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• New hope to rename Portland street after Cesar Chavez
There’s a new move afoot to rename a Portland street for Cesar E. Chavez, the famed farm labor leader and activist who died in 1993.

• Oregon State Hospital patient captured after violent escape
An Oregon State Hospital patient overpowered staff and led Salem police on a wild chase Friday — hijacking a car, ramming a police cruiser and later trying to bolt from a hospital while undergoing X-rays.

• Oregon improves oversight of foster children
MILWAUKIE — It might seem like snooping, but when Danielle Santilli-Day looks inside a family’s cupboards and refrigerator she’s simply doing her job.

• Irishman’s family meets with district attorney
SILVERTON — The mother and other relatives of Andrew James “A.J.” Hanlon, the Irishman fatally shot by a Silverton police officer June 30, met with the Marion County district attorney’s staff for two hours Friday to discuss the investigation into the incident.

• Oregon House candidate in wrong district must leave race
Jeff Duyck must withdraw his candidacy as the Republican nominee for House District 29 by July 18, Secretary of State Bill Bradbury ruled Friday.

• Adams to Leonard: Study up on Portland Police Bureau
Mayor-elect Sam Adams, in a memo this week, asked City Commissioner Randy Leonard to start studying the local public safety system, signaling that he may tap Leonard to be the city’s next police commissioner.

• State university leaders get raises
Five Oregon public university presidents were given pay raises Friday, including Dave Frohnmayer, who got a 5 percent boost to $444,960 for his final year as president of the University of Oregon.