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WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast WEDNESDAY TODAY Cloudy, showers around; breezy Spotty showers in the afternoon 60° 41° 57° 37° THURSDAY FRIDAY Cooler with a passing shower Rather cloudy PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 58° 40° 66° 41° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 61° 41° 66° 42° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 64° 60° 89° (1925) 35° 38° 27° (2010) 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" 0.47" 0.40" 4.18" 6.32" 4.36" HERMISTON through 3 p.m. yesterday LOW 64° 63° 82° (2016) 0.00" 0.46" 0.21" 2.84" 4.93" 3.32" SUN AND MOON Apr 22 Bend 58/35 Burns 58/31 Full Apr 29 6:19 a.m. 7:35 p.m. 3:59 a.m. 1:59 p.m. Last May 7 Caldwell 66/43 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 Lo 45 36 35 44 31 35 43 38 42 38 35 38 36 42 45 46 43 42 41 47 33 46 38 36 46 44 38 W r sh c r sh sh r sh c sh r sh sh r r r c c sh r c r sh sh r sh c Hi 50 57 50 49 50 53 50 55 61 53 48 56 53 55 49 51 62 59 57 52 54 52 54 50 51 58 57 Lo 40 33 29 39 26 32 38 35 41 31 25 34 32 36 40 41 42 40 37 41 28 40 36 30 40 39 35 W r sn r r sh sh r sh sh sh r sh sh r r r c sh sh r r r c sh r sh c WORLD CITIES Today Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo (in mph) Boardman Pendleton Klamath Falls 55/35 Hi 76 82 59 60 74 66 61 65 71 74 64 Lo 47 73 48 47 55 32 45 51 48 66 57 W s s pc sh pc pc pc pc pc pc s Wed. Hi 75 83 63 59 69 46 67 68 62 81 69 Lo 49 74 48 47 53 26 49 51 41 67 61 W pc pc pc pc pc s pc pc s s c REGIONAL FORECAST Coastal Oregon: Rain tapering off in central parts today; periods of rain elsewhere. Eastern and Central Oregon: A thick cloud cover today; a couple of showers. Western Washington: Rain today. Cloudy tonight with showers. Periods of rain 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. Eastern Washington: Cloudy today; show- ers around in the north, near the Idaho border and in the mountains. Cascades: Cloudy today. A morning shower in spots, then rain in central parts; rain elsewhere. Northern California: Periods of rain today. Snow showers in the interior mountains in the afternoon. Today Wednesday WSW 10-20 WSW 10-20 SW 6-12 SSW 7-14 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. Copyright © 2018, EO Media Group Hi 55 60 58 55 58 56 59 58 66 59 55 57 55 64 54 56 64 67 60 62 60 61 56 56 59 60 65 NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Wed. WINDS Medford 64/42 PRECIPITATION Apr 15 John Day 59/38 Ontario 64/43 39° 39° 24° (1959) 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 59/45 Eugene 59/43 TEMPERATURE Yesterday Normals Records 68° 42° Spokane Wenatchee 56/38 59/40 Tacoma Moses 59/44 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 65/41 54/39 55/46 57/45 65/38 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 58/45 60/44 Lewiston 67/43 Astoria 60/43 55/45 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 62/47 Pendleton 56/35 The Dalles 66/42 60/41 63/43 La Grande Salem 57/38 61/46 Corvallis 60/44 HIGH 63° 40° Seattle 58/45 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 58° 43° Today SATURDAY Considerable cloudiness 52° 39° Tuesday, April 10, 2018 0 1 2 2 1 1 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 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. -10s -0s 0s showers t-storms 10s rain 20s flurries 30s 40s snow ice 50s 60s cold front 70s 80s 90s 100s warm front stationary front 110s high low National Summary: Rain and wet snow showers will occur in New England today. Showers and locally heavy thunderstorms will affect the Southeastern corner of the nation. Rain and gusty winds are in store for the Northwest. Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 100° in Thermal, Calif. Low 2° in Raco, Mich. 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 74 68 50 55 61 69 65 43 62 52 46 45 72 70 48 84 47 39 81 76 49 62 57 92 63 85 Lo 52 43 36 35 39 38 46 33 45 33 37 33 50 46 33 59 28 24 74 52 34 49 45 69 40 58 W s pc r pc pc pc c c r pc pc pc s pc pc s pc sf pc s pc t pc pc s pc Wed. 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Hi 65 70 82 55 49 68 74 54 78 72 56 98 46 52 63 61 61 62 68 68 70 61 53 96 61 79 Lo 53 53 70 44 36 50 54 44 60 45 43 68 35 38 44 35 35 41 55 51 58 50 40 63 48 57 W pc s sh c c s s s s s s s s s s pc c sh pc pc s c r s s s Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice. 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By PARIS ACHEN Capital Bureau PORTLAND — In the past five years, 24 tickets have won the Oregon’s Game Megabucks grand prize. In some cases, winners had to share the $1 million or greater grand prize. People who bought tickets in Jackson County had the best luck, according to a review by the Pamplin/EO Capital Bureau of addresses where winning tickets were sold in the past five years. Quick Pick tickets — in which numbers are randomly generated by a computer at the store — were more likely to win than when players selected their own numbers. Only five out of 42 winners in the past five years had manu- ally selected numbers. Three were unknown, and the other 37 were Quick Pick tickets. A majority of winners — 25 — bought tickets outside of the Portland metro area. Only 17 tickets in that five-year period were sold at stores in the Portland metro area, including Portland, Milwaukie, Beaverton and Sherwood. In the metro area, Port- land — the state’s population center — unsurprisingly had the greatest number of winning tickets — nine in those five