WEATHER
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
SATURDAY
TODAY
Mostly sunny and
pleasant
Sunny to partly
cloudy and nice
77° 53°
80° 54°
SUNDAY
MONDAY
Not as warm with a
shower
Today
TUESDAY
Pleasant and
warmer
Some sun
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
69° 46°
72° 47°
82° 52°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
86° 58°
82° 53°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
71°
74°
98° (1909)
57°
50°
35° (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
0.03"
0.03"
0.06"
9.18"
5.54"
6.57"
Corvallis
78/50
through 3 p.m. yesterday
HIGH
LOW
77°
76°
102° (1986)
58°
51°
34° (1984)
June 9
New
5:09 a.m.
8:38 p.m.
1:56 p.m.
2:06 a.m.
First
June 17 June 23 June 30
Bend
76/47
Caldwell
82/54
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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WORLD CITIES
Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Hi
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76
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WINDS
Medford
88/57
0.01"
0.01"
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6.32"
4.23"
5.14"
SUN AND MOON
John Day
78/54
Ontario
83/54
Burns
77/45
PRECIPITATION
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
Full
Last
Albany
75/49
Eugene
76/49
TEMPERATURE
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
87° 52°
Spokane
Wenatchee
73/52
77/54
Tacoma
Moses
71/49
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 79/53
71/52
63/51
70/48
82/54
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
70/52
80/59 Lewiston
82/51
Astoria
80/54
63/50
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
76/54
Pendleton 73/45
The Dalles 82/53
77/53
84/57
La Grande
Salem
75/49
76/51
HERMISTON
Yesterday
Normals
Records
78° 47°
Seattle
72/53
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
75° 48°
Friday, June 2, 2017
(in mph)
Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
79/44
REGIONAL FORECAST
Eastern and Central Oregon: Mostly sunny
and warmer today; pleasant. Partly cloudy
tonight. Partly sunny tomorrow.
Western Washington: Clouds breaking
for some sun today with a passing shower.
Partly cloudy tonight.
Saturday
WSW 6-12
W 4-8
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Coastal Oregon: Clouds giving way to sun
today; a shower in spots across the north.
Today
WSW 6-12
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Eastern Washington: Partly sunny today.
Partly cloudy tonight. Partial sunshine
tomorrow.
Cascades: Warmer today. Partly sunny;
pleasant in the south with plenty of sun-
shine.
Northern California: Partly sunny at the
coast today; sunshine elsewhere.
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Permanent ban on suction dredging passes Oregon House
and other heavy metals.
Sand, silt and other fine
material are discharged into
the water.
Wild-salmon advocates
say the process damages
spawning grounds and
rearing habitat. Miners have
argued current laws already
protect salmon habitat and
that no peer-reviewed study
on suction dredging proves
it ruins salmon habitats
exists.
The bill would make
permanent
2016’s
temporary ban on suction
dredging within creeks and
rivers deemed “essential
salmon habitat.” The bill
also bans dredging in
habitat of Pacific lamprey,
which are also present in
the Rogue Basin.
In 2013, the Legislature
passed a bill detailing
new dredging restrictions,
capping the number of
dredging permits offered
annually in Oregon and
limiting some of the times,
locations and manner for
how dredgers operate. It
was designed to expire
at the end of 2015 to give
the Legislature time to
grapple with permanent
rules, which are now on the
horizon.
Salmon and stream
BRIEFLY
Oregon Senate backs use
of red-light cameras to
catch speeders
SALEM (AP) — The Oregon
Senate has approved a bill that would
let cities use red-light cameras to also
identify speeders.
The Register-Guard reports the
Senate passed the bill 18-10 on
Wednesday. The bill now heads to
Gov. Kate Brown for her signature.
Portland, Salem, Medford and
Madras are among the cities in
Oregon that use red-light cameras.
The city of Eugene signed onto a
letter in support of the bill, but doesn’t
currently use such cameras.
