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Thursday, August 13, 2015 NATION/WORLD East Oregonian Page 7A BRIEFLY Judge orders Kentucky clerk to issue gay marriage licenses AP Photo/Ng Han Guan Chinese police help a man to safety near the site of an explosion in northeastern China’s Tianjin municipality on Thursday. Chinese state media reported huge explosions at the Tianjin port late Wednesday. Hundreds injured, 17 killed as huge warehouse blasts hit Chinese port explosion. Like surrounding buildings, the Mediterranean style complex had all its TIANJIN, China — Huge windows blown out, and explosions in a warehouse some of its surfaces were district sent up massive scorched. ¿UHEDOOV WKDW WXUQHG WKH “It’s lucky no one had night sky into day, killing at moved in,” said a worker on least 17 people and injuring the site, Liu Junwei, 29. “But hundreds in the Chinese port for us it’s a total loss. Two FLW\ RI 7LDQMLQ RI¿FLDOV DQG years of hard work down the witnesses said Thursday. drain.” China’s state broadcaster, “It had been all quiet, then CCTV, said that at least 17 the sky just lit up brighter people were killed in the than day and it looked like a explosions late Wednesday ¿UHZRUNVVKRZ´VDLGDQRWKHU and that 32 were in critical Yue Yuewei/Xinhua via AP worker on the site who gave condition in hospital. Hundreds of others were In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency smoke just his surname, Li. and fire erupt into the night sky after an explosion in In one neighborhood taken to hospital. Binhai New Area in north China’s Tianjin Munici- about 10 to 20 kilometers The blasts, originating at the pality on Thursday. (6 to 12 miles) from the a warehouse for hazardous blast site, some residents material, knocked doors off VRPH XQLGHQWL¿HG \HOORZ tons. buildings in the area and IRDPÀRZLQJDWWKHVLWH The explosions took place were sleeping on the street shattered windows up to Police in Tianjin said in a mostly industrial zone, wearing gas masks, although several miles away. an initial blast took place with some apartment build- there was no perceptible “I thought it was an at shipping containers in a ings in the vicinity. Buildings problem with the air apart earthquake, so I rushed warehouse for hazardous of a half-dozen other logistics from massive clouds of downstairs without my shoes materials owned by Ruihai companies were destroyed smoke seen in the distance. “It was like what we were on,” Tianjin resident Zhang Logistics, a company that in the blasts, and more than Siyu, whose home is several says it is properly approved 1,000 new Renault cars told a nuclear bomb would be kilometers from the blast site, to handle such materials. were left charred in a nearby like,” said truck driver Zhao said in a telephone interview. State media said senior parking lot, the Beijing News Zhencheng, who spent the night in the cab of his truck. “Only once I was outside did management of the company said. I realize it was an explosion. had been detained by author- Photos taken by “I’ve never even thought 7KHUH ZDV WKH KXJH ¿UHEDOO ities, and that President Xi bystanders and circulating on I’d see such a thing. It was in the sky with thick clouds. Jinping has demanded severe microblogs show a gigantic terrifying but also beautiful.” At the nearby Taida Everybody could see it.” punishment for anyone ¿UHEDOOKLJKLQWKHVN\ZLWK Zhang said she could see found responsible for the a mushroom-cloud. Other Hospital as dawn broke, mili- wounded people weeping. explosions. photos on state media outlets tary medical tents were set She said she did not see 7KHRI¿FLDO;LQKXD1HZV VKRZHG D VHD RI ¿UH WKDW up. Photos circulating online anyone who had been killed, agency said an initial explo- painted the night sky bright showed patients in bandages but “I could feel death.” sion triggered other blasts at orange, with tall plumes of and with cuts. State broadcaster There was no indication nearby businesses. smoke. of what caused the blasts, The National Earthquake About 1.2 miles from the CCTV said six battalions and no immediate sign of any Bureau reported two major explosion site is the luxury RI ¿UH¿JKWHUV KDG EURXJKW large release of toxic chemi- blasts before midnight, the Fifth Avenue apartment WKH HQVXLQJ ¿UH XQGHU cals into the air. The Beijing ¿UVW ZLWK DQ HTXLYDOHQW RI complex on a road strewn control, although it was still News newspaper reported tons of TNT, and the second with broken glass and pieces burning in the early hours of on its website that there was with the equivalent of 21 of charred metal thrown from Thursday. Associated Press Ernest Hemingway’s Idaho house listed on national register By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE — An Idaho house where Ernest Hemingway wrote his last works before killing himself in the main entryway in 1961 has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Nature Conservancy owns the two-story, 2,500-square-foot house in the central Idaho resort town of Ketchum and announced the listing Tuesday. “We’re looking at ways to honor and also build on the literary legacy that Hemingway brought,” said Lou Lunte, the group’s deputy state director. Hemingway experts say the famed author worked on “A Moveable Feast” and “The Dangerous Summer” at the house he owned from April 1959 until his suicide in July 1961 at age 61 when, biographers say, he feared he had lost the ability to write to his standards. The National Park Service, which manages the National Register, said the Ernest and Mary Hemingway House was listed because of its ability to provide insights about Hemingway. The Nobel Prize winner was drawn to WKH UHJLRQ IRU LWV KXQWLQJ DQG ¿VKLQJ said Paul Lusignan, a historian