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WEATHER
East Oregonian
SUNDAY
MONDAY
Clouds breaking
and breezy
Mostly cloudy and
comfortable
Cooler with a
couple of showers
63° 36°
62° 42°
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
Rain and drizzle in
the p.m.
Partly sunny
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
56° 38°
57° 42°
63° 41°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
66° 32°
66° 40°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
Yesterday
Normals
Records
LOW
64°
56°
75° (1911)
38°
36°
18° (1913)
PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
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0.46"
0.87"
2.01"
3.61"
3.38"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
Yesterday
Normals
Records
LOW
60°
59°
76° (1947)
61° 37°
35°
35°
19° (1943)
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SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
First
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Mar 26
Apr 4
66° 39°
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Wenatchee
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62/37
Tacoma
Moses
57/36
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 64/31
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Kennewick Walla Walla
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64/41 Lewiston
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Astoria
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Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
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Pendleton 57/31
The Dalles 66/32
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La Grande
Salem
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Albany
Corvallis 61/40
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John Day
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Eugene
Bend
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Caldwell
Burns
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61/29
Medford
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PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
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Seattle
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ALMANAC
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7:08 p.m.
7:42 a.m.
9:14 p.m.
New
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Apr 18
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Brookings
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Enterprise
Eugene
Heppner
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John Day
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La Grande
Meacham
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London
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Oregon State University
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Kitzhaber acknowledges
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Target practice substance
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PORTLAND (AP) — A blast that killed
one person near U.S. Highway 26 between
Portland and Mount Hood is believed to
have been caused by a mixture that is used to
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BRIEFLY
CORVALLIS (AP) — The Oregon State
University Board of Trustees approved a
7.6 percent increase in tuition for in-state
residents.
Undergraduate tuition for an in-state
student taking 15 credit hours will be $8,535
a year in 2015-16 under the plan approved by
the board Thursday. Nonresident students will
pay $27,195, a 5.7 percent jump.
The Oregon Higher Education
Coordinating Commission must approve
the increases because they are greater than 5
percent.
The Corvallis Gazette-Times reported that
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phase-out of the university’s tuition plateau,
which previously gave a price break to
undergraduates taking 13-15 credit hours,
Board members said the action was
overdue, considering every other public
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“We really have no choice but to make
the transition. The question is how well we
do going forward in delivering our mission,”
Mike Thorne said. “For me it’s obviously the
right thing to do, as painful as it is.”
Graduate tuition will go up next year
by 2 percent for residents and 5 percent for
nonresidents.
Student incidental fees will rise by $33.54
per academic quarter on the Corvallis campus
and $35 a quarter on the Cascades campus in
Bend.
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WINDS
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Pendleton
Eastern Washington: Cloudy most of the
time today with a couple of showers, but
dry across the south.
Cascades: A brief shower or two today; in
the morning in central parts, any time across
the north.
Northern California: Clouds and sun today.
Mostly cloudy at the coast tonight; partly
cloudy elsewhere.
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Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Coastal Oregon: A couple of showers across
the north today; times of clouds and sun
elsewhere.
Eastern and Central Oregon: A stray
shower today; however, a brief shower or
two in central parts.
Western Washington: Showers around
today; clouds, then clouds and sun in the
afternoon.
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
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WORLD CITIES
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Klamath Falls
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Saturday, March 21, 2015
don’t suspect a criminal act.
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the blast site indicates the substance that
detonated is a mixture target shooters use
to make targets explode, so they can see
whether they hit them.
Laura Pramuk, spokeswoman for the
Mount Hood National Forest, said the blast
occurred in a ditch about 25 feet from the
road. The person who died has not yet been
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The explosion shut down part of busy U.S.
Highway 26 for most of the day on Thursday
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parked near the blast site and the surrounding
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disposal gear pulled items out of the vehicle
and examined them. A backpack was among
the items removed from the vehicle.
Brian Bennett, a Seattle-based spokesman
for the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
Firearms and Explosives, told The Oregonian
the blast left a large crater near the road.
Authorities have not yet said what led up
to the blast, or what the deceased was doing
with the mixture for exploding targets.
Teenager pleads guilty to rape
near Autzen Stadium
EUGENE (AP) — The young offender
accused of raping a woman during a
supervised group outing to an Oregon
football game has admitted his guilt.
The Register-Guard reports that 17-year-
old Jamie Tinoco of Portland pleaded guilty
Friday to rape, sexual abuse, assault and
kidnapping. Prosecutors will ask that he serve
more than 14 years in prison at Monday’s
sentencing in Eugene.
Tinoco’s attorney is expected to seek a
sentence of less than nine years.
Tinoco was arrested last September and
tried as an adult after a woman reported that
a stranger attacked her near Autzen Stadium.
The teenager was there to watch the Oregon-
Wyoming football game with 11 other youths
who were being supervised by counselors
from the Washington County Juvenile
Department.
Bend City Council narrowly
approves Mirror Pond plan
PORTLAND (AP) — The Bend City
Council approved a resolution to explore the
feasibility of a plan to replace the century-
old Mirror Pond dam and redevelop the
downtown riverfront.
The Bulletin newspaper says the council
approved the resolution 4-3 late Wednesday
despite objections from those who attended
the meeting.
The dam impounds the Deschutes River
downtown to create a lake popular for
recreational use.
Besides removing the dam, the proposal
calls for the addition of a natural-looking
structure that will maintain the current water
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property near the dam would become a public
plaza, while the historic brick powerhouse
would be preserved.
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National Summary: As snow pushes across northern New England ahead of expanding
cold air over the Upper Midwest, rain will expand from Texas to the lower Mississippi Valley
today. Rain is in the offing for the Northwest.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 90° in Ocala, Fla.
Low -18° in Clayton Lake, Maine
NATIONAL CITIES
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Atlanta
Atlantic City
Baltimore
Billings
Birmingham
Boise
Boston
Charleston, SC
Charleston, WV
Chicago
Cleveland
Dallas
Denver
Detroit
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Fairbanks
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Honolulu
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Oklahoma City
Omaha
Philadelphia
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