In Multnomah County, Oregon, which begins voting on October 8, Eric Sample, spokesman for the county elections division, says that early voting and the state's 100% vote-by-mail has increased voter participation.

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But in Oregon's Douglas County, customers are so rural that it may be cost-prohibitive for the electric co-op that provides power, Douglas Electric Cooperative, to reach them.

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Herrera is being booked into the Multnomah County (Oregon) Detention Center, and will likely make his initial appearance on Tuesday before a federal magistrate in Portland, Steele said.

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Fowler also has been named as a suspect in the 1995 murders of two Oregon teenage girls and as a person of interest in a 1992 double homicide, according to the district attorney's office in Lincoln County, Oregon.

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Google has tested Managed Public Sessions with Dillards, The Hyatt in San Francisco and the Multnomah County Library in Oregon.

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Then Wright's parents offered to let the newlywed couple live on their family farm in rural Douglas County in southern Oregon until the couple bounced back.

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He "nailed the interview, " his new boss later told him, and landed the job as a county government-affairs director in Oregon City, Ore.

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Since this isolated county was created in 1882 in sagebrush-strewn central Oregon, its inhabitants have successfully picked 26 consecutive winners, from Grover Cleveland to Ronald Reagan.

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But even if Kitzhaber and Oregon lawmakers pass the public safety emergency bill, local legislative leaders and the county's governing body would have to consent to it.

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"A lot of sheriffs are now standing up and saying, 'Follow the Constitution, '" said Josephine County Sheriff Gil Gilbertson, whose territory covers the timbered mountains of southwestern Oregon.

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