WEATHER
East Oregonian
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
SUNDAY
TODAY
MONDAY
Mostly sunny,
breezy and cooler
Sunny to partly
cloudy and nice
85° 56°
84° 54°
TUESDAY
Mostly sunny
Hot with plenty
of sun
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
94° 62°
97° 65°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
87° 52°
88° 58°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
101°
88°
119° (1898)
65°
59°
40° (1911)
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"
0.00"
0.12"
6.49"
11.30"
8.07"
through 3 p.m. yesterday
HIGH
LOW
102°
89°
106° (1971)
64°
59°
47° (1947)
0.00"
0.00"
0.06"
5.10"
6.59"
5.98"
SUN AND MOON
Aug 11
Aug 18
Full
5:50 a.m.
8:10 p.m.
6:01 a.m.
8:39 p.m.
Last
Aug 26
Sep 2
John Day
90/52
Ontario
101/63
Bend
81/44
Burns
91/40
Caldwell
100/62
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
Hi
67
92
81
67
91
87
80
83
88
90
84
87
82
86
63
68
101
90
85
78
82
78
86
83
76
87
85
Lo
58
47
44
53
40
46
53
54
58
52
44
51
46
55
55
57
63
56
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Sun.
Hi
70
85
84
70
86
81
85
83
87
86
87
83
80
91
64
68
92
87
84
82
85
84
79
80
81
85
85
Lo
55
44
48
52
42
46
53
53
52
52
48
45
42
58
52
55
59
51
54
58
46
56
56
43
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54
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Hi
86
87
87
69
73
80
77
92
97
77
89
Lo
75
82
68
60
57
58
59
70
81
49
78
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Sun.
Hi
88
88
86
70
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81
85
88
95
62
88
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76
81
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WINDS
Medford
86/55
PRECIPITATION
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
New
First
Albany
78/54
Eugene
80/53
TEMPERATURE
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
102° 64°
Spokane
Wenatchee
86/54
84/58
Tacoma
Moses
71/54
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 88/56
83/51
67/58
71/54
85/50
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
73/57
87/60 Lewiston
91/59
Astoria
91/60
67/58
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
78/59
Pendleton 87/46
The Dalles 88/58
85/56
83/60
La Grande
Salem
87/51
78/55
Corvallis
76/52
HERMISTON
Yesterday
Normals
Records
97° 58°
Seattle
73/58
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
93° 53°
Today
WEDNESDAY
Plenty of sunshine
90° 59°
Saturday, August 11, 2018
(in mph)
Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
84/44
REGIONAL FORECAST
Eastern and Central Oregon: Hazy sunshine
today; smoky in the south and upper
Treasure Valley. Clear tonight.
Western Washington: A shower and t-storm
around at the coast today; a t-storm in spots in
central parts. A shower across the south.
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Eastern Washington: Partly sunny today.
Mainly clear tonight. Mostly sunny tomor-
row.
Cascades: Hazy sun today. Clear tonight.
Partly sunny in central parts tomorrow;
sunny elsewhere.
Northern California: Partly sunny at the
coast today; hazy elsewhere.
Sunday
WSW 4-8
W 6-12
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Coastal Oregon: Clouds and sunshine
today; a couple of showers across the north.
Today
WSW 10-20
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4
7
2
0-2, Low
3-5, Moderate 6-7, High;
8-10, Very High;
11+, Extreme
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10s
rain
20s
flurries
30s
40s
snow
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50s
60s
cold front
70s
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90s
100s
warm front stationary front
110s
high
low
National Summary: Downpours will drench parts of the East, Midwest and South Central
states today. Showers will dot the Northwest as cooler air arrives. Heat will extend from the
Southwest to the northern Plains.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 108° in Needles, Calif.
Low 31° in West Yellowstone, Mont.
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
84
88
83
87
102
92
102
73
91
83
88
82
85
91
86
84
67
95
89
88
84
91
90
106
93
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Lo
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Sun.
