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BRIEFLY
Police: Oregon woman killed
died of blunt force trauma
BEND (AP) — A body
found off a rural highway
has been identiied as that of
a young woman who went
missing early Sunday, police
said Thursday.
An
autopsy
revealed
23-year-old Kaylee Sawyer
died of blunt force trauma,
but no more information about
how she was killed will be
immediately released “based
on legal restrictions with this
investigation,” the Bend Police
Department said in a statement.
Edwin Lara, 31, a security
guard at Central Oregon
Community College in Bend,
was charged Tuesday and is
jailed in Northern California
after he was arrested there
the same day as a suspect in a
shooting and carjacking in the
town of Yreka.
Sawyer disappeared early
Sunday during a walk alone in
the middle of the night in Bend
after arguing her boyfriend.
Her body was found Tuesday
off Highway 126 at the bottom
of a small canyon between
the Central Oregon towns of
Redmond and Sisters, police
said.
Lara’s wife, Isabel Ponce-
Lara, on Monday went to
police in their hometown of
Redmond to report that Lara
had told her he hit Sawyer
with his patrol vehicle, killing
her, then panicked and hid her
body, according to documents
iled in court.
Lara tearfully told her the
story and then drove off, said
Ponce-Lara, a new Bend police
oficer who was worried that he
was suicidal.
Police
searching
the
couple’s home found Sawyer’s
blood-soaked purse and bloody
women’s and men’s clothing
in a shed, according to 62
pages of afidavits iled with
the Deschutes County Circuit
Court in Bend.
Court
documents
said
evidence showed Lara had
committed crimes of vehic-
ular homicide, assault and
hit-and-run.
Deschutes County District
Attorney John Hummel has
said he did not believe Lara
accidentally ran over Sawyer,
adding that he could not say
what evidence led his ofice
to charge Lara with murder
instead of vehicular homicide.
Lara’s
court-appointed
attorney,
Benjamin
Kim,
declined to comment about his
client and the case.
He cited an order from
Deschutes County Circuit
Court Judge Alta Brady prohib-
iting prosecutors, defense
attorneys and police from
speaking publicly about it.
Brady’s ofice did not
immediately return a telephone
message left by The Associated
Press seeking comment about
the gag order.
Lara is charged in the Yreka
case with attempted murder
and kidnapping.
Timothy Bullard/Grants Pass Daily Courier via AP, File
In this 2005 ile photo, a lower Rogue River rafter takes in the history
and the view of Zane Grey’s cabin in Grants Pass. Zane Grey’s one-room
cabin on Oregon’s Rogue River has been added to the National Register
of Historic Places.
PORTLAND (AP) — A small cabin
on Oregon’s Rogue River has been
designated for preservation under the
National Register of Historic Places.
The cabin was once owned by
Zane Grey, the writer best known for
Western novels such as “Riders of the
Purple Sage.”
After loating the Rogue River’s
rapids and falling in love with its
steelhead trout, Grey bought a mining
claim in 1926 at Winkle Bar, where
he built the cabin that became his
wilderness retreat.
The U.S. Bureau of Land Manage-
ment purchased the property in 2008
to help preserve it.
Visitors to the cabin can see the
remains of a wooden boat that’s
thought to be one of the vessels from
Grey’s irst journey down the river in
1925.
Mystery surrounds death of Salem inmate
SALEM (AP) — The death
of a 27-year-old Salem man at
the Oregon State Penitentiary
remains a mystery more than a
week after it happened.
James Howland died July 18
after being found unresponsive
in his cell three days earlier.
Staff members at the Salem
prison were recently notiied
of 10 separate incidents in
which inmates needed medical
intervention and hospital-
ization after they started
experiencing
seizure-like
symptoms, vomiting and difi-
culty breathing, the Statesman
Journal reported.
In half those cases, inmates
were discovered with synthetic
marijuana in their possession.
The memo didn’t mention
Howland by name, but said:
“One of those incidents resulted
in the eventual death of an
inmate.”
Oregon Department of
Corrections
spokeswoman
Elizabeth Craig clariied the
memo and said the department
made a mistake in attributing
the death to the drug.
“A conclusion about his
death has not been made and
DOC is not the entity that makes
that conclusion,” she said.
Deputy
State
Medical
Examiner Dr. Larry Lewman
is awaiting toxicology reports
and Oregon State Police are
handling the investigation.
Crystal
Gonzalez,
Howland’s sister, said her
brother was on life support at
Salem Hospital for two days
before oficials contacted her.
She said the family decided
to take Howland off life
support after being told he
was brain dead and would not
recover. Prison oficials told her
Howland had been unconscious
for 20 minutes before he was
found, Gonzalez said.
She waited until her mother
returned from a trip, and then
said their goodbyes. Immedi-
ately, his hospital room was
declared a crime scene and they
left, Gonzalez said.
His body remains at a funeral
home while his family waits for
an autopsy report.
“We’re angry,” Gonzalez
said. “We’re sad, and nobody is
giving us answers.”
Synthetic marijuana, also
known as “Spice” and “K2,”
was once sold at freely at smoke
shops under the guise of being
an herbal incense product.
