WEATHER
East Oregonian
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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
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Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
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Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
36/21
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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.
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WINDS
Medford
53/34
Trace
0.12"
0.41"
1.75"
3.91"
2.65"
Lo
37
29
24
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27
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Caldwell
54/35
Burns
47/27
PRECIPITATION
Mar 17
Bend
45/24
Hi
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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.
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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
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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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Today
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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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NORTHWEST BRIEFLY
should try to precisely describe
how they want filings cabinets,
hard drives or email accounts
searched, but “you shouldn’t
have to be an expert in records
management just to submit a
FOIA.”
In other cases, the times the
government said it would be
illegal under other U.S. laws to
release requested information
nearly doubled to 63,749. 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
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not currently taking registrations for
Film Kids or Mini Filmmakers. A
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information.
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