Hi
85
91
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85
95
93
91
75
89
81
86
83
84
90
85
89
69
96
89
93
86
91
92
104
89
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62
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Hi
Louisville
87
Memphis
94
Miami
89
Milwaukee
86
Minneapolis
92
Nashville
90
New Orleans
91
New York City
76
Oklahoma City
89
Omaha
91
Philadelphia
83
Phoenix
102
Portland, ME
70
Providence
77
Raleigh
87
Rapid City
95
Reno
100
Sacramento
94
St. Louis
89
Salt Lake City
101
San Diego
87
San Francisco
69
Seattle
73
Tucson
95
Washington, DC 88
Wichita
93
Lo
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80
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90
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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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FBI agent found not guilty of lying about gunshots
By STEVEN DUBOIS
Associated Press
PORTLAND — A jury
found an FBI agent not guilty
Friday of obstructing an
investigation into who fired
two errant shots at a key fig-
ure in a group that seized an
Oregon wildlife refuge in
2016.
W. Joseph Astarita, 41,
displayed a slight smile when
the jury returned its verdict
after less than a day of delib-
erations. He left the court-
house without comment.
Astarita was charged with
making false statements and
obstruction of justice after
telling investigators he did
not fire the shots that missed
Robert “LaVoy” Finicum.
His attorneys, Rob-
ert Cary and David Angeli,
stressed to jurors that no eye-
witnesses saw Astarita fire
his weapon, and there was no
ballistic evidence linking a
bullet to his rifle.
“We are grateful to the
men and women of the jury
who saw through a case
that should have never been
FBI via AP, file
This photo taken from a January 26, 2016 FBI video shows Robert “LaVoy” Finicum,
center, after he was fatally shot by police near Burns. FBI Special Agent W. Joseph As-
tarita was found not guilty Friday of accusations that he lied about firing at Finicum
when officers arrested leaders of an armed occupation of a federal wildlife refuge.
brought,” the lawyers said in
a joint statement. “Joe Astar-
ita is innocent and it was our
privilege and honor to repre-
sent him.”
Assistant U.S. Attorney
Gary Sussman declined com-
ment after the verdict.
The verdict marked
another high-profile loss for
prosecutors in cases related
to the Bundy family, which
opposes federal control of
public lands.
Ammon and Ryan Bundy
plus five other occupiers
were found not guilty of con-
spiracy and gun charges in
a trial that ended two years
ago.
Earlier this year, charges
stemming from the Bundys’
armed standoff with govern-
ment agents in Nevada were
dropped.
U.S. Attorney for Ore-
gon Billy Williams said he
strongly believed the Astarita
case needed to be tried.
“Our system of justice
relies on the absolute integ-
rity of law enforcement offi-
cials at all levels of govern-
ment,” he said.
The errant shots came as
Finicum left his pickup while
authorities tried to arrest him
at a roadblock on Jan. 26,
2016. Oregon State Police
fatally shot Finicum seconds
later — a killing that was
deemed legally justified.
Investigators looking into
the shooting were able to
identify those responsible
for six of the eight rounds
fired that day. No one owned
up to the other two. After an
investigation, Astarita was
indicted in June 2017.
Prosecutors said he was
the only one who could have
fired the shots. Their asser-
tion was based on FBI aerial
surveillance videos and
forensic analysis tracing a
bullet back to his position.
Finicum and other occu-
piers led by Ammon Bundy
seized the refuge on Jan. 2,
2016, to protest the impris-
onment of two Oregon
ranchers who had set fires.
President Donald Trump
recently pardoned those
men, Dwight and Steven
Hammond.
On Jan. 26, the FBI
learned that Finicum, Bundy
and other key figures were
leaving the refuge in two
vehicles to meet with a sher-
iff sympathetic to their cause.
Police stopped the vehi-
cles, and several people sur-
rendered, including Ammon
Bundy. But Finicum fled
at more than 70 mph with
Bundy’s brother Ryan and
several others, authorities
say.
