Former Sandy High School student sues over sexual abuse
The Oregon Trail School District is facing a $675,000 law suit after a former teacher and volunteer basketball coach sexually abused a 16-year-old player in Feburary 2011, according to The Oregonian.
Stephanie Morgan Bryon, then 21, pleaded guilty to furnishing alcohol to a minor and second-degree sexual abuse. She was sentenced to three years of probation, sex-offender treatment and no contact with minors by Clackamas County Circuit Court last December.
The school district is being sued by the victim on the grounds of failing to properly train and monitor Byron.
Crews battle fire at West Linn High School
Welding work on the gymnasium of West Linn High School sparked a fire around 2:15 p.m., according to FOX 12 Oregon.
School employees were able to put out the initial fire located in bushes outside the school, but local emergency responders arrived to extinguish a fire that had spread to the upper portion of the gymnasium.
All students and staff evacuated safely and there is still no word on whether or not school will resume Tuesday.
OSU professors find 100-million-year-old spider
Experts at Oregon State University have found what they claim to be the only known fossil of a spider attacking its prey, according to FOX 12 Oregon.
The interaction between a spider and a parasitic wasp is the oldest known interaction between a spider and its prey – experts have dated the fossil to be somewhere between 97 and 110 million years old.
Oregon political figures oppose Measures 82, 83
Republican Vic Atiyeh and Democrats Barbara Roberts and Ted Kulongoski have publicly opposed Measures 82 and 83 which will allow for a privately owned casino to open in Multnomah County, according to the Statesman Journal.
The former governors said in a press conference that opening the casino would serve as a gateway to crime and would harm Oregon’s Indian tribes who currently rely on Oregon casinos for income.
The Measures will be on the general elections ballot in November.
Gargantuan gourd breaks Oregon record
A massive pumpkin weighing nearly 1,800 pounds broke the state record for heaviest pumpkin over the weekend at Bauman’s Farm and Garden, according to The Oregonian.
The Oregon record for heaviest pumpkin was shattered by grower Steve Daletas, as last year’s winner weighed in at a feathery 1,580 pounds.