with the National Register. The death of Hemingway wasn’t a deciding factor to include the house, but Lusignan said it did play a role. The house is “associated with a part of his career in which he had lost the ability to write as he previously had,” Lusignan said. “He lived a full life and he was going out on his own terms. I WKLQN WKDW UHÀHFWV WKH SHUVRQD WKDW KH created for himself.” AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File This 2007 file photo shows an exterior view of the house formerly owned by Ernest Hemingway outside Ketchum, Idaho. The Idaho house where Hemingway wrote his last works before killing himself in the main entryway in 1961 has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Nature Conservancy owns the two-story, 2,500-square-foot house in the central Idaho resort town of Ketchum and announced the listing Tuesday. The 1950s house contains an aston- ishing array of the author’s personal possessions rarely seen by the public. Because of zoning restrictions, The Nature Conservancy allows visits to the house by invitation only. Mary Hemingway, who died in 1986, gave the house to The Nature Conservancy. The group used it as a ¿HOGRI¿FHIRUDWLPHEHIRUHRXWJURZLQJ LWDQGPRYLQJWRRWKHURI¿FHV7KHKRXVH has an astonishing array of the author’s personal possessions and mid-1950s decor. “It’s sort of frozen in the mid-cen- tury time period,” said Tricia Canaday of Idaho’s State Historic Preservation 2I¿FH³,W¶VJRWDOOKLVVWXIILQLWWKDW¶V what’s so amazing. His boots are sitting E\ WKH ¿UHSODFH DQG KLV WUDYHO WUXQN where he painted ‘Hemingway’ on it.” Lunte said The Nature Conservancy hopes to start a writer-in-residence program at the house and is also collab- orating with The Community Library to link Hemingway to sites and stories LQWKHDUHDZKHUHWKHOLWHUDU\JLDQW¿UVW arrived in the 1930s. /XVLJQDQ QRWHG WKHUH DUH QRZ ¿YH homes in the U.S. listed on the National Register due to Hemingway having OLYHGRUVSHQWVLJQL¿FDQWWLPHLQWKHP One of the most visited is Hemingway’s former home in Key West, Florida. FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A county clerk in Kentucky will not immediately issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, her lawyer says, despite a federal judge ordering her to do so Wednesday in a case that seeks to reconcile the country’s new marriage law and its protections of religious freedom. Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis was one of a handful of local elected RI¿FLDOVDFURVVWKHFRXQWU\ that stopped issuing all marriage licenses after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide in June. Two gay couples and two straight couples sued her in federal court in the ¿UVWODZVXLWRILWVNLQG County clerks issue marriage licenses in Kentucky, but someone else must “solemnize” the marriage before the license FDQEH¿OHGZLWKWKH county clerk. Davis argued that issuing a marriage license to a same-sex couple that contains her signature is the same as her approving the marriage, which she said violates her Christian beliefs. But U.S. District Judge David Bunning rejected that argument, saying Davis has likely violated the U.S. Constitution’s ban on the government establishing a religion by “openly adopting a policy that promotes her own religious convictions at the expenses of others.” Email troubles persisting, Clinton camp reassures backers WASHINGTON (AP) — Try as she might to focus on the policies she wants to enact if elected president, Hillary Rodham Clinton just can’t dig out of her inbox. Clinton’s email problems are getting worse. She agreed to turn over her private server to the Justice Department this week on the same day Congress got word that at least two emails that traversed the device while she was secretary of state contained information that warranted one of the government’s highest OHYHOVRIFODVVL¿FDWLRQ The developments suggest the investigation into the security of Clinton’s email setup could run deep into 2016, as she is trying to win the Democratic nomination for president and, potentially, the general election. Clinton campaign aides argue there’s nothing for LQYHVWLJDWRUVWR¿QGDQG the State Department says it’s not yet clear if the material at issue ought to EHFRQVLGHUHGFODVVL¿HG at all. What worries Clinton’s team is the lingering whiff of political scandal in a tightening primary race, and they pushed back hard on Wednesday, trying their best to dismiss the matter as nothing more than politics. “Look, this kind of nonsense comes with the territory of running for president. We know it, Hillary knows it, and we expect it to continue from now until Election Day,” campaign communications director Jennifer Palmieri wrote in an email to campaign supporters. While her Democratic rivals have yet to seize on the issue, it has become a major part of the GOP case against Clinton. Member of infamous ‘San Quentin 6’ killed by fellow inmate SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — An inmate involved in a bloody 1971 San Quentin escape attempt that left six dead has been killed by a fellow prisoner, corrections RI¿FLDOVVDLG:HGQHVGD\ The slaying of Hugo Pinell, 71, triggered a riot Wednesday that grew to involve about 70 inmates at a maximum security prison east of Sacramento, said California Department of Corrections spokeswoman Dana Simas. ³+HZDVGH¿QLWHO\ the target,” Simas said. She would not give more information about the alleged attacker for his own protection. Once Pinell was attacked in a California State Prison, Sacramento, exercise yard by his fellow inmate, “everyone else joined in,” Simas said, including members of multiple prison gangs. Eleven other inmates were taken to an outside hospital to be treated for stab wounds.
