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Gov. Tina Kotek speaks to reporters at a press event in April 2023 in Salem.
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Penny Webber (right) is one of the first three students at Forest Grove High School to receive her medical assistant certification. As a 12th grader, she was hired on at Mountain View Medical Center.
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A multimillion-dollar lawsuit has been filed and police are investigating allegations that a nurse repeatedly stole narcotics prescribed for patients and replaced them with tap water at Asante Rogue River Medical Center in Medford, Oregon.
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Pictured, a team at Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center in Medford cared for a COVID-19 patient in the intensive care unit during the pandemic.
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The Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse in downtown Portland, Oregon.
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Quinn Coburn is a longtime meth user. The Grass Valley, California, man is now getting sober in a new state program that pays amphetamine users to stay clean. “It saved me,” Coburn says on a bright afternoon in April.
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A pair of dairy cows.
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