WEATHER
East Oregonian
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
WEDNESDAY
TODAY
Some sun with a
shower; breezy
Mostly cloudy
59° 39°
63° 50°
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
Mostly cloudy with
showers
A couple of
afternoon showers
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
68° 49°
62° 46°
61° 45°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
64° 38°
64° 47°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
60°
63°
82° (2003)
47°
39°
23° (1897)
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
0.11"
1.18"
0.56"
9.25"
5.88"
9.54"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
65°
65°
80° (2003)
John Day
52/35
Ontario
60/33
Bend
51/33
48°
38°
20° (1948)
Burns
51/22
0.06"
0.90"
0.30"
6.34"
3.69"
6.89"
SUN AND MOON
7:16 a.m.
6:04 p.m.
8:21 p.m.
10:11 a.m.
First
Full
Oct 30
Nov 7
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
61
52
51
58
51
47
60
56
64
52
51
52
50
62
57
61
60
64
59
60
55
60
52
49
59
58
62
Lo
47
26
33
47
22
30
44
36
38
35
24
33
33
42
48
49
33
38
39
47
29
46
38
29
46
44
35
W
sh
sh
sh
pc
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pc
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pc
pc
pc
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sh
pc
pc
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Wed.
Hi
61
54
60
62
55
53
60
62
64
58
59
58
55
66
59
64
61
62
63
60
60
59
54
57
59
62
59
Lo
55
36
46
52
30
40
53
47
47
45
28
45
44
46
55
57
40
46
50
55
41
55
44
42
55
50
45
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pc
c
pc
pc
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c
c
pc
pc
pc
c
pc
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c
c
c
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c
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c
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c
WORLD CITIES
Today
Hi
69
83
76
57
75
42
62
67
71
78
77
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Lo
54
79
60
44
51
29
44
52
52
58
67
W
s
r
s
r
pc
c
pc
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pc
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pc
Wed.
Hi
74
84
75
58
75
39
58
70
72
71
72
Lo
53
79
59
46
49
31
44
58
53
57
62
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WINDS
(in mph)
Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
51/24
REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Clouds and sun today. A
couple of showers; only during the morning
in the south.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Clouds and
sun today with a shower in spots; breezy.
Nov 14
Eastern Washington: A shower in the north, near the
Idaho border and in the mountains today. Fog early in
south and central parts and toward the Cascades.
Cascades: Brief showers today; a bit of snow
and rain in the morning, then a shower in
the south.
Northern California: Clouds and sun today.
Mainly clear tonight. Warmer in central parts
tomorrow.
Today
Wednesday
WSW 8-16
W 10-20
ENE 3-6
SSE 4-8
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Western Washington: Variable clouds today
with a shower in spots.
Oct 22
Caldwell
59/36
Medford
62/42
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
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
Last
New
Albany
61/44
Eugene
60/44
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
65° 44°
Spokane
Wenatchee
52/38
59/40
Tacoma
Moses
58/41
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 62/36
51/38
58/48
59/42
62/35
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
59/48
58/44 Lewiston
65/39
Astoria
56/41
61/47
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
60/47
Pendleton 47/30
The Dalles 64/38
59/39
62/41
La Grande
Salem
52/33
60/46
Corvallis
61/44
HIGH
66° 46°
Seattle
58/45
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
72° 46°
Today
SATURDAY
Cloudy
Tuesday, October 18, 2016
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Pendleton High School
Principal Dan Greenough
catches cheese puffs on his
face with shaving cream
during an assembly to show
support for culinary arts
instructor Kristin Swaggart
on Monday in Pendleton.
Swaggart is taking part
in the Farmers Insurance
$100,000 Dream Big Teachers
Challenge and the assembly
was to encourage students
to continue voting for Swag-
gart’s proposal. Swaggart
wants to purchase a food
truck if she wins and teach
students how to manage
the business. To learn more
about Swaggart’s proposal
go to www.farmers.com/
thank-americas-teachers
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Defense rests its case in Malheur trial
The defense rested its
case Monday afternoon in
the trial of seven people
who occupied the Malheur
National Wildlife Refuge
earlier this year. The prose-
cution followed with a brief
rebuttal case.
Earlier in the day, Fabio
Minoggio — a government
informant who went by the
name “John Killman” at the
refuge — testiied about his
role in the occupation.
“I was asked to oversee
the
shooting
range,”
Minoggio testiied, though
he did not specify who
requested he do that. He said
he taught irearm safety and
“proicient use of a irearm.”
Minoggio said he was on the
refuge from Jan. 23–26. The
leaders of the occupation
were arrested by Oregon
State Police on Jan. 26.
Minoggio also said the
federal government reim-
bursed him for the purchase
of a ballistic vest and when
his truck broke down on the
way to the refuge. Beyond
that, Minoggio said he was
not paid.
where they announced their
intention to take over the
refuge. Defendants had
testiied that a deputy, whom
they identiied as McLain,
was at that meeting. McLain
told the court that at the time
of the meeting he was south
of Burns on patrol with
another deputy.
Refuge manager Chad
Karges testiied that no
refuge employees or contrac-
tors were at the refuge from
the end of December until
mid-February. He said
after Jan. 7 all the refuge
employees were removed
from the Burns area. The
defense had said that a U.S.
