Grant McHill

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GRESHAM, Ore. – Police are investigating a late-night altercation that escalated into gunfire outside a northeast Gresham apartment complex. Just after 11 p.m. on Sunday, Gresham police officers and Multnomah County sheriff’s deputies responded to reports of a shooting in the parking lot of a complex in the 3100 block of NE 23rd Street. At the scene, officers found an adult man with a visible injury above his eye.

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SALEM, Ore. – Oregon is set to receive more than $83 million in federal reimbursements for road and infrastructure repairs following a series of natural disasters that have battered the state in recent years. The funding, announced Monday by Oregon’s congressional delegation, will support the Oregon Department of Transportation’s efforts to rebuild highways, bridges and other critical infrastructure damaged by wildfires, winter storms, flooding and landslides. Sen.

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MILWAUKIE, Ore. – A Southeast Portland man has been indicted in Clackamas County following a months-long undercover sting operation targeting online child exploitation. Zachary Kyle Morgan, 42, was indicted May 29th by a grand jury on charges of luring a minor, first-degree online sexual corruption of a child, and second-degree online sexual corruption of a child, according to the Milwaukie Police Department.

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(Associated Press) – The U.S. approved a new COVID-19 vaccine made by Moderna late Friday but with limits on who can use it — not a replacement for the company’s existing shot, but a second option. The new vaccine, mNexspike, is a step toward next-generation coronavirus vaccines. It’s made in a way that allows for a lower dose — a fifth of the dose of its current COVID-19 vaccine, Spikevax — by refining its immune target.

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all. Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is less than previously thought, with a 50-50 chance within the next 10 billion years. That’s essentially a coin flip, but still better odds than previous estimates and farther out in time.