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Deschutes County cases: 5,893 (34 new cases)
Deschutes County deaths: 58 (zero new deaths)
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Crook County cases: 771 (6 new cases)
Crook County deaths: 18 (zero new deaths)
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Jefferson County cases: 1,934 (9 new cases)
Jefferson County deaths: 27 (zero new deaths)
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coronavirus. Symptoms include fever, coughing and
shortness of breath. This virus can be fatal.
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130
(Dec. 4)
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COVID-19 patients hospitalized at St. Charles
Bend on Tuesday: 17 (1 in ICU).
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129 new cases
COVID-19 data for Tuesday, Feb. 23:
Oregon cases: 153,645 (528 new cases)
Oregon deaths: 2,162 (8 new deaths)
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DESCHUTES COUNTY HEALTH SERVICES
New COVID-19 cases per day
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(March 11)
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Portland to pay $2M to settle
fatal police shooting of teen
Lottery results can now be found on
the second page of Sports.
PORTLAND — The city of
Portland is poised to pay $2
million to the family of a teen
suspected in an armed rob-
bery and attempted carjacking
who was shot and killed by po-
lice four years ago.
Deputy City Attorney Dan-
iel Simon, in a signed state-
ment to a federal judge this
month, acknowledged the par-
ties in the civil rights lawsuit
had reached a settlement.
Lawyers for Quanice Hayes’
family argued that Hayes, 17,
was not a threat when killed
on Feb. 9, 2017, while on his
knees unarmed and mov-
ing forward in an effort to lie
prone on the ground in re-
sponse to officer commands.
The lawsuit contends police
acted unreasonably with ex-
cessive force when Officer An-
drew Hearst shot Hayes three
times with an AR-15 rifle after
police confronted Hayes out-
side a Portland home.
“This case was always about
getting answers,” said attor-
neys J. Ashlee Albies and Jesse
Merrithew, who represented
Hayes’ family, in a statement.
“We know that Quanice
Hayes was shot while he was
surrendering to the police.
We also know that the City
of Portland will never admit
their fault, and we know that
Andrew Hearst will never be
punished for his conduct. ...
We remain hopeful that the
protests in the streets will force
this city to enact a meaningful
system of accountability.”
Mark Graves/ Oregonian file
Friends and family gathered for a candlelight vigil in memory of Quanice Hayes, 17, on Feb. 12, 2017.
The event was held in the parking lot of the Banfield Pet Hospital, near where Hayes was shot by police.
Officers had discovered
Hayes and ordered him to
keep his hands up and crawl
toward officers on the drive-
way. When Hayes appeared to
reach toward his waistband,
Hearst said he fired, killing
Hayes.
The plaintiff’s expert, fo-
rensic biomechanical engineer
Jesse L. Wobrock would have
testified that Hayes was on his
knees, his head and neck bent
forward, and his torso leaning
slightly forward to comply with
officers’ orders to “go down to
his face,” when Hearst fired, ac-
cording to case documents.
Hayes likely moved his hand
to the ground to help him
lie prone, Wobrock’s written
opinion said.
The city’s expert, Matthew
Noedel, in written documents
claimed Wobrock’s theory that
Hayes was complying with po-
lice orders to move prone on
the ground went beyond what
data could show.
Although Hearst never saw
that Hayes had a gun, he tes-
tified before a county grand
jury that he was convinced
that Hayes had one because a
witness described a gun used
in the robbery and because
Lawsuit accuses church of not protecting him from sexual abuse
SALT LAKE CITY — David
Hiser felt sick to his stomach
when he learned that a man
he says sexually abused him in
his childhood had been con-
victed of molesting someone
else before him and was still
allowed to be a youth leader
in his church where the abuse
occurred.
The revelation came during
a recent period of awakening
during which Hiser confronted
the impact the sexual abuse he
alleges happened in the 1980s
had on his life — all of it at the
hands of a youth leader in an
Oregon congregation of The
Church of Jesus Christ of Lat-
ter-day Saints.
Hiser, 51, filed a lawsuit
Tuesday against the religion to
which he still belongs, alleging
the Utah-based faith failed to
Crook County Health grows
its interpretation services
The Crook County Health
Department is offering live
video interpretation services for
clients who don’t speak English
and those who are deaf or hard
of hearing.
Providing services in a client’s
primary language is important
for increasing access to care for
all, according to the health de-
partment.
The video interpreting service
will allow the client and staff to
see the interpreter over the video
screen.
Services now available through
interpretation include Women,
Infants and Children services; re-
productive health services; and
childhood and adult vaccinations.
— Bulletin staff report
Hearst had heard that the
suspect had run, holding
his waistband, from an-
other officer earlier.
A replica air pistol was
found in a flower bed about
2 feet from Hayes’ body, a
lead detective testified.
The teen’s death in-
creased tensions between
police and members of the
African American com-
munity after the grand jury
found no criminal wrong-
doing by officers.
The negotiated settle-
ment must be approved by
the City Council.
Oregon man sues Mormon church
BY BRADY MCCOMBS
Associated Press
LOCAL BRIEFING
protect him despite warning
signs.
He said he has struggled
with years of shame, guilt, de-
pression and suicidal thoughts
as a result of the abuse at the
Corvallis congregation. Hiser
is seeking $5.5 million in dam-
ages.
He and his wife remain
members of the faith known
widely as the Mormon church
and said they didn’t take it
lightly to sue their own faith
but felt they had no choice.
“I’m not looking to take the
church now. I’m not looking to
take any individual down, ex-
cept for the perpetrator,” Hiser
said in a telephone interview.
“I would just like to see some
changes that would help pro-
tect the potential victims. I
wouldn’t want to wish this on
anybody.”
The church “condemns all
forms of abuse” and “is com-
mitted to a thorough review
of these allegations as they are
filed in court,” spokesman Sam
Penrod said in a statement.
No listed phone number
could immediately be found
for the alleged abuser, Ron
Kerlee, who isn’t named in the
lawsuit. It’s unknown if he has
an attorney.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. Dis-
trict Court in Oregon, is the
latest in a string of sexual abuse
suits brought against the faith
related to incidents that al-
legedly took place decades ago.
The church reports more than
15 million members worldwide.
Supporting our community’s
most vulnerable families,
now more than ever.
When Kerlee was con-
victed in Oregon of sod-
omy in 1983, church of-
ficials sent a letter to the
court in support of Kerlee,
who was given five years
of supervised release, ac-
cording to court docu-
ments .
Kerlee was also a li-
censed counselor in Ore-
gon until his license was
revoked in 2014 after he
allegedly engaged in sex-
ual activities with a male
client, according to a copy
of the revoking decision by
Oregon state officials pro-
vided by Hiser’s attorney.
About 10K
still without
power in
northwest
counties
Associated Press
PORTLAND — About 10,000
customers in northwest Oregon
remained without power Tues-
day morning almost two weeks
after a strong winter storm
knocked out electricity to more
than 400,000.
The majority of outages, about
5,000, remained in the hardest hit
areas of Clackamas County cen-
tered around Canby and Oregon
City. On Monday, Portland Gen-
eral Electric President Maria Pope
said she couldn’t provide an exact
date that power would be com-
pletely restored to those areas.
Pope said the last stretch of
restorations were the most dif-
ficult for crews, because they
were working on outages that
bring back power to only a few
customers at a time, making the
process slower. Some of those
customers could be waiting up to
six more days for power to come
back on, according to the utility.
Marion County still had
around 4,500 customers without
power with the most stubborn
outages in and around Silverton
and Woodburn. The remain-
ing outages were spread across
Multnomah, Polk, Yamhill,
Washington and Hood River
counties.
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