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WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast FRIDAY TODAY SATURDAY Mostly cloudy Intervals of clouds and sun 61° 41° 63° 43° SUNDAY Times of clouds and sun Mostly cloudy PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 63° 41° 58° 38° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 68° 44° 65° 43° PENDLETON TEMPERATURE LOW 55° 58° 76° (1923) 43° 37° 23° (2008) 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" 1.38" 1.29" 3.71" 6.19" 3.80" Corvallis 61/37 HERMISTON through 3 p.m. yesterday Yesterday Normals Records LOW 59° 61° 78° (1930) New 6:41 a.m. 7:19 p.m. 5:27 p.m. 6:06 a.m. First Apr 15 Apr 22 Caldwell 62/35 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 Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo Boardman Pendleton Eastern Washington: Mostly cloudy today and tonight. 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Kitzhaber attended meetings for which Hayes was either being paid or was seeking contracts with environmental advocacy groups and promoted and advanced her business, they wrote. For instance, he gave a speech in May 2013 at a planning retreat at the governor’s residence, Mahonia Hall, to discuss transitioning Oregon to a different economic measurement formula that factors in environmental health. Hayes was being paid by public policy organization Demos for facilitating the meeting. In addition, Kitzhaber failed to publicly disclose his poten- tial conflicts of interest and actual conflicts in at least seven instances, as required by state law, the investigators wrote. He also allegedly improp- erly accepted United Airlines Premier Platinum status, worth an estimated $4,000. That violates Oregon law prohib- iting public officials from accepting gifts valued at more than $50. Kitzhaber has said he was unaware that he had received the platinum status. Kitzhaber had no comment Wednesday on the proposed settlement. If the commission rejects the proposed settlement, Kitzhaber could face up to $50,000 in fines for the alleged violations. In November, Kitzhaber and ethics commission staff members came up with a proposed settlement of $1,000, but the ethics commission rejected that agreement in November, as first reported by the Pamplin/EO Media Group. The ethics commission has an ethics case pending against Hayes. 0s showers t-storms 10s rain 20s flurries 30s 40s snow 50s ice cold front SPECTFUM INTEFNET™ SAN FRANCISCO — A family that gained attention for an emotional photograph of an Afri- can-American boy hugging a white police officer at a 2014 protest were killed when their SUV plunged off a scenic California highway, author- ities said Wednesday as they asked for help figuring out what happened. “We have every indication to believe that all six children were in there,” Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allmon said, appealing for tips to retrace where the siblings and two parents had been before the vehicle was found Monday in rocky ocean. “We know that an entire family vanished and perished during this tragedy.” Some friends described married couple Jennifer and Sarah Hart as good parents who took their adopted kids to Bernie Sanders rallies, while some neighbors said they called child welfare officials in their rural Washington state community over concerns about possible abuse or had noticed red flags. The California Highway Patrol has not determined why the vehicle went off an ocean overlook on a rugged part of coastline. A special- ized team of accident investigators was trying to figure that out, Allmon said. “There were no skid marks, there were no brake marks” at the turnout on the Pacific Coast Highway where the vehicle went over, the sheriff said. Investigators have no reason to believe the crash was intentional, he said. The 100-foot drop killed the women, both 39, and their children Markis Hart, 19; Jeremiah Hart, 14; and Abigail Hart, 14. Hannah Hart, 16; Devonte Hart, 15; and Sierra Hart, 12, have not been found. The Harts lived in Woodland, Washington, a small city outside Technology... Value... 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Bret Barnum, left, and Devonte Hart, 12, hug at a rally in Portland, where people had gathered in support of the protests in Ferguson, Mo. Portland and had a recent visit from Child Protective Services, Clark County sheriff’s Sgt. Brent Waddell told The Associated Press. He said the sheriff’s office later entered the house and found no obvious signs of trouble or violence. It appeared the family planned a short trip because they left behind a pet, chickens and most of their belongings. Next-door neighbors Bruce and Dana DeKalb said they called child services Friday because they were concerned that Devonte Hart, who hugged the officer at the protest, was going hungry. They said he had been coming over to their house often in the past week asking for food. The DeKalbs also recounted that three months after the family moved into the home on 2 acres with a fenced pasture in May 2017, one of the girls rang their doorbell at 1:30 a.m. She “was at our door in a blanket saying we needed to protect her,” Bruce DeKalb said. “She said that my wife since that day.” In 2011, Sarah Hart pleaded guilty to a domestic assault charge in Minnesota. Her plea led to the dismissal of a charge of malicious punishment of a child, online court records say. The family got attention after Devonte Hart was photographed during a 2014 protest in Portland over a grand jury’s decision not to indict a police officer in the shooting of a black man in Ferguson, Missouri. The boy, holding a “Free Hugs” sign, stood crying. A Portland officer saw his sign and asked if he could have a hug, and an emotional Hart embraced him in a picture that was widely shared. Corrections The East Oregonian works hard to be accurate and sin- cerely regrets any errors. 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Postmaster: send address changes to East Oregonian, 211 S.E. Byers Ave. Pendleton, OR 97801. UNLIMITED CALLING Hi 53 63 65 63 62 58 61 63 68 63 67 62 58 72 55 59 67 66 63 59 66 61 55 60 59 63 68 UV INDEX TODAY REGIONAL FORECAST Coastal Oregon: Partly sunny today; pleas- ant in the south. Partly cloudy tonight. — Founded Oct. 16, 1875 — 125+ CHANNELS W pc c pc pc pc c pc c c pc pc c c pc pc pc pc c c pc pc pc c c pc c c Today Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. Former Gov. John Kitzhaber has agreed to settle a state ethics case against him for $20,000. The proposed agreement between the Oregon Ethics Commission and the former governor who resigned in February 2015 amid an influ- ence-peddling scandal is 20 times more than a previous proposed settlement, which the commission rejected. In February, the ethics commission voted to pursue 10 alleged violations of state ethics law by Kitzhaber. The “preliminary findings of violation” were based on a 135-page report released in February by state investigators. Kitzhaber violated law prohibiting use of his office for personal financial gain at least twice when he took actions that benefited his fiancée, Cylvia Hayes’s envi- ronmental consulting firm, 3E Strategies, investigators wrote in the report. Hayes lived in the governor’s residence in Salem with Kitzhaber, and her payments from clients were counted as part of the couple’s household income in manda- tory statements of economic interest. “The commission made no finding that former Governor Kitzhaber intentionally used his position as governor to advance the financial interests of Ms. Hayes or 3E Strategies,” states the proposed stipulated final order, released Wednesday, March 28. “Such intent is not a necessary element.” As governor, he was “personally responsible to ensure that he did not engage in any policy decisions, discus- sions, speeches, meetings, Lo 41 32 35 46 31 35 36 42 43 36 31 37 36 40 40 41 38 40 41 42 32 38 38 34 40 45 38 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. WORLD CITIES (in mph) Klamath Falls 65/31 By PARIS ACHEN Capital Bureau Hi 54 59 62 66 59 53 60 61 65 59 65 57 54 70 55 58 64 64 61 60 64 61 51 55 59 60 66 NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Fri. 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