Beaverton officials led the effort to
get the bill approved. The city found
that in one year, 90,000 vehicles
passed through their four red light
cameras traveling at least 10 mph
faster than the posted speed limit.
In a separate transportation-safety
measure, The Oregonian/OregonLive
reports the state Senate approved a bill
that would allow Portland to lower
residential street speed limits from 25
mph to 20 mph.
Family of suspect
in Portland stabbing
offers condolences
PORTLAND (AP) — Relatives of
a man accused of stabbing two men to
death who tried to defend two women
from an anti-Muslim rant have offered
their condolences to the victims’
families.
In a letter, Jeremy Christian’s
family expressed sympathy to the slain
men’s loved ones; to the young women
who were harassed on a light-rail train;
and to those who tried to protect them.
The family said in a statement
Thursday that they abhor violence,
racism and bigotry and can’t begin to
understand the senseless act.
Prosecutors say Christian focused
his racist tirade last Friday on two
teenage girls, one of whom was
wearing a hijab.
After the girls moved away from
Christian, he got into a confrontation
with other passengers. Prosecutors
say he fatally stabbed two men and
wounded a third.
Portland driver who shot
8-year-old pleads guilty
PORTLAND (AP) — A Portland
man who shot an 8-year-old girl in
the ankle during a fit of road rage has
pleaded guilty to assault and unlawful
use of a weapon.
The Oregonian/OregonLive reports
32-year-old Joshua Constantine will
receive a five-year prison term at next
week’s sentencing.
Police said Constantine was on
Interstate 84 last December when he
began tailgating, darting in and out of
traffic and forcing other vehicles to
veer off the freeway.
The girl’s mother drove up to
Constantine’s van to get his license
plate while an adult passenger took
cellphone video. Constantine fired one
shot into the car.
The girl’s mother drove the
8-year-old to a hospital for treatment.
After the hearing, Constantine said
he was sorry for what happened and
glad the child recovered.
Woman who hoarded
cats in car pleads
guilty to neglect
ASTORIA (AP) — A woman
found by Oregon police with more
than 40 cats in her car has pleaded
guilty to animal neglect.
The Daily Astorian reports
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advocates see the measure
as a good way of protecting
wild salmon while still
allowing dredging in places
such as eastern Oregon.
“We think it really is a
compromise that protects
rivers but not at the total
expense of suction-dredge
mining, which can still
occur in rivers in the rest
of the state,” said Stacey
Detwiler,
conservation
director for the Ashland-
based Rogue Riverkeeper.
Rick Barclay, of the
Galice Mining District
and a dredging supporter,
could not be reached for
comment.
58-year-old Kathryn St. Clare of Lake
Stevens, Washington, accepted a plea
agreement Wednesday in which she
was sentenced to probation.
St. Clare was arrested in April after
a police officer in Warrenton spotted
her pouring antifreeze into a car
outside a supermarket. St. Clare said
she was purchasing cat food and litter
from the store.
Inside the vehicle she was hoarding
41 cats and the remains of one that
had died. Since the arrest, more cats
have died while others have given
birth.
The Clatsop County Animal
Shelter is having an adoption event
Friday.
St. Clare has a prior conviction
in Snohomish County, Washington,
where authorities found her hoarding
more than 100 cats in a recreational
trailer.
14-year-old Oregon boy
charged with sexual
harassment
ROSEBURG (AP) — A middle
school student in Oregon has been
charged with 10 counts of sexual
harassment after being accused of
groping female classmates.
The News-Review reports the
14-year-old boy was removed from
Freemont Middle School following
the charges.
Police say the boy groped an
underage girl on a recent field trip.
While investigating the incident,
police discovered the boy is accused
of groping several other girls since
January. They say he is accused of
trying to play it off as a joke.
The boy also is accused of sending
lewd text messages and picture
messages to a student. That incident
has led to an additional charge of
telephonic harassment.
