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WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast THURSDAY TODAY Cloudy, showers around; cooler Mostly cloudy 53° 33° 49° 32° FRIDAY SATURDAY Mostly cloudy with a few showers Today SUNDAY Mainly cloudy, showers around 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 Mostly cloudy with a shower PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 50° 35° 50° 35° 52° 31° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 54° 32° 58° 33° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 67° 54° 74° (2015) 55° 35° 8° (1906) 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 0.52" 0.50" 2.85" 4.79" 3.01" HERMISTON through 3 p.m. yesterday LOW 59° 57° 75° (2003) SUN AND MOON Mar 24 Full 7:10 a.m. 6:59 p.m. 6:00 a.m. 4:13 p.m. Last Mar 31 Apr 8 Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo (in mph) Boardman Pendleton Klamath Falls 36/21 Hi 53 48 46 47 44 43 50 48 54 46 39 47 45 51 49 48 55 57 49 57 50 53 48 43 56 53 57 Lo 36 28 26 38 24 28 33 31 32 30 21 31 29 33 38 38 35 33 32 40 27 37 32 25 39 38 31 W sh sh sn r c sh r c c c sn c sh r r r sh c c sh sn sh c c sh c c Hi 70 74 69 55 76 32 58 61 66 79 66 Lo 44 66 47 46 52 24 47 46 51 68 52 W pc pc s pc pc c pc pc s pc s Thu. Hi 54 76 63 54 79 31 56 58 54 85 66 Lo 30 67 46 43 51 11 43 51 38 71 57 W pc t c r pc sn r t r s c REGIONAL FORECAST Coastal Oregon: Overcast today into tomorrow with a little rain. Friday: a couple of showers. Eastern and Central Oregon: Showers around today; however, a bit of snow near the Cascades, accumulating an inch or two. Western Washington: Cloudy today and tonight with a little rain. A shower in places tomorrow. — Founded Oct. 16, 1875 — 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. Main St., Hermiston 541-567-6211 Office hours: Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed major holidays www.eastoregonian.com To subscribe, call 1-800-522-0255 or go online to www.eastoregonian.com and click on ‘Subscribe’ East Oregonian (USPS 164-980) is published daily except Sunday, Monday and postal holidays, by the EO Media Group, 211 S.E. Byers Ave. Pendleton, OR 97801. Periodicals postage paid at Pendleton, OR. Postmaster: send address changes to East Oregonian, 211 S.E. Byers Ave. Pendleton, OR 97801. Today Thursday WSW 8-16 WSW 8-16 W 6-12 W 6-12 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. Copyright © 2018, EO Media Group W r sh sn r sh sh r sh sh sh sn sh sh r r r sh sh sh r sn r sh sh r sh sh Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. WINDS Medford 53/34 Trace 0.12" 0.41" 1.75" 3.91" 2.65" Lo 37 29 24 39 27 30 32 31 33 33 21 31 29 34 39 39 36 30 33 36 23 35 33 27 35 37 27 Today Caldwell 54/35 Burns 47/27 PRECIPITATION Mar 17 Bend 45/24 Hi 52 49 45 50 47 45 51 50 58 48 36 48 45 53 50 52 57 59 53 55 50 53 48 45 53 54 58 NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Thu. WORLD CITIES John Day 48/33 Ontario 57/36 46° 34° 13° (1941) 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 New First Albany 52/33 Eugene 51/32 TEMPERATURE Yesterday Normals Records 57° 32° Spokane Wenatchee 48/33 51/31 Tacoma Moses 52/30 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 57/31 47/33 51/37 52/29 58/27 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 52/34 54/37 Lewiston 59/34 Astoria 53/37 52/37 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 55/36 Pendleton 45/30 The Dalles 58/33 53/33 56/32 La Grande Salem 48/31 53/35 Corvallis 52/33 HIGH 56° 38° Seattle 53/36 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 55° 37° Wednesday, March 14, 2018 Eastern Washington: Cloudy today with a couple of showers; however, dry in the mountains. Cascades: Periods of snow today, accumu- lating 1-3 inches, except a little rain across the north. Northern California: Showers around today; snow, accumulating 1-3 inches in the interior mountains. 0 1 2 1 1 0 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. ©2018 Subscriber services: For mail delivery, online access, vacation stops or delivery concerns call 1-800-522-0255 ext. 1 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Local home delivery Savings off cover price EZPay $14.50 41 percent 52 weeks $173.67 41 percent 26 weeks $91.86 38 percent 13 weeks $47.77 36 percent *EZ Pay = one-year rate with a monthly credit or debit card/check charge Single copy price: $1 Tuesday through Friday, $1.50 Saturday Circulation Manager: Marcy Rosenberg • 541-966-0828 • mrosenberg@eastoregonian.com -10s -0s showers t-storms 0s 10s rain flurries AP Photo/J. David Ake, File In this 2013 file photo, the Department of Justice headquar- ters