Major coronavirus outbreak in Canby senior rehab preceded by disregard for safety, lawsuit claims
Updated Jan 20, 2021;
A senior care home employee all but predicted her facility would have a massive coronavirusoutbreak, but her efforts to get managers to act were met with “derision” and she was forced to resign months before her worst fears came true, according to a whistleblower lawsuit filed Wednesday.
A June outbreak at the Canby facility Marquis Hope Village Post-Acute Rehab became Oregon’s second deadliest, with 18 deaths and 113 cases. A separate outbreak on the same long-term care campus has since killed an additional three people and infected 36.
Homeowner describes confronting Astoria woman shot by state trooper after stand-off
Updated Dec 30, 2020;
Posted Dec 30, 2020
Officers in Clatsop County killed a burglary suspect Monday, Dec. 28. A neighbor said this is the house where it happened.
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Lewis Doyle stepped out the front door of his Sunset Beach house to check if an Amazon package had arrived when he saw someone’s feet sticking out of the passenger side of his pickup in the driveway.
It took him a few seconds to process the scene, then he thought: “Hey, I’m being robbed.”
Within hours, the woman rummaging through his truck Monday afternoon was dead, killed by a state trooper after she later walked into Doyle’s house, holed up in the master bedroom, then approached officers while holding a gun.
Thursday is the last day before new Oregon tobacco tax hikes cigarette prices $2 per pack
Updated Jan 04, 2021;
Posted Dec 31, 2020
Oregonians will pay $2 extra per pack of cigarettes starting Jan. 1.Ryan Stanton | The Ann Arbor News
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Smokers will pay $2 more in taxes per pack of cigarettes starting Friday, the day a series of steep voter-approved tobacco taxes go into effect and dramatically change Oregon’s nicotine landscape.
State cigarette taxes will more than double, giving Oregon the sixth-highest cigarette taxes in the country at a total of $3.33.
Electronic cigarettes also will be taxed for the first time in Oregon, and the cap on cigar taxes will double.