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COQUILLE — Over the weekend, Coquille High School celebrated the graduating class of 2020 with its first-ever drive-in graduation ceremony.

The ceremony, which featured dozens of cars parked at the high school, honored students for their hard work and dedication in completing their senior year amid the new coronavirus pandemic.

Celebratory sounds of car horns and cheering community members filled the school park-

ing lot as students were called one-by-one to an outdoor stage to receive their diplomas. The ceremony, which was broadcasted live via radio, will be available on YouTube this week.

The class of 2020, which consists of approximately 42 seniors, was able to give their input last month on how they wanted this year’s graduation ceremony to go. With traditional ceremonies not possible under the current safety precautions due to the pandemic, students and school officials thought outside the box to feature a ceremony where they could come together and

celebrate.

“It’s a small class, but they left a big impression,” said Coquille High School Principal Jeff Philley. “It was good to see the kids have their moment one more time.”

A parade, led by the Coquille Police Department, celebrated the seniors with community members who stood outside to cheer and applaud the class as they made their way around downtown Coquille.

This year’s valedictorians and salutatorians chatted with The World to share the lessons they’ve learned, their plans for

the future and the people they credit for helping shape them into successful young adults.

Class of 2020 Valedictorians Carlee GeDeros

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Coquille High School student Macie Ford stands outside her parent’s decorated car on Sunday, May 31 in the school’s first-ever, drive-in graduation.

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the news that she had earned a position as one of this year’s valedictorians. GeDeros said she worked hard to secure the position.

GeDeros said she was a bit shocked at first when the announcements were made last month at a virtual award show hosted by the school. It was a moment she said she was grateful to share with her family.

Since her freshmen year, GeDeros has held positions in the National Honor Society, Key Club and 4-H. She’s also played basketball all four years of

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Thousands of people gathered in downtown Seattle in the rain to protest the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. A largely peaceful demonstration happened Saturday afternoon, while police later deployed flash bangs to disperse people they said had begun throw rocks and bottles at officers. Police also pepper-sprayed demonstrators who got close to police lines, and officers with bicycles pushed people to move back.

The Washington State Patrol temporarily closed both directions of Interstate 5 through the city between Interstate 90 and Highway 520. Protesters marched through the lanes of the freeway.

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News footage showed at least one destroyed police cruiser, other vehicle fires and people breaking into retail stores and other businesses. A police spokeswoman, Sgt. Lauren Truscott, said some people were arrested, though she didn’t have an exact figure.

In Portland, Oregon, protesters again showed up following a violent night Friday. Police said at least 31 were arrested.

Seattle Police said two rifles that were stolen from patrol cars that were set on fire have been recovered by a private security guard for a local television reporter.

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COOS BAY — Two local restaurants were recognized this week for providing meals to hundreds of community members in need during the new coronavirus pandemic.

The Oregon Hospitality Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports charitable relief needs, education and training within state’s hospitality industry, announced Wednesday, May 27, its first round of financial awards to restaurants from throughout the state.

According to a press release from OHF, a total of five restaurants were selected to receive the awards as a way for owners to continue their efforts in helping their community’s most vulnerable populations.

Restaurant O and 7 Devils Brewing Company in Coos Bay were among the five restaurants awarded funds through OHF’s program for their commitment to make sure no one goes hungry in Coos County.

Dr. Kariktan Cruz, who co-owns Restaurant O with her husband Chef Eoghain O’Neill, said the, “Pay It Forward” program featured at the restaurant was created shortly after a number of anony-

mous donors reached out to them to give their support.

Looking to help the restaurant stay in business as well as to help feed first-responders and those suffering from food insecurity, Dr. Cruz said they were inspired to launch the “Pay It Forward” program and help others throughout the community.

The program works to feed local foster families, first-responders and other essential, frontline workers as well as children out of school who don’t have access to meals provided by schools, said Dr. Cruz.

“We adopted the ‘Pay It Forward’ system because we felt so fortunate that people have supported us and in turn we wanted to support others who we knew would benefit from it,” said Dr. Cruz. “…

The amazing thing is people have continued to support us in so many different ways and have continued to donate funds directly to our program.”

With the funds awarded from OHF, Dr. Cruz, a pediatrician, said the restaurant plans to continue to help children in need as well as the elderly community, which she holds close to her heart as her grandparents, who raised her, played a major role in her life.

Restaurant owners Annie Pollard and

Carmen Matthews, of 7 Devils Brewing Company, were also awarded funds from OHF for their “Community Meal Program” which helps provide meals to the homeless community, foster families and staff members laid off due to the pandemic.

After noticing much of its staff relied on meals provided by the restaurant, Pollard said they launched a meal program to help keep their staff fed who were laid off.

The program, which also received a lot of support from the community, provided 50 to 80 family-sized, take-and-bake meals to those who had not yet received their unemployment benefits, said Pollard.

The program shifted its focus from jobless community members to foster families after folks were more financially stable.

According to Pollard, the restaurant is planning to use the funds provided by OHF to continue to deliver 25 meals a week to local foster families.

“We are indebted to our partner, Every Child Coos County, who provides support for local foster families and distributes the family meals we make each week,” said Pollard.

The restaurant is looking to do all that it can to continue its support for foster families undergoing hard times while

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COOS BAY — Soon Oregonians will be able to come back to the Department of Motor Vehicles.

Starting today, Monday, June 1, at least 40 DMV offices statewide will begin setting appointments for limited in-person services. These offices include those in Coos Bay, Coquille and Roseburg.

While the DMV will begin taking calls to set appointments on Monday, the first appointments will not occur until Wednesday, June 3.

Further, services that are available by mail or online will not be available in DMV offices.

