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NATION/WORLD Thursday, February 11, 2016 Jumbled GOP field hopes for survival in South Carolina Christie, Fiorina end campaigns Associated Press &2/80%,$ 6& ² Hoping for survival in the 6RXWK D PXGGOHG ¿HOG RI Republican presidential contenders descended Wednesday on South Carolina, no closer to clarity about who can stand between Donald Trump and their party’s nomination. Not me, Carly Fiorina announced, dropping out of the campaign. A Chris Christie spokeswoman said KLVUDFHZDVRYHUWRR%XWD VL]HDEOH¿HOGUHPDLQHG To the dismay of party leaders, all signs point WR D GUDZQRXW EDWWOH IRU delegates following Trump’s resounding victory in New Hampshire. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, under immense pressure to prove himself after a devastating ¿IWKSODFH¿QLVKZDVORRNLQJ IRUD¿JKWWKDWFRXOGODVWIRU months or even spill into the ¿UVW FRQWHVWHG *23 QDWLRQDO FRQYHQWLRQVLQFH “We very easily could be looking at May — or the convention,” Rubio campaign manager Terry Sullivan told The Associated Press. ,I7UXPSKDG5HSXEOLFDQV on edge, Democrats were feeling no less queasy. Rejected in New Hampshire, Hillary Clinton sought redemption in Nevada, where a more diverse group of voters awaited her and %HUQLH6DQGHUV Sanders, a Vermont VHQDWRU DQG VHOISURFODLPHG democratic socialist, raised PLOOLRQSOXVLQOHVVWKDQD day after his New Hampshire triumph. The contributions FDPH PRVWO\ LQ VPDOOGROODU amounts, his campaign said, illustrating the resources he’ll KDYH WR ¿JKW &OLQWRQ WR D bitter end. %RWK &OLQWRQ DQG 6DQGHUV ² WKH ¿UVW -HZ WR win a presidential primary — worked to undercut conservative GOP voters, will test Trump and the others in new ways. 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In this Feb. 6 ile photo, Republican presidential candi- For Gov. John Kasich, date Carly Fiorina speaks at a campaign event in Goff- ZKRVHVHFRQGSODFHVKRZLQJ stown, N.H. was New Hampshire’s HDFK RWKHU DPRQJ $IULFDQ ,RZD FDXFXVHV UHWXUQHG primary stunner, the task Americans and Hispanics to the center of the fracas was to convert newfound with less than two weeks until after largely sitting out interest into support in a state the Democratic contests in New Hampshire. He drew ideologically distant from his contrasts with Trump as he native Ohio. With a minimal Nevada and South Carolina. Sanders met for breakfast told a crowd of 500 in Myrtle South Carolina operation in Harlem with the Rev. %HDFKWKDW7H[DQVDQG6RXWK compared to his rivals, Kasich Al Sharpton, a civil rights Carolinians are more alike must work quickly. Seeking votes at a local activist. Clinton, meanwhile, than not. “We love God, we’re gun business in Charleston, announced plans to campaign with the mother of Sandra owners, military veterans Kasich worked to burnish %ODQG ZKRVH GHDWK ZKLOH and we’re fed up with what’s KLV UHSXWDWLRQ DV D UHVXOWV in police custody became a happening in Washington,” oriented leader. ³,I \RX GRQ¶W JR WR WKH symbol of racial tensions. And Cruz said. Almost all the Republicans J\P\RXJHWÀDEE\´.DVLFK Clinton’s campaign deployed South Carolina state Rep. have spent months building said. “And if the country Todd Rutherford to vouch for complex campaigns and doesn’t solve its problems, it blanketing airwaves in South JHWVÀDEE\´ her support for minorities. +HDGLQJ LQWR WKH ¿QDO “Secretary Clinton has Carolina, which heralds the been involved in South start of the GOP campaign’s WZRZHHN VSULQW7UXPS ZDV Carolina for the last 40 foray into the South. After leading in South Carolina years,” Rutherford said. that primary on Feb. 20, seven among all demographic ³%HUQLH 6DQGHUV KDV WDONHG Southern states including JURXSV DQ 1%&0DULVW:DOO about these issues for the last Georgia and Virginia will Street Journal poll showed, anchor the Super Tuesday with Cruz and Rubio a distant 40 days.” Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, primaries on March 1, with second and third. Already, more than $32 million has WKH FRQVHUYDWLYH ¿UHEUDQG oodles of delegates at stake. The state, with its array of been spent on TV ads here. and victor in the leadoff Last holdouts at Malheur refuge came from diverse backgrounds Associated Press %8516 ² 7KH IRXU DUPHG activists who on Wednesday night ZHUH VXUURXQGHG E\ WKH )%, DW D wildlife refuge in eastern Oregon have remained on the site despite the arrests RI JURXS OHDGHU $PPRQ %XQG\ DQG others Jan. 26 on a remote road outside the refuge. Wednesday’s tense standoff EHWZHHQWKH)%,DQGWKHIRXURFFXSLHUV ZDVEHLQJOLYHVWUHDPHGRQWKH,QWHUQHW $PPRQ %XQG\ OHG WKH JURXS WKDW seized the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge on Jan. 2 to oppose federal land policies and has repeatedly asked the holdouts to go home. The Associated Press has not been able to contact the remaining occupiers, but they have said in online statements and interviews that they want assurances they won’t be arrested. Like most of the occupiers, none of the holdouts is from Oregon. Here are details about them: Jeffrey Banta 7KH \HDUROG KDV OLYHG LQ (ONR Nevada, the last several years and worked in construction most of his life, KLVH[ZLIHVDLG %DQWD JUDGXDWHG IURP <HULQJWRQ High School in the rural town of <HULQJWRQ DERXW PLOHV VRXWKHDVW RI5HQRVDLG$QJHOD(OOLQJWRQ%DQWD who still lives there. +LV IDWKHU :LOODUG %DQWD VDLG all of his children grew up hunting and ¿VKLQJDWDQHDUO\DJH ³, KDG WKHP RXW LQ WKH KLOOV ZLWK me as soon as they were old enough to walk and out of diapers,” he said Wednesday. 7KHHOGHU%DQWDVDLGKHKDGWDONHG to his son “once or twice” since the standoff began but declined to provide details. ³+H MXVW VDLG µ,¶P DOO ULJKW´¶ :LOODUG%DQWDVDLG³,¶PZRQGHULQJLI KH LV JRLQJ WR PDNH LW RXW ,¶G OLNH WR VHHP\VRQFRPHKRPH,KRSHKHGRHV EXW,KDYHP\GRXEWV´ -HIIUH\%DQWDDQGKLVH[ZLIHKDYH WZR FKLOGUHQ WKH HOGHVW D \HDUROG woman who is married and has a child living in the Reno area. (OOLQJWRQ %DQWD VDLG VKH GRHVQ¶W UHDOO\ NQRZ ZKDW KHU H[KXVEDQG KDV been doing in recent years and doesn’t want to discuss the standoff because Thomas Boyd/The Oregonian via AP Three SUV proceeds through the Narrows roadblock near Burns as FBI agents have surrounded the remaining four occupiers at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, on Wednesday. she has “two kids who have been really affected by all this.” David Fry 7KH \HDUROG IURP %ODQFKHVWHU Ohio, formed an online friendship with Robert “LaVoy” Finicum and helped WKH $UL]RQD UDQFKHU VHOISXEOLVK D novel. Finicum became a recognizable spokesman for the armed group before he was shot and killed by police in a confrontation last month. Fry traveled, apparently unarmed and against the advice of his father, to the refuge, where he often posted online updates. He told Oregon Public %URDGFDVWLQJ LQ PLG-DQXDU\ WKDW KH planned to say goodbye to Finicum and return home before his father got back from a vacation. Within two weeks, Finicum was dead, shot as authorities moved in to DUUHVW %XQG\ DQG RWKHUV RQ D UHPRWH stretch of road outside the refuge. )U\ KDV UHMHFWHG %XQG\¶V FDOO WR leave, saying federal authorities might be forcing him to make the request. “We’re still here,” he told an online talk show Monday that airs on <RX7XEHFKDQQHO5HYROXWLRQ5DGLR³, never saw myself as a leader. ... We’re waiting for some kind of miracle to happen.” ,Q2KLR)U\KDVVHYHUDOFRQYLFWLRQV for disorderly conduct, as well as possession of drugs and drug parapher nalia. Sean and Sandy Anderson The husband and wife moved from the town of Janesville, Wisconsin, within the last several years to Riggins, ,GDKR ZKHUH 6HDQ RSHQHG D VWRUH for hunting, tactical and survival gear. Sandy, 48, worked at a gas station. ,GDKR &RXQW\ ZKHUH WKH\ OLYH DQG Harney County, 290 miles away where the refuge is located, are similar in many ZD\V %RWK KDYH ODUJH SRUWLRQV RI ODQG managed by federal agencies and popu ODWLRQVFKD¿QJDWUHVWULFWLRQVSXWRQWKDW land. ,GDKR&RXQW\6KHULII'RXJ*LGGLQJV said the Andersons are good residents, though he didn’t know as much about Sean as he did about Sandy. “She’s a good person, she’s just upset with the government,” he told Oregon 3XEOLF%URDGFDVWLQJ Sean Anderson is facing misdemeanor charges in Wisconsin for resisting an RI¿FHUSRVVHVVLRQRIGUXJSDUDSKHUQDOLD and possession of THC, the intoxicating chemical in marijuana. He also has pleaded guilty to a series of misdemeanors in recent years: domestic abuse in December 2010, disorderly conduct in 2008, criminal trespass in a dwelling in 2002, and disorderly conduct in 1999. A friend of the couple, Lindsey Dipo, told the Lewiston Tribune newspaper that the couple recorded their will on Dipo’s cellphone before departing for Oregon. East Oregonian Page 7A BRIEFLY Government sues Ferguson after city tries to revise justice deal FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — The federal government sued Ferguson on Wednesday, one day after the City Council voted to revise an agreement aimed at improving the way police and courts treat poor people and minorities in the St. Louis suburb. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Ferguson’s decision to reject the deal left the Justice Department no FKRLFHH[FHSWWR¿OHDFLYLOULJKWVODZVXLW “The residents of Ferguson have waited nearly a year for the city to adopt an agreement that would protect their rights and keep them safe. ... They have waited decades for justice. They should not be forced to wait any longer,” Lynch told a Washington news conference. The Justice Department complaint accuses Ferguson of routinely violating residents’ rights and misusing law enforcement to generate revenue — a practice the government alleged was “ongoing and pervasive.” Ferguson leaders “had a real opportunity here to step forward, and they’ve chosen to step backward,” Lynch said. Ferguson has been under Justice Department scrutiny VLQFH\HDUROG0LFKDHO%URZQZKRZDVEODFNDQG XQDUPHGZDVIDWDOO\VKRWE\ZKLWHRI¿FHU'DUUHQ:LOVRQ 18 months ago. A grand jury and the Justice Department declined to prosecute Wilson, who resigned in November 2014. %XWDVFDWKLQJ-XVWLFH'HSDUWPHQWUHSRUWZDVFULWLFDO RISROLFHDQGDSUR¿WGULYHQPXQLFLSDOFRXUWV\VWHP Following months of negotiations, an agreement between the federal agency and Ferguson was announced in January. $UHFHQW¿QDQFLDODQDO\VLVGHWHUPLQHGWKHDJUHHPHQW ZRXOGFRVWWKHVWUXJJOLQJFLW\QHDUO\PLOOLRQLQWKH¿UVW \HDUDORQH7KHFRXQFLOYRWHG7XHVGD\WRDGRSWWKH deal, but with seven amendments. Two deputies killed, suspect dead in Maryland shopping center shootout $%,1*'210G$3²$JXQPDQIDWDOO\VKRWD sheriff’s deputy inside a crowded restaurant at lunchtime Wednesday and killed another deputy in a shootout, authorities and witnesses said. 7KHVXVSHFWZDVNLOOHGLQWKHH[FKDQJHRIJXQ¿UHQRW far from the shopping center where the restaurant was located, Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler said. Remarkably, no bystanders were hurt. Police haven’t released a motive for the shooting, EXWWKHVKHULIIVDLGKHEHOLHYHGWKH¿UVWGHSXW\ZKR approached the gunman was shot because he was wearing DXQLIRUP7KHVKRRWHULGHQWL¿HGDV\HDUROG'DYLG %ULDQ(YDQVKDGZDUUDQWVRXWIRUKLVDUUHVWLQ+DUIRUG County and Florida, where he was accused of assaulting a SROLFHRI¿FHU The initial shooting took place inside a Panera restaurant in Abingdon, which is about 20 miles northeast RI%DOWLPRUH Sophia Faulkner, 15, said she and her mother were getting lunch and almost sat right next to the gunman. ,QVWHDGWKH\FKRVHDERRWKDERXWIHHWDZD\EHFDXVH the man appeared “sketchy” and disheveled. He was sitting in the back and hadn’t ordered any food, Faulker and her mother said. A sheriff’s deputy was called to the restaurant to check on a report about someone causing a problem. The deputy tried to talk to the man, who was apparently known to local deputies and workers at the restaurant. The deputy sat down beside him, asked how he was doing and the man shot him in the head. Panel denies parole to Sirhan Sirhan, assassin of Robert F. Kennedy 6$1',(*2$3²)RUWKHWKWLPHRI¿FLDOV denied parole for Sirhan Sirhan, the assassin of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. The decision came after Sirhan answered questions from a California parole panel during a hearing that lasted more than three hours. Commissioners concluded Sirhan did not show adequate remorse or understand the enormity of his crime. ³7KLVFULPHLPSDFWHGWKHQDWLRQDQG,GDUHVD\LW LPSDFWHGWKHZRUOG´FRPPLVVLRQHU%ULDQ5REHUWVVDLG ³,WZDVDSROLWLFDODVVDVVLQDWLRQRIDYLDEOH'HPRFUDWLF presidential candidate.” 'XULQJWKHKHDULQJWKH\HDUROG6LUKDQVWXFNWRKLV previous account that he did not remember the shooting in 1968 at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles after Kennedy won the Democratic presidential primary in California. He said he recalled being in the hotel then going to his car and returning after realizing he had too much to drink. He said he became interested in a female and they drank coffee in a hotel pantry. ³,W¶VDOOYDJXHQRZ´6LUKDQWROGWKHSDUROHSDQHO ³,¶PVXUH\RXDOOKDYHLWLQ\RXUUHFRUGV,FDQ¶WGHQ\LW RUFRQ¿UPLW,MXVWZLVKWKLVZKROHWKLQJKDGQHYHUWDNHQ place.” Sirhan, a native of Jerusalem, listened intently during most of the hearing, turning testy when commissioners pressed him on his memory. He said he felt remorse for any crime victim but added that he couldn’t take responsibility for the shooting. Carriers Needed in Pendleton North Hill and Other Select Routes - Now Available in the Pendleton area. $200 Sign On Bonus* *Paid after 90 days 211 SE Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 or 1-800-522-0255
