Date: 07/22/2015 03:59 AM
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Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) – Gov. Kate Brown has declared drought emergencies in three more Oregon counties. With the declaration, 23 out of 36 counties are under drought emergencies. The new ones are Curry, Hood River and Union counties. The governor’s drought declaration does not bring any help in the form of aid or loans, but does allow increased flexibility in how water is managed.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – A Multnomah County grand jury has found that Portland police were justified in fatally shooting a man in a grocery store parking lot last month. Police said two officers fired at 29-year-old Alan Bellew after he brandished what appeared to be a gun in the WinCo Foods lot. It turned out he had a starter’s pistol.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Federal officials say 160,000 juvenile salmon from a fish hatchery in central Oregon were transported by truck to a hatchery in Washington in an effort to save the fish from unusually high water temperatures. Daytime river temperatures at the Warm Springs hatchery are exceeding 70 degrees, considered potentially deadly for salmon.
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) – A conservation group demands a change in operations at two irrigation dams on the upper Deschutes River to protect the Oregon spotted frog, a threatened species. Center for Biological Diversity has announced it has filed a 60-day notice of intent to sue the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. The notice says the bureau draws down the water Crane Prairie and Wickiup reservoirs too quickly in spring, stranding frog egg masses upstream of the dams, and flooding frog habitat downstream.
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