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Oregon's metro region to receive additional vaccine doses
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — State officials announced Wednesday that an additional 17,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine will be allocated to Oregon's Portland metro region. The announcement was made a day after Multnomah, Clackamas and Washington health officials officials said that “tens of...
6 stranded motorists receive vaccine in 'impromptu clinic'
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — Health officials in southern Oregon said staff gave out six doses of the coronavirus vaccine to motorists at an “impromptu vaccine clinic” along a roadside in a snowstorm. Josephine County Public Health said on Facebook that about 20 personnel became stranded Tuesday...
Report: Lawmaker made women feel uncomfortable at Capitol
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon lawmakers will soon decide how to respond to a new report that found a legislator's persistent and unwelcome romantic advances made two women concerned that the male lawmaker might undercut their work at the Capitol if they rejected his attempts to rekindle romantic relationships....
Interstate 5 south closed in southern Oregon due to storm
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A winter storm that has brought as much as 3 feet of snow (.9 meters) to northern California has prompted the Oregon Department of Transportation to turn back Interstate 5 southbound traffic near Ashland, Oregon. All traffic was affected by the closure Wednesday afternoon and there...
Resort damaged by Archie Creek fire hopes to soon reopen
ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) — The owners of a resort on the Umpqua River that was damaged by last year’s Oregon wildfires are hoping to open for guests by mid-March. The News-Review reports that thanks to favorable weather and fundraising to help pay for the $200,000 in damages from the fire, Travis and...
Leader in oxycodone prescription fraud sentenced to 4 years
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A man who fraudulently obtained and sold 2,400 oxycodone pills by having others pass fake prescriptions at Portland-area pharmacies was sentenced Tuesday to four years in federal prison. Chase Adam Conway, 36, sent women into pharmacies to fill the bogus prescriptions, obtaining 90 to...
Police find no bias, terror motive in Portland road rampage
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Investigators have found no evidence that terrorism, politics or any bias motivated the rampage of a 64-year-old Oregon man who witnesses said repeatedly drove into people along streets and sidewalks in Portland, killing a 77-year-old woman and injuring nine other people, police said....
Oregon State at USC tops the week in Pac-12 hoops
Things to watch this week in Pac-12 Conference basketball: GAME OF THE WEEK: Oregon State at Southern California, Thursday. What would have been the marquee game of the week, Oregon at No. 23 UCLA, was postponed due to COVID-19 issues in the Ducks' program. The other game between the Pac-12's other Southern...
McCray carries Portland St. over St. Martin's 69-60
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Amari McCray had a career-high 22 points as Portland State defeated St. Martin’s 69-60 on Tuesday night. Paris Dawson had 12 points for Portland State (4-8). James Scott added 10 points. Khalid Thomas had three blocks. Tyler Velasquez had 12 points and six assists for the...
Thousands of Portland's health care workers not vaccinated
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Health officials in the tri-county Portland, Oregon, metro area said Tuesday that “tens of thousands” of frontline health care workers have not received the COVID-19 vaccine and that it will likely take weeks before most do. One solution is allocating more doses of the...
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