The following services will be available by appointment, according to an Oregon Department of Transportation press release: • Driver licensing and ID cards — originals, renewals and replacements, including passenger car and commercial licenses, and instruction permits • Driver knowledge tests • Driving privilege reinstatements • Disabled parking placards

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• VIN inspections for new-to-Oregon vehicles previously titled elsewhere • Farm endorsements Those who need to renew a license or ID card are asked to consider waiting until later in the summer when demand for services is expected to wane.

“Our first priority is the people who were unable to get the services we can do only in person, such as replace a lost driver license or ID, issuing commercial driver licenses, knowledge tests, and reinstating driving privileges,” DMV Administrator Tom McClellan said. “Please be patient and expect longer than normal wait times on the phone and for an available appointment.

According to the release, the reopening DMV offices have been equipped with plastic shields at each workstation, lobby furniture has been moved to promote social distancing and extra cleaning of offices is scheduled “We appreciate everyone’s interest and we know there’s a pent-up demand for these services,” Katherine Benenati of

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DMV customers are asked to come to their appointments alone, unless a parent or guardian is needed to sign an application for a teenager or a translator is needed for knowledge tests. They are further asked to cancel their appointments and reschedule if they get ill or show flu-like symptoms.

The DMV offices that will be open to taking in-person appointments include: Albany, Ashland, Astoria, Baker City, Beaverton, Bend, Brookings, Coos Bay, Coquille, Corvallis, Eugene, Florence, Gladstone, Grants Pass, Gresham, Hermiston, Hillsboro, Junction City, Klamath Falls, La Grande, Lake Oswego, Mall 205, Medford, Newport, Ontario, Pendleton, Portland (Downtown), Portland (North), Portland (South East), Redmond, Roseburg, Salem (North), Salem (South), Sandy, Sherwood, Springfield, St. Helens, The Dalles, Tillamook and Woodburn.

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According to a press release from the City of Coos Bay, the graduation parade is on Saturday, June 6. The Coos Bay Police and Fire Departments, as well as city staff, will

intermittently close several intersections along the route, which begins on Ocean Boulevard.

It continues along Central Avenue, Anderson Avenue, South 4th Street, Golden Avenue, South 7th Street, Ingersoll Avenue, and ends at Marshfield High School, the release said.

“Beginning at 12:40 p.m., intersections along the parade route will be intermittently closed as designated groups of graduating students travel,” the release said.

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“Parking is recommended at all municipal parking lots with recommended viewing along South 4th Street, Anderson Avenue, and Golden Avenue,” the release said, adding, “The city appreciates the community support while we celebrate Marshfield High School’s 2020 graduating class.”

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school and participated in track and cross country.

With graduation completed, GeDeros said her plans included moving to Corvallis to attend Oregon State University, where she intends on majoring in bio-health sciences on the pre-ophthalmology path.

GeDeros said she hopes to one day become an ophthalmologist.

“When I was in middle school (when) I realized I couldn’t see what was written on the white board...,” said GeDeros.

“I went to the eye doctor and ended up having to get contacts because I have astigmatism.”

Wanting to help others undergoing similar challenges with vision, GeDeros said she knew immediately she wanted to move into the healthcare industry. As part of a work experience course offered at Coquille High School, GeDeros was able to gain some job experience at the Coquille Vision Center.

Her parents, Traci and Tyler GeDeros, as well as her math teacher Shane Boyd and English teacher Troy Cooper are among the people she said she credits with helping her do her best this past year.

“I’m going to miss how close the community is and how everyone supports each other,” said GeDeros.

Anella Willis

Anella Willis, 17, said she too was surrounded by family when she heard the news she earned a position as valedictorian for the Class of 2020. A family tradition, Willis joined her father and grandmother in becoming a valedictorian, a mission she said she’s been on since sixth grade.

“After my dad told me he was the valedictorian for his class in high school and his mom too, I knew from that moment forward I was

going to do the same,” said Willis. “I worked really hard and anytime I was struggling with something I knew I could ask my dad for help because he’s been through it.”

Despite this year being stressful and having a number of challenges, Willis said she is happy to live in such a tight-knit community like Coquille. Since her freshmen year, Willis has held positions in National Honor Society, Science Club, Key Club and class council. She also participated in track and soccer.

For her post-graduation plans, Willis said she will be attending Benedictine University in Lisle, Illinois, where she plans to major in nutrition and dietetics.

Willis said she hopes to become a sports nutritionist working with a collegiate or professional sports team.

“I’ve always liked working out and over the past few years my focus has shifted over to nutrition,” said Willis. “My eating habits have always been something that I struggle with and I want to help others with that because I know how it feels… I want to help others not go through that or have someone that they can lean on.”

Coquille High School health teacher Peyton Yates is among the people Willis said that has inspired her to pursue a career in nutrition and health.

Looking forward to the future, Willis said she’s excited to enter into a new phase of her life and is taking in every moment that she can.

“I feel like all throughout high school, graduation has always been this end goal,” said Willis. “I kind of got caught up in that goal and didn’t take as much time to enjoy where I was or who I was with and so my parting words to my class is to remember to take the time to be in the moment and to try not to rush to your end destination....”

Jessica Rowe

Jessica Rowe, 18, like so many of her fellow classmates, is filled with a mixture of emotions ranging from joy to sadness as she said she’ll miss her friends, teachers and school staff.

With the school year disrupted by the pandemic, Rowe said she ended out her senior year keeping in touch with friends via video conferencing apps and social distancing gatherings as a way to check in on one another. The connections she’s formed at school are relationships she said she hopes to build more of in the next chapter of her life.

Rowe, who was also named a valedictorian for 2020, credits her parents, Renee and John Rowe, with showing her what hard works looks like and for supporting her throughout her high school career.

Since her freshmen year, Rowe has held positions as the president of National Honor Society, the Equestrian team, cheer team, Horse 4-H and class council.

