WEATHER
East Oregonian
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
WEDNESDAY
TODAY
Mostly cloudy
Cloudy, bitterly
cold; p.m. snow
24° 13°
19° 17°
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
Very cold with a
little snow
Very cold with
clouds and sun
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
22° 13°
18° ؏2°
12° ؏1°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
21° 19°
27° 15°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
36°
26°
39°
26°
75° (1921) -23° (1919)
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
0.12"
0.67"
0.55"
11.97"
9.27"
12.06"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
35°
40°
62° (1933)
0.06"
0.23"
0.62"
8.13"
6.50"
9.12"
SUN AND MOON
Dec 20
Bend
28/16
Burns
27/12
2°
New
7:28 a.m.
4:11 p.m.
4:33 p.m.
6:43 a.m.
First
Dec 28
Jan 5
Caldwell
29/20
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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Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
38/29
REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Some brightening in
central parts today; partly sunny across the
north. Cloudy in the south.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Mostly cloudy
today; cold. A bit of snow in the south
tonight; cold across the north.
Western Washington: Sunny to partly
cloudy today, except variable cloudiness
across the south.
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Eastern Washington: Plenty of sunshine
today; however, some clouds toward the
Cascades.
Cascades: Cloudy today. A bit of snow
with little or no accumulation in the south
tonight.
Northern California: A bit of snow in the
interior mountains today; rain and drizzle
at the coast.
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— a cask of contaminated
filters — to the disposal
site on Nov. 9. Workers
there measured radiation
levels seven times higher
than reported in the
shipping manifest.
Energy Northwest
spokesman Mike Paoli
says that though the
radioactivity of the
source was higher than
on the manifest, the dose
received by those handling
the shipment remained
well below the workplace
safety standards.
The commission says
there was no undue risk to
the public, but a transpor-
tation accident could have
potentially exposed people
to excessive radiation
levels.
A three-member
inspection team will spend
this week at the plant near
Richland.
Hearing in Logan
Kitzhaber crash
pushed to 2017
LINCOLN CITY
(AP) — An attorney for
Logan Kitzhaber has
been granted more time
to investigate evidence
from the traffic crash that
resulted in the teenager
facing criminal charges.
The Oregonian/
OregonLive reports
the son of former Gov.
John Kitzhaber attended
Monday's court hearing
in Lincoln County. His
attorney, Ben Eder, told
Judge Sheryl Bachart that
three weeks would be
plenty of time and agreed
to next appear with his
client on Jan. 17.
Kitzhaber's car struck a
motorhome on the Fourth
of July after trying to
pass another vehicle on
U.S. 101 north of Lincoln
City. Kitzhaber and a
couple traveling in the
motorhome were injured.
Kitzhaber was charged
with assault, DUI, reckless
driving, criminal mischief
and recklessly endan-
gering another person.
Corrections
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RICHLAND, Wash.
(AP) — Federal regulators
will begin inspecting the
Columbia Generating
Station after the nuclear
plant shipped waste that
had higher radioactivity
than was reported.
The Nuclear Regula-
tory Commission says
operator Energy North-
west has been temporarily
barred by the Washington
Department of Health
from sending waste to a
commercial disposal site.
Regulators said
Monday the plant shipped
low-level nuclear waste
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— Founded Oct. 16, 1875 —
SALEM (AP) —
Oregon's leaders cele-
brated the first year of the
state's unique automatic
voter registration system
in the presence of bags of
hazelnuts.
Gov. Kate Brown
said at a Monday news
conference that 270,000
Oregonians were
registered to vote under
the so-called motor-voter
program.
She said more than
97,000 of them cast ballots
in November.
Under the year-old
program, Oregonians of
legal age are automatically
registered to vote when
they apply for or renew a
driver's license or state ID.
So why the hazelnuts?
Secretary of State
Jeanne P. Atkins said they
represent Oregonians
registered under
motor-voter and that
both hazelnuts and the
registration program are
Oregon icons. She said
she hopes that other states
adopt the voter registration
program.
She said the nuts are on
loan and that her staff isn't
going to eat them.
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Wed.
WINDS
Medford
43/37
PRECIPITATION
Dec 13
14°
John Day
32/19
Ontario
26/15
29°
27°
-5° (1972)
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
Full
Last
Albany
40/30
Eugene
40/30
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
0°
Spokane
Wenatchee
17/2
23/8
Tacoma
Moses
41/23
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 23/4
25/9
40/29
39/25
32/12
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
41/28
24/14 Lewiston
25/12
Astoria
29/16
44/32
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
41/31
Pendleton 25/9
The Dalles 27/15
24/13
33/20
La Grande
Salem
29/15
41/29
Corvallis
41/31
HIGH
20°
Seattle
39/28
ALMANAC
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Normals
Records
24° 15°
Today
SATURDAY
Frigid with a snow
shower
Tuesday, December 13, 2016
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National Summary: A new blast of arctic air will invade the North Central states today. Rain
will dampen parts of the Southeast with snow showers for the Rockies. A bit of rain and
snow will affect central California.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 87° in Marathon, Fla.
