PORTLAND, Ore. — Tillamook County authorities say a 14-year-old boy lost his arm in a surfing accident in Pacific City.
Sheriff Todd Anderson said that Cole Ortega of Bend collided with a boat that was coming into shore Sunday morning.
Two emergency room physicians and a nurse happened to be at the beach at the time and stabilized the boy. A LifeFlight helicopter then transported him to a Portland hospital. Anderson says rescuers recovered the boy’s arm.
Alaska: Bear escapes after shooting
A remote section of Denali National Park is closed to the public after researchers shot an aggressive bear that then disappeared in dense brush. Park officials say the black bear charged the three researchers, who had been conducting a botany study along the McKinley River, late Friday or early Saturday.
Montana: Elk-killing proposal
Federal officials are considering a tentative proposal that calls for capturing or killing infected elk in Yellowstone National Park to eliminate a serious livestock disease carried by animals in the area. An estimated 95,000 elk populate the greater Yellowstone area in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. Experts estimate only a small percentage carry brucellosis, which causes pregnant cattle to abort their young. Humans are susceptible to the disease, but cases are rare and usually limited to those who work with infected cattle. Government agencies have killed more than 6,000 wild bison leaving Yellowstone over the last two decades in an attempt to contain brucellosis.
Florida: Tropical Storm Bertha could become a hurricane today
Forecasters say Tropical Storm Bertha likely will become the Atlantic season’s first hurricane today. Late Sunday, Bertha was centered about 930 miles east of the northern Leeward Islands in the Caribbean. Maximum sustained winds have increased to about 65 mph with some higher gusting. It’s still too early to say if or where Bertha will hit land. Meanwhile, a tropical depression scattered rains across Mexico’s Pacific coast on Sunday and the U.S. National Hurricane Center said it was likely to reach tropical storm force. A tropical storm watch remained between Lazaro Cardenas and Manzanillo, to the north.
Mexico: U.S. pilot dies in crash
A plane carrying a load of auto parts crashed Sunday as it was trying to land in the northern city of Ramos Arizpe, killing the pilot and seriously injuring the co-pilot, Mexican and U.S. officials said. The two are U.S. citizens, the officials said, but they declined to identify them. A civil defense chief said the co-pilot suffered second- and third-degree burns and was in critical condition at a hospital in the nearby city of Saltillo. The plane was carrying four tons of car parts it had picked up in Hamilton, Canada, for a General Motors plant in Ramos Arizpe.
@3. Headline News Briefs 14 no:U.S. not halting imports of cilantro, jalepeno peppers, Mexico insists
Mexico’s Agriculture Department is denying reports that the United States will close its borders to some Mexican produce. The department says it knows of no U.S. plan to stop imports of Mexican cilantro and jalapeno peppers, contrary to U.S. media reports. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is investigating the source of a rare salmonella outbreak that has sickened more than 900 people in the U.S.
Pakistan: 15 die in suicide attack
A suicide bomber targeted police officers in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, on Sunday, killing at least 15 people. The attack occurred in an intersection near a police station and a shopping center. Just moments before the explosion, an Associated Press reporter passed by the scene and saw more than 20 police gathered there. Afterward, the area was covered in blood, glass, police riot gear, and body parts.
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