Deer camp slayings — A retired judge will hear the case against a 14-year-old boy charged with killing his foster father and another man at a hunting cabin in the Blue Mountains of Eastern Oregon. Judge J. Burdette Pratt was reportedly appointed three weeks after District Attorney Ryan Joslin asked that Judge William Cramer be replaced. The trial administrator for Harney and Grant counties, Tammy Wheeler, said Oregon law doesn’t require an attorney to specify a reason for seeking a new judge, just to state a belief the judge can’t be fair and impartial. Pratt was presiding judge for Malheur County until he retired in 2012. The Oct. 3 slayings were at a hunting camp near Granite west of Baker City. The youth is jailed at The Dalles.

Mount Hood death — The Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office says homicide detectives are investigating a death at Mount Hood. Few details have been released, but Sgt. Robert Wurpes said deputies discovered the body Thursday after being called to a home at Government Camp. The police were reportedly called by a maintenance employee at Collins Lake Resort. The resort’s website features a review in which it is described as having the most luxurious and spacious accommodations on Mount Hood.

Meat company citation — Oregon workplace safety officials have cited a Springfield meat company for safety violations after a machine fractured an employee’s fingers. The state Division of Occupational Safety and Health said on Thursday it fined Bright Oaks Meat Inc. $7,850. The division said the accident occurred in August while a female worker was feeding meat into a tenderizing machine and her gloved right hand was pulled into the blades. Two of her fingers were severely fractured, and cuts to her hand required 60 stitches. Investigators found that a guard on the machine had been missing for two years and no effort was made to replace it. The agency also found that the business failed to report the overnight hospitalization to the state within 24 hours.

Missed court dates — A man who missed nine court appearances on a minor charge was sentenced Wednesday to 30 days in jail when he was finally taken into Clackamas County Circuit Court. Travis Antonio Gaters, 20, probably would have been fined $250 and avoided a criminal conviction if he had appeared as first required for riding TriMet in February 2012 without a valid fare. Prosecutor Bill Stewart said Gaters was picked up on a failure to appear charge and jailed seven times. But after he was arrested last week, Gaters was held for Wednesday’s hearing. Gaters pleaded guilty and apologized for his absences.