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BRIEFLY
3 people dead in 3 crashes
PORTLAND (AP) — Just two days before
Christmas, three people have died in three
separate vehicle crashes in the state.
Oregon State Police says a Warrenton man was
killed Wednesday on Highway 30 near Clatskanie
when a car crossed the center line and struck a
semi-trailer. The car’s 55-year-old passenger Zai
G. Yang died at the scene.
In Benton County, a man driving a minivan
crossed the center line and collided with an SUV.
The SUV driver, 54-year-old Arthur Earl Fuller, Jr.
of Eugene, died in the crash. The minivan driver
was critically injured.
And in Deschutes County, 74-year-old Karen I.
Langeliers of Bend died after a head-on collision
on Highway 20 just east of Sisters. Authorities say
she lost control of her car on the icy road, veered
into the eastbound lane and was struck by another
car.
AP Photo/Elaine Thompson
Lifting holiday spirit
Klamath County creating
non-lethal wolf deterrent boxes
Skiers and snowboarders ride a lift up a mountain on Tuesday at Snoqualmie Pass, Wash. A weather pattern that
could be associated with El Nino has turned winter upside-down across the U.S. during a week of heavy holiday
travel, bringing spring-like warmth to the Northeast, a risk of tornadoes in the South and so much snow in parts of
the West that there are concerns about avalanches.
KLAMATH FALLS (AP) — An Oregon
county is looking for non-lethal ways to deter
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October.
The Herald and News reports that Klamath
County will put together toolboxes of deterrents
for landowners with a $6,000 grant from the
Oregon Department of Agriculture. The county
will also contribute $600 to the project.
The county will work with the Oregon
Department of Fish and Wildlife to create the
boxes.
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on calf and injured two more in the Fort Klamath
area in late October and early November.
Klamath County commission chairman
Tom Mallams says the $6,600 won’t be used to
compensate the livestock owners. That money will
come from the wolf depredation compensation
fund.
Study: Devastating Oso
Oregon farmers say
paid leave law is unclear landslide wasn’t an outlier
SALEM (AP) — Many
farmers in Oregon still have
questions about new rules
that will require them to
provide employees with paid
sick leave starting Jan. 1.
Lawmakers passed a bill
earlier this year requiring
employers with 10 or more
workers to offer the paid sick
leave, reported The Capital
Press. But farmers aren’t
sure how that will work with
piece-rate workers, like fruit
pickers, who are compen-
sated based on the amount
they harvest, according to
the Oregon Farm Bureau.
The state’s Bureau of
Labor and Industries said
piece-rate workers should be
compensated at “the regular
rate of pay” or, if no such
rate was set, at minimum
wage. The problem is that
the regulations don’t explain
how to calculate the “regular
rate of pay,” according to
OFB public policy director
Jenny Dresler.
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tion and we didn’t get it,”
Dresler said. “We just don’t
know.”
Would the number be
based on the weekly average
of the employee’s piece-rate
earnings? Or the rate earned
by other workers who are
harvesting crops while the
SEATTLE (AP) — Last
year’s devastating landslide in
Oso was no outlier, according to
a new study from the University
of Washington.
The landslide wiped out a
neighborhood north of Seattle
and left 43 people dead when it
roared down a hillside above the
north fork of the Stillaguamish
River. It was the deadliest land-
slide in U.S. history.
In a novel method, university
geologists used radiocarbon
dating of trees and branches
buried in earlier slides as well as a
review of erosion characteristics
to map the history of landslides
in the area. They found that
slopes in the area have collapsed
every 500 years on average, and
with even greater frequency in
the past millennium: every 140
years or so.
The authors say the study
disproves the notion that the
previous slides in the area all
occurred thousands of years ago
after the ice sheets retreated.
“This was well known as
an area of hillslope instability,
but the question was: ‘Were the
larger slides thousands of years
old, or hundreds of years old?”’
co-author Alison Duvall, an assis-
tant professor of earth and space
sciences, said in a news release.
“Now we can say that many of
them are hundreds of years old.”
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employee is sick?
The labor bureau says it
won’t penalize employers
while they are still learning
the new rules, but Dresler
pointed out that that doesn’t
stop individual workers
from suing the employers.
Labor bureau spokesman
Charlie Burr said the agency
will offer a series of low-cost
seminars about paid sick
leave.
Tim
Bernasek,
an
attorney specializing in
agricultural and labor issues,
says he doesn’t “have a very
good answer about how to
practically implement this
rule.” But Bernasek said he
expects the labor bureau to
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He said legal aid orga-
nizations with attorneys
devoted to farmworker
protection will probably also
be able to help.
“I would encourage ag
employers to roll up their
sleeves and make their best
effort to make this work,”
said Bernasek.
There is also some confu-
sion about the labor bureau’s
decision to consider farmers
and labor contractors “joint
employers” under the law.
