Around the state

Published 12:00 am Friday, August 30, 2019

Police: Garbage truck ran over woman in sleeping bag — Police say a woman in a sleeping bag who was killed in a Eugene parking lot Monday was run over by a garbage truck. Investigators are still working to identify the woman, police spokeswoman Melinda McLaughlin said Wednesday. The driver, who works for recycling and garbage collection company SaniPac, was identified and found Monday hours after the woman was killed. McLaughlin said an investigation is ongoing and declined to release more information. No arrests or citations have been announced by police, and the driver hasn’t been publicly identified.

Judicial Department hit by phishing attack — Personal information of more than 6,000 people became exposed in a phishing attack on the Oregon Judicial Department. The department said Thursday the attack occurred at 4:30 a.m. on July 15, resulting in email accounts of five users being compromised. The accounts were disabled within four hours. The department is sending notices and providing credit monitoring services to the 6,607 affected people. The exposed personal information may include names, full and partial dates of birth, and some financial information. Some health information and Social Security numbers were exposed The department said it reported the breach to law enforcement and other agencies.

Motorcyclist dies after riding into cable; family sues — The family of an Oregon man who died after he rode his motorcycle into a steel cable strung across a road has filed a $2.3 million lawsuit against the owners of an Albany area farm. The lawsuit, filed by the family of Russel Davidson II, faults the farm owners for allegedly setting the cable across the dirt- and grass-covered road. The suit says there weren’t “no trespassing” signs, just small pink ribbons attached to the cable. The suit says on July 8, 2018, Davidson rode along the road that accessed the farm and other properties. When he reached a fork, the suit says he steered his motorcycle left and into the cable, which caught his neck and killed him.