building in Washington is photographed early in the morning. The federal government censored, withheld or said it couldn’t find records sought by citizens, journalists and oth- ers more often last year than at any point in the past decade, according to an Associated Press analysis of new data. nearly two-thirds of cases when it turned over anything. The federal government also spent $40.6 million last year in legal fees defending its decisions to withhold federal files, also a record. That included the time when a U.S. judge ruled against the AP and other news organi- zations asking for details about who and how much the FBI paid to unlock the iPhone used by a gunman in a mass shooting in San Bernardino, California. When the government loses in court, it sometimes must pay the winner’s attorney’s fees. For example, the New York Times was awarded $51,910 from the CIA in May in a fight over records about chemical weapons in Iraq. It was impossible, based on the government’s own accounting, to determine whether researchers, journalists and others asked for records that did not actually exist or whether federal employees did not search hard enough before giving up. The government said it found nothing 180,924 times, an 18 percent increase over the previous year. “Federal agencies are failing to take advantage of modern technology to store, locate and produce records in response to FOIA requests, and the public is losing out as a result,” said Adam A. Marshall, the Knight Foundation litigation attorney at the Washington-based Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. He said citizens and others a new crime, and an Associated Press investigation that has happened more than once. “It’s disappointing the bill failed to pass,” said Kyle Moore, spokesman for the agency. “It’s a policy that falls in line with other law enforcement agencies across the state.” Jaime Smith, spokeswoman for Gov. Jay Inslee, said the bill’s failure “was definitely a disap- pointment.” In Washington, like most other states, the law allows police to decide whether to sell, trade or destroy guns that are confiscated during criminal investigations. But the law was stricter for the State Patrol. Any forfeited guns that are not needed as evidence or kept for agency use must be auctioned or traded with licensed dealers, who then sell them. Having the option to destroy the crime guns would “reduce the risk of these firearms being used for criminal purposes in the future and tied back to the department,” the agency said in its request for the bill, which was sponsored by Rep. Tana Senn, D-Bellevue. It’s co-sponsored by nine other Democrats and two Republicans. The bill had moved to the House floor after being moved out of committee last year, but it stalled there and never got a vote, snow ice 50s 60s cold front 70s 80s 90s 100s warm front stationary front 110s high low 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 67 51 44 43 51 54 55 41 57 37 47 35 69 69 39 74 29 35 79 71 43 64 64 69 61 64 Lo 44 35 31 28 31 35 36 32 33 29 29 29 51 41 27 57 18 13 73 52 30 33 39 50 40 50 W pc s pc pc pc s sh sf s sf pc sf s pc pc pc sn s sh pc pc s s pc s c Thur. 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Those laws include broad prohibitions against revealing details about U.S. intelligence activities or foreign governments, trade secrets, individual banking or tax records and more. Many of those requests probably involved files related to the U.S. investigation into how Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election or the related grand jury investigations or about Trump’s personal or business tax returns, said Kel McClanahan, a Washington lawyer who frequently sues the U.S. government for records. “How many people do you think asked for Trump’s tax returns?” he asked. A disturbing trend continued: In more than one-in-three cases, the government reversed itself when challenged and acknowl- edged that it had improperly tried to withhold pages. But people filed such appeals only 14,713 times, or about 4.3 percent of cases in which the government said it found records but held back some or all of the material. Washington Legislature fails to pass bill to let patrol destroy guns SEATTLE (AP) — The Washington state Legislature ended its latest session without passing a bill that would allow the State Patrol to destroy fire- arms confiscated during criminal investigations, instead of trading them with a firearms dealer, who would sell them to the public. They not only sell handguns and hunting rifles, but also assault weapons. House Bill 1483 sought to give the agency the option to