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Oregon high school football coach accused of slapping players appears in court
An Oregon high school coach who allegedly woke players up in the middle of the night during a team camp and began slapping them appeared in court on Wednesday. Jamal Jones, the 32-year-old former head coach of Westview High School (Portland, Ore.), appeared at Yamhill County Courtroom on 12 counts of misdemeanor harassment, according to KGW8. According to outlets including KGW8 and KPTV, during a camp at Linfield University in late June, Jones allegedly entered the room of the athletes around 1 or 1:30 in the morning. Players told KPTV that he began slapping some students and jumped on top of one. One...
Oregon State Fire Marshal Leads Efforts To Protect Communities From Wildfires
The wildfires in Oregon have created significant challenges due to hot temperatures and strong winds. The Oregon State Fire Marshal, Mariana Ruiz-Temple, has emphasized the importance of public awareness and preventive measures to avoid sparking new fires. The eastern part of the state is particularly vulnerable, with expectations of abundant lightning, gusty winds up to 60 miles per hour, and high temperatures.
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‘A long way from over’: Oregon wildfires churn through vast stretches of range
WESTFALL — Jeff Romans rode his ATV Friday out to the charred hills and ridges of the federal grazing land near his ranch and remembered how grasshoppers pummeled his face by the hundreds as wildfire rushed through the high desert near the Oregon-Idaho border. Two weeks ago as winds...
Oregon conservationists win funding to restore riverside habitats
A conservation group in Springfield has won $8.5 million in federal funding, which will pay for floodplain restorations along the Willamette River and its tributaries. The plan is to reconnect waterways in the Upper Willamette Basin to several of their historic offshoots and side-channels. The McKenzie Watershed Alliance is receiving federal dollars on behalf of its partners in the Upper Willamette Stewardship Network.
A tanker plane crash has killed a firefighting pilot in Oregon as Western wildfires spread
Communities in the U.S. West and Canada were under siege from raging wildfires on Friday, as a fast-moving blaze sparked by lightning sent people fleeing on fire-ringed roads in rural Idaho and a human-caused inferno forced evacuations in northern California.
Oregon public defense commission drafts ‘crisis plan’ to cut number of defendants without lawyers
Oregon’s public defense agency has released a 90-day crisis plan to address a backlog of criminal defendants without attorneys that also calls for longer-term fixes costing more than $100 million in additional state funding. The emergency plan would eliminate the number of people held in jail without a public...
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