WEATHER
East Oregonian
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
SATURDAY
TODAY
SUNDAY
Intervals of clouds
and sunshine
Partly sunny,
breezy and cooler
75° 49°
64° 45°
MONDAY
A passing
afternoon shower
Today
TUESDAY
Mostly cloudy with
a little rain
Cool with periods
of rain
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
62° 41°
60° 38°
63° 39°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
69° 47°
79° 51°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
86°
72°
92° (1918)
49°
46°
27° (1911)
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"
0.91"
0.51"
12.28"
8.02"
8.89"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
82°
74°
89° (1994)
6:51 a.m.
6:39 p.m.
3:34 p.m.
12:19 a.m.
New
First
Oct 19
Oct 27
Caldwell
79/55
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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77
67
64
73
75
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72
79
78
70
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79
79
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Sat.
Hi
62
62
58
67
60
57
65
61
69
58
62
59
56
68
61
65
69
72
64
64
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34
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37
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Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Hi
79
91
76
65
71
49
74
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72
77
75
Lo
54
82
62
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58
42
55
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59
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64
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89
75
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Lo
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Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
70/36
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REGIONAL FORECAST
Eastern and Central Oregon: Sun and
clouds today; not as warm near the Cas-
cades with a shower in spots.
Western Washington: Rain and drizzle
today; a little morning rain, then a shower
at the coast.
Eastern Washington: Some sun today. A
shower toward the Cascades; mostly cloudy
in central sections.
Cascades: Mostly cloudy and cooler, a
shower this afternoon.
Northern California: Some sun today;
fog early at the coast. Clouds and sun
elsewhere.
Saturday
WSW 10-20
WSW 10-20
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Coastal Oregon: A passing shower or two
today; cooler across the north.
Today
WSW 7-14
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NATIONAL CITIES
Albuquerque
Atlanta
Atlantic City
Baltimore
Billings
Birmingham
Boise
Boston
Charleston, SC
Charleston, WV
Chicago
Cleveland
Dallas
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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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Kathy Plonka /The Spokesman-Review via AP
Caleb Sharpe walks into Spokane County Juvenile Court to a packed
courtroom on Wednesday in Spokane, Wash.
but did not talk to reporters afterward.
Sharpe did not speak at the hearing.
Court
documents
released
Wednesday say Sharpe determined
whether to carry out the shooting by
flipping a coin. Detectives wrote in
court documents that heads meant
Sharpe would shoot students and tails
meant he would not do it and never
think about it again. The coin landed on
heads, according to documents.
Sharpe also told detectives that
he had been watching documentaries
of other school shootings, including
Columbine and Sandy Hook, for about
a year, court documents said.
The documents said Sharpe told
detectives about loading his father’s
assault rifle into a golf bag and putting
a handgun in his pocket, The Spokes-
man-Review reported.
Once inside the school, Sharpe
pulled out the rifle, which jammed, so
he discarded it and pulled the pistol out,
shooting a 15-year-old classmate in the
abdomen and face, killing him, court
documents said.
The teen then walked down a
hallway, firing into the ceiling before
wounding three female students,
authorities have said.
Sharpe told police that he had been
bullied by the boy who died but did not
target him specifically.
Wyden gets bypassed on taxes by Trump
Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden has
authored two bipartisan plans to
revamp the tax code, including one
with a member of President Donald
Trump’s cabinet.
But Wyden isn’t being consulted on
the new plan released by the admin-
istration and the Senate Republican
leadership.
“You’ll have to ask them why,”
Wyden said in a telephone interview
Thursday. “The president and I had a
chance to spend what amounts to about
30 seconds on taxes.”
He said that was back in June.
Wyden said he used those few seconds
to urge Trump to follow the last
successful revamp of the tax code —
back in 1986 — by building bipartisan
support for a bill.
But Wyden and other Democratic
leaders say they want a plan that doesn’t
rack up more federal debt and that isn’t
tilted toward the wealthy or to major
corporations. Trump and GOP leaders
rain
20s
Today
Teen accused of shooting 4 faces more charges
By JEFF MAPES
Oregon Public Broadcasting
10s
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 99° in Thermal, Calif.
Low 15° in Bodie State Park, Calif.
Copyright © 2017, EO Media Group
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Prose-
cutors filed 51 new charges Wednesday
against a 15-year-old boy accused
of fatally shooting a classmate and
wounding three others at his rural
Washington state high school.
Caleb Sharpe already has been
charged with first-degree murder and
three counts of attempted first-degree
murder in the Sept. 13 shooting at
Freeman High School near the tiny
town of Rockford.
Spokane
County
prosecutors
upgraded the murder charge to premed-
itated murder and added 51 counts of
assault, representing other students in
the vicinity of the gunfire, according to
court documents.
Sharpe also appeared in court for the
first time, where a judge said a decision
on whether to try the teen as an adult
will not occur until next year.
Defense attorney Bevan Maxey
agreed with the delay, though his client
will remain in custody.
“I have all kinds of concern for
him being in jail,” Maxey said. “This
is a process that is going to take place.
Everybody needs to be properly
prepared.”
The Associated Press doesn’t
typically name juvenile suspects but is
doing so because of the severity of the
accusations and because Sharpe’s name
was released in public documents.
