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Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Jury divided in first trial for Nevada standoff
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A federal
jury in Las Vegas found two men
guilty Monday in an armed standoff
that stopped government agents from
rounding up cattle near Cliven Bundy’s
Nevada ranch in 2014, but then dead-
locked on federal charges against four
others.
The six men were the first to be tried
in the standoff, which was hailed as a
victory by states’ rights advocates who
want vast stretches of federal land in the
U.S. West put under local control.
Their case was seen as a preview for
an upcoming trial for Bundy; his eldest
sons, Ammon and Ryan Bundy; and two
others who prosecutors have character-
ized as leaders of a conspiracy to defy
the government with guns.
The judge declared a mistrial for
Richard Lovelien, Scott Drexler, Eric
Parker and Steven Stewart and sched-
uled a new trial for June 26, the same
day the Bundys are set to be tried.
Earlier, the same jury convicted
Gregory Burleson, 53, of Phoenix, of
eight charges, including threatening and
assaulting a federal officer. He faces
a minimum of 57 years in prison at
sentencing July 26.
Todd Engel, 49, of Boundary County,
Idaho, was found guilty of obstruction
and traveling across state lines in aid
of extortion. Engel could face up to 30
years at sentencing July 27.
The Bundys have become symbols
in the long-running fight over govern-
ment-owned land. The sons also were
accused of leading a 41-day armed
occupation of a federal wildlife refuge
in Oregon last year. They were acquitted
of all charges but kept behind bars to
face trial in the earlier standoff near their
father’s ranch.
Jurors in Las Vegas deliberated for
six days and indicated last week they
were having trouble reaching verdicts
BRIEFLY
Millions of spoiled Prominent
onions disposed of tax protester
in Oregon, Idaho convicted of
NYSSA (AP) — An
federal charges
estimated 100 million
pounds of spoiled onions
have been disposed of
in Idaho and Oregon
following a winter of
unprecedented snowfall.
The Capital Press
reported Sunday that both
states extended the onion
disposal deadline a month
to April 15 in response to
the number of onions.
Oregon officials gave a
landfill permission to build
an additional trench to
handle the onions.
A state department of
agriculture official said
being able to dispose of all
the onions was a “minor
miracle.” The onions are
believed to be spoiled
due to sheds collapsing
under the weight of large
amounts of snow and ice.
AP Photo/John Locher
People including Carol Bundy, top center, wife of Nevada rancher Cliven
Bundy, embrace after a partial verdict outside of the federal courthouse,
Monday in Las Vegas.
on charges of conspiracy. No one was
convicted of conspiracy, mirroring the
Oregon case.
About 30 supporters gathered
outside court, where Cliven Bundy’s
wife, Carol, said before the mistrial was
declared that the jury saw weakness in
the government’s case.
“If they can’t decide, there’s doubt.
If there’s doubt, there’s innocence,” she
said.
The six defendants answered a
Bundy family call-to-arms three years
ago in Bunkerville, Nevada, making
them co-conspirators in a plan to
commit a federal offense and impede or
injure federal officers, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors also characterized them
as the least culpable of the 17 to be tried
in the case.
Jurors heard testimony and saw
photos of each defendant with an
assault-style rifle during the tense
standoff where more than 100 protesters
shouted for heavily armed federal agents
to release nearly 400 cows.
The government was enforcing court
orders to get Bundy cattle off public
lands for his refusal to pay grazing fees.
No shots were fired. But it is illegal
to brandish assault-style weapons
against federal agents, Acting Nevada
U.S. Attorney Steven Myhre said.
The defendants argued they came to
Nevada to exercise constitutional rights
of free speech and weapon possession
after seeing accounts of Bundy family
members met with police dogs, knocked
down, stun-gunned and arrested in
earlier scuffles with federal agents.
A third trial for six others charged in
the standoff is expected in the fall.
Suspect in assault
of girl had been
deported
PORTLAND (AP) —
Authorities say a suspect in
the sexual assault of a girl
in Portland was deported to
Mexico 16 years ago, and
they are asking the public
to help locate him.
Santiago Martinez-
Flores, 48, has a criminal
record dating back to 1994.
The Clackamas County
Sheriff’s Office said
Monday he was deported
to Mexico in 2001 after
being imprisoned in
Oregon for about two
years. Court records
show he had been found
guilty of assault, criminal
mischief, unauthorized use
of a vehicle and failure to
perform duties of a driver.
The sexual assault
against the 9-year-old girl
occurred on Feb. 26 in an
apartment. The suspect
sexually abused the girl
as she was sleeping.
Authorities say she woke
up during the assault and
later described the suspect.
After years of work, Cowlitz Tribe opens casino
SEATTLE (AP) — The
Cowlitz Indian Tribe is
opened its new $510 million
casino Monday, an effort
years in the making.
Monday’s opening of
the casino near La Center,
Washington, caused an
eight-mile traffic backup on
Interstate 5. The Washington
State Department of
Transportation said all of
the casino’s 3,000 parking
spaces were taken, forcing
traffic onto the freeway.
While Cowlitz officials
hope the Ilani Casino Resort
will draw about 4.5 million
visitors a year, providing an
economic boon to the tribe
and the region, others are not
so optimistic.
The Confederated Tribes
of the Grand Ronde own the
Spirit Mountain Casino in
Oregon’s Coast Range, and
they fear Spirit Mountain
could lose 41 percent of its
revenue when the Cowlitz
casino opens Monday near
La Center, Washington.
