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Friday, May 11, 2018
Oregon school shooter
loses life-sentence appeal
SALEM (AP) — A
man who killed two peo-
ple and wounded 26 oth-
ers in a 1998 shooting at
an Oregon high school lost
an appeal Thursday seek-
ing to reduce his 111-year
sentence.
The
Oregon
state
Supreme Court ruled that
Kip Kinkel’s sentence does
not violate his constitu-
tional protection from cruel
and unusual punishment,
even though the law shields
minors in many cases from
life sentences. Kinkel, now
35, was 15 when the shoot-
ing occurred on May 21,
1998, at Thurston High
School in Springfield.
The attack happened
after he had killed his par-
ents the day before. Kinkel
had earlier been sent home
after being discovered to
have a brought a gun to
school.
Kinkel received 25
years for each murder
charge, along with addi-
tional time for 26 counts of
attempted murder.
The episode was among
the first school attacks in
recent decades to seize
the national spotlight, and
AP Photo/Don Ryan, file
Kip
Kinkel
is
led
into Marion County
Courthouse in Salem on
June 20, 2007.
predated prominent inci-
dents around the country
that have spurred a broader
focus on school violence.
During his original trial,
Kinkel’s attorneys submit-
ted testimony from mental
health experts that he suf-
fered from schizophrenia.
In the lone dissent in
Thursday’s ruling, Judge
James Egan noted the men-
tal illness evaluation, and
wrote that combined with
his youth his culpability
for the crimes should be
reduced.
AP Photo/Don Ryan
In this April 24 photo three central Oregon Cascade Mountain Range peaks — from left, South Sister, Middle
Sister and North Sister — are visible under clear, blue skies near Sisters. While Central Oregon has not seen
eruptions like Kilauea volcano in Hawaii for several centuries, the potential is still there.
Central Oregon in shadow of
volcanoes deemed high priority
BEND — Kilauea vol-
cano has drawn national
attention in the last week,
destroying structures and
cracking open streets and
property on Hawaii’s Big
Island and filling them with
lava.
As of Wednesday, 27
homes had been destroyed,
and residents braced for the
possibility of a more explo-
sive eruption still to come,
according to Hawaii County
Civil Defense.
While Central Oregon
has not seen eruptions like
this for several centuries, the
potential is there.
Volcanoes helped mold
the region’s landscape,
and still have the power to
reshape it. Along with other
parts of the Pacific North-
west, Central Oregon lies in
the shadow of several volca-
noes deemed a high priority
by the U.S. Geological Sur-
vey. Even as recently as 2001
— barely a moment ago in
geologic time — scientists
marveled at an 80-square-
mile bulge of lava growing
Oregon district accused of using
Bible reading as punishment
COOS BAY, Ore. (AP)
— An Oregon school dis-
trict is accused of forc-
ing students to read Bible
passages as a form of pun-
ishment, among other
accusations.
The Coos Bay World
reported Tuesday that the
North Bend School District
initially denied the claim,
but the building adminis-
trator later acknowledged
in an interview with state
education officials that he
demanded Bible reading
for punishment.
The allegations include
an LGBTQ student being
forced to read the Bible,
and extend to whether
LGBTQ students were
discriminated
against
after reporting sexual
harassment.
The allegations are
detailed in a March 6 letter
from the Oregon Depart-
ment of Education to Dis-
trict Superintendent Bill
Yester.
The district wrote in
a statement that the alle-
gations occurred over the
course of several years,
“most of which had not
been brought to the dis-
trict’s attention.”