With graduation completed, Rowe said her plans include attending George Fox University where she intends to major in biology.

“I’ve always known that I wanted to work with kids and then in high school I got really interested in all my science classes especially the medical classes,” said Rowe. “So I’m thinking

I want to be some kind of pediatric doctor. My dream job is to be a pediatric-oncologist.”

Reflecting back on her time at Coquille High School, Rowe said teachers have always been so helpful and will really miss everyone.

“My quote for my class is to remember you’re braver than you believe, stronger than you feel and smarter than you think,” said Rowe.

Class of 2020 Salutatorians Morgan Baird

and I got really interested in global studies.”

With a passion and love for learning about other cultures, Baird said in the fall she plans on attending Portland State University where she intends on majoring in global studies.

Like her fellow classmates, Baird said she looked up to many of the teachers at Coquille High School for inspiration and motivation to achieve her goals. Math teacher Shane Boyd and social studies teacher James Casselberry are among the people she said have made a difference in her life.

“Mr. Casselberry, who ended up moving away, just made every day so exciting,” said Baird.

“He got me started on the path to global studies and made me very passionate about it… Mr. Boyd, my math teacher, made math, which was my less favorite subject, super enjoyable. He always tries his hardest for each student and makes everyone want to try their best to be better people.”

Since her freshmen year, Baird has held positions in class council, National Honor Society, Philosophy club, among others. She also participated in band, basketball, volleyball and track and cross country.

At Portland State University, Baird said she will continue to play basketball for the university. As her classmates begin to move forward with their post-graduation plans as well, Baird said they’ll continue to stay in touch and reflect back on the good memories made while at school.

“My parting words to my classmates is this, ‘Embrace the future, our best moments are still coming,’” said Baird.

Samantha Huffman

Morgan Baird’s career goals stretch far beyond boundaries. The 18-yearold, who was named one of this year’s salutatorians, said she has dreams of one day becoming a diplomat or a foreign service officer for the United States.

“I’ve always been really interested in history,” said Baird. “I joined ‘Model U.N.’ last year

Samantha Huffman, 18, was surprised when she found out she had earned

a position a salutatorian for the Class of 2020.

Huffman said the teachers and staff at Coquille created an environment for success. “...I think all of the teachers at Coquille High School do a really good job at making students feel like they get enough help and support and so all of the teachers throughout my career really helped me do my best academically and have challenged me,” she said.

In the fall, Huffman said she plans on attending Oregon State University, where she will study fisheries and wildlife biology.

A member of the ecology program at school, Huffman said the more she learned about wildlife biology the more passionate she became. Huffman credits the program’s hands-on activities and field trips led by Oregon Department Fish and Wildlife biologists with keeping her interested in the potential career path.

“We raised our own fish until COVID-19 happened and then we had to release them prematurely, but we got the chance to raise them from eggs,” said Huffman. “They were Chinook salmon and I got super interested in it. My dream job would be to work as a fishery biologists and work with classrooms.”

Huffman said she hopes to focus her work on outreach and education within schools and the communities looking to learn more about wildlife and fish hatcheries in particular.

Since her freshmen year, Huffman has held positions in National Honor Society, Key club, Speech and debate club, among others.

“Our class is one of the smallest to go through Coquille for a little while, so we’ve always been pretty close,” said Huffman.

“We’re like a little family and we all have our ups and downs, but it’s been a really good time and a lot of good memories were made with everybody.

I think everyone took it hard with the loss of our senior year, but we’re all excited to see everyone again (at graduation) and looking forward to the future.”

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR No shame in #walkaway Let me make this easy for you who call yourselves a Democrat.

Today’s Democratic Party is not the party of your daddy who’s footsteps you are likely following. If what you are seeing today is an issue, please understand that this is now representative of today’s Democratic Party, and it will not change as they seek greater power.

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Mafia Don: The President Guards His Swamp JEFF ROBBINS

Notorious mobster Albert Anastasia, proud founder of the modern American Mafia, is best remembered for two things.

One is being shot to death while sitting in a Manhattan barber’s chair during what proved to be a really bad shave. The second is his distinctive ill humor concerning those who informed law enforcement about his illegal activities. Hearing that an associate had provided information about a hit job Anastasia had ordered, Anastasia ordered another one. “I can’t stand squealers,” he said. “Hit that guy.”

The Trump White House fairly trumpets the fact that The Anastasia Principle is its guiding one, enforced on direct orders from The Boss, President Donald Trump. It is straight out of the Gambino family playbook: he who is in a position to disclose the truth about the Trump administration and seems inclined to do so gets whacked.

The latest Trump administration official to sleep with the fishes for having done his job conscientiously is State Department inspector general Steve Linick, who got caught doing what the law requires inspectors general do: investigating waste, fraud, mismanagement and misconduct within the executive agencies. Linick, a highly regarded former assistant U.S. attorney in administrations of both parties, had the effrontery to perform his duties with integrity, a definite no-no in Trump World. He had investigated evidence that Mike Pompeo’s State Department had illegally circumvented a congressional freeze on arms sales to Saudi Arabia. He had also inquired about Pompeo’s use of State Department resources to walk his dog, Sherman, get his laundry done -- and take taxpayer-funded trips back to his home state of Kansas, not generally regarded as a diplomatic hot spot requiring State Department travel. Trump fired Linick because Pompeo, under investigation by Linick, asked him to.

Pompeo at first kept mum about whether he had asked Trump to fire Linick. This became rather more difficult when Trump admitted that Pompeo had asked him to get rid of the troublesome inspector. Pompeo, not exactly the epitome of honesty, then attempted the line that he didn’t even know Linick was investigating him.

That laugher survived about 15 minutes, until the evidence

emerged that he certainly did.