“We would prefer he be handled as
a juvenile,” the defense attorney said.
“That’s what he is; 15 years old.”
Family members of Sharpe and
the victims filled the small courtroom
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Much of the rest of the nation will be dry.
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WINDS
Medford
72/47
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0.36"
0.40"
7.01"
5.44"
6.52"
SUN AND MOON
Oct 12
Bend
67/37
Burns
73/38
PRECIPITATION
Oct 5
John Day
78/46
Ontario
79/54
45°
44°
31° (2015)
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
Full
Last
Albany
67/47
Eugene
67/44
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
63° 34°
Spokane
Wenatchee
75/46
74/49
Tacoma
Moses
67/48
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 78/48
75/47
64/52
67/47
77/42
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
65/51
77/52 Lewiston
81/51
Astoria
80/54
64/50
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
68/51
Pendleton 75/43
The Dalles 79/51
75/49
73/52
La Grande
Salem
76/44
69/47
Corvallis
68/44
HIGH
64° 37°
Seattle
67/53
ALMANAC
Yesterday
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65° 41°
Friday, September 29, 2017
are now focused on trying to attach
their tax proposal to budget legislation.
That would allow them to get it through
the Senate without facing a filibuster,
which requires 60 votes to break.
Republicans tried the same tack on
health care in their efforts to repeal
the Affordable Care Act. That hasn’t
worked, at least so far because Senate
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell,
R-Ky., hasn’t been able to assemble
enough Republican votes.
On taxes, Trump has tried to bring
along a handful of Democratic senators
from red-leaning states. For example,
he gave Sen. Joe Donnelly, D-Ind.,
a ride on Air Force One Wednesday
when the president traveled to Indiana
for a speech promoting the GOP tax
plan.
After they arrived, Trump told a
crowd at the Indiana State Fairgrounds
he’d campaign against Donnelly next
year if he didn’t vote for it.
Wyden said he’s also been lobbying
Donnelly and other moderate Demo-
crats about what he sees as the ills in
the Republican plan.
“I talk to every member of the
Democratic caucus about taxes,
including the several who have made it
clear that they are looking at this care-
fully,” Wyden said. “I think the amount
of debt you’re going to have here (with
the GOP approach) is going to be a real
turnoff to them.”
The Oregon Democrat first devel-
oped a bill revamping the tax in 2010
with then-Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H.
The plan never took off, but it was
praised by many analysts for simpli-
fying the tax code.
After Gregg left the Senate, Wyden
joined forces in 2011 with Sen. Dan
Coats, R-Ind., to fashion a similar plan
that also didn’t go anywhere. Coats
now serves under Trump as the director
of national intelligence.
The Wyden-Republican plans
contained some elements that are part of
the Trump approach, such as reducing
the number of tax rates and cutting the
corporate tax rate while reducing some
exemptions. But Wyden said his plans
didn’t reduce revenue or give a big tax
break to wealthier taxpayers.
PORTLAND (AP) — A
new valuation by the actuary
for Oregon’s public pension
determined that the system’s
deficit has ballooned to
$25.3 billion, meaning
higher costs will be coming.
The growing deficit
will cost schools and local
and state government an
additional $1.4 billion,
according to the valuation by
the Milliman Inc. actuarial
and consulting firm.
The increase was likely
caused in part by the Public
Employees Retirement
System Board’s decision
to lower its assumption of
how much it will get from
investments from 7.5 percent
to 7.2 percent, taking the
deficit from $21.8 billion to
$25.3 billion by the end of
2016, the Oregonian/Oregon
Live reported Wednesday.
The board has allowed
employers to underfund the
system by billions of dollars.
“We’re not paying
anywhere close to what we
should be paying, and if
we did it would absolutely
decimate schools,” said Jim
Green, executive director of
the Oregon School Boards
Association.
The additional $530
million school districts will
have to pay because of the
rising deficit is equivalent to
the cost of 2,650 teachers or
11 instructional days.
Local and state
governments will be drawing
40 percent of the additional
money they will need from
state’s general fund, which
is speculated to result in a
budget deficit in 2019.
Man charged
with raping girl,
giving her meth
ROSEBURG(AP) —
Authorities have arrested
a 45-year-old Oregon
man accused of raping a
15-year-old girl in 2014.
According to Douglas
County court records, the
woman who’s now 18 came
forward in April to say was
raped three years earlier
by a man who lives in the
Canyonville-Riddle area,
after he coerced her into
smoking methamphetamine
from a pipe.
Following a months-long
investigation, detectives
spoke with Jason Budel on
Wednesday at the Myrtle
Creek Police Department.
He was arrested at the
conclusion of the interview.
Budel faces charges of
rape, sodomy, sex abuse and
delivering methamphetamine
to a minor.
Cats rescued from
home of Grants
Pass hoarder
GRANTS PASS (AP) —
The Rogue Valley Humane
Society rescued about three
dozen cats from the home
of an elderly Grants Pass
woman.
Society director Margaret
Varner tells the Daily
Courier that staff members
removed 33 cats, but there
might have been more in
the house. She says they
were under couches, and in
different rooms.
A relative of the elderly
woman requested the action.
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