by OptimistPrime | Dec 27, 2022 | Eastern Oregon, Headline Feed
PENDLETON — Local officials and Community Counseling Solutions plan on using funds from opioid lawsuit settlements to hire a position to help opioid abusers navigate criminal cases in municipal courts.Lawsuit settlements with opioids manufacturers and distributors...
by OptimistPrime | Dec 27, 2022 | Eastern Oregon, Headline Feed
PENDLETON — The Oregon Nurses Association says a ransomware attack against Pendleton’s CHI St. Anthony Hospital’s parent company, CommonSpirit, has caused payroll issues that have left some nurses underpaid and others overpaid since October.”CommonSpirit had a...
by OptimistPrime | Dec 27, 2022 | Eastern Oregon, Headline Feed
CANYON CITY — Grant County is offering Tyler Smith his old job back, but it may be awhile before he can get back to work.Smith, a former Grant County sheriff’s deputy, was fired in December 2020 after being arrested and charged with attempted rape, attempted sex abuse...
by OptimistPrime | Dec 26, 2022 | Eastern Oregon, Headline Feed
HERMISTON — More than $11 million in federal funding is coming for six projects in Umatilla and Morrow counties, including $1.7 million to address drinking water contamination of private wells.Morrow County Commissioner Melissa Lindsay said that will be a boon....
by OptimistPrime | Dec 26, 2022 | Eastern Oregon, Headline Feed
Oregon is featured in more than 500 films, and a project by the state film office is marking movie locations with informational signs.Baker County has three signs, all dedicated to the 1969 musical “Paint Your Wagon,” which was filmed here in 1968....
by OptimistPrime | Dec 26, 2022 | Eugene, Headline Feed
At 2:14 a.m. on December 26, Eugene Police officers were dispatched to a report of a single-vehicle motor vehicle crash into a utility pole at N. Washington and Clark St. The driver of the vehicle, a Chevy Silverado, was declared deceased on scene and a passenger was...