Just another day in the lives of the folks who in 2016 peddled the hokum that they were all about was draining the swamp.

Linick joins a series of inspectors general canned by Trump in recent weeks. All were sent packing because they were exercising the independence that Congress mandated they exercise so Americans’ tax dollars could be respected, the law followed and the integrity of government preserved.

This made them a threat to this president, who regards watchdogs holding his administration accountable with both loathing and fear.

The president’s whack jobs are not administered only to inspectors general. Dr. Rick Bright, the high-ranking government scientist who had warned administration officials on Jan. 23 that the burgeoning pandemic had to be urgently addressed rather than waved aside, is another recent victim.

“We’re going to need vaccines and diagnostics and drugs,” he told the Trump administration.

“It’s going to take a while and we need to get started.” Here was what Donald Trump was telling America on Jan. 30: “We think we have (the coronavirus) very well under control. We have very little problem in this country.” Bright continued to refuse to kowtow to an inane party line, bucking a White House demand that the demonstrably useless and potentially dangerous drug hydroxychloroquine be made “widely available” for COVID-19 patients.

He was fired, patently in retaliation for his temerity in standing up for public health. The same fate has befallen others who tried to protect Americans from a pandemic, the response to which the Trump White House has so egregiously bungled.

More than a swamp, the Trump presidency has been a cesspool, one that the president has done everything in his power to protect. It will take an epic reclamation effort to clean it up.

Jeff Robbins, a former assistant United States attorney and United States delegate to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, was chief counsel for the minority of the United States Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. An attorney specializing in the First Amendment, he is a longtime columnist for the Boston Herald, writing on politics, national security, human rights and the Mideast.

On this day in Coos County history 100 YEARS - June 1, 1920

Vandals Remove Flowers on Grave Burial Places of Old Soldiers Are Defiled North Bend Man Makes Complaint About Acts of Someone Who Took Away Decorations

A Hemenway, an old soldier of North Bend, reports a shameful vandalism which was committed at the cemetery in Marshfield. He says that with some others he went to the Odd Fellows’ cemetery Saturday and decorated the graves of several old soldiers. He went back again Sunday to attend the exercises and found that the graves he had decorated had been stripped of all the flowers he had placed there.

Mr. Hemenway was indignant that anyone should defile a burial place in such a way. He made some inquiry and found that some children had been seen playing about the cemetery and moving the flowers. At any rate the flowers he placed on the graves had all been removed.

Airplane Is Using Own Gas None of the Local Supply Has Been Furnished Chamber of Commerce Gives Assurance that Plane Has Not Used Coos Bay Gasoline

W.E. Reid, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce said today that there was some complaint about the city today because the airplane had been burning gasoline for pleasure riding while autos are not allowed any. Mr. Reid said that the Chamber of Commerce officially reported that the airplane has not burned a gallon of local gasoline.

The airplane company wanted 150 gallons reserved here but this was refused and the company sent in its own supply. Only 150 gallons all told has been burned. The airplane today wanted 100 gallons more but the Chamber of Commerce told the airplane people that the only way it could be procured would be through their Portland headquarters and not a gallon would be furnished here on account of the local shortage.

75 YEARS - June 1, 1945 44 Percent E Bonds Sold

Coos county passed the 44 percent mark in its purchase of 7th war loan “E” bonds today.

County Chairman Clarence Coe said North Bend was still leading cities of the county in percentage of sales with $79, 294, or 56.6 percent of its quota.

Other communities reporting were Bandon, 50.8 percent, with $45,740; Myrtle Point, 48.4 percent with $59,000; Coquille, 49.3 percent with $86,356; Coos Bay, 42.6 percent with $158,009; Charleston-Empire, 40.8 percent with $9,375, and Powers, 14.3 percent with $2,138.

Coquille Open Annual Salvage, Clean-Up Drive

COQUILLE, June 1 — (Special) — Coquille has declared June 1 to 16 to be city clean-up and salvage week.

George F. Burr is general chairman of the clean-up committee.

He will be assisted by O.L. Wood, Mrs. George Chaney and H.A. Young, advertising and publicity; E.E. Benham, transportation, and Dr. J.R. Bunch, Phil Alborn, W.P. Laws, Ed Parent, Irwin Larson and Stanley Sherwood, instruction committee.

50 YEARS - June 1, 1970 Bay Area Hot, But No Record

Air-conditioning failed Sunday on the Oregon coast, which joined the rest of the state to swelter under unusually high temperatures. The forecast for today and Tuesday indicate continued high readings, with cooling due Wednesday.

The 84 degrees registered at Federal Aviation Administration office at the North Bend office at the North Bend airport was below the all-time high for May — 94 on May 13, 1939 — but the office is located at an elevation of 11 feet, while the 1936 records were kept by an airway observer at 2264 McPherson Ave., North Bend, at 203 feet.

Coos Budget $10,000 Funded For Rental of Bay Branch

COQUILLE — Responding to voter rejection for construction of a courthouse annex in Coos Bay in Tuesday’s primary, Coos County budgetmakers this morning set aside $10,000 to cover rental costs for county offices in the Bay Area.

The $10,000 estimate for office rental fees came on a motion

by Commissioner Lonnie Van Elsberg. Van Elsberg further suggested that rental funds now budgeted by the separate departments be deleted and attempts made to find adequate office space for all departments within the $10,000 figure.

15 YEARS - June 1, 2005

Firefighters memorial: Sculptor reveals plans

By Penny Gillson, Editorial Assistant

The Coos Bay Firefighters Memorial Committee took two major steps down the path toward completing a memorial for three local firefighters who died in the line of duty in November 2002. The group has selected a sculptor for the statue.