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National Summary: A mosaic of drenching showers and locally gusty thunderstorms will
extend from the northern Plains to Texas and eastward across the Gulf Coast states today.
Storms will dot the Rockies and the Northeast.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 98° in Needles, Calif.
Low 24° in Bodie State Park, Calif.
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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Memphis
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Miami
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Milwaukee
78
Minneapolis
87
Nashville
87
New Orleans
82
New York City
77
Oklahoma City
79
Omaha
91
Philadelphia
80
Phoenix
103
Portland, ME
67
Providence
71
Raleigh
86
Rapid City
84
Reno
89
Sacramento
89
St. Louis
88
Salt Lake City
82
San Diego
72
San Francisco
69
Seattle
72
Tucson
98
Washington, DC 82
Wichita
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sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.
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SALEM (AP) — Suction
dredge mining could be
permanently banned from
Western Oregon’s wild
salmon habitat under a bill
that has passed the Oregon
House.
The
bill
creating
stream protection passed
Wednesday and is awaiting
Gov. Kate Brown’s pledged
signature, The Mail Tribune
reported.
Suction
dredging
uses floating vacuums
to suck gravel from a
stream bottoms. Material
vacuumed by the dredges
then go through sluices so
miners can strain out gold
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$8.2 billion education
proposal moves forward
SALEM (AP) — An
$8.2 billion proposal to fund
Oregon’s K-12 education
system cleared its first hurdle
in Salem on Thursday — the
biggest school budget to-date
and the state’s single-largest
obligation for the 2017-19
budget.
The
funding
figure
represents the state’s share
of the K-12 budget, known
as the State School Fund,
the biggest source of school
district funding that comes
directly from state household,
business and property taxes.
As lawmakers are in a
gridlock over how to close an
upcoming $1.4 billion short-
fall that jeopardizes health
care for 350,000 Medicaid
expansion recipients, this
week’s education funding
proposal is a 9 percent
overall jump, or a $830
million increase, from the
current budget schools are
working with today, although
the final numbers are subject
to change.
Still, some of the state’s
197 school districts say they
need at least another $200
million to avoid teacher
layoffs and other cuts. Even
then, educators say Oregon
schools are still underfunded
by about $2 billion per
biennium — a figure derived
from the so-called Quality
Education Model, or QEM,
which is the state’s metric
for determining what’s
“adequate and equitable”
school funding. The QEM
estimates have been major
drivers behind controversial
proposals to boost taxes on
businesses, both at the ballot
last year through the failed
Measure 97 initiative and a
similar package backed by
Democrats in Salem that is
currently in limbo.
The preliminary State
School Fund proposal, Senate
Bill 5517, prompted oppo-
sition from Democrat Rep.
Diego Hernandez, a freshman
lawmaker and board member
of the Reynolds School
Corrections
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District, during the Educa-
tion Subcommittee hearing.
Hernandez ultimately did not
vote on the funding package
because, mid-meeting, he
was swapped out without
explanation and replaced by
fellow Democrat Rep. Nancy
Nathanson, who helped pass
the bill along party lines.
“How can we be
content with mediocrity?
... We cannot continue to
short-change our education
system,” Hernandez said
shortly before his temporary
removal ahead of the vote.
With adequate funding,
Democrats like Hernandez
and House Speaker Tina
Kotek say schools could
lengthen the school year,
reduce class sizes and boost
staffing of counselors and
nurses, among other things
commonly used to measure
how well an education
system is doing.
Within roughly the past
year the state climbed one
spot to No. 20 for per-pupil
spending, according to the
National Education Associa-
tion, while slipping one spot
to 48th lowest in the nation
for high school graduation.
The subcommittee’s two
Republicans, Reps. Julie
Parrish and Gene Whisnant,
voted against the education
package, saying the discon-
nect largely stems from the
state’s lack of control over
how education dollars are
spent by individual school
districts, where payroll,
pensions and health care for
teachers and other adminis-
trators are the biggest cost
drivers.
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