Date: 05/12/2015 03:59 AM
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Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Oregon Gov. Kate Brown has signed a bill requiring background checks on firearm transfers between private parties. Brown’s action makes Oregon the eighth state to require background checks on nearly all gun sales. The law takes effect immediately. It says that private gun sales between people who aren’t related must take place in front of a licensed gun dealer who can run a background check.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – An Oregon woman says she intends to sue United Airlines after her flight home made an emergency landing and authorities removed her family from the plane after she and the flight crew had problems finding her autistic 15-year-old daughter something to eat. Donna Beegle says she hopes a lawsuit would lead to training about dealing with people who have autism.
HONOLULU (AP) – The director of Oregon’s medical assistance programs will head Hawaii’s Medicaid program. The Hawaii Department of Human Services says Judy Mohr Peterson will start her job as administrator of the Med-QUEST division on July 1. She served as Oregon’s state Medicaid director since 2009. Gov. David Ige says Mohr Peterson’s leadership in Oregon is ideal as Hawaii considers innovations in its Medicaid programs.
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) – With summer fast approaching, Oregon’s primary water storage system, snowpack in the mountains, is a tiny fraction of average, prompting forecasts of stream flows far below what farmers and salmon are used to. The May report from the Natural Resources Conservation Service puts Oregon’s snowpack at 11 percent of average statewide.
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