First, members perused the courtyard in front of Coos Bay City Hall for the first time on Friday with architect Mike Crow of Crow/Clay & Associates in Coos Bay. As it sits now, the site contains several large concrete planters and wooden benches, but the committee envisions the finished project will consist of life-sized bronze statues of the three firefighters, a remembrance wall, 11 trees representing the children left behind and pathways made of engraved bricks.

Crow said the initial step to developing a more-detailed design for the memorial is to determine where utilities are and make measurements for the memorial’s boundaries.

Bandon teachers settle on contract

BANDON - An insurance company was able to bring about agreement where a mediator failed.

Bandon’s teachers union voted 43-1 last week to ratify a new three-year contract with the Bandon School District.

The school board is to vote on the proposal tonight.

If approved, the contract will give the teachers a 1.5-percent salary increase for the first year, retroactive to July 1, 2004, and a 2-percent increase in the second and third years.

Members of the Bandon Education Association and the district had been negotiating for nearly a year. The school board declared a formal impasse in April. The main sticking point was health insurance.

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Trump postpones G7 meeting until the fall

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) — President Donald Trump said Saturday that he will postpone until the fall a meeting of Group of 7 nations he had planned to hold next month at the White House despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. And he said he plans to invite Russia, Australia, South Korea and India as he again advocated for the group’s expansion.

Trump told reporters on Air Force One as he returned to Washington from Florida that he feels the current makeup of the group is “very outdated” and doesn’t properly represent “what’s going on in the world.”

He said he had not yet set a new date for the meeting, but thought the gathering could take place in September, around the time of the annual meeting of the United Nations in New York,

or perhaps after the U.S. election in November.

Alyssa Farah, White House director of strategic communications, said that Trump wanted to bring in some of the country’s traditional allies and those impacted by the coronavirus to discuss the future of China.

The surprise announcement came after German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s office said Saturday that she would not attend the meeting unless the course of the coronavirus spread had changed by then.

The leaders of the world’s major economies were slated to meet in June in the U.S. at Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland, but the coronavirus outbreak hobbled those plans.

Trump announced in March he was canceling the summit because of the pandemic and that

the leaders would confer by video conference instead. But Trump then switched course, saying a week ago that he was again planning to host an in-person meeting.

“Now that our Country is ‘Transitioning back to Greatness’, I am considering rescheduling the G-7, on the same or similar date, in Washington, D.C., at the legendary Camp David,” Trump tweeted. “The other members are also beginning their COMEBACK. It would be a great sign to all - normalization!”

The G7 members are Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States. The group’s presidency rotates annually among member countries.

Trump has repeatedly advocated for expanding the group to include Russia, prompting

opposition from some members, including Canada’s Justin Trudeau, who told reporters he had privately aired his objection to Russian readmittance.

“Russia has yet to change the behavior that led to its expulsion in 2014, and therefore should not be allowed back into the G7,” he said at a news conference.

The House also passed a bipartisan resolution in December 2019 that supports Russia’s previous expulsion from the annual gathering.

Russia had been invited to attend the gathering of the world’s most advanced economies since 1997, but was suspended in 2014 following its invasion of Ukraine and annexation of Crimea.

Governor fires director of Oregon Employment Department

PORTLAND (AP) — Governor Kate Brown has fired the head of the Oregon Employment Department after long delays in delivering benefits to people who have lost jobs during the coronavirus outbreak.

Brown said Sunday she had asked for and received the resignation of Kay Erickson, who had run the department since Brown appointed

her to the post in 2016. Brown issued stay-at-home orders to stop the spread of COVID-19, and many businesses have been closed or operating at reduced capacity.

“In the middle of this pandemic, the continued delays from the Oregon Employment Department in delivering unemployment insurance benefits to thousands of out-of-work

Oregonians are unacceptable,” Brown said in a statement.

The Oregonian/OregonLive reports the employment department struggled through a series of leadership crises in the years before Erickson took over.

She steered the department through a period of relative calm afterwards, as the state’s jobless rate fell to an alltime low of 3.3% and the agency had

relatively few benefits claims.

When the pandemic hit, though, the employment department was quickly overwhelmed as more than 440,000 Oregonians filed for jobless benefits and the state’s unemployment rate spiked to an all-time high, 14.2%.

The department, using outdated equipment, was unable to keep up with the volume of claims or adapt its

technology to accommodate changes in the jobless program. Although Oregon received $86 million federal funding for a computer upgrade in 2009, and successive audits warned the department was unprepared for a spike in jobless claims, work replacing the computers isn’t due to be complete until 2025.

Astronauts arrive at space station on Sunday

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX delivered two astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA on Sunday, following up a historic liftoff with an equally smooth docking in yet another first for Elon Musk’s company.

With test pilots Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken poised to take over manual control if necessary, the SpaceX Dragon capsule pulled up to the station and docked automatically, no assistance needed. The hatches swung open a few hours later, and the two Dragon riders floated into the orbiting lab and embraced the three station residents.

Unlike the SpaceX and NASA flight control rooms, where everyone was spaced well apart, there was no social distancing or masks needed in orbit since the new arrivals had been in quarantine for many weeks.

“The whole world saw this mission, and we are so, so proud of everything you have done for our country and, in fact, to inspire the world,” NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said in a call from Mission Control in Houston.

Hurley credited SpaceX and added, ““It’s great to get the United States back in the crewed launch business.”

It was the first time a privately built and owned spacecraft carried astronauts to the space station in its more than 20 years of existence.

NASA considers this the opening volley in a business revolution encircling Earth and eventually stretching to the moon and Mars.

“NASA is not going to purchase, own and operate rockets and capsules the way we used to,” Bridenstine said. “”We’re going to partner

with commercial industry.”

The docking occurred barely 19 hours after a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off Saturday afternoon from Kennedy Space Center, the nation’s first astronaut launch to orbit from home soil in nearly a decade and drawing a Washington delegation led by President Donald Trump. NASA said peak viewership online hit 10 million.

