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LOCAL, STATE & REGION
PORTLAND
Woman ordered to repay
$46K for protest damage
The Associated Press
PORTLAND — A woman
has been ordered to perform
community service and repay
$46,000 in restitution for her
role in a September protest in
which the Multnomah County
Justice Center in Portland was
damaged.
The Multnomah County
District Attorney’s Office
announced Thursday that
21-year-old Hannah Lilly
pleaded guilty to criminal mis-
chief and arson in connection
with the events Sept. 23.
Lilly admitted to aiding and
abetting 21-year-old Cyan
Bass, who is accused of setting
fire to the Justice Center, the
District Attorney’s office said.
For the criminal mischief
conviction, Lilly received 1½
years probation, 120 hours of
community service, and must
pay $46,000 in restitution to
Multnomah County.
While on probation, Lilly is
prohibited from “attending any
demonstration that is declared
an unlawful assembly or riot,”
the DA’s office wrote in a state-
ment.
Sentencing for Lilly’s arson
charge has not been completed.
Bass is still facing both fed-
eral and local charges. He has
pleaded not guilty.
Mark Graves/The Oregonian via AP, file
Protesters demanding the end of police violence against Black people
are sprayed by police during a rally in September in Portland.
Judge: Trump’s lifting of mining
ban in the West was wrong
BY MATTHEW BROWN
The Associated Press
BILLINGS, Mont. — A
federal judge on Thursday
overturned a Trump admin-
istration action that allowed
mining and other develop-
ment on 10 million acres in
parts of six western states that
are considered important for
the survival of a struggling
bird species.
U.S. District Judge Lynn
Winmill said the decision un-
der Trump to cancel a prior
effort to ban mining failed to
fully consider how the move
would affect greater sage
grouse, a wide-ranging, chick-
en-sized bird that has seen a
dramatic population drop in
recent decades.
Winmill said the 2017 can-
cellation was arbitrary. He
ordered the U.S. Interior De-
partment’s Bureau of Land
Management to reconsider
whether mining should be al-
lowed.
Bulletin file
A male sage grouse inflates the
air sacs in its breast, part of the
species’ spring ritual designed
to attract females.
The Idaho-based judge’s
ruling does not revive a tem-
porary mining ban imposed
under Democratic President
Barack Obama, which ex-
pired while the issue was in
dispute.
Whether that happens will
be up to the administration
of President Joe Biden, said
attorney Michael Saul of the
Center for Biological Diver-
sity, one of the environmen-
tal groups that sued over the
Trump administration’s ac-
tions.
Saul said he was not aware
of any major mining projects
that moved forward in the af-
fected areas under Trump.
“That’s a lot of habitat for
sage grouse, but it’s not a lot
of land compared to all of the
federal estate” that’s open for
mining, he said.
Lifting the ban under
Trump in 2017 allowed the
potential for mining and
other development, primarily
in Idaho and Nevada but also
in parts of Montana, Oregon,
Utah and Wyoming. Officials
at the time said an analysis
showed mining or grazing
would not pose a significant
threat to the ground-dwelling
birds.
Winmill said in his ruling
that the analysis was incom-
plete and ignored prior sci-
ence on the issue.
City hires lobbyist to get more pot tax
ONTARIO — The Ontario
City Council voted Thursday
to allot $20,000 toward pro-
moting legislation that would
increase the amount of tax the
city collects on its marijuana
sales.
Despite its small size and
rural character, Malheur
County, whose dispensaries
2 unresponsive after boat
capsizes off Oregon Coast
PORTLAND — Authorities
say two people were unrespon-
sive after they were rescued
Thursday from the Pacific
Ocean off the Oregon Coast.
The duo’s boat capsized in
Netarts Bay and an outgoing
current pulled them toward
the ocean, according to Ne-
tarts-Oceanside Fire District
Fire Chief Tim Carpenter.
Authorities on personal wa-
tercraft rescued them and took
them to shore, Carpenter said.
Both were unresponsive
when they reached the shore.
— Bulletin wire report
In 1998, Dr. David Satcher was
sworn in as the 16th Surgeon Gen-
eral of the United States during an
Oval Office ceremony.
In 2000, Charles Schulz’s final
“Peanuts” strip ran in Sunday
newspapers, the day after the
cartoonist died in his sleep at his
California home at 77.