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Intervals of clouds
and sunshine
Partly sunny and
warmer
65° 45°
75° 47°
SUNDAY
MONDAY
Nice with some
sun
Very warm with
clouds and sun
TUESDAY
Partly sunny and
very warm
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83° 56°
85° 54°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
82° 46°
72° 46°
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through 3 p.m. yesterday
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HIGH
LOW
66°
70°
93° (1924)
52°
45°
29° (1999)
PRECIPITATION
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Year to date
Last year to date
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5.48"
HERMISTON
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TEMPERATURE
HIGH
Yesterday
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Records
LOW
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72°
96° (2013)
53°
45°
25° (1999)
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Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
New
First
May 15
May 21
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91° 58°
Seattle
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Last
May 29
June 6
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Moses
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Aberdeen Olympia
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Enterprise
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clouds today; windy. Mainly clear tonight.
Mostly sunny tomorrow.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Times of
clouds and sun today. A passing shower in
the south tonight.
Western Washington: Sunny to partly
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much of the time tomorrow.
Eastern Washington: Intervals of clouds
and sunshine today. Mainly clear tonight.
Partly sunny tomorrow.
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to partly cloudy tonight. Mostly sunny
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Much colder in the interior mountains;
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tory than its neighbor to the
north. However, the state’s
volcanoes have been less
active in modern history,
as the most recent erup-
tion in Oregon began on
Mount Hood in 1781, more
than two decades before
Lewis and Clark began their
expedition.
In particular, Central
Oregon owes a lot of its
most popular and striking
natural features to volcanic
eruptions over many millen-
nia. Emilie Hooft, associate
professor at the University
of Oregon’s earth sciences
department, said New-
berry Volcano, a massive
shield volcano with a cal-
dera located about 20 miles
southeast of Bend, created
dramatic lava flows across
south Deschutes County
and the Lava Butte and Pilot
Butte cinder cones.
Flows from the volcano,
which last erupted around
600 A.D., redirected the
Deschutes River, and have
been found as far north as
Smith Rock.
“Bend is built on lava
flows that came out of New-
berry,” Moran said.
almost certainly see a vol-
canic eruption again, Moran
emphasized that there’s no
reason to believe there’s one
in the immediate future. He
said none of Oregon’s vol-
canoes is showing signs of
waking up, and any poten-
tial eruption could be centu-
ries away.
Still, the Oregon Office
of Emergency Management
helped develop a coordina-
tion plan with various fed-
eral and state agencies for
a potential volcanic erup-
tion in the central Cascades,
and an update to the plan is
in process. Nathan Garibay,
emergency services man-
ager for Deschutes County,
said authorities are ready for
an eruption.
“Typically, we’d have
some degree of warning
where we could start to pre-
pare our population,” Gari-
bay said.
While Washington is
known nationally for its
volcanoes, thanks in part to
the eruption of Mount St.
Helens on May 18, 1980,
Moran said Oregon has
actually seen more molten
rock over its geologic his-
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— Founded Oct. 16, 1875 —
TODAY
four miles underground near
South Sister.
“From a geologic per-
spective, it’s one of the most
volcanically active parts
of the country,” said Adam
Kent, professor at Oregon
State University’s College
of Earth, Ocean, and Atmo-
spheric Sciences.
Seth
Moran,
scien-
tist-in-charge at the David A.
Johnston Cascades Volcano
Observatory, a Vancouver,
Washington-based facility
operated by the U.S. Geo-
logical Survey, said Oregon
and Washington have about
25 active volcanoes, mostly
clustered in and near the
Cascade Mountain range.
The four Oregon sites
deemed to be the highest
priority, based on the like-
lihood of an eruption and
their proximity to large pop-
ulation centers, are Mount
Hood, Crater Lake, New-
berry Volcano and the Three
Sisters.
Mount Bachelor is con-
sidered a moderate threat,
though Moran added that
geologists now believe the
volcano may be dormant.
While
Oregon
will
By STEPHEN HAMWAY
The (Bend) Bulletin
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National Summary: Drenching rain and thunderstorms will push eastward across the
Upper Midwest today, while the Northeast is dry. Rain will also soak the northern Rockies.
Much of the Southern states will be sunny and hot.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 106° in Gila Bend, Ariz.
Low 23° in Antero Reservoir, Colo.
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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
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Reno
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