Despite the coronavirus pandemic, thousands jammed surrounding beaches, bridges and towns as SpaceX ended a nine-year launch drought for NASA. The achievement, years in the making, is expected to drive down launch costs so more people might be able to afford a ticket to space in the coming years.

Behnken told the welcoming committee at NASA’s Johnson Space Center that the Dragon was “a slick vehicle” and said he was surprised at how rough the ride was on the latter part of ascent, compared with the space shuttle, which he and Hurley rode twice.

“Dragon was huffing and puffing all the way into orbit,” he said.

Two Texas members of Congress at Johnson for the docking — Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Brian Babin — said the flight offered inspiration and hope during a particularly tough time of protests and pandemic.

“Having it go off without a hitch was a tremendous blessing for our country,” Babin told the astronauts.

Gleaming white in the sunlight, the Dragon was easily visible on NASA TV from a few miles away from the space station, its nose cone open and exposing its docking hook as well as

Renowned artist Christo dies in New York at 84 NEW YORK (AP) — Christo, known for massive, ephemeral public arts projects died Sunday at his home in New York. He was 84.

His death was announced on Twitter and the artist’s web page. No cause was given.

Along with late wife Jeanne-Claude, the artists’ careers were defined by their ambitious art projects that quickly disappeared soon after they were erectedthat andoften involved wrapping large structures in fabric. In 2005, he installed more than 7,500 saffron-colored vinyl gates in New York’s Central Park.

He wrapped the Reichstag in Berlin in fabric with an aluminum sheen in 1995. Their $26 million Umbrellas project erected1,340 blue umbrellas installed in Japan and 1,760 blue umbrellas in Southern California in 1991. They also wrapped the Pont Neuf in Paris, the Kunsthalle in Bern, Switzerland and a Roman wall in Italy.

The statement said the artist’s next project, L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped, is slated to appear in September in Paris as planned. An exhibition about Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s work is also scheduled to run from July through October at the Centre Georges Pompidou.

“Christo lived his life to the fullest, not only dreaming up what seemed impossible but realizing it,” his office said in a statement. “Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s artwork brought people together in shared experiences across the globe, and their work lives on

in our hearts and memories.”

Born in Bulgaria in 1935, Christo Vladimirov Javacheff studied at the Fine Arts Academy in Sofia before moving to Prague in 1957, then Vienna, then Geneva. It was in Paris in 1958 where he met JeanneClaude Denat de Guillebon.

They were born on the same day (June 13) in the same year (1935), and, according to him, “In the same moment” and would become partners in life and art.

Christo was already wrapping smaller found objects, like cars and furniture, but after he met Jeanne-Claude, their scale broadened. Within three years they were working together on an installation of oil drums and tarp on the docks in Cologne.

Although their large scale outdoor and indoor projects were collaborative, they were all credited solely to Christo until 1994, when they revealed Jeanne-Claude’s contributions.

The decision, they said, was theirs and deliberate since it was difficult enough for even one artist to make a name for himself.

The pair moved to New York in 1964, where they liked to say that they were illegal aliens in an illegal building in SoHo for a few years. They eventually bought that building and would call the city home for the rest of their lives.

The year 1968 would prove pivotal for the couple with three endeavors: Wrapped Fountain; Wrapped Medieval Tower; and Wrapped Kunsthalle. The next year brought Wrapped Coast, which

involved 1 million square feet of fabric and 35 miles of rope across a 1.5 mile long section of the Australian coastline, and the wrapping of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.

Jeanne-Claude died in 2009 at age 74 from complications of a brain aneurysm. After her death, Christo said she was argumentative and very critical and always asking questions and he missed all of that very much.

Their works were grand in every respect, from manpower to impact. Over 600 workers were involved in putting up The Gates, and 300 more in dismantling them. More than 5 million people saw the installation and it was credited with injecting about $254 million into the local economy.

Running Fence, which was comprised of 2,050 white fabric panels, stretched across 24.5 miles in Northern California in 1976.

For the Umbrella project, a total of 1,880 workers were used. That, however, had a more somber end: It was dismantled after a spectator died in California. ″I will live with that tragedy to the end of my life,″ Christo said at the time.

In a 2018 interview with The Art Newspaper, Christo spoke about his signature wrapping aesthetic. In the instance of the Reichstag, he said, covering it with fabric made the Victorian sculptures, ornament and decoration disappear and, thus, highlighted, “The principal proportion of architecture.”

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a blinking light. Hurley and Behnken took over the controls and did a little piloting less than a couple hundred yards (meters) out as part of the test flight, before putting it back into automatic for the final approach.

Once on board the space station, Hurley said the capsule, newly named Endeavour after the retired shuttle, handled extremely well. He was the pilot on the last U.S. spaceship to visit the space station — the last shuttle flight, by Atlantis, in July 2011.

Restoring American launch capability nine years later, he noted, “is just one effort that we can show for the ages in this dark time that we’ve had over the past several months to kind of inspire, especially the young people in the United States, to reach for these lofty goals.”

There was one small glitch: Hurley bumped his head entering the space station and frequently wiped his forehead during the welcoming ceremony.

NASA turned to private industry to pick up the slack following the shuttle fleet’s retirement, hiring SpaceX and Boeing in 2014 for space station taxi services. Boeing’s first astronaut flight isn’t expected until next year.

Until Saturday, SpaceX had launched only space station supplies or satellites. The company’s employees took to calling the astronauts “dads” to drive home the fact that two lives were at stake in this highly technical effort.

Clearly relieved, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine tweeted a big “welcome home” to the Dragon fliers — “America’s two favorite dads.”

NASA has yet to decide how long Hurley and Behnken will spend at the space station, somewhere between one and four months.

