Jobless benefits — State officials say that unemployment benefits for about 61,000 Oregonians delayed by a computer crash are expected to be paid a day late. Tom Fuller, spokesman for the state Employment Department, said people who filed claims on Sunday should see them deposited by Thursday, a day after they would have arrived. He says that about four dozen people who filed between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. Monday will have to refile their claims. That was shortly before the crash, and the agency lost the information. The delayed payments were among the disruptions cause by an overnight failure at the State Data Center. The center was back online Tuesday.

Commissioner affair — The chairman of the Multnomah County commissioners, considered a rising star among Democrats, has acknowledged an affair with a county employee. Jeff Cogen said he wouldn’t resign and denied that their relationship influenced the promotion the woman won. Cogen, who has two children, said he told his wife about the affair Tuesday, in part, “because I didn’t want her to hear it from someone else.” He said he’ll take time off to try to save the marriage. An email circulated among county workers led to Cogen’s announcement. It said employees have “spotted Chair Cogen kissing Sonia Manhas in front of the Kenton Library and in a booth and at a bar in Portland along with a few other ‘sightings.’”

Road rage lawsuit — An Idaho man who reported a road-rage encounter with a Portland police captain is suing the officer and city. In August 2011, Todd Wyatt waved his gun and badge in the window of his truck after he and Nicholas Cox took an Interstate 90 on-ramp near Post Falls. Wyatt says Cox cut him off. Cox says Wyatt was tailgating. The suit filed Tuesday seeks $255,000. It says the police bureau’s failure to discipline Wyatt for earlier acts likely led him to think he was above the law. Wyatt has been demoted to lieutenant, partly due to the off-duty confrontation. He was acquitted of a weapons charge in Idaho. Wyatt’s attorney said his client looks forward to an airing of the facts.

Killer denied parole — The Oregon parole board denied release for a man who killed another man with a hatchet 26 years ago in Portland. The board said Tuesday that Kevin Roper remains a threat to society, but it set a potential release date for him in 2016. Roper was among 30 killers affected by a 2011 state Supreme Court ruling that determined they had been in prison too long without a parole review. Roper was 19 when he pleaded guilty to aggravated murder in the 1987 death of Eddie Gibbs. The 20-year-old was robbed and hit in the head with a hatchet. The board also discussed parole for a second man convicted in the case and said it would decide within two weeks whether to release Scott Wickee.

— From wire reports