigger episodes in his own son, who has autism.
YREKA, Calif. (AP) – Federal biologists have pushed back the deadline for deciding whether to grant Endangered Species Act protection to the Pacific fisher, a cousin of the weasel that lives in forests in California and southern Oregon. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says it wants more information on risks that may be pushing the Pacific fisher toward extinction, particularly rat poisons left around illegal marijuana gardens.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Police say an Alabama man has a fractured skull after he was struck with a baseball bat by a woman he traveled to Oregon to live with. A spokesman with the Marion County Sheriff’s Office said that Samuel Campbell and Haley Fox had been in an online relationship for two years. Fox told investigators she injured Campbell because she didn’t want to be his girlfriend.
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