While they’re there, they’ll join NASA’s Chris Cassidy and two Russian station residents in performing experiments and possibly spacewalks to install fresh station batteries.

While U.S. astronauts will continue to catch a ride on Russian Soyuz rockets, it will be through a barter system now that NASA’s commercial crew program has finally taken flight. NASA had been shelling out tens of millions of dollars for every Soyuz seat.

In a show-and-tell earlier Sunday, the astronauts gave a quick tour of the Dragon’s sparkling clean insides, quite spacious for a capsule.

The blue sequined dinosaur accompanying them — their young sons’ toy, named Tremor — was also in good shape, Behnken assured viewers. Tremor was going to join Earthy, a plush globe delivered to the space station on last year’s test flight of a crew-less crew Dragon.

Behnken said both toys would return to Earth with them at mission’s end.

An old-style capsule splashdown is planned.

After liftoff, Musk told reporters that the capsule’s return will be more dangerous in some ways than its launch. Even so, getting the two astronauts safely to orbit and then the space station had everyone breathing huge sighs of relief.

As always, Musk was looking ahead.

“This is hopefully the first step on a journey toward a civilization on Mars,” he said Saturday evening.

DEAR ABBY By Abigail Van Buren Pregnant bride-to-be faces choice between two brothers DEAR ABBY: When I was younger, I was engaged to a man I’ll call “Jake.”

I was deeply in love with him, only to have my heart broken when he cheated on me, so I broke it off. A short time later, I developed feelings for his brother, “Jed.” One thing led to another, and Jed and I are engaged to be married in two months.

When Jake found out I was dating Jed, he grew distant. I figured it was because he was in shock. Recently, he contacted me and invited me to dinner.

Thinking it had to do with the wedding plans, I accepted. When we were getting ready to leave, Jake told me he still loved me and had made a terrible mistake. I had had a few drinks, and we ended up having a one-night stand.

I just found out I am pregnant, and I’m not sure if Jake is the father or Jed is. Honestly, I still love Jake, but he can’t keep a job, and I don’t think he could support me and a baby. What should I do? Should I keep my mouth shut and marry Jed, who has a good job and is faithful? -- BIG MESS IN THE SOUTH DEAR BIG MESS: You would be doing a terrible disservice to Jed if you marry him while you “honestly” still love his brother. If you do, you will be in for a lifetime of guilt and frustration, and the chances are great that you and Jake won’t be able to stay away from each other. While marriage under these circumstances may seem like an attractive solution for you economically, it doesn’t take a crystal ball to predict it will be another disaster.

Instead of trying to take the easy way out, straighten your spine, fess up and do the right thing. A paternity test will determine which brother is the father of your child and the one who should support it.

DEAR ABBY: I’m a 16-year-old girl and 6 feet tall. I have already been through the worst of my insecurities, and even though I now have some confidence, my height still bothers me.

I’ve always been taller than my peers and blamed my social problems on my height. Someone mentions it every day, and where I work, every other customer comments on it, too.

I try not to be upset over something I can’t change. I know people don’t mean to be hurtful, but it makes me feel like I stand out too much. I also feel like I’m

too big and too awkward for normal activities. My pants are never long enough, and my skirts are always too short. I have to adjust car seats and gym equipment to fit.

Worst of all, it’s off-putting to boys.

Most of them are shorter and cite it as the reason they aren’t interested in me romantically. I know this might seem trivial, but it’s my biggest insecurity and hard to overcome. Please help. -- TALL PROBLEM IN NEW MEXICO DEAR PROBLEM: Many people consider height to be an advantage. You might, too, once you decide to own and take pride in it.

Regarding your difficulty in finding clothes that fit, do some research online and you will discover stores that cater to tall women and men.

I can’t wave a magic wand and fix the insecurities of the young men in your community and neither can you. This is why I’m advising you to broaden your horizons and look further for romance because it isn’t beyond your reach.

A way to do that might be to develop an interest in basketball, a sport that attracts tall people.

When you’re older, check into a group called Tall Clubs International. If you are 21 and over 5 feet, 10 inches, you qualify to join and meet other people who won’t be put off at all by your height. You will find them by going to tall.org.

------------------------------------------DEAR READERS: Along with the millions of Americans who are observing this Memorial Day, I add my prayer of thanks for those courageous men and women who sacrificed their lives in service to our country. May they rest in peace. -- ABBY ----------------------------------Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.

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Lady Gaga’s new album ‘Chromatica’ is a letdown Associated Press

Lady Gaga, “Chromatica” (Interscope)

In the 12 years since Lady Gaga dropped her first album, the singer has exceptionally shown that she knows how to create a killer album.

“The Fame” was danceable and clever. “The Fame Monster” was an epic adventure into her darker mind. “Born This Way” brilliantly wove in elements of rock and house with her signature pop.

Though she might have tripped

over her disco ball on “ARTPOP,” the album still had direction and character. And “Joanne” was a deep, emotional set of songs that paved the way for the sound of “A Star is Born,” a flawless album that captures all the great sides of Gaga.

Enter “Chromatica,” her sixth studio effort, and her return to the electro dance-pop sound that made her a multiplatinum pop star.

It’s an album made for the clubs, though during this current pandemic, that’s equivalent to dancing alone in front of your floor mirror.

But instead of bopping along

to the album, you’ll want to social distance from it.

“Chromatica” is a letdown from one of pop’s best voices. The production, which is basic, is the album’s biggest problem — and the flat sound doesn’t help bring the heavy themes of the album to life like Gaga has been able to do in the past.

BloodPop works as lead producer, co-crafting most songs on the project. But other helpers are also part of the process, including Max Martin, Skrillex, Ryan Tedder, Axwell, Sebastian Ingrosso, Justin Tranter, BURNS, Rami Yacoub and Tchami. Too

many cooks in the kitchen could be the reason the album lacks real flavor. Where is the salt, or spark?

