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Police ID officers involved
in fatal Bend shooting
More crab boats drop anchors
amid West Coast price dispute
BEND (AP) — Oregon State
Police officials have identified the
Bend officers involved in a fatal
shooting during a traffic stop.
Officers Scott Schaier and Marc
Tisher pulled over Michael Jacques
for driving erratically on Dec. 23,
OSP said, and one or both officers
deployed a Taser and Schaier fired
his gun.
Police are not releasing details
on how many shots were fired, how
many hit the 31-year-old Jacques,
what Jacques did to escalate the
situation or what the officers did to
try to de-escalate it, reported The
Bend Bulletin.
Bend Police Chief Jim Porter
declined to comment on the
specifics of the case but said the
investigation hasn’t turned up
anything worrisome so far. He said
both officers have a good history
with the department.
“I’m not worried about the facts
of the case,” Porter said. “I have
no concerns about the facts of the
case.”
The officers weren’t formally
interviewed with investigators
until six days after the shooting.
Department policy provides officers
By PHUONG LE
Associated Press
SEATTLE — Dungeness crab
could be harder to come by if
hundreds of fishing boats remain
tied up at docks from California
to Washington state by a dispute
between crabbers and seafood
processors over the price of the
sought-after crustaceans.
Crab fleets that have been
fishing in parts of Oregon and near
San Francisco are now anchored,
and other vessels in Washington
state and Northern California
have opted not to go out as their
season gears up, said John Corbin,
a commercial crab fisherman in
Warrenton, Oregon, and chairman
of the Oregon Dungeness Crab
Commission.
“We have about 1,200 boats that
are tied up and are willing to stay
tied up until processors bring the
price back to $3 (a pound)” from
the latest offer of $2.75, Corbin
said Tuesday.
At Fisherman’s Wharf in San
Francisco, crab pots remained
stacked up along the docks during
what typically would be a busy
season. From Half Moon Bay, Cali-
fornia, to Westport, Washington,
crabbers said they would stay put.
Larry Andre, a commercial crab
fisherman in Half Moon Bay who
had been fishing since November,
said he supports the strike.
“We’re tying up because
they’ve asked us — other ports —
to support them,” Andre said.
It doesn’t sound like much,
but a quarter drop in price is a lot
when thousands of pounds of crab
is involved, he said, adding that the
situation is a lot harder on those
who have not yet started crabbing.
The commercial Dungeness
AP Photo/Eric Risberg
Crab pots sit on a processing pier and the back of a boat at Fish-
erman’s Wharf Tuesday in San Francisco. Dungeness crab could
be harder to come by if fishers from Canada to Northern Califor-
nia continue their strike over the purchase price.
crab season along the West Coast
opened in waves this year, and
crabbers had been getting $3 a
pound, Corbin and other fishermen
said. In some parts of Washington,
Oregon and California, crabbing
was delayed as state officials tested
for domoic acid to ensure crabs
were safe to eat.
Just before Christmas, Pacific
Choice Seafood in Eureka, Cali-
fornia, dropped the price to $2.75
a pound to local fishermen, said
Ken Bates, vice president of the
Humboldt Fishermen’s Marketing
Association. Dungeness prices
could go lower in following
seasons if that lower price holds,
he worried.
“When Pacific Group decided
in Humboldt County to reduce the
price, they figured that this place
would fold,” Bates said. “It didn’t.
Fisherman didn’t go fishing for that
price.”
Dan Occhipinti, general counsel
for Oregon-based Pacific Seafood,
which owns Pacific Choice, said in
an emailed statement Wednesday
buyers and sellers each have to
decide what they think the market
will support.
“It can be challenging to find
the right balance, but we’re confi-
dent that at the end of the day,
consumers will get wholesome,
sustainably harvested Dungeness
crab at a price they can afford,” he
wrote.
Strikes have happened before
as Dungeness crab fishermen and
seafood processers haggle over
the opening price of the sweet
crustacean. It remains unclear what
impact it will have on supply.
Tribal fleets in Washington state
continue to crab, and crabbing
is happening in Puget Sound as
well. So there is some crab on the
market.
Early 2017 snowstorm pounds
southern, central Oregon
MEDFORD (AP) — A major
winter storm slammed Medford
with its snowiest day in nearly a
century.
More than 8 inches fell at the
local airport from midnight Monday
to midnight Tuesday, according to
the National Weather Service. The
only day with more snow was Dec.
11, 1919, when 11 inches fell.
The Mail Tribune reports up
to 3 additional inches could fall
Wednesday morning in Medford,
Ashland and Grants Pass, and up
to 18 more inches could fall higher
up along the Siskiyou Pass and
around Crater Lake. Rogue Valley
residents should see some clearing
by afternoon as the system moves
east.
Interstate 5 remained closed
Wednesday morning near the
California state line because of
dangerous driving conditions
in Northern California on the
Anderson Grade, which spans
Girl, 8, killed when tree crashes into home
OTIS (AP) — High winds
toppled a towering evergreen tree
onto a house near the Oregon coast,
killing an 8-year-old girl who was
inside, authorities said Wednesday.