In 2013, beginning a long farewell
to his flock, a weary Pope Benedict
XVI celebrated his final public
Mass as pontiff, presiding over
Ash Wednesday services inside St.
Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican.
Ten years ago: Egypt’s military
leaders dissolved parliament,
suspended the constitution and
promised elections in moves cau-
tiously welcomed by protesters
who’d helped topple President
Hosni Mubarak. Lady Antebellum
was the big winner at the Gram-
mys with five awards, including
record and song of the year for the
band’s yearning crossover ballad
“Need You Now,” but rockers
Arcade Fire won the biggest prize,
album of the year, for their highly
acclaimed “The Suburbs.”
Five years ago: On his first full
day in Mexico, Pope Francis issued
a tough-love message to the
country’s political and church
elites, telling them they had a
duty to provide their people with
security, justice and courageous
pastoral care.
One year ago: China reported
a surge in deaths and infections
from the coronavirus after chang-
ing the way the count was tallied;
the number of confirmed cases
neared 60,000 with more than
1,300 deaths. Japan announced
the country’s first death from the
coronavirus, a woman in her 80s,
and said the number of cases on
a quarantined cruise ship had
reached 218.
Today’s Birthdays: Actor Kim
Novak is 88. Actor George Segal is
87. Actor Bo Svenson is 80. Actor
Stockard Channing is 77. Talk show
host Jerry Springer is 77. Singer
Peter Gabriel is 71. Actor Matt
Salinger is 61. Singer Henry Rollins
is 60. Actor Neal McDonough is
55. Singer Freedom Williams is 55.
Actor Kelly Hu is 53. Rock singer
Matt Berninger (The National) is
50. Singer Robbie Williams is 47.
Singer-songwriter Feist is 45. Actor
Mena Suvari is 42. Actor Katie
Volding is 32. Michael Joseph Jack-
son Jr. is 24.
— The Associated Press
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It’s Saturday, Feb. 13, the 44th day
of 2021. There are 321 days left in
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Today’s Highlight in History:
In 2016, Justice Antonin Scalia,
the influential conservative and
most provocative member of the
U.S. Supreme Court, was found
dead at a private residence in
the Big Bend area of West Texas;
he was 79. During a Republican
presidential debate that evening
in South Carolina, the candidates,
with the exception of Jeb Bush,
insisted that President Barack
Obama should let his successor
nominate Scalia’s replacement.
Obama nominated Merrick Gar-
land; Senate Republicans refused
to advance the nomination, which
expired the following January.
In 1633, Italian astronomer Galileo
Galilei arrived in Rome for trial
before the Inquisition, accused of
defending Copernican theory that
the Earth revolved around the sun
instead of the other way around.
Galileo was found vehemently
suspect of heresy and ended up
being sentenced to a form of
house arrest.
In 1861, Abraham Lincoln was
officially declared winner of the
1860 presidential election as elec-
tors cast their ballots.
In 1935, a jury in Flemington,
New Jersey, found Bruno Richard
Hauptmann guilty of first-degree
murder in the kidnap-slaying
of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., the
20-month-old son of Charles and
Anne Lindbergh. Hauptmann was
later executed.
In 1939, Justice Louis D. Brandeis
retired from the U.S. Supreme
Court. (He was succeeded by Wil-
liam O. Douglas.)
In 1960, France exploded its first
atomic bomb in the Sahara Desert.
In 1965, during the Vietnam War,
President Lyndon B. Johnson
authorized Operation Rolling
Thunder, an extended bombing
campaign against the North Viet-
namese.
In 1974, Nobel Prize-winning
Russian author Alexander Solz-
henitsyn was expelled from the
Soviet Union.
In 1991, during Operation Desert
Storm, allied warplanes destroyed
an underground shelter in Bagh-
dad that had been identified as
a military command center; Iraqi
officials said 500 civilians were
killed.
are concentrated in Ontario,
consistently ranks third in
marijuana sales statewide, just
behind Portland-area coun-
ties.
Ontario saw $9.5 million in
sales in January alone. It as-
sesses a 3% sales tax on that
revenue, and the state collects
an additional 17%. The state
then allocates 10% of its mar-
ijuana tax collection back to
cities, but it does so based on
a formula relating to a city’s
population, not the amount of
marijuana sold in a particular
community.
Ontario, as a border city
whose dispensaries serve a
large proportion of Idahoans,
is at a disadvantage. It attracts
customers from across the
Boise area, but its official pop-
ulation is small.
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