destroy them instead, but it never received a vote on the House floor. The agency has feared that one of its sold guns would be used in 40s Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 89° in Thermal, Calif. Low -4° in Saco, Mont. U.S. sets new record for censoring and withholding government files WASHINGTON — The federal government censored, withheld or said it couldn’t find records sought by citizens, jour- nalists and others more often last year than at any point in the past decade, according to an Associ- ated Press analysis of new data. The calculations cover eight months under President Donald Trump, the first hints about how his administration complies with the Freedom of Information Act. The surge of people who sought records but ended up empty-handed was driven by the government saying more than ever it could not find a single page of requested files and asserting in other cases that it would be illegal under U.S. laws to release the information. People who asked for records under the Freedom of Informa- tion Act received censored files or nothing in 78 percent of 823,222 requests, a record over the past decade. When it provided no records, the government said it could find no information related to the request in a little over half those cases. It turned over everything requested in roughly one of every five FOIA requests, according to the AP analysis. Records requests can take months — even years — to get fulfilled. Even then, the govern- ment censored documents in 30s National Summary: Blizzard conditions will linger in northern New England today as areas of steady snow and snow showers extend westward to the Great Lakes and Appalachians. Rain and mountain snow will spread across the West. SUNSHINE WEEK By TED BRIDIS Associated Press 20s Senn said. “I’m still in a little bit of shock that we didn’t pass the bill,” she said. “It certainly wasn’t for a lack of trying.” Some lawmakers argued that if the agency destroys the guns, people will just buy them from the gun manufacturer and that will add to their profit, Senn said. “But we argued that it’s more expensive to buy it new,” she said, and by destroying the guns “we wouldn’t have the liability issues involved.” Some fear the State Patrol and the state would be held liable if a gun sold by the agency were used in a murder or mass shooting. Groups seek protection for unique Oregon salamander SALEM (AP) — Four conservation groups are seeking federal protection for a unique species of salamander that lives in the Klamath-Siskiyou region of southern Oregon and northern California. The Capital Press reports the petition was filed Monday with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The petition says increasing logging of old-growth forests is threatening the Siskiyou Mountains salamander and the amphibian deserves immediate protection under the Endangered Species Act. Two timber industry groups issued a joint statement against the petition. Conservationists first filed a petition seeking federal protection for the salamander in 2004. Pilot killed in crash was fixture in Oregon aviation PORTLAND (AP) — An Oregon pilot who died in a plane crash in Washington was a passionate advocate for pilots and airports and played a significant role in Oregon aviation, according to the Oregon Department of Aviation. Mary Rosenblum, of Canby, was flying a Piper Super Cub plane Sunday when she hit trees around 1 p.m. and crashed near Battle Ground, Washington, the Clark County Sheriff’s Office said. Rosenblum was the only person found in the damaged plane and died at the scene near Daybreak Field. She was 65. Rosenblum was an award-winning author who wrote nine novels over her career, including “The Drylands,” which won the Compton Crook Award for science fiction writing in 1994. She wrote mysteries under the name Mary Freeman. Cat Rambo, president of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, said Rosenblum was a “one of the vital components of our Pacific Northwest writing community. Rosenblum and a friend in a separate aircraft had flown to other locations earlier in the day and meant to stop at Daybreak Field, according to the sheriff’s office. Rosenblum’s friend did not see what caused the plane to crash. The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the crash. Correction Hermiston Parks & Recreation is not currently taking registrations for Film Kids or Mini Filmmakers. A community brief in the March 10-11 East Oregonian was based on outdated information. The East Oregonian works hard to be accurate and sincerely regrets the error. 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