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Newspaper Page TextWEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast THURSDAY TODAY Mostly cloudy with a bit of snow Cloudy 42° 30° 40° 26° FRIDAY SATURDAY Mainly cloudy, ﬂ urries; chilly Chilly with some sun 32° 21° Cloudy and cold 32° 24° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 45° 31° 42° 26° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 43° 33° 39° 25° 68° (1933) -15° (1983) 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 Trace 2.03" 1.10" 9.84" 12.33" 12.57" HERMISTON through 3 p.m. yesterday LOW John Day 36/26 Ontario 36/26 Bend 34/21 46° 37° 38° 27° 70° (1933) -13° (1983) 0.01" 1.51" 1.07" 6.90" 7.00" 9.54" SUN AND MOON Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today Full Last Jan 1 New 7:34 a.m. 4:15 p.m. 3:18 p.m. 5:20 a.m. First Jan 9 Jan 16 Caldwell 38/30 Burns 30/19 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 Hi 48 34 34 46 30 31 47 39 45 36 34 37 35 43 46 49 36 44 42 46 39 45 31 34 44 42 39 Lo 39 18 21 38 19 18 35 27 31 26 24 25 25 34 38 39 26 31 30 36 22 36 25 22 36 31 24 W r sn sf r sf sn sh c c sf sf c c sh r r sf c c sh sf sh sn c sh c c NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Thu. Hi 45 30 32 45 28 28 43 36 42 34 30 34 33 40 45 48 34 41 40 43 35 43 32 32 42 40 35 Lo 35 14 15 33 9 12 32 22 26 18 17 18 18 28 37 36 19 24 26 35 16 33 18 18 34 25 19 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W sh sf c r c sf r c c c sn sf c sn r r sn c c sn c r c c sn c c WORLD CITIES Today Hi 45 74 55 52 70 42 55 59 48 75 51 Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo Lo 20 68 37 48 42 39 47 41 27 66 47 W pc c s pc pc r c pc pc pc r Thu. Hi 41 74 54 53 74 42 55 59 40 75 58 Lo 17 61 37 42 42 32 45 39 22 66 49 W s c s sh pc c pc pc pc pc pc WINDS Medford 43/34 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 Dec 25 Albany 46/36 Eugene 47/35 TEMPERATURE Yesterday Normals Records 32° 25° Spokane Wenatchee 31/25 32/25 Tacoma Moses 44/34 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 32/25 34/24 45/36 44/34 39/24 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 45/37 42/31 Lewiston 43/33 Astoria 39/30 48/39 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 46/36 Pendleton 31/18 The Dalles 45/31 42/30 44/31 La Grande Salem 37/25 45/36 Corvallis 46/36 HIGH 34° 23° Seattle 44/36 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 38° 21° Today SUNDAY PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 35° 16° Wednesday, December 23, 2015 (in mph) Boardman Pendleton Klamath Falls 34/24 REGIONAL FORECAST Eastern Washington: Mostly cloudy today; a bit of snow, accumulating up to an inch in the north and east. Cascades: Snow, heavy at times today with accumulations of 6-12 inches. Additional snow tonight. Northern California: Snow showers moun- tains today; spotty showers at the coast. Increasing rain coast tonight. Thursday SW 4-8 SW 4-8 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. Coastal Oregon: Periods of rain today. Periods of rain, some heavy tonight. Periods of rain tomorrow. Eastern and Central Oregon: Variable clouds today; a snow shower, except a bit of snow across the north. Western Washington: Mostly cloudy today with showers, most numerous along the coast. A few showers tonight. Today SW 8-16 WSW 10-20 0 0 1 0 0-2, Low 3-5, Moderate 6-7, High; 8-10, Very High; 11+, Extreme The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num- ber, the greater the need for eye and skin protection. Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2015 Didn’t receive your paper? &all 1--522-255 EeIore noon 7Xesday tKroXJK )riday or EeIore 1 a.m. SatXrday for same-day redelivery 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. Main St., Hermiston 541-567-6211 2I¿Fe KoXrs Monday tKroXJK )riday, a.m. to 5 S.m. &losed maMor Kolidays www.eastoregonian.com To subscribe, call 1-800-522-0255 or go online to www.eastoregonian.com and click on ‘Subscribe’ East 2reJonian (USPS 164-980) is SXElisKed daily e[FeSt SXnday, Monday and 'eF. 25, Ey tKe E2 Media *roXS, 211 S.E. Byers Ave. Pendleton, 25 71. PeriodiFals SostaJe Said at Pendleton, 25. Postmaster: send address FKanJes to East 2reJonian, 211 S.E. Byers Ave. Pendleton, 25 71. E=Pay 52 ZeeNs 26 ZeeNs 13 ZeeNs E= Pay 0 8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m. Subscriber services: For home delivery, vacation stops or delivery concerns: 1-800-522-0255 — Founded Oct. 16, 1875 — 0 SUBSCRIPTION RATES /oFal Kome delivery SavinJs off Fover SriFe 14.5 41 SerFent 173.67 41 SerFent 1.6 3 SerFent 47.77 36 SerFent one-year rate ZitK a montKly Fredit or deEit FardFKeFN FKarJe Single copy price: 1 7Xesday tKroXJK )riday, 1.5 SatXrday -10s -0s showers t-storms 0s 10s rain ﬂurries 30s 40s snow ice 50s 60s cold front 70s 80s 90s 100s warm front stationary front 110s high low National Summary: Areas of rain and fog will affect the East today with locally severe storms over the Ohio and lower Mississippi valleys. Coastal rain with mountain and inland snow will affect a large part of the West. Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 85° in Fort Myers, Fla. Low 8° in Poplar, Mont. NATIONAL CITIES Today Albuquerque Atlanta Atlantic City Baltimore Billings Birmingham Boise Boston Charleston, SC Charleston, WV Chicago Cleveland Dallas Denver Detroit El Paso Fairbanks Fargo Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Jacksonville Kansas City Las Vegas Little Rock Los Angeles Hi 50 71 62 66 25 74 36 54 77 71 61 63 75 39 61 64 -4 28 83 79 64 82 57 58 74 66 Lo 29 67 60 61 16 67 27 51 67 64 37 57 53 16 50 45 -20 14 73 56 47 67 34 38 52 46 W c r r r pc r sf r r t r c s sf c s sf sf pc c r c sh pc t pc Thur. Hi 46 76 68 76 27 77 35 68 79 70 45 60 70 32 54 63 -15 21 83 78 56 82 46 56 71 62 Lo 32 66 60 59 8 67 21 56 64 54 31 41 50 14 37 41 -25 14 73 68 41 64 32 41 54 46 W c c pc t pc c sn c pc sh pc pc s pc pc s s pc sh c pc pc pc pc s c Today Louisville Memphis Miami Milwaukee Minneapolis Nashville New Orleans New York City Oklahoma City Omaha Philadelphia Phoenix Portland, ME Providence Raleigh Rapid City Reno Sacramento St. Louis Salt Lake City San Diego San Francisco Seattle Tucson Washington, DC Wichita Hi 70 74 84 57 39 72 80 64 63 44 67 65 49 58 74 32 42 56 69 33 65 56 44 66 68 53 Lo 59 59 75 34 25 61 68 63 36 28 65 50 43 54 67 9 29 39 47 20 53 45 36 48 64 34 W t t pc r sn t r r s r r pc pc r r pc c c r sf pc c sh pc r s Thur. Hi 68 75 84 42 29 75 79 73 57 40 77 66 60 67 78 35 38 53 58 34 64 52 42 66 77 50 Lo 52 59 76 29 23 58 68 59 36 28 59 48 48 55 66 11 23 34 40 20 53 43 34 43 61 33 W pc pc pc pc c pc t c s sn t sh sh c c pc sn r s c pc r c c t s Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice. ADVERTISING Advertising Director: Jennine Perkinson 541-27-263 MSerkinson#eastoreJonian.Fom NEWS To submit news tips and press releases: Fall 541-66-1 fa[ 541-276-314 email neZs#eastoreJonian.Fom Multimedia consultants 7erri BriJJs 541-215-447 tEriJJs#eastoreJonian.Fom Jeanne JeZett 541-364-4531 MMeZett#eastoreJonian.Fom .im /aPlant 541-564-453 klaSlant#eastoreJonian.Fom 'ayle Stinson 541-66-6 dstinson#eastoreJonian.Fom To submit community events, calendar items and Your EO News: email FommXnity#eastoreJonian.Fom or Fall 7ammy MalJesini in Hermiston at 541-564-453 or 5enee StrXtKers in Pendleton at 541-66-1. ClassiÀed Advertising: 1--62-21 Flassi¿eds#eastoreJonian.Fom Legal Advertising: Amanda JaFoEs 541-27-263 aMaFoEs#eastoreJonian.Fom Real Estate Advertising: Jodi Snook 541-27-267 Msnook#eastoreJonian.Fom Copyright © 2015, EO Media Group 20s To submit engagements, weddings and anniversaries: email rstrXtKers#eastoreJonian.Fom or visit ZZZ.eastoreJonian. FomFommXnityannoXnFements To submit a Letter to the