Date: 07/08/2015 03:59 AM
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Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Oregon will be the first state to the automatically register drivers to vote and to give women access to 12 months of birth control at a time. Workers will get up to a week of paid sick leave. A controversial new global-warming initiative aims to reduce carbon pollution. Evidence of the Democrats’ expanded majorities was everywhere in the 2015 session, which wrapped up this week. Republicans complained that Democrats used their expanded legislative majorities to push a partisan agenda.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) – A Marion County sheriff’s spokesman says it took emergency crews nearly two hours to rescue a 26-year-old Salem man, who tried to execute a back flip off some rocks at a remote water recreation site but fell about 25 feet, missing the water. He says Mason Young was taken to the Salem Hospital with serious injuries.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – The Multnomah County sheriff’s office says that a body found in the Willamette River near Portland’s Broadway Bridge is that of a 43-year-old Vancouver, Washington man. A spokesman says the county medical examiner found no signs of foul play and says that Brian Jay Burnett drowned. The body was spotted by a passer-by.
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) – Biologists have found evidence that Oregon’s famous wandering wolf, OR-7, has fathered a second set of pups. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife announced that when biologists were picking up trail cameras set to record OR-7s Rogue Pack in the Cascades east of Medford, they found fresh scat confirming a second set of pups, though just how many is not known.
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