WEATHER
East Oregonian
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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
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43
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Thu.
Hi
45
30
32
45
28
28
43
36
42
34
30
34
33
40
45
48
34
41
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18
28
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34
25
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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
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37
48
42
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Hi
41
74
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59
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75
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Lo
17
61
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42
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32
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39
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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
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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
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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
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Audit cites evidence testing backlog at OSP labs
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Police laboratories has to eliminate duplication
ballooned by 90 percent of work. For instance,
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increased demand, inef- strategic planning such as
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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
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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
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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.
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Department
of
computer glitch.
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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.
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sentences. However, the
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include additional time delayed, and the governor
given for certain crimes, says he didn’t learn of the
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schools. Under state law, his staff.
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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.
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yet have a complete list
of prisoners affected. The
Corrections Department and
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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
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oners affected by the glitch
until a hand calculation is
done to ensure the offender is
being released on the correct
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ware problem is expected to
be in place by early January.
The governor said two
retired federal prosecutors
will conduct an independent
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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
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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
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ries in Bend, Central Point,
Clackamas, Pendleton and
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budget of $35.8 million.
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