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Friday, January 6, 2017
BRIEFLY
Five bodies found in burned home
HUBBARD (AP) — Authorities
investigating fires that appear to have
been deliberately set in rural western
Oregon have recovered the remains of
five people.
The Marion County Sheriff’s
Office said Thursday that detectives
confirm the remains are of a man, a
woman and three children. They were
found over the last two days in the
smoldering debris, and the bodies
appear consistent with that of a family
which owns the property, the sheriff’s
office said.
The medical examiner will confirm
the identities. The sheriff’s office said
it does not believe there is a danger to
the public.
Investigators are trying to deter-
mine what took place in the pre-dawn
hours of Tuesday, when firefighters
found a home, a shop and detached
garage ablaze. The property is near
the town of Hubbard amid hop farms
in the Willamette Valley off Interstate
5, between Portland and Salem.
Each of the fires ignited separately,
sheriff’s Lt. Chris Baldridge had said,
describing the case as a criminal
investigation.
The residence belonged to Erin
Kroeker, 39 and Keith Kroeker, 42,
and their three children.
Man accused of
attempted murder
for driving into
crowd
SALEM AP) — A
Salem man has been
charged with attempted
murder for driving into a
crowd of people early on
New Year’s Day.
The Statesman Journal
reports that the 31-year-old
man was arrested Tuesday
after striking and injuring
three people around 2 a.m.
Sunday.
Police say a fight broke
out in a supermarket
parking lot early Sunday
after a fight at a nearby
bar spilled into the street.
Police say the suspect
allegedly got into his car,
circled the group of people
fighting and then drove
into the crowd of people.
All three people who
were injured in the crash
have been released from
the hospital.
The suspect was
arrested on charges of
reckless driving, attempted
murder, assault and
tampering with a witness.
He was taken to Marion
County jail.
Anna Reed/Statesman-Journal via AP
In this Wednesday photo, emergency personnel investigate the scene af-
ter a fire damaged three structures on a property in rural Hubbard, Ore.
The Marion County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday that detectives confirm
the remains are of a man, a woman and three children. They were found
over the last two days in the smoldering debris, and the bodies appear
consistent with that of a family which owns the property.
Neighbor Michelle Palacios said
the family has been there for years,
their children attending local schools,
the Woodburn Independent newspaper
reported.
“We’ve always been neighborly ...
we’ve gone to each other’s jewelry
parties, we’ve exchanged Christmas
cookies,” Palacios was quoted as
saying. “This is just bizarre.”
Dems want probe of Trump Cabinet pick over stock sales
Schumer, along with Sens.
Patty Murray, D-Wash., and
Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said
the House’s independent
Office of Congressional
Ethics should conduct an
investigation before Senate
hearings begin, a process
that could last months. Until
then, they said, hearings on
Price’s confirmation should
be delayed.
“We don’t know if he
broke the law. But there are
certainly enough serious
questions to warrant a serious
investigation”, Schumer said.
Top Republicans said they
saw no reason to slow Price’s
nomination.
“They just want delay for
delay’s sake,” No. 2 Senate
GOP leader John Cornyn of
Texas said in a brief inter-
view.
Price, who has long advo-
cated repealing President
Barack Obama’s health care
law and revamping Medicare,
is among eight selections for
Trump’s administration who
Democrats want to examine
closely during upcoming
hearings.
In a written statement,
Wyden asks for
ethics investigation
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Top Senate Democrats said
Thursday that the House
ethics office should investi-
gate whether stock sales by a
congressman who is now one
of President-elect Donald
Trump’s Cabinet picks broke
any laws.
The Democrats cited a
Wall Street Journal report
last month that Rep. Tom
Price, R-Ga., had traded over
$300,000 worth of shares in
health care companies over
the past four years while
pushing legislation that
might affect those stocks’
values. Trump wants Price
to head the Department of
Health and Human Services,
“Congressman Price had
the influence and was actively
involved in pushing health
care policies while simul-
taneously making dozens
of trades in companies that
would be impacted by those
policies,” Senate Minority
Leader Chuck Schumer,
D-N.Y., told reporters.
Trump transition spokesman
Phil Blando called the
Democrats’ demands a
“stunt” to distract attention
from the failures of Obama’s
law, which Trump and
congressional Republicans
plan to repeal this year. He
said Price, a surgeon and
conservative, is “uniquely
qualified” to head the agency.
Blando said Democratic
Sens. Tom Carper of
Delaware, Mark Warner
of Virginia and Sheldon
Whitehouse of Rhode Island
have also traded valuable
health-related stocks and
said, “Hypocrisy is appar-
ently alive and well this
morning in Washington.”
Warner
spokeswoman
Rachel Cohen said an
independent
trustee
manages his investments,
while spokesman Richard
Davidson said Whitehouse
does not direct his trading.
Carper said in a written
statement that he complies
with all financial disclosure
requirements and criticism of
his actions is “inaccurate and
unreasonable.”
Democrats spoke to
reporters soon after the
liberal-leaning Public Citizen
sent a letter to the Office
of Congressional Ethics
requesting an investigation
of stock trades by Price and
another lawmaker, Rep.
Chris Collins, R-N.Y. The
letter cited possible viola-
tions of insider trading and
conflict of interest laws.
Collins
spokesman
Michael McAdams said the
lawmaker “has followed all
ethical guidelines” about
personal finances.
As the new Congress
convened this week, House
Republicans voted initially
to gut the Ethics office.
Within hours, they reversed
themselves under pressure
from Trump and others.
The Ethics office receives
charges from the public
about misconduct by House
members and aides. It is
governed by an eight-member
board whose members
cannot
include
current
members of Congress. The
office can make recommen-
dations to the House Ethics
Committee, composed of
House members.