Editor: mail to ManaJinJ Editor 'aniel :attenEXrJer, 211 S.E. Byers Ave. Pendleton, 25 71 or email editor#eastoreJonian.Fom. To submit sports or outdoors information or tips: 541-66-3 sSorts#eastoreJonian.Fom COMMERCIAL PRINTING Production Manager: Steve .noEEe 541-66-25 sknoEEe#eastoreJonian.Fom Audit cites evidence testing backlog at OSP labs LQFUHDVH HI¿FLHQF\ ZLWK technology investments and process changes. They SALEM — A backlog recommended additional of untested forensic strategies to enhance the evidence at Oregon State ÀRZ RI FDVHZRUN DQG Police laboratories has to eliminate duplication ballooned by 90 percent of work. For instance, since 2005, fueled by they recommended more increased demand, inef- strategic planning such as ¿FLHQW SUDFWLFHV DQG VWDII using data to manage work- shortages and vacancies, loads and project needs for according to a Secretary of additional resources. OSP laboratories take State’s audit. On average, the agen- an average of 65 days to cy’s Forensics Division test evidence, according takes about twice as long to the audit. The National to test forensic evidence Institute of Justice stan- than national standards, the dards call for evidence to be tested within 30 days. audit showed. “The quality and reli- But auditors also noted ability of forensic testing is that backlogs also are a extremely important to the problem in other parts of criminal justice system,” the nation. Oregon’s backlog now the auditors wrote. “If the best evidence is not stands about 3,700 cases. submitted in court, the In 2014, OSP received guilty may go unpunished 29,500 requests for testing. or an innocent person may The demand for testing has surged by 31 percent since lose their liberty.” Auditors said the 2005 with only “marginal” Forensics Division has staff increases, the audit already taken steps to stated. By PARIS ACHEN Capital Bureau AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, ile In this 2011 ile photo, inmates walk past correctional oficers at the Washington Corrections Center in Shelton, Wash. Gov. Jay Inslee said Tuesday that more than 3,000 prisoners in Washington have been mistakenly released early since 2002 because of an error by the state’s Department of Corrections. More than 3,000 Washington prisoners mistakenly freed early of the errors were 100 days or less. In some cases, inmates were released just a few days OLYMPIA — More than early, but at least one person 3,000 prisoners in Wash- who is still incarcerated had ington have been mistakenly a release date that was off by released early since 2002 about 600 days. Based on a prior Supreme because of an error by the state’s Department of Correc- Court ruling, most of the tions that resulted in wrongly affected offenders won’t have calculated sentences for about WRJREDFNWRSULVRQ%XWRI¿- 3 percent of the prison popu- FLDOV KDYH LGHQWL¿HG DW OHDVW seven prisoners who were lation. At a news conference freed but haven’t reached their announcing the error Tuesday, corrected release date yet, Gov. Jay Inslee said he has and they will need to return ordered immediate steps to prison. Five of them have to correct the longstanding already been re-incarcerated. The Department of computer glitch. “Frankly, it is maddening,” &RUUHFWLRQV ZDV ¿UVW DOHUWHG to the error in December Inslee said. Authorities say a July 2012, when a victim’s family 2002 state Supreme Court learned of a prisoner’s ruling required the Correc- imminent release. The family tions Department to apply did its own calculations and good-behavior credits earned found he was being credited in county jail to state prison with too much time. A timeline provided by the sentences. However, the SURJUDPPLQJ ¿[ HQGHG JRYHUQRU¶V RI¿FH VKRZV WKH up giving prisoners with agency consulted with attor- sentencing enhancements too neys regarding the error the much so-called good time same