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Leaders ask Oregon, Wash. Man says nail
governors to ban oil-by-train gun attack was
a suicide pact
Brown called for a temporary
moratorium on oil trains in
the Columbia River Gorge
until it’s conirmed the rails
are safe. In a statement
Tuesday, Brown expressed
concerned about the Tesoro
proposal and said she is
closely monitoring its devel-
opments.
As for pressing a ban,
Brown said federal rules that
would enhance rail safety are
either in litigation or are yet
to be completed.
“I will continue to push the
U.S. Department of Trans-
portation and other federal
authorities to take action that
puts fewer Oregonians at risk
of a dangerous crash in their
back yards,” she said.
Inslee
spokeswoman
Tara Lee said it’s unlikely
the governors even have
authority for a moratorium
on railways.
Union Paciic spokesman
Justin Jacobs said trans-
porting crude oil to the
company’s customers is a
federal mandate.
“If a customer delivers a
crude oil tank car in confor-
mity with U.S. Department of
Transportation requirements,
Union Paciic is obligated
to transport the rail car to its
destination,” Jacobs said in a
statement.
By KRISTENA HANSEN
Associated Press
PORTLAND — Portland
and Multnomah County
leaders on Tuesday urged
the governors of Oregon
and Washington to push
Congress for a permanent
ban on oil-by-rail in the wake
of a iery train derailment
along the Columbia River.
The June 3 derailment in
the town of Mosier showed
transporting oil by train is
dangerous and unnecessary
and should be prohibited by
the federal government, Port-
land Mayor Charlie Hales
and Multnomah County
Chair Deborah Kafoury
said at City Hall, alongside
other government and health
oficials.
Nobody was injured in
the derailment, but it affected
water and sewer systems and
forced evacuations.
The oficials called on
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown and
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee
to work with the Obama
administration and Congress
on a permanent ban, and to
block permits and oppose the
several oil-related projects
proposed in their states.
They cited plans for the
Tesoro-Savage oil terminal in
Vancouver, Washington.
Alan Berne/The Seattle Times via AP
In this June 3 ile photo, an oil train burns near the
town of Mosier after derailing.
“At a time of acute
concern about toxins in our
water and in our air, we do
not need to add to that list,”
Hales said. “No transpor-
tation system is ever 100
percent safe. ... That’s why
it’s a fundamentally wrong
idea to be moving explosive
fossil fuels by rail.”
Portland, Cascade Locks
and Mosier are among several
localities that recently passed
resolutions calling for bans
and rallying higher-ranking
government oficials to get
behind them.
One million gallons of
Bakken crude oil — the
type involved in the Mosier
derailment that Kafoury
characterized as “much more
volatile” than conventional
oil — roll along the Mult-
nomah County train tracks
every week. A half-million
Oregonians live nearby, plus
thousands more around the
tracks in Washington.
Oficials said the U.S. and
Canada have seen more than
a dozen oil train derailments
in the past two years. They
said the Tesoro-Savage
terminal in Vancouver would
bring an additional 15 million
oil gallons to the area and
could lead to many more
derailments over the years.
“With so many people
in Portland living near the
tracks, we can’t close our
eyes to the risks of these
trains and hope that we,
again, get lucky — if you can
call it that,” Kafoury said.
Following the Union
Paciic derailment in Mosier,
EUGENE (AP) — An because she didn’t want to
Oregon man accused of be committed to a mental
shooting a woman with a hospital, Day wrote.
nail gun told investigators
The afidavit says the two
that the woman recruited discussed different methods
him to kill her.
of killing themselves before
Authorities say Troy the woman announced a
Vance Thompson,
plan to rent a
46, of Creswell,
nail gun, travel
ired nine nails
to the woods and
into the woman’s
carry out a homi-
head on June 1
cide-suicide.
before
turning
Day wrote that
the nail gun on
the manager of an
himself,
The
equipment rental
Register-Guard
store corroborated
reported.
T h o m p s o n ’s
Thompson
claim that the
gave
Oregon Thompson
woman
went
State Troopers a
into the business
detailed statement the day to rent the nail gun and
after the incident. At the air compressor. The store
time, he was in a Springield manager told investigators
hospital recovering from an that the woman asked for the
injury caused by the nail he gun with the largest nails,
ired into his own head.
according to the trooper’s
Prosecutors have charged report.
Thompson with assault
Thompson told police
but have not asked a grand he ired three nails from
jury to review the case yet. the gun into the back of
He was put in jail after his the woman’s head, then
release from the hospital.
stopped. The woman “was
The woman’s current still alive and told him to
condition is unknown. Police keep going (and) reminded
said last week that she was Troy he had promised her he
still hospitalized in critical would help her,” Day wrote.
condition. A prosecutor and
Passers-by later found
hospital spokeswoman both Thompson and the woman
said Tuesday that they had and called police, according
no updated information to to the report.
disclose about the woman.
Day also wrote that the
She was not identiied.
woman’s mother told a
Thompson said he irst detective that her daughter
met the 31-year-old Eugene is delusional, has bipolar
woman the day before the disorder and has been hospi-
incident, according to a talized several times in the
police report made public last year. The mother also
this week. He said the said the woman has asked
woman stopped her car friends, family and strangers
on Highway 99 in Eugene to help her die, the report
and approached him while said.
he walked along the road,
Thompson told police
according a search warrant that he has “brain injuries
afidavit iled by trooper from the past” as well as a
Cale Day.
history of substance abuse
She told Thompson she and suicidal thoughts, Day’s
needed someone to kill her report said.
