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Thursday, December 15, 2016
Winter storm snarls traffic in Portland
PORTLAND (AP) — A
rare snow storm brought
Oregon’s largest city to a halt on
Wednesday, with thousands of
vehicles barely able to move on
Portland streets and on one of its
main highways.
Commuters began leaving
work early, hoping to beat the
storm, but they quickly found
themselves on streets that were
clogged with traffic that was
inching along on snow-slick
streets.
Cars fish-tailed, spun out,
and collided. Motorists, some
with their kids in their cars, who
had made scant progress tried to
keep their patience. After more
than three hours of waiting,
some abandoned their vehicles
and started walking. Others
hoped they wouldn’t run out of
gas.
Kimberly Wrolstad had been
stuck on Interstate 5 heading
to Tigard for about 90 minutes
Wednesday afternoon.
“It’s frustrating,” she said.
“I don’t know what’s going on.
I don’t know if there are acci-
dents. I know some of the trucks
are having difficulties.”
Portland does not use rock salt
on its roads, for environmental
reasons, and because snow is
so rare. Portland was ready to
put city buses on snow routes,
and had taken other precautions,
but the suddenness of the storm
caught many off guard.
The Columbia River Gorge
east of Portland was getting hit
hard. Officials reported at least
five vehicle crashes along a
21-mile stretch of Interstate 84,
BAKER CITY (AP) —
Manslaughter and criminally
negligent homicide charges
have been filed against a
Baker City woman whose
5-week-old son died in
September while the two were
co-sleeping.
Court records show
Beth Speelman was also
charged with possession of
methamphetamine. She was
arraigned Tuesday and a
plea hearing has been set for
January 5. Speelman remains
behind bars with bail set at
more than $200,000.
AP Photo/Don Ryan
A bicyclist is surrounded by heavy traffic as a snow storm forces commuters to leave the
city early and jam roads and freeways in Portland, Wednesday. A wintry afternoon and
evening is forecast for much of Oregon, with some cities expected to get a foot of snow.
which runs through the scenic
gorge. The accidents were
between the towns of Hood
River and The Dalles.
The National Weather
Service has issued a winter
storm warning for the gorge
calling for up to 8 inches of
snow and gusting winds.
An avalanche plowed onto
a main highway crossing the
Cascade Range in Oregon, and
then a second one occurred
nearby, forcing closure of the
road while snowplows cleared it,
the Oregon State Police said on
Twitter. There were no injuries.
On the east side of the
Cascades, up to 13 inches of
snow were predicted for Bend.
AP Photo/Don Ryan
Bus riders, bundled against the cold, wait for the next ride as
a snow storm moves in on the area in Portland Wednesday.
At least six Baker County
babies have died from
positional asphyxiation linked
to co-sleeping since 2009,
though this is the first to result
in criminal charges. Generally,
arrests in such cases only occur
when authorities believe the
parent of the child was under the
influence of drugs or alcohol.
Judge rejects electors
attempt to avoid fine
SEATTLE (AP) — A
federal judge has rejected
an effort by two Democratic
presidential electors from
Washington state who sought
to immediately ensure they
won’t get fined if they ignore
the results of the popular vote
here in a longshot bid to deny
Donald Trump the presidency.
Bret Chiafalo and Levi
Guerra took a voluntary
pledge to vote for their party’s
nominee — Hillary Clinton
— if she won Washington,
which she did. But they say
they might join with other
so-called “Hamilton electors”
from both parties to choose
some other candidate when the
Electoral College meets next
Monday, saying Trump is unfit
for office.
Washington law says
electors who break their
pledge can be fined up to
$1,000. A lawyer for Chiafalo
and Guerra sought an
emergency order to block any
potential fine, saying said at a
hearing Wednesday afternoon
it violates the Constitution.
Businessman guilty
of fake donations
PORTLAND (AP) — A
Bend businessman accused
of declaring fake charitable
donations in an IRS return has
pleaded guilty.
The Oregonian/OregonLive
reports that Stephen Munson
on Monday pleaded guilty,
acknowledging that the IRS
lost more than $2.4 million
because of a false tax return
in 2008. He also admitted
that losses for an additional
bankruptcy fraud charge
against him are about $7.5
million.
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
FRIDAY
Rather cloudy and
very cold
Clouds breaking,
fl urries
21° 12°
16° ؏3°
SATURDAY
SUNDAY
Very cold with
some sun
Very cold with
clouds and sun
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
14°
4°
21°
9°
28° 25°
9°
24° 21°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
19°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
22°
16°
39°
26°
64° (2002) -22° (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
0.04"
0.71"
0.64"
12.01"
9.39"
12.15"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
Yesterday
Normals
Records
LOW
20°
39°
68° (2002)
18°
27°
-7° (1972)
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
0.23"
0.71"
8.13"
6.50"
9.21"
SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
Last
New
Dec 20
Dec 28
First
Jan 5
15°
6°
18°
Seattle
36/26
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
0°
7:29 a.m.
