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WEATHER
East Oregonian
TODAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
Mostly cloudy
Times of clouds
and sun
Mostly sunny
61° 38°
60° 38°
SATURDAY
Sunny and
pleasant
Showers around;
windy, cooler
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
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67° 44°
57° 35°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
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65° 38°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
Yesterday
Normals
Records
LOW
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59°
81° (1934)
37°
38°
25° (1911)
PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
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Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
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4.82"
4.23"
HERMISTON
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TEMPERATURE
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Yesterday
Normals
Records
LOW
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63°
83° (1952)
67° 34°
41°
38°
22° (1939)
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2.81"
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SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
Last
New
Apr 11
Apr 18
6:25 a.m.
7:31 p.m.
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8:14 a.m.
First
Full
Apr 25
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Spokane
Wenatchee
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Tacoma
Moses
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Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 61/38
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Kennewick Walla Walla
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65/40 Lewiston
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Astoria
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Enterprise
Hermiston
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Pendleton 52/29
The Dalles 65/39
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Salem
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Albany
Corvallis 58/42
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Bend
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Caldwell
Burns
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Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
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Seattle
58/41
ALMANAC
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
FRIDAY
Today
Astoria
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Burns
Enterprise
Eugene
Heppner
Hermiston
John Day
Klamath Falls
La Grande
Meacham
Medford
Newport
North Bend
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Redmond
Salem
Spokane
Ukiah
Vancouver
Walla Walla
Yakima
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Eastern Washington: Mostly cloudy today;
a brief shower or two toward the Cascades.
Mostly cloudy tonight.
Cascades: Cloudy today with a few showers;
chilly.
Western Washington: Mostly cloudy today
and tonight; a brief shower or two across
the south.
Northern California: A couple of thun-
derstorms today; snow, accumulating 1-2
inches in the interior mountains.
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PORTLAND (AP) — Uber is close to
returning to Portland.
The city’s Private For-Hire Innovation
Task Force released details Monday of a
120-day pilot program that would allow ride-
sharing companies such as Uber and Lyft to
operate legally.
Uber launched Portland service in
December, but quickly stopped after the
city took legal action. The sides agreed to
let things settle for a few months while the
task force established regulations that would
cover ride-sharing companies.
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to have liability insurance and background
checks.
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hometown.
A 28-year-old Albany man, Zachary
Burghart, has been jailed on an arson charge,
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mental problems.
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not the result of a vendetta against the
school.
Federal agency: No protection
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National Summary: Rain will stretch from the lower Midwest states to the mid-Atlantic
and southern New England today, while isolated, strong thunderstorms rattle the southern
Plains. California will have a rare wet day.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 93° in Childress, Texas
Low -19° 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
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GRANTS PASS (AP) — Federal
biologists have decided that no Endangered
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forest predator that is a relative of the weasel.
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stretch from the Columbia River to Sonoma
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at South Albany High School were back in
science.
class Monday, with a makeshift lunchroom
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in the gym and what the principal called a
for Biological Diversity, says the group will
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before classes, KOIN-TV reported.
2-year-old reported drowned
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in Southern Oregon ditch
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everybody off to the right start today.”
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He said hundreds of people and
say a 2-year-old girl has died after falling
businesses, churches and groups have
into a Southern Oregon irrigation ditch.
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unloaded with band instruments that have
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hospital.
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Oregon committee advances bill
expanding background checks
By SHEILA V KUMAR
Associated Press
SALEM — Despite
staunch opposition from
gun-rights activists, an Or-
egon Senate committee ad-
vanced a proposal Monday
that requires background
checks before any private
gun sales that don’t involve
close relatives.
The Senate Judiciary
Committee approved the
measure requiring gun buy-
ers and sellers who aren’t
related to appear in person
before a licensed dealer
who can run a background
check through the Oregon
State Police.
Proponents say the
plan closes a loophole that
wasn’t anticipated before
the advent of Internet gun
transactions and makes
it harder for people with
mental illnesses and vio-
lent criminal records to get
guns.
Critics say background
check requirements are
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disproportionally burden
law-abiding citizens while
trampling Second Amend-
ment rights.
The bill passed 3-2, with
a pair of Republicans voting
“no.”
In opposition, Sen. Kim
Thatcher, a Keizer Re-
publican, introduced an
amendment that would
have removed the back-
ground check requirement
and made it a misdemean-
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someone on a prohibited
list, which includes felons,
violent offenders, minors
and the mentally ill. Her re-
visions weren’t included.
Roseburg Republican
Sen. Jeff Kruse, meanwhile,
said he may bring a substi-
tute measure on the Senate
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heads.
The committee vote was
a key early step for one of
the most heavily debated is-
sues of the session.
A hearing on the bill last
week drew hours of testi-
mony, including emotional
support from relatives of
victims killed in the Clacka-
mas mall shooting and pas-
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said they wouldn’t enforce
the bill if it passes.
Oregon law already goes
further than federal law
by requiring background
checks at gun shows. This
bill would make it the sixth
state to pass a law requiring
such background checks
since the Connecticut el-
ementary school shooting
rampage.
Two previous attempts to
expand background checks
in Oregon have failed.
Democrats
increased
their Senate majority by
two seats in last year’s elec-
tion, however, and support-
ers think they have enough
votes to pass the proposal
into law this session.
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