Burr said the joint liability
provisions are guided by
federal labor law.
banks, the team unearthed
samples of wood buried in the
Rowan landslide, just down-
stream of the Oso site, and the
Headache Creek landslide, just
upriver from Oso. The Rowan
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times the size of the Oso slide,
occurred 300 to 694 years ago,
the researchers determined. The
Headache Creek landslide was
about 6,000 years ago.
The study’s results, published
Tuesday in the journal Geology,
could have implications for future
land-use decisions in the region,
including for logging, which can
increase slope instability.
Duvall and another co-author,
doctoral student Sean LaHusen,
are reviewing the dangers of
magnitude-9 earthquakes along
the Cascadia subduction zone.
They hope to learn whether land-
slides across Washington state
coincided with past quakes, and
use simulations of future shaking
to determine what parts of the
state may be most vulnerable to
quake-triggered slides.
Other co-authors of the study
included the University of Wash-
ington’s David Montgomery and
Portland State University’s Adam
Booth. The National Science
Foundation, the Geological
Society of America, and the
University of Washington’s
Quaternary Research Center
provided funding for the study.
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and sun
Partly sunny and
chilly
40° 24°
34° 18°
SUNDAY
Cloudy and chilly
Mostly cloudy and
cold
32° 19°
31° 24°
35° 19°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
37° 21°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
Yesterday
Normals
Records
LOW
40°
34°
39°
25°
64° (1950) -19° (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
0.23"
2.26"
1.16"
10.07"
12.33"
12.63"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
Yesterday
Normals
Records
LOW
44°
35°
38°
27°
62° (1936) -17° (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
0.26"
1.77"
1.11"
7.16"
7.00"
9.58"
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Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
Full
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Dec 25
Jan 1
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36° 23°
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Forecast
FRIDAY
PORTLAND (AP) — A $12,000 gift from an
anonymous donor has made the holidays easier
for a Portland family whose father lost a job
after a news article described his challenges as a
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donation; it was made via an online fund set up for
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newspaper’s front page in November. The
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TODAY
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gets $12,000 gift from stranger
Spokane
Wenatchee
32/21
31/20
Tacoma
Moses
43/30
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 31/20
31/22
45/31
43/30
35/18
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
42/33
40/25 Lewiston
42/26
Astoria
34/25
47/35
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
43/33
Pendleton 27/10
The Dalles 43/25
40/24
41/29
La Grande
Salem
32/15
44/33
Albany
Corvallis 43/32
43/32
John Day
33/19
Ontario
Eugene
Bend
29/16
43/31
32/13
Caldwell
Burns
35/17
24/2
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
47
26
32
44
24
27
43
36
43
33
30
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32
40
45
48
29
40
40
43
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Lo
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36
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31
20
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19
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Fri.
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27
31
46
23
27
43
33
37
30
29
32
29
40
46
49
27
34
34
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Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Hi
41
74
54
53
74
42
55
58
41
75
60
Lo
16
60
37
41
42
31
46
40
22
65
49
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Fri.
Hi
41
64
55
56
73
36
55
59
36
77
58
Lo
23
60
39
52
46
33
46
38
29
65
42
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WINDS
Medford
40/28
(in mph)
Klamath Falls
30/12
Boardman
Pendleton
REGIONAL FORECAST
Eastern Washington: Cloudy today; a
couple of snow showers in the north and
also in the mountains.
Cascades: Chilly with a bit of snow with
little or no accumulation today. Snow show-
ers tonight.
Northern California: A little rain today;
snow, some heavy, 3-6 inches in the interior
mountains.
Friday
W 3-6
WSW 4-8
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Coastal Oregon: Cloudy today with a couple
of showers; chilly in the south. A shower
tonight.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Cloudy today.
A bit of snow, 1-3 inches south and up to an
inch upper Treasure Valley.
Western Washington: A rain shower around
today, perhaps a snow shower in some
places early.
Today
SW 6-12
SW 6-12
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1
0
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8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m.
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
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10s
rain
20s
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30s
40s
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70s
80s
90s
100s
warm front stationary front
110s
high
low
National Summary: Showers and storms will accompany record warmth from the Deep
South to New England today. Heavy snow will fall from the Sierra Nevada to part of the
Great Basin. Drenching rain is in store for the Pacific coast.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 91° in McAllen, Texas
Low -12° in West Yellowstone, 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
47
75
69
76
28
78
33
67
80
68
43
56
72
33
50
64
-14
19
83
80
53
84
46
55
72
62
Lo
32
68
59
57
9
68
14
51
65
55
31
42
50
16
38
40
-24
11
74
68
41
65
30
40
53
46
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Fri.
Hi
50
76
65
70
15
77
28
61
82
68
44
52
74
31
49
68
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25
82
82
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Today
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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
65
75
84
41
29
75
79
72
58
37
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67
58
68
78
35
39
53
57
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30
21
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40
51
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9
22
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40
23
54
43
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61
32
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63
72
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42
35
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78
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Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain,
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