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Harney County judge prevails in recall
Oregon. With only 7,100 resi-
dents, it is also one of the least
populated. But the world’s
attention was focused on it
after protesters who came
from out of state and took
over the refuge headquarters
in January.
Grasty told The Associ-
ated Press recently that he
stands by his decision to deny
use of a county building to the
leader of the armed group.
“He had already taken
over, with irearms, a whole
compound of buildings. And
(the request) didn’t make
sense to me, nor did it it
public policy about public
safety,” Grasty said.
More than two dozen
occupiers were arrested
amid the takeover, and one
was shot dead at a roadblock
confrontation with law
enforcement. Several have
pleaded guilty in federal court
in Portland to conspiracy in
exchange for the dismissal of
a charge of irearms posses-
sion in a federal facility. Most
of the remaining defendants,
including leader Ammon
Bundy, are scheduled to go to
trial Sept. 7.
By ANDREW SELSKY
Associated Press
BEND — A local oficial
who opposed the armed
takeover of an Oregon wild-
life refuge has prevailed in a
recall vote.
Harney County Judge
Steve Grasty, the top adminis-
trator of the sparsely populated
high-desert county, faced a
recall vote after he refused
to allow the armed protesters
to use a county building for
a meeting. Unoficial results
Tuesday night showed about
70 percent of voters rejecting
the recall effort.
The vote underscored divi-
sions that remain in the county
more than four months after
the 41-day occupation ended
Feb. 11. The occupiers said
they were protesting federal
land-use policies.
Signs calling for voters
to reject the recall effort, and
a few of them supporting it,
were on lawns and businesses
all over Burns, the county
seat, and on ranch fences.
The headquarters of
the 188,000-acre Malheur
National Wildlife Refuge,
AP Photo/Andrew Selsky
Harney County Judge Steve Grasty, who faces a spe-
cial recall election, speaks during an interview in his
ofice Tuesday in Burns.
located 30 miles south of
Burns, is still closed, though
refuge roads are open. Refuge
manager Chad Karges said
he expects the headquarters
to reopen in late summer or
early fall.
At more than 10,000
square miles, Harney County
is the largest county in
AUBURN, Wash. (AP) —
Authorities say a state Depart-
ment of Corrections oficer and
another man were wounded in
a shootout in Auburn after the
oficer and others tried to serve
an arrest warrant on the man.
The department says Kris-
toffer Rongen was working
with the federal Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms
and Explosives task force
when he was trying to make
an arrest and was ired upon
Tuesday afternoon. Police say
another oficer returned ire,
hitting the suspect.
The suspect was hit multiple
times and taken into custody,
police said. Rongen, 46, was
reportedly hit once in the leg.
Both were taken to
Harborview Medical Center
in Seattle. The DOC said in a
news release that neither man
is believed to have life-threat-
ening injuries.
Oficials say Rongen has
worked for the department
of 14 years tracking down
offenders.
WOODBURN (AP) —
pleaded not guilty to the
Two of the three people fatally
charges in an initial court
shot at a blueberry farm in
appearance Tuesday, The
northwest Oregon lived at the
O re g o n i a n / O r e g o n L i v e
location, and the third person
reported.
was the girlfriend of another
It was not immediately
resident who was not home
clear if Oseguera-Gonzalez
at the time, authorities said
had retained an attorney, and
Tuesday.
Baldridge did not know. He
A fourth victim, a man, also
was being held without bail.
was a resident at the farm in a
Oseguera-Gonzalez
quiet part of the Willamette
acknowledged to authorities
Valley about 30 miles south of Oseguera-Gonzalez in an interview that he shot
Portland. He suffered serious
four people, according to a
injuries, but he was expected to survive, probable cause statement.
Marion County sheriff’s Lt. Chris
Authorities have not provided a motive
Baldridge said.
or a relationship between Oseguera-Gon-
The victims were identiied as zalez and the victims except to say he
Ruben Rigoberto-Reyes, 60; Edmundo frequented the berry farm.
Amaro-Bajonero, 26; and Katie Gilder-
Detectives are looking at all motives
sleeve, 30, of Logsden.
now, Baldridge said, including the
Oregon State Police arrested Bonifacio possibility of illegal activity at the farm.
Oseguera-Gonzalez, 29, a few hours after The fourth victim has recovered enough
the shooting Monday on Interstate 84 near to speak with investigators and has been
Mosier, about 100 miles northeast of the interviewed, he said.
berry farm.
A marijuana grow near the farm is
He was booked on three counts of legal, is located on a separate private
aggravated murder and one count of property and had nothing to do with the
attempted murder. Oseguera-Gonzalez shooting, Baldridge added.
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states that led the investi-
gation into the company’s
deceptive trade practices,
in part because Oregon
has the highest per-capita
ownership of the affected
VW vehicles in the nation,
Rosenblum said.
The attorneys general
investigation
conirmed
that VW and Porsche sold
more than 570,000 2.0- and
3.0-liter diesel vehicles
in the United States,
concealing the existence of
“defeat device” software
installed in the vehicles.
The software enabled the
company to circumvent
emissions standards for
certain air pollutants.
VW and Porsche misrep-
resented the cars as envi-
ronmentally friendly and
compliant with federal and
state emissions standards,
Rosenblum said. In fact, the
vehicles emitted harmful
amounts of nitrogen oxides,
she said.
Tuesday’s settlements
resolve consumer claims
raised by 38 states, the
federal government and
car owners in private class
action suits.
Rosenblum and Gov.
Kate Brown made the
settlement announcements
Tuesday morning at the
World Trade Center in
Portland.
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PORTLAND — The
state and federal govern-
ment have settled two
lawsuits with Volkswagen
related to the company
misrepresenting the amount
of emissions its diesel-pow-
ered vehicles produced.
The federal settlement,
which has yet to receive
inal approval, requires
Volkswagen to pay more
than $68.2 million into a
trust to support diesel-emis-
sion reduction programs
in Oregon and to make
cash payments of $5,100
each to 13,000 Oregonians
who purchased the falsely
marketed vehicles. Volk-
swagen also has agreed to
buy back or ix certain VW
and Audi diesel vehicles.
Other states will receive
similarly funded emission
reductions programs.
In a separate multistate
settlement reached by
Oregon Attorney General
Ellen Rosenblum and 37
other attorneys general,
Volkswagen has agreed
to pay $570 million for
violating state laws prohib-
iting unfair or deceptive
trade practices. Oregon
receives $17 million of that
payment.
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Low 32° in Dillon, Colo.
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