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Brown victory, Hammond pardon top stories
Wildfires choked
out much of state
in 2018
Gov. Kate Brown’s elec-
tion to her first full term was
voted Oregon’s top news
story of 2018 by Associated
Press staff.
Other top news items
of the past 12 months
included President Donald
Trump’s pardoning of the
ranchers whose imprison-
ment sparked a standoff at a
remote Oregon wildlife ref-
uge, a fatal cougar attack
near Mount Hood and pro-
tests in Portland.
Here are 2018’s Top Ore-
gon stories:
1) KATE BROWN
WINS: Gov. Kate Brown in
November was elected for
the first time to a full term
and Democrats gained a
supermajority in both cham-
bers of the Legislature that
will enable them to more eas-
ily pass tax-raising measures
without needing Republican
support. Brown, who pre-
vailed against Republican
candidate Knute Buehler,
was first appointed governor
in February 2015 after Gov.
John Kitzhaber resigned.
She easily was elected in her
own right in 2016 to finish
out the term of Kitzhaber,
who resigned amid accusa-
tions of influence peddling
involving his fiancee.
Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian via AP, File
Rancher Dwight Hammond Jr. deplanes after arriving by
private jet at the Burns Municipal Airport, Wednesday, July 11,
2018, in Burns, Ore. Hammond and his son Steven, convicted
of intentionally setting fires on public land in Oregon, were
pardoned by President Donald Trump on Tuesday, July 10.
AP Photo/Don Ryan, File
In this Oct. 17, 2018, photo, Oregon Democratic Gov. Kate Brown, left, greets supporters at a
rally in Portland.
Steven Hammond to man-
datory five-year-minimum
terms became a rallying cry
for those who oppose fed-
eral control of public lands
and sparked a protest from
Ammon Bundy and dozens
of others who occupied the
2) HAMMOND PAR-
DONS: A father and son
convicted of intention-
ally setting fires on public
land in Oregon were par-
doned by President Don-
ald Trump in July. The sen-
tencing of Dwight and
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scribed anti-fascist counter-
protesters. Self-described
anti-fascists — or “antifa”
— organized to confront
Patriot Prayer and an affili-
ated group, the Proud Boys,
in the streets.
9)
FBI
AGENT
ACQUITTED: A jury in
August found an FBI agent
not guilty of obstructing an
investigation into who fired
two errant shots at a key fig-
ure in the group that seized
the Malheur National Wild-
life Refuge in 2016. W.
Joseph Astarita, 41, had
been charged with making
false statements and obstruc-
tion of justice after telling
investigators he did not fire
the shots that missed Robert
“LaVoy” Finicum. Oregon
State Police fatally shot Fin-
icum seconds later — a kill-
ing that was deemed legally
justified.
10) MEDICAID TAX:
In a January special election,
Oregonians vote to impose a
tax on hospitals and health
insurers to pay for Med-
icaid for low-income resi-
dents. Several counties that
voted for Donald Trump in
the 2016 presidential elec-
tion also helped propel the
ballot measure to resound-
ing “yes” vote.
BRIEFLY
Meeting set for Toppenish
to address missing Native
women
PRECIPITATION
John Day
Eugene
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45/42
Aberdeen
30/28
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Tacoma
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Spokane
Wenatchee
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Malheur National Wildlife
Refuge in 2016.
3) KRUSE RESIGNS:
An Oregon state senator
announced his resignation
in February after an inves-
tigation determined he had
harassed women in the Cap-
itol building. Sen. Jeff Kruse
said he had been deprived
of his rights and denied
wrongdoing.
4) WILDFIRES: Wild-
fires in southern Oregon
caused the Shakespeare Fes-
tival to reduce shows and
end early and the region was
cloaked in smoke and ash.
5) MARIJUANA REG-
ULATION: Efforts to reg-
ulate Oregon’s marijuana
industry are viewed as insuf-
ficient by some local law
enforcement officials and
the U.S. attorney for Ore-
gon, causing the state reg-
ulatory agency to tempo-
rarily suspend issuing new
licenses for recreational
marijuana businesses.
6) FATAL COUGAR
ATTACK: A 53-year-old
woman was found fatally
mauled by a cougar in Sep-
tember in the Mount Hood
National Forest southeast of
Portland. Diana Bober, 55,
was an avid hiker. Author-
ities say her death was the
first deadly cougar attack on
a human in Oregon history.
7) LE GUIN DIES:
Ursula K. Le Guin, the
award-winning science fic-
tion and fantasy writer who
explored feminist themes
and was best known for her
Earthsea books, died in Jan-
uary at her home in Portland.
She was 88. Le Guin won
an honorary National Book
Award in 2014. Le Guin’s
first novel was “Rocan-
non’s World” in 1966 but
she gained fame three years
later with “The Left Hand of
Darkness,” which won the
Hugo and Nebula awards
— top science fiction prizes
— and conjured a radical
change in gender roles well
before the rise of the trans-
gender community.
8) PORTLAND PRO-
TESTS: Portland saw
repeated, often violent
clashes between a right-
wing group and self-de-
YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — A sec-
ond Yakima County meeting on missing
Native women in Washington has been
announced for early 2019.
The Yakima Herald-Republic reports
the event will take place Jan. 14 at Legends
Casino in Toppenish, led by Craig Bill,
director of the Governor’s Office of Indian
Affairs, and Washington State Patrol Capt.
Monica Alexander. It will involve presen-
tations and an open forum.
Bill and Alexander have held several
similar meetings around the state. The
first one in Yakima County took place Oct.
29 at the Yakima Convention Center in
Yakima. Organizers estimated nearly 300
people attended.
The meetings are a result of Washington
House Bill 2951, which requires the State
Patrol to work with the Office of Indian
Affairs and tribal leaders to determine how
to increase reporting and investigation of
missing Native American women.
The legislation also requires the state to
collect data, for the first time, on the num-
bers of missing Native women.
No one knows exactly how many Native
girls and women have gone missing on or
near the 1.3-million-acre Yakama reserva-
tion. In 2009, the FBI concluded a two-
year probe into the deaths of 16 women
on the reservation from 1980 to 1993. An
FBI spokesman said there may be as many
as 32 unsolved cases on the reservation
involving disappearances and deaths.
Alexander is compiling information
and must report to the Legislature by June
1. The legislation says it must include
data and analysis on the number of miss-
ing Native American women in the state,
identification of barriers in providing
state resources to address the issue, and
recommendations to improve safety and
reporting.
Man accused of ramming
church a no-show in court
PORTLAND (AP) — A 35-year-old
man who is accused of intentionally crash-
ing his SUV into a Vietnamese church
early Monday didn’t show up to a Portland
courtroom as ordered.
The
Oregonian/Ore-
gonLive reports Hieu
John Phung was in Asto-
ria when he was “picked
up” and taken to a hospi-
tal, a member of the Clat-
Phung
sop County Sheriff’s Office
on Wednesday told Mult-
nomah County Circuit Judge Katharine
von Ter Stegge.
The sheriff’s office says it’s possible
that Phung was on a mental health hold.
His court appearance was moved to
January.
Phung was booked into Multnomah
County’s jail at 4 a.m. Monday on suspi-
cion of criminal mischief and other charges
after authorities say he called police to
report he’d run his Acura MDX into the
Our Lady of Lavang Catholic church.
He was released from jail the same day.
The northeast Portland church was
extensively damaged.
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