Cowlitz Tribal Chairman
William Iyall told the Seattle
Times that opening day is a
victory for the Cowlitz Indian
Tribe. “This is a triumphant
moment for The Cowlitz
Indian Tribe because it marks
the end of a 160-year journey
back to our homeland, and
the beginning of a new
journey,” Iyall said.
In 1855, Cowlitz tribal
leaders refused to sign
a treaty and move into a
proposed reservation site.
Over time, members of the
tribe scattered, and it took
decades of campaigning to
persuade the federal Interior
Department in 2000 to grant
the Cowlitz legal status as a
tribe.
Five years ago, opponents
of the proposed casino chal-
lenged an Interior Depart-
ment decision to designate
152 acres west of La Center
as a tribal reservation. That
reservation
designation
cleared the way for gambling
to take place.
Clark County was one of
the opponents, raising several
concerns in court including
worries that the casino would
harm an area set aside for
agriculture.
Card-room
owners in La Center and the
Confederated Tribes of the
Grand Ronde also initially
opposed the project over
concerns about competition.
The casino complex is
expected to employ about
1,500 people. The gambling
operation will take up
about 100,000 square feet
of the building, with 2,500
slot machines and 75 table
games. The complex also
includes 15 shops, restau-
rants and bars, and later this
year a 2,500-seat concert
hall and convention center
is scheduled to open. Plans
call for a hotel to be built in
coming years.
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TODAY
WEDNESDAY
Some sun, cool; a
p.m. shower
Rather cloudy, a
shower or two
59° 47°
57° 40°
THURSDAY
Clouds and sun, a
shower or two
FRIDAY
REGIONAL CITIES
Partly sunny
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
55° 37°
56° 35°
61° 44°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
64° 43°
65° 50°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
53°
65°
91° (1977)
44°
41°
21° (1924)
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
0.18"
1.45"
0.93"
7.72"
4.31"
4.89"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
Yesterday
Normals
Records
LOW
59°
67°
84° (1977)
46°
41°
22° (2009)
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
0.17"
0.71"
0.67"
5.64"
2.98"
3.78"
SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
New
First
Apr 26
May 2
Full
May 10
63° 38°
67° 44°
Seattle
58/48
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
61° 39°
5:52 a.m.
7:55 p.m.
5:48 a.m.
7:08 p.m.
Last
May 18
Today
SATURDAY
Partly sunny with a
shower; cool
Spokane
Wenatchee
57/42
64/45
Tacoma
Moses
57/45
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 65/47
55/44
54/48
55/45
66/43
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
55/51
62/48 Lewiston
67/50
Astoria
60/47
54/48
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
56/49
Pendleton 52/39
The Dalles 65/50
59/47
60/49
La Grande
Salem
56/44
56/51
Albany
Corvallis 55/50
55/51
John Day
55/44
Ontario
Eugene
Bend
63/46
55/50
53/40
Caldwell
Burns
60/45
54/39
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
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54
52
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WORLD CITIES
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Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Hi
68
79
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WINDS
Medford
58/51
(in mph)
Klamath Falls
51/41
Boardman
Pendleton
REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Periods of rain today; any
time in central parts, during the afternoon
elsewhere.
Eastern and Central Oregon: A shower
today, but rain near the Cascades; cloudy in
the upper Treasure Valley.
Western Washington: Cloudy today;
periods of rain, but a shower in central parts.
Rain tonight.
Eastern Washington: More clouds than sun
today; a shower in spots in the mountains in
the morning.
Cascades: Rain today; however, snow and
rain in the south.
Northern California: Cloudy and cool today;
an afternoon shower in central parts.
Today
Wednesday
WSW 8-16
WSW 7-14
WSW 12-25
WSW 12-25
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
1
CARSON, Wash.
(AP) — Authorities say a
hiker in Washington state
has discovered the human
remains of a 24-year-old
Oregon man in the Gifford
Pinchot National Forest.
The Skamania County
Sheriff’s Office said that
a hiker from Vancouver
reported his finding Friday
while hiking just north of
Carson, Washington.
Authorities retrieved
the body Saturday and
on Monday, the remains
were positively identified
as Joshua A. Brown of
Sunriver, Oregon.
Corrections
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$1 Tuesday through Friday, $1.50 Saturday
Forecast
Hiker finds
remains of
24-year-old
Oregon man
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PORTLAND (AP) — A
prominent tax protester has
been convicted of issuing
fake financial documents
to banks and the U.S.
Treasury, and failing to file
tax returns.
The Oregonian/
OregonLive reports Winton
Shrout declined comment
after Friday’s verdict at
the federal courthouse in
Portland.
Government lawyers
said Shrout tried to cheat
banks and the government
while preaching illegal
schemes in paid seminars
across the country.
They said he sent
homemade International
Bills of Exchange to
a small bank, each
purporting to be legal
tender for a trillion dollars.
The 69-year-old who
moved to suburban
Portland from Utah
testified he was given
authority to make the
financial documents from
the Office of International
Treasury Control. Shrout
also testified that he hadn’t
paid taxes in 20 years.
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0-2, Low
3-5, Moderate 6-7, High;
8-10, Very High;
11+, Extreme
The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num-
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Forecasts and graphics provided by
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National Summary: Rain and a chilly wind will soak the Northeast today. Rain will also
fall from the Upper Midwest to the central and northern Rockies to the coastal Northwest.
Snow will whiten the higher elevations.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 97° in Wink, Texas
Low 20° in Dillon, 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
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79
58
60
47
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90
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69
84
64
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58
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53
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77
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78
60
76
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48
40
85
87
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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
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