The drug is usually a dried
herb doused in chemicals that
produce a marijuana-like high.
It is notorious for causing bad
reactions such as paranoia,
suicidal thoughts, accelerated
heart rate, brain damage and
even death, the memo to prison
staff said
Howland was convicted
in 2009 of stealing a car and
eluding police. His relatives
said he stayed out of trouble
after serving time, but returned
to his old ways after his broth-
er’s suicide.
Howland pleaded guilty
in 2014 to reckless driving,
hit-and-run with property
damage and unauthorized use
of a vehicle. His earliest release
date was in 6 ½ years.
Kristi Howland, his mother,
said her son took parenting
classes, worked in the prison
kitchen and tried to spend as
much time as possible outside
in the prison yard.
Corrections
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
TODAY
SATURDAY
SUNDAY
Very hot with
plenty of sunshine
Breezy with plenty
of sunshine
100° 67°
95° 59°
MONDAY
Pleasant with
plenty of sunshine
Mostly sunny and
pleasant
Mostly sunny and
not as warm
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
88° 57°
90° 59°
81° 56°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
99° 61°
104° 68°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
98°
62°
90°
60°
106° (1968) 43° (1910)
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"
0.80"
0.32"
7.32"
5.00"
7.94"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
Yesterday
Normals
Records
LOW
100°
62°
90°
60°
108° (1939) 42° (1929)
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"
0.30"
0.20"
4.94"
3.25"
5.93"
SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
New
First
Aug 2
Aug 10
Full
Aug 18
92° 61°
86° 57°
Seattle
86/59
ALMANAC
Yesterday
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92° 57°
5:35 a.m.
8:27 p.m.
1:45 a.m.
4:45 p.m.
Last
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TUESDAY
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Wenatchee
95/66
99/68
Tacoma
Moses
88/56
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 101/65
95/59
75/54
88/53
103/65
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
86/56
101/70 Lewiston
104/67
Astoria
102/68
72/59
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
92/60
Pendleton 93/58
The Dalles 104/68
100/67
100/65
La Grande
Salem
96/57
94/57
Albany
Corvallis 95/55
96/56
John Day
99/60
Ontario
Eugene
Bend
101/67
96/54
95/55
Caldwell
Burns
100/63
99/54
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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WINDS
Medford
104/66
(in mph)
Klamath Falls
98/55
Boardman
Pendleton
REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Areas of low clouds and
fog, then sunshine today; windy during the
afternoon.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Hot today
with plenty of sun. Clear tonight. Mostly
sunny tomorrow; hot.
Western Washington: Mostly sunny today,
except areas of low clouds and fog at the
coast.
Eastern Washington: Plenty of sunshine
today. Clear tonight. Plenty of sunshine
tomorrow.
Cascades: Plenty of sunshine today; hot.
Clear tonight. Not as warm tomorrow.
Northern California: Mostly sunny today.
Hot; pleasant at the coast.
Today
Saturday
WSW 3-6
WNW 4-8
WSW 8-16
W 10-20
UV INDEX TODAY
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CORVALLIS (AP) — A former
Oregon State University student has
been found guilty of raping a woman
at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity last
year.
The Corvallis Gazette-Times
reports that Tyler Lazell Warren
on Wednesday was found guilty of
rape, sexual abuse and burglary in
connection with the July 2015 incident
at the fraternity.
Warren was accused of raping a
21-year-old female student following
her birthday party. The victim had
been renting a room at the fraternity
over the summer and both she and
Warren were drinking when the
assault occurred.
The defense argued the sex was
consensual but prosecutors said the
victim was too intoxicated to give
consent.
BEND (AP) — Central Oregon
residents might have more health
insurance options than expected next
year.
The Bend Bulletin reports that
several Oregon health insurers
are shrinking their coverage area
because the individual market is more
expensive that they anticipated. State
regulators have announced, however,
that four carriers appear open to
expanding their coverage area:
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already agreed to sell individual
policies in Deschutes County in 2017.
Patrick Allen, director of the
Department of Consumer and
Business Services, says regulators
have been encouraging insurers to
expand to Oregon’s more rural areas.
He says regulators will meet with
carriers to hash out inal coverage
areas on Monday.
Zane Grey’s cabin added
to historic places registry
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0-2, Low
3-5, Moderate 6-7, High;
8-10, Very High;
11+, Extreme
The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num-
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Forecasts and graphics provided by
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warm front stationary front
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National Summary: Downpours and localized flash flooding will extend from the lower
Mississippi Valley to the coastal Northeast today. Locally heavy storms will affect Florida
and the Plains. Storms will dot the West.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 117° in Needles, Calif.
Low 31° in Walden, 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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Memphis
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Miami
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Milwaukee
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Minneapolis
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Nashville
85
New Orleans
92
New York City
79
Oklahoma City
92
Omaha
80
Philadelphia
86
Phoenix
113
Portland, ME
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Providence
76
Raleigh
92
Rapid City
80
Reno
103
Sacramento
103
St. Louis
86
Salt Lake City
101
San Diego
77
San Francisco
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Seattle
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Tucson
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Washington, DC 89
Wichita
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