Fish and Wildlife employee
was present at the refuge
in early January. Karges’
testimony contradicted that
claim.
Jury instructions begin
Tuesday,
followed
by
closing statements. Some of
the alternate jurors wrote a
note to Brown to see if audio
of jury deliberations could be
piped into another room so
they could listen in. Brown
said she has never had such
a request, adding “I don’t
believe it can be granted.”
showers t-storms
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rain
20s
flurries
30s
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snow
ice
50s
60s
cold front
70s
80s
90s
100s
110s
high
warm front stationary front
low
National Summary: Sun and record warmth will spread from the Deep South to the
Northeast today. Rain will wet northern New England, with showers through the Ohio
Valley. Expect rain and mountain snow showers in the Northwest.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 101° in Gage, Okla.
Low 26° in Gunnison, 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
Hi
79
87
75
83
56
89
57
80
86
89
73
85
90
67
80
88
31
59
87
92
83
84
73
82
87
79
Lo
50
64
65
63
39
66
37
62
62
65
50
59
71
37
52
56
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74
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60
63
53
60
67
60
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Hi
72
88
77
84
55
89
59
78
86
84
69
71
89
58
70
86
31
52
86
90
75
83
66
80
87
94
Lo
43
65
63
62
36
65
43
56
63
62
52
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Today
Louisville
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
Hi
89
90
87
69
64
89
89
84
80
71
86
91
65
79
83
63
59
70
87
56
75
69
58
92
84
78
Lo
70
69
75
51
47
65
74
67
60
49
64
66
56
60
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32
48
63
37
61
53
45
59
67
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Wed.
Hi
86
89
87
67
62
89
89
82
84
69
86
92
74
79
85
53
62
75
75
57
86
72
58
90
85
77
Lo
68
68
73
50
39
67
73
63
54
45
64
65
46
56
64
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35
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58
36
63
54
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Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain,
sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.
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Oregon has third-
lowest graduation
rate in U.S.
Rains bring wild
chinook salmon to
backyard creeks
PORTLAND (AP)
— Oregon improved its
graduation rate with the class
of 2015, but it’s still one of
the lowest in the nation.
The U.S. Department of
Education reported Monday
that Oregon’s rate was
about 74 percent, a better
mark than only Nevada and
New Mexico. Neighboring
Washington state was 10th
lowest, at 78 percent.
Nationwide, the high
school graduation rate rose
to a record-high 83 percent.
President Obama announced
the news at a Washington
D.C. high school.
Iowa and New Jersey had
the nation’s best graduation
rates, topping 90 percent.
The Oregonian/Oregon-
Live reports it’s the irst time
in years that Oregon has not
ranked dead-last in gradu-
ating white students. Nevada
claimed that distinction.
Oregon’s graduation rate
among white students still
ranked second-worst, at 76
percent.
Experts say a complicated
blend of factors helps
explain Oregon’s lack of
success at getting students
to graduate in four years.
One is the state’s high rate of
chronic absenteeism.
An item on the November
ballot, Measure 98, requires
the Oregon Legislature to
fund dropout-prevention
strategies.
MEDFORD (AP) —
Plentiful rain has created
ideal water conditions and
allowed spawning wild
chinook salmon to spread
across Oregon’s Bear Creek
Basin and even into back-
yard creeks, biologist said.
Wild chinook have
moved from the Rogue
River into Bear Creek early
and entered tributaries
that haven’t seen the ish
in years, the Mail Tribune
reported. Biologists said
the coming storm front
could even lead to the
big chinook splashing in
Medford’s Lazy and Larson
creeks.
“They’ll probably be
jumping at Emigrant Dam,”
said Pete Samarin, a ish
biologist with the Oregon
Department of Fish and
Wildlife.
Peak spawning isn’t
until Halloween, so the
city’s residents could see
the large ish spawning for
several weeks if the water
low remains cooperative.
“They’re so visible,”
Samarin said. “You get
two 20-pound males and
14-pound females splashing
around and making a
racket.”
Samarin said he’d like
people to contact his ofice
if they see the salmon in
unexpected streams. “And
please leave them alone,”
he added.
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BRIEFLY
Supporting Swaggart’s food truck dream
“It was freely given. I
wasn’t enticed or anything,”
he testiied of his coopera-
tion with the government.
The defense had identi-
ied Minoggio — by way
of his alias — as one of the
15 conidential informants
the government said it used
during the occupation.
The defense has argued
that whether or not those
informants were all at the
refuge matters because it
speaks to the credibility of
what the informants saw.
Although U.S. District
Court Judge Anna Brown
denied the defense’s request
to release the identities of the
conidential informants, the
prosecution did tell the jury
there were nine FBI infor-
mants at refuge at various
times from Jan. 4 to Jan.
26. Of the six unidentiied
informants, the last one left
the refuge by Jan. 23, pros-
ecutors said.
After the defense rested
its case, prosecutors began
their rebuttal case.
Harney County Sheriff’s
Deputy Lucas McLain
testiied he was not at a Jan.
2 meeting among occupiers
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