month and scheduled a ¿[IRUWKHSURJUDP+RZHYHU credit. Sentencing enhancements WKHFRGLQJ¿[ZDVUHSHDWHGO\ include additional time delayed, and the governor given for certain crimes, says he didn’t learn of the OLNH WKRVH XVLQJ ¿UHDUPV issue until last week, when or those committed near FRUUHFWLRQV¶ RI¿FLDOV QRWL¿HG schools. Under state law, his staff. “For reasons we still don’t prisoners who get extra time for sentencing enhancements \HW IXOO\ XQGHUVWDQG WKDW ¿[ cannot have that time reduced never happened,” Brown said. Corrections Department for good behavior. An analysis showed as Secretary Dan Pacholke, many as 3,200 offenders were who took over as head of the released early, and another agency in October and just 3,100 who are still incarcer- learned of the error last week, ated had inaccurate release also said he couldn’t yet explain what happened. dates. “How that did not rise up Inslee’s general counsel, Nicholas Brown, said most in the agency to the highest By RACHEL LA CORTE Associated Press levels is not clear to me,” he said. %URZQVDLGRI¿FLDOVGRQ¶W yet have a complete list of prisoners affected. The Corrections Department and JRYHUQRU¶V RI¿FH KDYH QRW released the names of those inmates who have been sent back to prison, or the name of the family who alerted the agency to the problem. When asked if any of the prisoners who were released early committed additional crimes, Brown said, “We don’t have the answer to that.” Inslee told corrections RI¿FLDOVWRVWRSUHOHDVLQJSULV- oners affected by the glitch until a hand calculation is done to ensure the offender is being released on the correct GDWH$EURDG¿[WRWKHVRIW- ware problem is expected to be in place by early January. The governor said two retired federal prosecutors will conduct an independent LQYHVWLJDWLRQ WR ¿JXUH RXW why it has taken so long to correct the problem. “I have a lot of questions about how and why this happened, and I understand that members of the public will have those same ques- tions,” Inslee said. Pacholke said he welcomed the external inves- tigation. “The agency should be held accountable for this breach,” he said. Republican state Sen. Mike Padden said the Law and Justice Committee he chairs will convene hearings on the early releases when the Legislature returns to the Capitol in early January. The audit was “substan- tially complete before allegations were publicly reported” that a forensic analyst in the division had tampered with evidence, auditors wrote. They said employees had disclosed no criminal behavior during the audit. A criminal investigation into the allegations is underway. Nika Larsen, a forensic analyst in OSP’s %HQG RI¿FH KDV EHHQ LGHQWL¿HG DV D VXVSHFW LQ the case. Gov. Kate Brown also has appointed a work group to review the division’s practices and procedures for evidence control. The division has 127 HPSOR\HHV ¿YH ODERUDWR- ries in Bend, Central Point, Clackamas, Pendleton and 6SULQJ¿HOG DQG D ELHQQLDO budget of $35.8 million. ——— The Capital Bureau is a collaboration between EO Media Group and Pamplin Media Group. Corrections The East Oregonian works hard to be accurate and sincerely regrets any errors. If you notice a mistake in the paper, please call 541-966-0818. Eastern Oregon Forum “Daughters of Hanford” Speaker: Anna King Tuesday, January 12 th , 2016 at 7:00 p.m. BMCC, Rm ST-200, 2411 NW Carden Ave., Pendleton For more information please call Karen at 541-966-3177. Need not be member to attend. Please detach and send with payment Name Phone # Address City E-mail address Please include a season fee of $20 per individual member. Please make checks payable to BMCC. $6.00 at the door, students free Lecture reminders will be sent via E-mail, as will weather cancellation notices, if necessary . Thank you for mailing your membership forms to: InterMountain ESD (IMESD) 2001 SW Nye Ave. Pendleton, OR • Attn: Karen Parker