Date: 05/01/2015 09:29 AM
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Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Police in Portland are appealing for patience if two separate events planned for May Day in the downtown area disrupt traffic. A May Day celebration and march organized by the Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition has a permit to wind through the downtown area this afternoon. A group called Don’t Shoot Portland also plans its own rally.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) – A lawyer for former Oregon first lady Cylvia Hayes goes before a Salem judge today to argue that Hayes should not be forced to release her emails that deal with public business. Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum ruled earlier this year that Hayes must disclose the emails from her personal accounts to the Oregonian, which requested them under Oregon’s public records law.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – About a quarter of the residents at a retirement community west of Portland have been on quarantine after falling ill with a stomach bug. The Oregonian reports that the residents at Jennings McCall Continuing Retirement Community in Forest Grove are being affected by what Washington County Health and Human Services spokeswoman Wendy Gordon says is norovirus.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – The pilot of a small plane that crashed on a flight from Oregon’s Willamette Valley to southwest Washington has been identified as a 41-year-old Vancouver, Washington man. The Oregonian reports that Linn County Sheriff Bruce Riley says the state medical examiner used dental records to identify Lee Cheshire Leslie III.
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