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Start or stop subscription? 541-385-5800 PHONE HOURS 6 a.m.-noon Tuesday-Friday 7 a.m.-noon Saturday-Sunday and holidays GENERAL INFORMATION 541-382-1811 LOCAL, STATE & REGION DESCHUTES COUNTY COVID-19 data for Thursday, April 29: Deschutes County cases: 7,949 (125 new cases) Deschutes County deaths: 73 (zero new deaths) Crook County cases: 977 (10 new cases) Crook County deaths: 19 (zero new deaths) Jefferson County cases: 2,118 (15 new cases) Jefferson County deaths: 32 (zero new deaths) Oregon cases: 182, 916 (740 new cases) Oregon deaths: 2,491 (1 new death) COVID-19 patients hospitalized at St. Charles Bend on Thursday: 36 (5 in ICU) EMAIL (Jan. 1) 120 7-day average 90 new cases 103 new cases (April 23) 100 90 74 new cases 80 (April 10) 50 new cases 70 60 (Feb. 17) 50 (Nov. 14) 40 *State data unavailable for Jan. 31 31 new cases (Oct. 31) 16 new cases (July 16) 30 (Sept. 19) 20 (May 20) 1st case 10 (March 11) March 2020 110 (Nov. 27) 47 new cases 9 new cases bulletin@bendbulletin.com 130 (Dec. 4) 108 new cases Ways to help limit its spread: 1. 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Symptoms (including fever and shortness of breath) can be severe, even fatal, though some cases are mild. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri. www.bendbulletin.com SOURCES: OREGON HEALTH AUTHORITY, DESCHUTES COUNTY HEALTH SERVICES New COVID-19 cases per day April May June July August September October November December January 2021 February March April AFTER HOURS Newsroom ................................541-383-0348 Circulation ................................541-385-5800 NEWSROOM EMAIL Business ........business@bendbulletin.com City Desk .............news@bendbulletin.com Features.................................................................. communitylife@bendbulletin.com Sports ................. sports@bendbulletin.com NEWSROOM FAX 541-385-5804 OUR ADDRESS Street .............. 320 SW Upper Terrace Drive Suite 200 Bend, OR 97702 Mailing ........... P.O. 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Box 6020 Bend, OR 97708 Phone ......................................... 541-617-7829 CORRECTIONS The Bulletin’s primary concern is that all stories are accurate. If you know of an error in a story, call us at 541-383-0367. TO SUBSCRIBE Call us ......................541-385-5800 • Home delivery and E-Edition ..........................$7 per week • By mail .................................$9.50 per week • E-Edition only ...................$4.50 per week To sign up for our e-Editions, visit www.bendbulletin.com to register. Bend man gets 13 years in horrific abuse case assaulted her with his fists and a long wooden stake. A Bend man will serve 13 “He would poke at her and years in prison for assaulting strike at her in a downward his then-girlfriend. motion so there were inju- On Thursday in Deschutes ries all over the left side of her County Circuit Court, Wil- body,” said Stacy Neil, a pros- liam Gerald Williams was ecutor with the Deschutes sentenced to 160 months in County District Attorney’s Of- fice, at the sentencing prison . Two days ear- hearing Thursday. lier, he pleaded guilty Police learned of to first-degree assault, the abuse and that it second-degree as- had been going on for sault and attempted many months, Neil first-degree sodomy. said. In addition to On Dec. 13, Wil- the “pain rides,” Wil- liams’ then-girlfriend liams had kicked her was admitted to the Williams with heavy boots on, ICU at St. Charles thrown items at her, split her Bend with life-threatening in- forehead by striking her with juries: a lacerated kidney as the blunt end of a knife, burned well as fractured ribs, a frac- her with a lighter and subjected tured spine, a broken cheek- bone and a nose broken in sev- her to repeated unwanted sex- ual contact, Neil said. eral places, according to court On one occasion, he tried proceedings. The woman told to force the woman to sexually police at the hospital Williams abuse her dog, Neil said. had forced her to go on “pain “She described a very con- rides” in his car, in which he BY GARRETT ANDREWS The Bulletin trolling environment where she was restricted with what food she could eat,” Neil said. “She was forced to drink the defendant’s urine when she wanted something to drink.” Williams was arrested that month and charged with 25 criminal counts, including the Measure 11 offenses of first-de- gree assault and first-degree kidnapping. The