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SATURDAY
A little afternoon
snow
Sunshine and
quite cold
SUNDAY
MONDAY
Cold with icy mix
A bit of morning
snow; cloudy
TUESDAY
Mostly cloudy with
a shower
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
21°
22° 18°
6°
27° 24°
35° 29°
37° 31°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
20°
19° 17°
9°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
15°
0°
40°
26°
62° (1933) -11° (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
0.00"
0.11"
0.29"
0.11"
0.01"
0.29"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
Yesterday
Normals
Records
LOW
20°
-4°
40°
27°
63° (1933) -11° (1950)
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"
0.20"
0.10"
0.01"
0.20"
SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
Full
Last
Jan 12
Jan 19
7:36 a.m.
4:27 p.m.
12:16 p.m.
12:44 a.m.
New
First
Jan 27
31° 21°
31° 28°
Seattle
39/26
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
26° 22°
Feb 3
Today
Spokane
Wenatchee
17/3
12/4
Tacoma
Moses
39/20
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 16/4
19/11
40/28
38/21
19/1
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
33/21
20/10 Lewiston
18/7
Astoria
23/13
42/28
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
34/22
Pendleton 17/4
The Dalles 20/9
21/6
24/11
La Grande
Salem
17/8
34/21
Albany
Corvallis 32/20
32/23
John Day
25/9
Ontario
Eugene
Bend
5/-9
34/22
24/6
Caldwell
Burns
9/-10
7/-17
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
42
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24
46
7
17
34
21
20
25
19
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31
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46
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Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Lo
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WINDS
Medford
31/24
Klamath Falls
19/5
(in mph)
Today
Saturday
Boardman
Pendleton
NNE 4-8
E 4-8
NNE 4-8
NNE 4-8
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Chilly today with intervals
of clouds and sun. A passing shower in the
south tonight.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Sunshine and
patchy clouds today; very cold.
Eastern Washington: Clouds and sun today;
however, sunnier across the south. Mostly
cloudy tonight.
Cascades: Partly sunny and chilly today.
Mostly cloudy tonight; cold.
Western Washington: Times of clouds and
sun today. Mostly cloudy tonight.
Northern California: Clouds and sun today;
frigid in the interior mountains.
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WORLD CITIES
Hi
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76
58
45
78
0
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49
76
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SALEM (AP) —
Questions about the
legality of a Port of
Portland subsidy for ocean
carriers have been kicked
to the Oregon Supreme
Court by a federal appeals
court.
The 9th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals has ruled
that the financial system
used to manage the subsidy
program isn’t legal under
current Oregon case law.
“We are hesitant to
expand Oregon law in
a manner that may be
contrary to Oregon’s
wishes and in an important
subject matter in Oregon’s
history,” the ruling said.
At issue is a Port of
Portland program that paid
ocean carriers to stop at
its Terminal 6 container
terminal, offsetting the
carriers’ expense to call on
the facility.
The port created the
subsidy because of alleged
work slowdowns by the
longshoremen’s union
due to a labor dispute that
discouraged ocean carriers
from calling on Terminal 6.
Northwest agriculture
exporters depended on the
Portland container facility
to ship crops to Asia, but
ocean carriers stopped
calling on Terminal
6 in 2015 due to low
productivity — despite the
subsidies.
Local agricultural
exporters are now saddled
with greater transportation
costs, as they must truck
goods to Seattle-area ports.
NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Sat.
Hi
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9
29
49
16
21
34
20
19
31
37
22
22
42
41
48
13
22
22
31
29
33
20
26
31
26
23
Appeals court
sidesteps Port of
Portland case
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
TODAY
EUGENE (AP) — A
state regulation that took
effect Jan. 1 requires
Oregon construction
contractors to make sure
workers are protected from
falls if work is done six or
more feet above a surface.
The Register-Guard
reports that the Oregon
Occupational Safety and
Health Division says the
new rule will primarily
affect home builders
because many commercial
contractors already
require the protections.
The previous state OSHA
regulation only required
the protections for work
at 10 or more feet off a
surface.
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— Founded Oct. 16, 1875 —
Oregon enacts
tougher fall
protections for
builders
The agency says
Oregon construction firms
were cited most frequently
last year for violating rules
about fall protection.
Walter Custom Homes
owner Tom Walter calls
the new rule a “regulation
looking for a problem,”
saying his firm has
constructed 118 homes
since 2003 and no workers
have been injured in a fall.
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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. ©2017
-10s
-0s
showers t-storms
0s
10s
rain
20s
flurries
30s
40s
snow
ice
50s
60s
cold front
70s
80s
90s
100s
warm front stationary front
110s
high
low
National Summary: As snow continues near the Great Lakes, snow will leave the coastal
Northeast today. Snow will fall over the Plains and the Tennessee Valley. Rain will change to
snow over the interior South at night.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 83° in Harlingen, Texas
Low -39° in West Yellowstone, 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
43
41
38
35
20
36
11
33
61
24
12
20
34
23
18
60
-15
1
79
41
16
71
17
48
30
64
Lo
20
27
25
21
2
23
-4
22
39
14
4
12
19
7
8
28
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-15
62
27
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Sat.
Hi
43
37
31
29
19
35
19
30
39
23
21
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29
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-16
3
78
46
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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
Hi
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28
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11
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50
34
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44
19
31
48
19
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64
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39
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Lo
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5
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8
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23
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Sat.
Hi
24
30
83
18
8
29
43
28
35
24
29
67
24
29
31
14
42
54
29
23
70
58
37
69
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37
Lo
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30
20
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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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