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Train hero Alek
Skarlatos receives
Oregon medal
SALEM (AP) — Gov.
Kate Brown has presented
the Oregon Distinguished
Service Medal to Alek
Skarlatos, the Oregon
National Guard specialist
who helped subdue a
heavily armed gunman on a
Paris-bound train last year.
The governor honored
the Roseburg native at a
ceremony Wednesday in
Salem.
Skarlatos was traveling
with friends in August when
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They wrestled him to the
ground and disarmed him.
Skarlatos has been
honored for his courage on
both sides of the Atlantic,
and his sudden fame
earned him a spot on TV’s
“Dancing With the Stars.”
The governor wrote on
Twitter that Skarlatos was a
hero even before his famous
heroics, describing him
as strong, smart, kind and
motivated.
and burial grounds sacred to
the Burns Paiute Tribe.
Investigators also found
PORTLAND — Inves- human feces in one of the
tigators combing through trenches and spoiled food in
an Oregon wildlife refuge the living quarters.
The FBI expects to take
occupied by an armed group
for nearly six weeks have three weeks to process the
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explosives and trenches 2 by occupiers demanding
dug near an area containing the government relinquish
tribal artifacts, according to control of public lands. More
than two dozen people have
federal prosecutors.
The FBI also was been charged in the standoff,
concerned that numerous which petered out after its
vehicles found at Malheur leaders were arrested Jan. 26
National Wildlife Refuge LQDWUDI¿FVWRSWKDWDOVROHIW
might be booby-trapped, an Arizona rancher dead.
Four holdouts remained
Assistant U.S. Attorneys
Ethan Knight and Geoffrey until last Thursday, when
Barrow said in a court they surrendered and inves-
¿OLQJ7XHVGD\7KH\GLGQRW tigators were able to move in
GHVFULEHWKHW\SHRI¿UHDUPV to search for evidence. FBI
or explosives or say what spokeswoman Beth Anne
led investigators to think the Steele said Wednesday that
vehicles might be booby- she could not release details
during an ongoing investiga-
trapped.
“Occupiers appear to tion.
Prosecutors provided the
have excavated two large
trenches and an improvised information in response to a
road on or adjacent to motion from defense lawyers
grounds containing sensitive who want immediate access
artifacts,” prosecutors wrote. to the site. The government
The refuge contains artifacts is willing to let the defense
By STEVEN DUBOIS
Associated Press
Gordon Friedman/Statesman-Journal via AP
Gov. Kate Brown speaks with Alek Skarlatos after
Skarlatos was awarded the Oregon Distinguished
Service Award on Wednesday in Salem. Brown
presented the medal to Skarlatos, the Oregon National
Guard specialist who helped subdue a heavily armed
gunman on a Paris-bound train last year.
journal PLOS ONE, which
also published the earlier
WSU research.
WSU researchers
are criticizing the new
conclusions.
Sea-Tac Airport
workers sue over
$15 wage back
payments
Wolf studies by
UW and WSU
reach different
conclusions
SEATTLE (AP) —
Workers at Seattle-Tacoma
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more than a dozen lawsuits
on Wednesday, claiming
they have not been paid a
$15 minimum wage.
Their Seattle lawyers
estimate the employees are
owed as much as $20,000
each in back pay since
the higher wage went
into effect more than two
years ago. They say about
5,000 airport workers are
affected by the minimum
wage ordinance, which now
requires an hourly wage of
at least $15.24.
An estimated 1,500
workers have not been
paid the correct wage, the
attorneys said. Calls to
several of the employers
targeted by the lawsuits
were not immediately
returned Wednesday.
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in the nation to adopt a $15
minimum wage, but it only
applies to transportation and
hospitality workers. Airport
employers have fought the
wage in court, saying the
facility run by the Port of
Seattle is a federal port that
SPOKANE (AP)
— Washington State
University researchers
raised eyebrows in 2014
with a study that said
killing problem wolves can
actually increase livestock
attacks the following year
by disrupting the social
structure of packs.
Now, a dueling study
from the University of
Washington offers a
different conclusion.
Three UW researchers,
who aren’t wildlife
biologists but were
intrigued by the earlier
study, analyzed the same
data with a different
statistical approach.
The Spokesman-Review
reports their work indicated
that killing wolves that
prey on livestock can lead
to a short-term increase
in attacks, particularly for
sheep. But the year after
the wolves were killed,
livestock attacks went
down.
The UW study was
published last week in the
is not subject to local laws.
The courts have disagreed.
These employees work a
variety of jobs at the airport
from baggage handlers to
the people who clean the
planes and refuel them, said
Duncan Turner of Seattle
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Turner.
Ore. boy sickened
by marijuana-
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By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI
Capital Bureau
SALEM — A bill aimed
at increasing affordable
housing by easing Oregon’s
land use requirements for
two projects is making
headway in the House.
Under House Bill 4079,
the process for expanding
“urban growth boundaries”
would be expedited by
exempting local govern-
ments from certain land use
rules or goals on two 50-acre
parcels — one next to a
city with fewer than 25,000
residents and the other with
more.
On Feb. 17, the House
Committee on Rules passed
an amended version of the
bill 5-3 and referred it to the
Joint Committee on Ways
and Means.
The
committee’s
amendment changes the size
threshold of the pilot project
cities to 25,000 residents,
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The Oregon Farm Bureau
and conservation groups
have opposed HB 4079,
arguing that new housing
developments should occur
within existing urban growth
boundaries where roads,
powers and water are more
readily available that in rural
areas.
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and its investigators examine
the refuge after evidence has
been collected but before it
reopens to the public, Knight
and Barrow said.
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teams must be escorted by
FBI personnel and cannot
disturb or remove items.
All evidence seized by the
FBI will be available for
inspection at the agency’s
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lenging that arrangement,
and a judge is expected to
hear arguments on the matter
next week.
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standoff leader Ammon
Bundy said they were
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as opposed to another
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response to the prosecutors’
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Affordable housing proposal makes headway
PORTLAND (AP) — An
8-year-old Oregon boy was
hospitalized after eating a
marijuana-infused cookie
that he found on the ground.
The Oregonian reports
that 30-year-old Jessica
Hart of Klamath Falls says
her boyfriend took her son,
Jackson, on an outing to
a local rock quarry. While
there, Jackson spotted
a cookie in its original
packaging and Hart’s
boyfriend told the boy not
to eat it.
But Hart says the boy ate
it while the adult’s back was
turned. She says Jackson
came home complaining
that he was sick and said he
was “vibrating all over.”
Hart’s boyfriend found
the cookie’s packaging,
which said the cookie had
an estimated 50 milligrams
of THC.
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