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Pasco man from behind
By ANNE FLAHERTY
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Internet activ-
ists declared victory over the nation’s
big cable companies Thursday, after the
Federal Communications Commission
voted to impose the toughest rules yet
on broadband service to prevent compa-
nies like Comcast, Verizon and AT&T
from creating paid fast lanes and slow-
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The 3-2 vote ushered in a new era
of government oversight for an indus-
try that has seen relatively little. It rep-
resents the biggest regulatory shake-up
to telecommunications providers in al-
most two decades.
The new rules require that any com-
pany providing a broadband connection
to your home or phone must act in the
“public interest” and refrain from using
“unjust or unreasonable” business prac-
tices. The goal is to prevent providers
from striking deals with content pro-
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move their data faster.
“Today is a red-letter day for Inter-
net freedom,” said FCC Chairman Tom
Wheeler, whose remarks at Thursday’s
meeting frequently prompted applause
by Internet activists in the audience.
President Barack Obama, who had
come out in favor of net neutrality in the
fall, portrayed the decision as a victory
for democracy in the digital age. In an
online letter, he thanked the millions
who wrote to the FCC and spoke out on
social media in support of the change.
“Today’s FCC decision will protect
innovation and create a level playing
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SPOKANE (AP) — An
independent autopsy of
an unarmed Mexican man
killed by police in Wash-
ington state shows he was
shot as many as seven times
— including twice from be-
hind — contradicting earlier
statements from authorities,
an attorney for the man’s
family said Thursday.
The second autopsy was
commissioned by lawyer
Charles Herrmann, who is
representing Antonio Zam-
brano-Montes’ estranged
wife and two daughters.
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after a spokesman for a spe-
cial unit investigating the
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six bullets struck Zambra-
no-Montes, but none from
behind.
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ly with statements made by
local law enforcement au-
thorities,” Herrmann said in
a statement.
Zambrano-Montes,
a
35-year-old Mexican immi-
grant, was shot after throw-
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death has prompted calls for
a federal investigation, along
with a series of demonstra-
tions in Pasco, an agricul-
tural center with 68,000
residents about 130 miles
southwest of Spokane.
A Seattle pathologist, Dr.
Carl Wigren, performed the
independent autopsy Feb.
20. Herrmann released a
portion of the report Thurs-
day.
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of as many as seven rounds
striking Zambrano,” the at-
torney said. It also found
entry wounds on the back
of the victim’s right arm and
one buttock, he said.
The independent autopsy
determined the Pasco or-
chard worker also was shot
in the face, stomach, chest,
arm and scrotum, according
to a diagram provided by
Herrmann.
At a news conference
Wednesday,
Kennewick
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Federal Communication Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler, cen-
ter, joins hands with FCC Commissioners Mignon Clyburn, left, and Jes-
sica Rosenworcel, before the start of their open hearing and vote on net
neutrality in Washington, Thursday.
the Twitter hashtag (hash)Throwback-
Thursday to draw attention to the FCC’s
reliance on 1934 legislation to regulate
the Internet. Likewise, AT&T suggested
the FCC had damaged its reputation as
an independent federal regulator by em-
bracing such a liberal policy.
“Does anyone really think Wash-
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senior executive vice president for ex-
ternal and legislative affairs.
Net neutrality is the idea that web-
sites or videos load at about the same
speed. That means you won’t be more
inclined to watch a particular show on
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because Amazon has struck a deal with
your service provider to load its data
faster.
For years, providers mostly agreed
not to pick winners and losers among
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encourage regulators to step in and be-
cause they said consumers demanded it.
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became increasingly popular. On-de-
mand video began hogging bandwidth,
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telling consumers.
By 2010, the FCC enacted open In-
ternet rules, but the agency’s legal ap-
proach was eventually struck down in
the courts. The vote Thursday was in-
tended by Wheeler to erase any legal
ambiguity by no longer classifying the
Internet as an “information service” but
a “telecommunications service” subject
to Title II of the 1934 Communications
Act.
That would dramatically expand
regulators’ power over the industry and
hold broadband providers to the higher
standard of operating in the public in-
terest.
Oracle lawsuit: Kitzhaber advisers manipulated Cover Oregon
PORTLAND (AP) — Or-
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lawsuit accusing former Gov.
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consultants of orchestrat-
ing the abandonment of the
now-defunct Cover Oregon
health insurance exchange
portal to assist his re-election
effort.
The lawsuit restates Or-
acle’s argument made in a
previous lawsuit that Ore-
gon, and not the technology
company, was responsible
for problems that led to the
portal’s failure to launch in
2013. Oregon hired Oracle
as the main technology con-
tractor to build Cover Ore-
gon.
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Multnomah County Court,
Oracle alleges that, despite
initial failures, the portal
could have fully launched in
early 2014. It didn’t launch,
it says, because consul-
tants with Kitzhaber’s 2014
re-election campaign manip-
ulated the state to shut down
the exchange.
The company alleges
this was done to protect
Kitzhaber, a former emer-
gency room doctor who
prided himself on health care
issues, from political fallout
from Cover Oregon’s initial
failures.
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the Cover Oregon portal last
spring and switched to the
federal portal, www.health-
care.gov.
Kitzhaber resigned earli-
er this month amid an ethics
scandal surrounding him and
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Oracle’s lawsuit names
campaign consultants Patri-
cia McCaig, Kevin Looper,
Scott Nelson, Tim Raphael
and Mark Wiener as defen-
dants. They could not be im-
mediately reached for com-
ment.
According to the suit, the
advisers failed to disclose
that they were paid campaign
operatives acting to re-elect
the governor, rather than pol-
icy advisers.
Oracle is seeking $33 mil-
lion in damages.
Previously, some politi-
cians have suggested that the
decision to abandon the Cov-
er Oregon exchange - funded
with $305 million in federal
grants — was based on elec-
tion-year politics.
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the Oregon Department of
Administrative
Services,
notifying it may sue former
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former chief of staff Mike
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breach of contract complaint
in August, blaming the state
for poorly managing Cover
Oregon. That was followed
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against Oracle that accuses
the company of shoddy work
in building the exchange.
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Police Sgt. Ken Lattin was
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questions to county prosecu-
tor Shawn Sant, who did not
immediately return a tele-
phone message from The
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