Date: 07/20/2015 03:59 AM
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Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Amid the embarrassing collapse of Cover Oregon, the state’s failed health insurance enrollment website, then-Gov. John Kitzhaber and lawmakers found solace in an unrelated success – a massive hike in enrollment in the Oregon Health Plan. The Health Plan is Oregon’s Medicaid program, and as hundreds of thousands of people became newly eligible last year under President Barack Obama’s health care law, most of them signed up. Data from the Oregon Health Authority shows that in the first year, enrollment was 73 percent higher than anticipated.
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. (AP) – A man suspected of leaving a chemical device in the Klamath County Jail has been arrested. The Herald and News reports a 34-year-old transient turned himself in at the Klamath Falls police department. An investigation into the chemical makeup of the device is still being conducted.
BEND, Ore. (AP) – Pandora moths have taken flight again in the pine forests of Central Oregon The Bend Bulletin reports an entomologist for the Deschutes National Forest has been getting calls about moth encounters in the woods and in Bend. The last big outbreak was in the 1990s, when hundreds of moths crowded on buildings around Bend.
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) – The Pierce County medical examiner has determined the death of a Tacoma, Washington toddler was a homicide. KOMO-TV reports the 1-year-old boy was found dead in his home of blunt force injuries to his abdomen. Tacoma police say no arrests have been made and no suspects have been named.
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