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Thursday, March 10, 2016
BRIEFLY
Woman who killed abusive
husband free after decade in prison
GRANTS PASS (AP) — A woman imprisoned
for killing her abusive husband is free.
The Daily Courier reports 46-year-old
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manslaughter and sentenced in March 2006.
Her sister Michelle Roberts says about 20
family members greeted Maldonado when she left
the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility on Monday
after a decade of incarceration.
Maldonado’s then-16-year-old son was
convicted of second-degree manslaughter for his
role in the death and was released from prison in
2011.
Both argued in court that they were protecting
themselves from physical and emotional abuse.
Aaron Maldonado was fatally bludgeoned in
May 2005 while he was in bed at home.
Two governors denied clemency for
Maldonado.
Roberts says her sister is looking forward to
settling in and spending time with her four sons in
Grants Pass.
Bend voters reject proposal to
raise gas tax, improve roads
BEND (AP) — Bend voters have rejected
the city’s plan to raise the gas tax to pay for road
improvements.
The Bend Bulletin reports that election results
as of 10 p.m. Tuesday showed the measure losing
by a nearly 2-to-1 margin. It would have created
a 5-cent-per-gallon tax that was expected to
generate about $2.5 million in revenue each year.
Bend has an estimated $80 million in deferred
street maintenance.
Former Bend mayor Jeff Eager opposed
the measure. He says the 58.2 percent turnout indi-
cates that the proposal may have drawn out voters
who don’t normally weigh in on local issues.
Peter Werner of the Yes For Bend Roads
campaign says he had hoped the vote would be
lopsided in the other direction, showing public
support for the city’s infrastructure.
Photo by E.J. Harris
Haystacks combust near Rieth
Pendleton ireighters monitor a haystack ire off Birch Creek Road on Wednesday near Rieth. The ire department
was called out at 2:13 p.m. and worked to move other bales of hay away from the burning stack and protect a
nearby outbuilding. Pendleton Fire Chief Mike Ciraulo said the property owners agreed to let the bales burn, and
the ire would likely burn through the night. The cause is under investigation, but Ciraulo said at irst glance the ire
appears to be spontaneous combustion, as wet hay can heat up and ignite.
Oracle says it sued to get feds
to investigate Cover Oregon
Lawmakers deny funding for
community college security
PORTLAND (AP) — Lawmakers rejected a $17.6
million request to increase security at community
colleges in Oregon months after a gunman killed nine
people and himself at one of the schools in the state’s
worst mass shooting.
The proposal would have replaced doors, added
security cameras and beefed up aging buildings and
communications systems at most of the state’s commu-
nity colleges, The Oregonian reported Wednesday.
Lawmakers approved $6 million for improvements
at Umpqua Community College’s Snyder Hall, where
the shooting took place in October. The money also will
fund overall safety and security measures at the school.
But lawmakers told Oregon’s other 16 community
colleges to try again in 2017.
Brent Finkbeiner, president of the Clackamas
Community College student government, said the rejec-
tion stung.
“Waiting until next year doesn’t do us any good,”
said Finkbeiner, who is also the board chairman of the
Oregon Community College Student Association.
Clackamas Community College was hoping for more
than $1.6 million for several projects, including installing
electronic locks across campus.
Not everyone is disappointed by the delay in funding.
The 2017 discussion should be “more robust,” said
Andrea Henderson, executive director of the Oregon
Community College Association. The conversation
about campus security is “far from over,” she said.
PORTLAND (AP) — The
main tech contractor on the failed
Cover Oregon health insurance
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against the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services,
saying the agency has neglected to
investigate misconduct allegations.
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Tuesday in Washington, D.C. It is
the latest salvo in a long-running
legal battle between Oracle and
Oregon over the failed health
exchange. The two sides have
blamed each other in multiple
lawsuits.
Oracle has maintained it was
never fully paid for its work on the
$300 million project and that the
state illegally used Oracle code.