4:12 p.m.
6:37 p.m.
8:50 a.m.
Full
Jan 12
Today
MONDAY
Mostly cloudy and
very cold
Spokane
Wenatchee
21/5
25/9
Tacoma
Moses
37/21
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 25/7
22/11
38/25
37/21
29/14
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
35/24
22/12 Lewiston
25/12
Astoria
27/17
40/27
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
35/26
Pendleton 31/12
The Dalles 24/14
21/12
28/19
La Grande
Salem
31/16
34/21
Albany
Corvallis 35/26
35/25
John Day
38/18
Ontario
Eugene
Bend
37/22
37/24
29/9
Caldwell
Burns
39/25
37/11
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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UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Cloudy most of the time
today. Partly cloudy tonight; cold. Mostly
sunny tomorrow.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Mostly cloudy
today. Rain in the south and upper Treasure
Valley; fl urries in central parts.
Western Washington: Times of clouds and
sun today. Clear tonight, but partly cloudy
across the south.
Eastern Washington: Cloudy today; how-
ever, clouds giving way to sun in the north
and central sections.
Cascades: Mainly cloudy today with a fl urry;
not as cold in central parts.
Northern California: Heavy rain today;
snow, accumulating 2-4 inches in the
interior mountains.
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24° 14°
PASCO, Wash. (AP) — One of three Pasco
police officers who fired at a Mexican farmworker
when he wouldn’t stop throwing large rocks said
he was not shooting to kill the man.
“The purpose was to stop the imminent threat,”
Ryan Flanagan said at a coroner’s inquest on
Tuesday.
In a videotaped deposition, Flanagan said he
was concerned for his own safety and that of his
fellow officers, along with bystanders on that early
evening in February 2015.
Flanagan, who has since left the police force,
was not subpoenaed to testify in the coroner’s
inquest into the death of Antonio Zambra-
no-Montes, 35, called by Franklin County Coroner
Dan Blasdel. The inquest is underway at Columbia
Basin College in Pasco.
The inquest is a fact-finding hearing in which
jurors ultimately will be asked to determine what
caused Zambrano-Montes’ death and whether the
officers used deadly force.
Excerpts of a deposition Flanagan gave almost
eight weeks ago in a civil case were played for
jurors on Tuesday.
Zambrano-Montes was high on methamphet-
amine and throwing rocks at passing motorists
before he was shot.
The shooting was captured on video and
sparked weeks of peaceful protests in Pasco.
Local, state and federal prosecutors have
declined to bring charges against the three officers.
The jury verdict will have no effect on whether
criminal charges are filed.
Officers Adam Wright and Adrian Alaniz, who
remain on the force, were sent subpoenas and were
expected to testify.
Their attorneys, Gregory Scott of Yakima and
John Jensen of Kennewick, told Blasdel the offi-
cers will invoke their Fifth Amendment right not
to incriminate themselves before the jury.
Flanagan, in his deposition, said he recalled
Alaniz being hit by a rock three times.
Flanagan fired three of the first five shots at
Zambrano-Montes. Wright shot twice.
Flanagan denied that Zambrano-Montes was
running away from them at the time of the first
volley, saying he could see the man’s chest when
he took aim.
“There was no other alternative,” Flanagan
said.
The officers then gave Zambrano-Montes the
chance to disengage so the encounter could end
peacefully, but Flanagan said the suspect chose to
keep throwing rocks or chunks of concrete.
When he shot six more times at Zambra-
no-Montes in the second volley, Flanagan said he
felt it was necessary because he was in immediate
fear for his own life or the life and safety of the
other two officers.
The officers fired a total of 17 times at
Zambrano-Montes, striking him five or six times,
according to an autopsy.
BRIEFLY
Mom charged in
infant co-sleeping
death of son
TODAY
Ex-officer says he
did not intend to kill
in Pasco shooting
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8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m.
0-2, Low
3-5, Moderate 6-7, High;
8-10, Very High;
11+, Extreme
The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num-
ber, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.
Forecasts and graphics provided by
AccuWeather, Inc. ©2016
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rain
20s
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30s
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snow
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warm front stationary front
110s
high
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National Summary: Frigid air will extend from the Midwest to the Northeast states with
heavy snow near the Great Lakes today. Snow will blanket areas from the northern Rockies
to the northern Plains as rain soaks California.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 87° in Opa Locka, Fla.
Low -21° in Dunkirk, Mont.
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
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43
30
26
16
42
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60
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51
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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
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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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