SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon Sen. Alan Bates, a Democrat from Medford, has passed away at the age of 71. According to a statement from the family, Bates passed away on Friday after spending the day fly fishing on the Rogue River with his son.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A Portland woman has filed a $10,000 lawsuit against a parking garage owner after alleging that a mysterious liquid dropped onto her forearm while standing next to her parked car. According to the lawsuit filed last week, Shoshanna Doty says that the liquid landed on her right arm after parking her car in a Portland parking garage last year.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — School officials say five faucets and one drinking fountain at an elementary school in Salem have tested above the action level for lead. A spokesman for the Salem-Keizer Public School district told the Statesman Journal on Friday that those water sources at Wright Elementary School are no longer in service.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A gang member convicted in attacks against two Krude Rude Brood associates faces sentencing in September. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports jurors unanimously convicted David Ray Bartol on Friday of all 24 counts in the kidnapping and torture of Nicholas Remington and a separate attack that left Ronald Murphy with two gunshot wounds to his abdomen.