Zaylee Schlect was taken to
a hospital, but she could not be
saved. The girl’s father, a volunteer
firefighter, was working Tuesday
and responded with other crews to
the 11:15 p.m. call in the town of
Otis that a girl was trapped.
About 18 firefighters cut limbs
with chain saws and pulled them
away to free Zaylee. She had
been sleeping in her bedroom
that she shares with her younger
sister, who was not injured,
when the tree smashed into the
one-story home. Zaylee’s two
younger brothers and her mother
were also in the home and were
not injured, Capt. Jim Kusz of
North Lincoln Fire & Rescue
said in a statement. Red Cross
volunteers assisted the family
with temporary housing.
Kusz said he estimated the
tree to be around 70 feet high and
42 inches across. He said it was
downed by high winds that also
brought down power lines and
other smaller trees in the area.
“We had very high winds here
last night, and snow on the coast,
which is a very rare event,” Kusz
said over the phone.
Pam Farrar told KGW-TV
said she heard the crash and then
people screaming to call 911. She
tearfully told the station she feels
bad because she told a little girl her
sister was going to be OK.
The winter storm downed trees
throughout the state on Tuesday.
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TODAY
FRIDAY
Sunshine and
quite cold
Partly sunny and
frigid
SATURDAY
SUNDAY
Very cold; a bit of
p.m. snow
Cold with icy mix
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
17°
23°
5°
5°
22° 18°
28° 26°
35° 29°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
17°
21°
8°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
16°
40°
69° (2012)
13°
26°
-9° (2004)
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
0.11"
0.24"
0.11"
0.01"
0.24"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
Yesterday
Normals
Records
LOW
23°
40°
64° (1989)
15°
27°
-4° (1942)
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"
0.10"
0.16"
0.10"
0.01"
0.16"
SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
First
Full
19° 17°
26° 24°
7:36 a.m.
4:26 p.m.
11:44 a.m.
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Last
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Spokane
Wenatchee
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14/1
Tacoma
Moses
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Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 15/1
14/6
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Kennewick Walla Walla
32/17
Lewiston
17/8
17/6
Astoria
16/9
39/24
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
33/18
Pendleton 14/-2
The Dalles 17/8
17/5
22/6
La Grande
Salem
16/4
33/16
Albany
Corvallis 30/14
32/15
John Day
23/5
Ontario
Eugene
Bend
14/-9
31/13
16/1
Caldwell
Burns
16/-10
10/-17
Jan 12
Jan 19
Jan 27
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
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Vancouver
Walla Walla
Yakima
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Hong Kong
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REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Mostly sunny and chilly
today. Cold tonight; clear, but partly cloudy
in the south.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Very cold
today with clouds and sun.
Eastern Washington: Partly sunny today.
Mostly cloudy tonight.
Cascades: Mostly sunny today. Frigid in the
south; not as cold in central parts. Frigid
tonight.
Northern California: Cold today. A snow
shower in the interior mountains; mostly
sunny elsewhere.
Today
Friday
SSW 3-6
NW 4-8
NE 4-8
E 4-8
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
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WINDS
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30/13
Western Washington: Sunshine mixing
with clouds today.
Jan 5
32° 27°
Seattle
32/24
ALMANAC
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Records
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MONDAY
A bit of morning
snow; cloudy
Corrections
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Yreka, according to the Oregon
Department of Transportation.
ODOT road cameras show long
lines of commercial trucks parked
on the shoulder.
Pacific Power said more than
6,000 customers in Rogue River,
Selma, Kerby and Cave Junction
remained without power following
the storm.
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state offices are closed in Jackson
and Josephine counties.
School and state agencies are
also closed throughout central and
south-central Oregon.
KTVZ reports that a National
Weather Service spotter northwest
of Terrebonne reported a foot of
new snow overnight and three-foot
snow drifts early Wednesday. A
weather spotter southeast of Bend
reported 8 new inches and also had
three-foot drifts as snow continued
to fall.
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48 hours between a shooting and an
interview about the incident.
Portland Police recently did
away with a similar rule as part of
a settlement with the U.S. Depart-
ment of Justice.
Porter said some people believe
that a good night’s sleep and a meal
will improve officers’ ability to
recall events.
University of Oregon law
professor Carrie Leonetti countered
that that theory “flies in the face” of
nearly all social science research.
Leonetti said via email that there
are studies that claim the delay
enhances accuracy, but questioned
their validity.
“They are widely criticized as
lacking good methodology, because
they were conducted by people with
ties to law enforcement and lack
any meaningful peer review of their
findings,” Leonetti wrote.
Despite the 48-hour rule, Porter
said officers did do an initial inter-
view with on-scene investigators to
go over the basics of what happened
like whether they fired their
weapons, how many times they shot
and if there was a weapon on scene
that needed to be accounted for.
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The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num-
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National Summary: As lake-effect snow continues to the lee of the Great Lakes, a stripe of
snow will extend from the central Rockies to the central Plains and the Ohio Valley today.
Rain showers will slowly leave California.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 86° in Marathon, Fla.
Low -26° in Fosston, 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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New York City
Oklahoma City
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Portland, ME
Providence
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Rapid City
Reno
Sacramento
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San Diego
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