The U.S. Justice Department
did not immediately reply to an
email seeking comment on the
lawsuit.
John Cooney, an attorney for
the company, says the Affordable
Care Act requires Health and
Human Services Secretary Sylvia
Mathews Burwell to investi-
gate allegations of misconduct
involving exchanges.
She has yet to do so in Oregon
or six other states with troubled
exchanges, despite $1.45 billion
in federal grants awarded to those
states to build the exchanges,
Cooney said.
Among other things, Cooney
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against a contractor to attempt
to distract attention from its own
failure, he said.
The state has been seeking to
recoup the millions of dollars it paid
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website. It has accused Oracle and
its executives of corruption.
Kristina Edmunson, spokes-
woman for Oregon Attorney
General Ellen Rosenblum, said the
lawsuit is a publicity stunt.
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couple of showers
On-and-off rain
and drizzle
54° 36°
51° 38°
SUNDAY
Mostly cloudy with
a shower
Cloudy with
afternoon rain
57° 37°
57° 41°
52° 35°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
52° 38°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
Yesterday
Normals
Records
LOW
55°
53°
77° (1916)
37°
34°
21° (1933)
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
0.08"
0.52"
0.33"
2.89"
1.55"
2.88"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
Yesterday
Normals
Records
LOW
55°
56°
76° (2005)
35°
33°
16° (1933)
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
0.03"
0.46"
0.29"
1.95"
1.06"
2.56"
SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
First
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Mar 23
Last
Mar 31
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60° 42°
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FRIDAY
ROSEBURG (AP) — A Roseburg pizza
shop is making it a little harder to access a game
machine’s prizes after a 6-year-old girl climbed up
the chute to get a stuffed animal.
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an uninjured Melissa Angel Wilkerson out of the
top of the ACME Crane Company game Saturday
during a party for the girl’s birthday.
Ben Wilkerson says his daughter, who is
autistic, wanted inside the machine and found a
way.
Abby’s Legendary Pizza general manager
Randy Rice says he’s glad no one was hurt.
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TODAY
Uninjured 6-year-old pulled from
crane-grab toy machine
Spokane
Wenatchee
49/30
55/33
Tacoma
Moses
53/34
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 57/31
48/34
51/41
54/35
59/30
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
54/37
53/37 Lewiston
61/33
Astoria
55/35
54/41
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
57/40
Pendleton 52/33
The Dalles 60/33
54/36
59/35
La Grande
Salem
53/33
56/39
Albany
Corvallis 56/39
57/40
John Day
54/41
Ontario
Eugene
Bend
60/43
57/38
49/30
Caldwell
Burns
63/45
50/33
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
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Hi
45
60
67
49
58
41
49
54
39
80
48
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WINDS
Medford
59/42
(in mph)
Klamath Falls
48/37
Boardman
Pendleton
REGIONAL FORECAST
Eastern Washington: Spotty showers today.
Friday
NNW 4-8
WNW 4-8
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Coastal Oregon: A couple of showers and
a thunderstorm today, except a little rain
in the south.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Mostly cloudy
and windy today with a couple of showers;
warmer in the south.
Western Washington: Periods of sun today
with a shower and thunderstorm around.
Today
SW 10-20
SW 10-20
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1
2
2
1
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8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m.
Cascades: Cloudy and windy today with a
couple of showers. A shower tonight.
Northern California: Rain ending today;
snow, accumulating 1-3 inches in the
interior mountains.
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. ©2016
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showers t-storms
0s
10s
rain
20s
flurries
30s
40s
snow
ice
50s
60s
cold front
70s
80s
90s
100s
warm front stationary front
110s
high
low
National Summary: Rain will dampen and cool areas from the Ohio Valley to New England
today. Rain and flooding will continue from Texas to the lower Mississippi Valley. Rain will
expand southward on the West Coast.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 86° in Thermal, Calif.
Low 4° in Leadville, Colo.
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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76
70
81
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76
60
64
79
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57
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79
61
67
63
78
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82
66
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72
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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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