years. Beaverton had four, Milwaukie, two, and Sherwood, two. Salem, the state’s second largest city, had five winners — one each year. Eugene — the state’s third largest city — had no winners during that five-year period, though neighboring Spring- field had one. Interestingly, 2014 was a lucky year for Jackson County. That year, only tickets sold at two separate stores in Medford and at the Albertsons in Ashland won the grand prize. In the five-year period, Albany, Prineville, Boardman, Bend, Warrenton, Coburg and Sandy had one winner apiece. The last winning tickets were sold at a Plaid Pantry at North Going in Portland and at the Sandy Liquor Store. Those winners split the $9 million grand prize. Groups question police shooting at homeless shelter By STEVEN DUBOIS and GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND — Groups and family members are raising questions about whether officers resorted to deadly force too quickly when they shot and killed a man inside a Portland, Oregon, homeless shelter who was wanted for a carjacking. Bystander video posted on social media shows officers firing rounds not long after entering the shelter with guns drawn Saturday. Witnesses said the suspect had a knife. The video shows him across the room from officers before he appears to move closer to them, though it’s not clear why and a barrier partially obscures the view. “In less than a minute, officers shoot and kill the man, while members of an already traumatized popu- lation, Portland’s homeless community, watch in horror,” David Rogers, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon, said in a statement Sunday night. “Was there any attempt to de-escalate the situation before officers open fire inside the homeless shelter full of innocent bystanders? If not, why not?” Portland is among the West Coast cities struggling to cope with a rising tide of homeless- ness, and its police agency has been criticized for fatal shootings and other deaths at the hands of officers. A 2012 government investigation found that officers engaged in a pattern of excessive force against people who are mentally ill. A few people on Monday chatted on the sidewalk outside the shelter near a memorial of roses, candles and a photo that had been set up for the man with no known connection to the facility. David Abbs, who is home- less and was inside the shelter during the shooting, said the man entered a common-room area wearing no shirt or jacket. He riffled through a dona- tion bin, put on a jacket and went back outside, said Abbs, who stays at the shelter and did not recognize the man. When he returned, he was holding a knife, he said. The man peered anxiously through the window and then cut his throat and one wrist with the knife, said Abbs, 63, although he does not recall seeing any blood. “He said, ‘Stay away’ and he was looking outside,” he said. “I looked by the door and there were two cops standing there with their bean bag guns and (they) shot him twice and knocked him down.” The man got up and ran to the back of the room, near the entrance to the shelter kitchen, Abbs said. About 10 more officers then rushed into the shelter with a police dog. Abbs could no longer see because he uses a wheelchair and the officers blocked his view, but he heard eight gunshots. “One of the cops told me I should come outside,” he said. “They told me to go outside.” Police have not identified the man, but David Elifritz told The Oregonian/Oregon- Live that it was his brother, 48-year-old John Elifritz. Northeast Portland resident Tarver Hannant, an amputee whom months earlier Willa- mette Week had profiled for a story on the high cost of health care, was one of those two winners. He opted for a one-time cash payment and received about $1.5 million of the $4.5 million after taxes were subtracted. That was the third time in 2017 a Plaid Pantry store in the Portland metro area has sold a Lottery ticket worth $1 million or more, according to a news release at the time by the Lottery. The news release stated that a Plaid Pantry in Clackamas sold a winning $1 million Raffle ticket, and in May, a Portland store near Oregon Health & Science University Hospital from the Beaverton-based convenience store chain sold a $1 million Powerball ticket. Megabucks drawings are held every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at 7:29 p.m. The Lottery draws six numbers from a set of 48. Players get two sets of numbers for each $1 they play. Winners have one year to claim their prizes. Megabucks is one of several games the Lottery has offered since it started in 1985. The Lottery has paid out $28 billion in prizes since then. It also is the state’s second largest source of revenue after income taxes and has contributed more than $9 billion toward public education, economic development, state parks and watershed projects. Corrections The East Oregonian works hard to be accurate and sincerely regrets any errors. If you notice a mistake in the paper, please call 541-966-0818. UMATILLA ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE MEMBERSHIP DINNER & ANNUAL MEETING Saturday, April 21, 2018 Hermiston Community Center 5 p.m. - 7 p.m. “It’s the Water… Powering Our Communities” This year’s theme celebrates the many benefits of hydropower in shaping our culture. As always, attendance is free to UEC members. We hope you will join us! Featured Entertainment Tim Behrens, brings to life the denizens of Blight, Idaho, the fictional home town of nationally renowned humor writer Patrick McManus.