maximum he could have served in prison was 40 years. On Thursday, Williams appeared by video from the Deschutes County jail. He de- clined to address the court when given the chance. “Mr. Williams is taking re- sponsibility for his actions,” said his lawyer, Leslie Nitcher. “He does acknowledge that his behavior was not appropriate.” Judge Alison Emerson fur- ther assigned Williams seven years post-prison supervision. Reporter: 541-383-0325, gandrews@bendbulletin.com COVID-19 Gov. Brown extends Oregon emergency as virus cases spike Associated Press SALEM — Gov. Kate Brown on Thursday extended Ore- gon’s state of emergency for COVID-19 until June 28, say- ing a fourth surge of the pan- demic is being driven by vari- ants of the disease and causing increased cases and hospital- izations. The declaration allows Brown to issue executive or- ders restricting activity and helps the state utilize federal COVID-relief funds, the gov- ernor’s office said. Brown is putting 15 coun- ties that encompass the state’s biggest cities into the state’s extreme risk category starting Friday, imposing restrictions that include banning indoor restaurant dining. The restaurant sector has objected to Brown’s action, with the Oregon Restaurant & Lodging Association declaring that the state lost more than 1,000 food service businesses in 2020 and that 200 more closed permanently so far this year. Brown says her actions are temporary. “I intend to fully reopen our economy by the end of patio world June, and the day is approach- ing when my emergency or- ders can eventually be lifted,” Brown said in a statement. “How quickly we get there is up to each and every one of us doing our part.” Brown said more than 1.2 million people in the state have been fully vaccinated, but the “overwhelming majority” of new cases are from younger, unvaccinated residents. Ore- gon’s population is more than 4.2 million. She said hospitalizations nearly doubled in the last two weeks, to more than 300. OBITUARIES The Oregon House, on a largely party-line vote, ap- proved a bill that combines storage requirements for fire- arms with a narrower ban on guns in some public places. The 34-24 vote on Thurs- day sends the revamped Sen- ate Bill 554 back to the Sen- ate, which can vote to accept the changes — and send it to Gov. Kate Brown — or reject it and force a joint panel to negotiate the differences. Support came exclusively from Democrats. Three of the 37 Democrats voted no: Paul Evans of Monmouth, David Gomberg of Otis and Mark Meek of Oregon City. No Republicans voted for it. Two Republicans were ex- cused. The vote took place after close to three hours of debate. The bill does not have an emergency clause, which means that if it becomes law, opponents have 90 days from the close of the 2021 session to obtain 74,680 voter sig- natures to force a statewide election. Part of the revamped bill proposes requirements for firearms locks and storage al- ready written into a separate House bill, which the House sent back to committee. Under the revamped bill, guns must have trigger or cable locks, be stored in a locked container or in a gun room. An offense is a Class C violation, which carries a maximum fine of $500, un- less someone under age 18 obtains access, in which case it is a Class A violation with a maximum fine of $2,000. No jail time is imposed for vio- lations. The bill also requires prompt reporting of stolen firearms. Its first sections are named in honor of Cindy Yuille and Steve Forsyth, who died on Dec. 11, 2012, in the Clackamas Town Center shootings. The assault-style weapon used to kill them was found to have been stolen. The other part of the re- vamped bill narrows the scope of a firearms ban in- cluded in the original SB 554, which passed the Senate on March 25. The changes would still bar the estimated 300,000 holders of Oregon concealed-hand- gun licenses from bringing firearms into some public places. State courts, which often are in buildings main- tained by counties, already are off-limits to firearms. But the scope of the ban would be narrower under the House version. Licensees would be barred from bringing firearms into the Capitol, though not from other state buildings as origi- nally proposed in the Senate. pwong@pamplinmedia.com Central Oregon’s Best Kept Secret Weekly specials No death notices or obituaries are published Mondays. When submitting, please include your name, address and contact number. 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