Date: 07/07/2015 03:59 AM
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Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Oregon women will no longer have to visit a health clinic for a birth control prescription starting next year. Instead, they can head straight to their pharmacist for contraception under a measure signed into law by Gov. Kate Brown. Advocates say the measure gives Oregon women the easiest access to birth control in the nation. The bill has won bipartisan support in the Legislature, though religious organizations have opposed it.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Authorities say a man who stabbed a Portland police officer will be charged with attempted aggravated murder. A police spokesman says 55-year-old David Ellis remains under police guard at a hospital, where he is being treated for a gunshot wound to his upper right arm. Simpson says Ellis stabbed Officer Jose Jimenez in the hand after the officer and his partner suspected the man was trying to burglarize a police contact office.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) – The pilot killed in a plane crash at a Salem airport has been identified as a 60-year-old Salem businessman. Police have identified the victim in Saturday’s crash at McNary Field as John Douglas Layton. He was alone in the plane.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) – An inspection station in southern Oregon has found zebra mussels on a boat from Texas being hauled to Auburn, Washington. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife says the discovery at an inspection station on Interstate 5 in Ashland was the ninth boat carrying the invasive species to be detected this season out of 5,000 inspections.
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