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The Wheeler County Sheriff’s Office says the Oct. 7 shooting death of a 61-year-old Portland hunter came during an altercation with a Scappoose family.

Sheriff Bob Hudspeth says Frank Means got into a fight with three men and an 11-year-old boy also hunting at a remote site along the John Day River. The Oregon State Medical Examiner’s Office determined that Means died from multiple gunshot wounds.

via (the world)

Three masked men, one of them armed, ransacked a home on Hughes Street Wednesday, tying up three children and stealing one-and-a-half pounds of medical marijuana.

The marijuana grower, a father of three who lives on the 1100 block of Hughes Street, told police that someone knocked on his door around 8:30 a.m., and said that his girlfriend had just sideswiped the victim’s car. When the father answered the door, three men burst in and tied up the children, a 12-year-old girl and twin two-year-old boys, and locked them in the closet. They ransacked the home and demanded money, and at one point, police said the 12-year-old could see one of the masked men holding a gun to her father’s head while he was on the floor.

via (Oregon City News)

An Oregon business partnership, ORPET, plans to build a $10 million state-of-the-art plastic bottle recycling plant on Port of St. Helens-owned property, promising to create 50 new jobs when it begins operation next year.

via (the South County Spotlight)

The federal government has delivered on its promise to provide Portland with $75 million for a major streetcar extension. The funds represent redoubled efforts by the Obama administration to support electrified streetcar projects under a seven-year-old program designed to support small-scale urban transport improvement.

Peter Rogoff, the administrator of the Federal Transit Administration, and Representative Earl Blumenauer, Democrat of Oregon, made the announcement Thursday. The new route, which is expected to carry approximately 8,700 passengers each day, is scheduled to begin running in 2011.

The money will add 18 new stations, six new vehicles and create a nearly complete loop around the city of Portland.

via (the NY Times)

Clackamas County prosecutors said today they will not be charging a player or parent in a sideline squabble that broke out during a recreational youth football game.

Deputy District Attorney Gregory D. Horner  said prosecutors reviewed police reports on   Saturday’s incident in Sandy, concluding that there was no evidence of a crime. Sandy police sent the case to the district attorney’s office Monday for a legal review.

Sandy police said the incident began when a player for the Lincoln Cardinals was headed for a touchdown, went out of bounds and was tackled by a member of the Sandy Pioneers. The tackler then began punching the ball carrier, police said.

At that point, the Cardinal player’s father jumped in and grabbed the tackler, shaking him while yelling at him to stop punching his son, police said.

via (oregonlive.com)

A 30-year-old Medford woman with swine flu has been placed on lifesaving equipment at a Portland hospital.Jacquelyn Cordero was in Legacy Emanuel Medical Center late Thursday, where she was connected to a machine that provides cardiac and respiratory support to patients whose heart and lungs are severely diseased or damaged.

No such machine was available in Jackson County.

Her illness is the third misfortune to strike the extended family since mid-September.

Her uncle, Army Sgt. Tom Rollason of Medford, was critically wounded last month in Afghanistan.

A day after the sergeant was injured by the roadside bomb, his father died from cancer.

The Mail Tribune newspaper reports that another Southern Oregon resident – 32-year-old Zachary Painter of Grants Pass – was also in critical condition at the Portland hospital after being diagnosed with the H1N1 virus.

via (ktvz.com)

A moderate earthquake struck deep in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Oregon early this morning.

The U.S. Geological Survey says a 4.1 magnitude quake hit shortly after 1:40 a.m., about 130 miles west-northwest of Bandon.

The quake’s epicenter was 6.2 miles deep — as deep as a temblor that hit the area on Wednesday — and more than 245 miles west-southwest of Portland.

No tsunami warning was issued.

via (OregonLive.com)