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The family of a 22-year-old train passenger found severely injured next to railroad tracks in Truckee, California, suspects he may have been the victim of a hate crime, but Amtrak said Saturday that investigators have found no evidence of foul play.
Aaron Salazar's family believes the Portland State University student, who is gay, was attacked and didn't jump from the westbound train, the Reno Gazette Journal report ed.
Federal investigators are looking into age discrimination complaints against Intel, responding to allegations that the company's layoffs in 2015 and 2016 disproportionately targeted older workers, according to information reviewed by The Oregonian/OregonLive.
The Wall Street Journal first reported the investigation Friday.
School districts across the United States are desperately looking for ways to keep students safe after school shootings that have left millions of students, teachers and other staff afraid they could be next.
In Schuylkill County, Pa., classrooms in the Blue Mountain School Districthave five-gallon buckets of river stone that students can throw if a gunman comes through the door.
NORTH BEND — For Liv Funk and Hailey Smith, reaching a settlement agreement with the North Bend School District means change has finally come.
After years of being bullied for their sexual orientation by both students and staff, they are glad to see the district become a safer place for LGBTQ youth. Because they stood up against discrimination, which included one of their friends being forced to read the Bible as punishment, new policies are being put in place at the district to prevent this from happening again.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said Tuesday that urgent action is needed to keep students safe following last week's school shooting in Texas — but added that local and state governments bear the brunt of responsibility for campus safety.
"We must ensure our children are safe at school. This administration is committed to keeping our nation's students and teachers safe at school," DeVos told the House Education Committee.
U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, an Oregon democrat and member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released a statement after President Donald Trump announced that he would pull the U.S. out of the Iran nuclear deal. In the statement, Merkley called the move a mistake for enormous proportions for American safety security.
The senator said a nuclear-armed Iran would be a catastrophe, adding that the best way to prevent that would be to "not blow up the deal that is verifiably preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.
Oregon's auto-IRA program has only been around a few months, but its early success demonstrates a similar framework could work at the national level, a proponent said at a congressional hearing Wednesday.
From US House of Reps: Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici, a leader on the House Education Committee, stood up for students of color who are disproportionately identified for special education services, placed in more restrictive classroom settings, and disciplined at higher rates than their same-age white peers with disabilities.
CLACKAMAS COUNTY, Ore. —
A war tore the Nguyen family apart, and a broken immigration system kept them separated. Now, almost half a century later, the family is one step closer to reuniting on U.S. soil.
KATU News caught up with Ai Nguyen in late April.
He flipped through an old picture album and this time, the tone was lighter, his smile was bigger--a smile fit for a man who's waited 47 years for good news.
"I can't explain how I'm feeling because this has never happened in my life," said Nguyen.
U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici fielded numerous questions from a group of eight, then all 100 students, enrolled in the Rachel Carson environmental magnet school within Five Oaks Middle School in Beaverton.
But even though Bonamici sits on the House education and science committees — and is the top Democrat on the environment subcommittee — many of the questions from the larger audience on Friday, May 11, were similar to those raised at her town hall meetings.