Roughly a mile down the
road, Finicum swerved to
avoid a roadblock, nearly hit
an FBI agent and careened
into a snowbank. Three shots,
none fired by Astarita, hit the
pickup during the chaos.
The two disputed gun-
shots rang out as Finicum
emerged from his pickup and
yelled, “Go ahead and shoot
me!”
One bullet missed every-
thing and was never recov-
ered. The other struck the
pickup and shattered a
window.
Treatment center offers care for mentally ill inmates
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
SALEM – The Oregon
Department of Corrections
has opened a new behavioral
health treatment center at
Oregon State Penitentiary to
help improve conditions for
inmates with severe mental
illness.
Two years ago, DOC
Director Colette Peters
signed a memorandum of
understanding with Dis-
ability Rights Oregon to
increase out-of-cell time
for these inmates and make
other improvements. Peters
agreed to give inmates at
least 20 hours per week, or
less than three hours per day,
outside their cells by 2020.
“I believe this building
and our great staff work is
going to get us there in no
time,” Peters said during a
ribbon cutting at the center
Friday, Aug. 10.
In July and early August,
the agency provided about
12.6 hours per week, or
about 1.8 hours a day, Peters
said. Inmates remain in win-
dowless cells measure 6
feet-by-11 feet with no com-
panionship for the rest of the
day. Disability Rights Ore-
gonhas alleged those condi-
tions are on par with solitary
confinement.
Twenty hours a week is
the minimum needed to pro-
tect inmates with mental
health conditions from “cruel
and unusual punishment” as
defined by the Eighth Amend-
ment, according to Disability
Rights Oregon.
DOC has only about five
months to nearly double the
time inmates spent outside
their cells.
Joel Greenberg, attorney
at Disability Rights Oregon,
said he is “skeptically opti-
mistic” that the agency will
meet its obligation.
“We hope this building
— which they have placed
a lot of faith in and a lot of
hope in — will turn around
the numbers,” Greenberg
said.
State lawmakers appro-
priated $5.2 million in Feb-
ruary 2016 to build, furnish
and staff the treatment cen-
ter for some 45 inmates who
have serious mental illness
and have demonstrated vio-
lent or disruptive behavior.
The metal mesh doors in
the inmates’ living quarters
and the configuration of the
prison prevent exposure to
natural light and make it diffi-
cult for the inmate to commu-
nicate with anyone outside.
“Talking to someone
through punched-out metal
holes doesn’t allow you to
adequately see or hear any-
thing,” Greenberg said.
“In order to talk to some-
one inside a cell, you would
have to bend down and talk
through the food slot and
hopefully the resident of
the cell would do the same
thing. Even though the res-
idents are very disabled and
ill, there is a lot of noise,
yelling and screaming that
made it difficult to have not
only a private conversation
but any conversation.”
Now, inmates can meet pri-
vately with mental health pro-
fessionals in one of 13 offices
at the treatment center. The
6,830-square-foot center also
has four classrooms for group
therapy with six desks where
inmates can be secured, two
physicians’ offices and one
counselor office.
The space will allow
DOC to convene nine
classes per week Monday
through Friday for mentally
ill inmates in the Behav-
ioral Health Unit, which will
increase the time outside of
cells, said correctional Capt.
Toby Tooley.
The center offers win-
dows, natural light and
soothing
turquoise-hued
walls to help enhance
inmates’ mood.
In the past three years,
DOC has expanded the types
of therapy offered to inmates
from one kind to 19 varieties
such as cognitive behavioral
therapy, positive psychology
and art therapy, said Gabe
Gitnes, an assistant admin-
istrator at DOC’s behavioral
health services.
The department has also
made progress in decreasing
use of force and other met-
rics that contribute to living
conditions.
“The living units are prob-
lematic, but they are not the
entire program,” Greenberg
said. “The department has
been trying to change culture
and has increased staff-to-res-
ident ratio, and we share their
hope things will be better and
things are better than when we
first started working on this.”
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