Low -20° in Orr, Minn.
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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Phoenix
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Standoff defendant seeks to withdraw guilty plea
for the goose is good for the
PORTLAND (AP) — An
gander,” Schwartz wrote in a
Arizona man is the latest
motion filed Sunday. “If the
Oregon standoff figure to ask
Nevada prosecutors can press
for his guilty plea to be with-
forward with trial, then Mr.
drawn.
O’Shaughnessy should be
Joseph
O’Shaughnessy
pleaded guilty to a federal
allowed to defend his Oregon
conspiracy charge nearly three
case in trial.”
months before a jury acquitted
When he pleaded guilty
seven of his co-defendants,
Aug. 1, O’Shaughnessy said
including standoff leaders O’Shaughnessy he didn’t participate in the
Ammon Bundy.
occupation of the Malheur
O’Shaughnessy is awaiting a National Wildlife Refuge, but felt a duty
February trial on accusations stemming to provide security for those protesting
from a 2014 standoff with federal agents federal control of public lands and the
at a Nevada ranch owned by Ammon imprisonment of two Oregon ranchers.
Bundy’s father, Cliven Bundy,
Two of the other 10 defendants who
Defense attorney Tony Schwartz said pleaded guilty — Ryan Payne and Eric
O’Shaughnessy had a plea deal in Nevada, Flores — have sought to withdraw their
but it was contingent on him pleading pleas. U.S. District Judge Anna Brown
guilty in Oregon. Because the Nevada has yet to rule on their requests or
plea offer fell apart, his client should be schedule hearings.
able to withdraw his Oregon plea.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Craig Gabriel
“As the idiom goes: what is good urged Brown to reject Payne’s request,
saying the man knew his fellow occu-
piers were proceeding to trial and an
acquittal was possible. Gabriel said the
government is in talks with a lawyer for
Flores, who was a much lesser figure in
the standoff than Payne.
The government has yet to respond to
O’Shaughnessy’s motion.
In addition to the breakdown of the
Nevada plea deal, Schwartz pointed
to new information discovered after
O’Shaughnessy’s Aug. 1 change of plea,
such as the extent to which the govern-
ment used confidential informants.
Prosecutors in Nevada have described
O’Shaughnessy as a midlevel organizer
of the confrontation at Cliven Bundy’s
ranch. The defendants there are accused
of conspiring to assault federal officials
who were rounding up Bundy’s cattle
over unpaid grazing fees.
O’Shaughnessy believes the case
against him in Nevada is weak, Schwartz
wrote.
State crime lab scientist sentenced to 3 years in prison
BEND (AP) — A federal
judge sentenced a fired
forensic scientist at the
Oregon State Police crime
labs Monday to three years in
prison for stealing hundreds
of pills from evidence
submitted to the lab over two
years, causing the state to
re-evaluate over 2,500 drug
cases statewide.
Nika Larsen, 36, was
sentenced after pleading
guilty in August to two
counts of obtaining a
controlled substance by
misrepresentation, fraud and
deception, The Oregonian/
OregonLive reported. Her
sentence also includes 250
hours of community service
as part of supervised release
following her prison time.
Larsen used her position
to steal methamphetamine,
morphine and other drugs
while processing and over-
seeing cases, the U.S. Attor-
ney’s Office said. Deschutes
County District Attorney
John Hummel wrote to the
court that Larsen violated
her position of trust “on a
massive scale unprecedented
in Oregon history.”
An investigation found
Larsen took the pills in
Umatilla County between
December
2013
and
November 2014 and in
Deschutes County between
November
2014
and
September 2015. She began
working for the state in 2007.
Oregon State Police
launched an investigation in
2015 after a forensic scien-
tist in the Bend lab found
18 oxycodone pills were
missing. Investigators found
some pills were missing,
partially missing or had been
replaced with non-controlled
substances — all in cases
handled by Larsen.
Larsen told the judge
Monday she wanted to
express her deep “regret and
shame.”
“What started as a
perceived easy and painless
means of escaping my past
and agonizing daily life
turned into egregious acts that
deeply impacted my friends,
family and colleagues in the
law enforcement and the
legal community,” she wrote
in a Dec. 6 letter to the judge
that she read in court.
Larsen suffered from
substance abuse during
the year before her arrest,
according to her plea agree-
ment.
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