1st Oregon News Minute from the AP

Date: 04/17/2015 03:59 AM
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Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – The Portland Housing Bureau has agreed to buy land for affordable housing in the Pearl District from a private developer for $1.3 million. The bureau says a 1999 agreement with developer Hoyt Street Properties called for 35 percent of its Pearl District housing units to meet affordability standards. If the target was not met by a specific date, the city had the chance to buy land for affordable housing at a below-market price. The city says Hoyt Street Properties fell 5 percentage points short of the target.
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – A Eugene man has been sentenced to 42 years in prison after pleading guilty to sex crimes involving children. Authorities say 29-year-old Brian Boe molested a toddler, allowed the incident to be filmed and made copies of other pornographic images depicting children.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Researchers say high levels of pesticides, flame retardants, and mercury in Pacific lampreys may be contributing to their overall decline in the Columbia River Basin. The research found that concentrations of some flame retardants and pesticides were several hundred times higher in larval and juvenile lamprey tissues than in the surrounding sediments. Lamprey numbers have declined dramatically in the Columbia Basin over the past 30 years.
PRINEVILLE, Ore. (AP) – A Crook County sheriff’s officer in central Oregon says an autopsy has confirmed that a body found by a Powell Butte rancher in his field is that of a 27-year-old woman who disappeared from her nearby home three weeks ago. The Undersheriff said that Shauna Fowler died an accidental death of hypothermia.

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