Date: 05/26/2015 03:59 AM
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Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – A Eugene Police Department employee has resigned after telling her fiance confidential information relating to a felony case in which he was a suspect. A report from a police auditor office says the employee released information about the victim, police contact tactics, evidence destruction plans and confidential investigatory information. The woman was not a sworn police officer, but her name and position have not been released.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Portland police are investigating two robberies with similarities. The Oregonian reports the two armed robberies happened about 15 minutes apart. First, a man was robbed at gunpoint while walking to his car from his residence around 3:15 Sunday morning. Then two people broke through a glass door at the Kilt Irish Pub and robbed a bartender at gunpoint.
GILCHRIST, Ore. (AP) – The Oregon State Police are investigating a weekend accident near Gilchrist in which a pedestrian standing in the middle of Highway 97 was struck by two vehicles. Police say the accident left 60-year-old Miles Mattox of Gilchrist dead. A passenger in one vehicle, 56-year-old Robert Saunders, was taken to a local hospital, where he was treated for minor injuries and released.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Oregon officials are extending limits on recreational mussel gathering after they detected elevated levels of paralytic shellfish toxins. Mussel harvest is now prohibited along almost the entire Oregon coast, from the Columbia River to the north jetty of the Rogue River near Gold Beach. The prohibition applies to all beaches, rocks, jetties and bay entrances.
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