Date: 07/09/2015 03:59 AM
AP-OR–1st NewsMinute/248
Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
BEAVERTON, Ore. (AP) – Police in the Portland suburb of Beaverton say an officer was injured by shotgun fire when he responded to a disturbance call at a trailer park. Police returned fire and the shooter was later found dead. An officer says the wounded officer, 47-year-old Scott Burke, has been released from a hospital. The shooter was found dead on the porch. He has been identified as 59-year-old Michael Westrich.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) – The sponsor of a recall petition targeting state Rep. Val Hoyle is dropping the effort. Jason Thiesfeld says in a statement to the Oregonian that a recall election is unnecessary use of tax dollars. Thiesfeld is a gun store owner who launched the recall effort after Hoyle supported a bill requiring a background check whenever guns are transferred between people who aren’t related.
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) – Drought and record hot weather are producing potentially lethal conditions for salmon and trout in rivers across the West. A recent survey of 54 rivers in Oregon, California and Washington by the conservation group Wild Fish Conservancy showed nearly three-quarters had temperatures higher than 70 degrees, considered potentially deadly for salmon and trout. Dead salmon were spotted in Oregon’s Willamette River in June.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Portland police have identified a woman found dead in a pond as 27-year-old Justine Malmberg. A spokesman says the medical examiner determined the Portland woman accidentally drowned in the pond at Laurelhurst Park.
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