Judge denies Ryan Bundy’s request to go to San Francisco
PORTLAND (AP) — A
federal judge Wednesday
rejected
Ryan
Bundy’s
demand to be released from
custody so he can appear
before the 9th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals.
The son of Nevada rancher
Cliven Bundy has been
serving as his own lawyer
since his January arrest during
the armed occupation of an
Oregon bird sanctuary. He’s
also facing federal charges
in Nevada for his role in an
armed standoff with federal
agents at this father’s ranch.
Bundy and lawyers for
other defendants charged
in both cases have said it’s
improper to make them
defend two cases at once in
different states.
The Appeals Court plans to
hear oral arguments Thursday
in San Francisco, and Bundy
wants to be there.
But U.S. District Court
Judge Anna J. Brown denied
his request for transfer or
release, saying it’s not her
call and it should have been
brought up sooner.
“I’m not a magician,” she
said.
Bundy was attempting to
have a different federal judge,
Robert Jones, hear the matter
Wednesday afternoon. Jones,
to ease the load on Brown,
has been hearing requests for
pretrial release from the more
than 20 defendants charged in
connection with the occupa-
tion of the Malheur National
Wildlife Refuge.
Brown’s denial came
during a status hearing on
the complex, high-proile
case that began with a protest
over the imprisonment of two
Oregon ranchers convicted of
setting ires.
Three people have pleaded
guilty and a trial for most of
the defendants is scheduled
to start Sept. 7, though a few
defendants have waived their
right to a speedy trial and
likely won’t face a jury until
2017.
Geoffrey Stanek pleaded
guilty Tuesday, accepting a
plea deal in which prosecutors
agreed to drop a charge of
irearm possession in a federal
facility. The government plans
to recommend a sentence of
six months of home detention.
Marcus Mumford, the new
attorney for occupation leader
Ammon Bundy, suggested to
Judge Brown that his client
might also waive his demand
for a speedy trial.
Also Wednesday:
• Assistant U.S. Attorney
Ethan Knight told the judge he
expects prosecutors will take
three or four weeks to present
their case at trial.
• Defendant Darryl Thorn
planned to plead guilty but
later told the judge he was
withdrawing his plea.
• Defendant Kenneth
Medenbach, as he has repeat-
edly done, questioned Brown
about whether she ever took
an oath of ofice. She replied,
“Mr. Medenbach, we’re not
going to play these games.”
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
FRIDAY
TODAY
A couple of
morning showers
Some sun with a
passing shower
68° 42°
71° 49°
SATURDAY
SUNDAY
A stray afternoon
shower
Partly sunny and
nice
Partly sunny
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
71° 44°
76° 44°
84° 53°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
73° 47°
76° 49°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
65°
78°
101° (1961)
41°
52°
34° (1920)
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
0.38"
0.76"
5.97"
4.99"
7.31"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
Yesterday
Normals
Records
LOW
69°
79°
99° (1974)
43°
53°
40° (1930)
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
0.00"
0.12"
0.36"
4.35"
3.14"
5.50"
SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
Full
Last
New
80° 51°
5:05 a.m.
8:47 p.m.
5:11 p.m.
3:05 a.m.
First
Spokane
Wenatchee
64/44
70/47
Tacoma
Moses
65/43
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 71/44
61/39
62/44
65/41
69/43
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
64/46
69/45 Lewiston
74/45
Astoria
66/46
64/47
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
66/52
Pendleton 55/38
The Dalles 73/47
68/42
71/49
La Grande
Salem
59/35
66/51
Albany
Corvallis 66/46
68/47
John Day
59/41
Ontario
Eugene
Bend
68/46
68/47
56/38
Caldwell
Burns
67/46
57/34
July 4
July 11
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
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Hi
95
89
80
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Klamath Falls
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Boardman
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REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Mostly cloudy today; a
couple of showers, but dry in the south.
Eastern and Central Oregon: A couple of
showers today, except dry in the south.
Eastern Washington: Clouds and sun today;
a passing shower in the north and toward
the Cascades.
Cascades: Some sun today with a couple of
showers. A shower tonight.
Northern California: Mainly cloudy today.
Snow showers in the interior mountains;
showers around in central parts.
Today
Friday
SW 6-12
SW 6-12
WSW 6-12
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UV INDEX TODAY
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Fri.
WINDS
Medford
69/47
Western Washington: Clouds and sun today
with a shower in spots.
June 20 June 27
89° 56°
Seattle
65/48
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
76° 45°
Today
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National Summary: Showers and thunderstorms will extend from the Great Lakes to the
northeastern Gulf and mid-Atlantic coasts today. Showers will cool much of the Northwest.
Heat will hold in the southern Plains.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 106° in Salina, Kan.
Low 23° in Crater Lake, Ore.
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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Louisville
94
Memphis
99
Miami
90
Milwaukee
70
Minneapolis
79
Nashville
98
New Orleans
94
New York City
77
Oklahoma City
96
Omaha
98
Philadelphia
74
Phoenix
102
Portland, ME
76
Providence
80
Raleigh
93
Rapid City
95
Reno
68
Sacramento
71
St. Louis
98
Salt Lake City
79
San Diego
71
San Francisco
70
Seattle
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Tucson
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Washington, DC 84
Wichita
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