“Alice,” one of the better songs on the 16-track set, opens the album as Gaga sings, “My name isn’t Alice/But I’ll keep looking, I’ll keep looking for Wonderland.”

Her search isn’t over if “Chromatica” is any indication — this feels like a watered-down version of the creative Gaga we all love.

In an interview to promote the album, she explained that “Free Woman” was about her sexual assault and “Rain on Me”

was partly about her overdrinking. The topics are real and at times, extremely heavy, and Gaga gets points for sharing her real-life feelings and experiences in her music. But the album’s production doesn’t serve as the best vessel for those deep emotions to breathe. And her vocal performance, surprisingly plain and unmemorable, doesn’t help either. Sometimes it feels like Gaga isn’t even present.

Some of the lyrics feel lazy, too. On “Plastic Doll” she sings, “I’ve lived in a pink box so long/I am top shelf, they built me strong.” Enter side-eye emoji

here.

Gaga fares better on tracks like “Replay,” or even “911” and “Babylon,” though both songs sound like leftover tracks from “Born This Way.” But most of “Chromatica” is problematic: First single “Stupid Love” is forgettable; “Enigma” is predictable; and the inclusion of the chart-topping Ariana Grande on the bouncy but super-mediocre “Rain on Me” screams, “I JUST WANT A NO. 1 HIT RIGHT NOW.” Having little depth, the best way to describe “Chromatica” might be shallow.

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‘Morning Glory’ has fun skewering morning shows

Its edges may not be as sharp as those of “Network” or “Broadcast News,” but “Morning Glory” puts television to the test in its own modest way.

Currently playing on Hulu, the 2010 comedy doubles as both a romance and a satire, hinging on the personal and professional lives – which eventually merge – of Becky Fuller (played by an extremely engaging Rachel McAdams), an ambitious TV-news producer downsized out of her job at a New Jersey morning show. Through sheer force of personality, she convinces a lowly network’s news honcho (Jeff Goldblum) to hire her as the latest of many executive producers of “Daybreak,” a program that’s an industry joke. Literally.

Taking charge by dismissing the skeevy male co-anchor (Ty Burrell), Becky finds herself in immediate need of someone to partner with attitude-dripping co-host Colleen Peck (a droll Diane Keaton).

Enter Mike Pomeroy, a legendary newsman sitting out the rest of his lucrative contract, which will be voided if he turns down a job the network offers him ... and as the pompous, humorless Pomeroy, Harrison Ford is pure comedic gold. His low growl is good for a laugh with virtually every line.

Becky’s love life also picks up thanks to newsmagazine producer Adam Bennett (a charming Patrick Wilson), but his real role here is to be a sounding board for Becky. His own encounters with Pomeroy make him declare the new morning anchorman “the third worst

person in the world,” and Becky soon finds truth in that as Pomeroy stubbornly refuses to do most of what she asks of him.

Director Roger Michell has experience in romantic comedies (“Notting Hill”), but the main creative engine behind “Morning Glory” is screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna, who also serviced other heroines wonderfully both before (“The Devil Wears Prada”) and after (“Crazy Ex-Girlfriend”) this film. She makes Becky someone truly to root for, but that’s also to the immense credit of star McAdams.

The actress has proven herself in both comedy and drama many times, but “Morning Glory” arguably is her best showcase to date.

Hitting both sad and humorous notes with total skill here (and tossing off many “inside baseball” references to TV news quite smoothly), she carries the picture, part of her run of journalismrelated projects that also have encompassed “State of Play” and the Oscar-winning “Spotlight.”

“Morning Glory” also boasts a solid cast of supporting players as “Daybreak” personnel. The standouts: John Pankow (“Mad About You”) as the cheerfully knowing associate producer, and Matt Malloy as the hapless weatherman, who’s sent to give forecasts while skydiving (he’s not good at it) and riding a fearsome roller coaster (he’s not good at that, either).

Quite underrated, “Morning Glory” is terrific fun – and cheers to the cable networks and streaming services that continue to give it its due.

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Bridge A little while ago, I rifled through a drawer in my office and found a "Peanuts" cartoon. Snoopy is looking over a valley and saying, "This is what we came for, troops. Look at the view." However, Woodstock and his fellow birds are playing the deal in today's diagram. But that is all the reader knows -- who has what. No bidding is shown in the strip.

Charles Schulz liked to play bridge, but when I approached him about having a game, sadly he declined.

He said he did not play well enough. I replied that that made no difference to me, but it never happened.

Schulz said that he found the deal in a Charles Goren book. I have hypoth-

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esized an auction. West's jump to four hearts shows a weak freak -- probably five trumps, a short suit somewhere and a poor hand.

South's double announces a good hand. Six spades is a bit of a shot, but not unreasonable.

After the heart lead, South wins with dummy's ace, ruffs the heart 10, draws trumps and plays on clubs, hoping to find a 3-3 split. Then the opponent who wins the third round will be endplayed.

He will either have to lead a diamond, finding the queen for declarer, or to concede a ruff-and-sluff.

Declarer sluffs a diamond from his hand and ruffs on the board. But when the bad club split is revealed, South must find the diamond queen. Well, East seems to have begun with two spades, five hearts and one club. Therefore, he has five diamonds. Declarer cashes dummy's diamond king, then plays low to his 10.

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Choose peace over discord.

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Say little, but do a lot.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Make a personal change because you want to, not because someone applies pressure. Look for little ways to make a difference and you will gain respect.

VIRGO (Aug. 23Sept. 22) -- Stay on top of your responsibilities.

Leave no room for error or criticism. Keep your life simple and your plans moderate. Some balance will be required if you want to succeed.

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Avoid joint ventures; do your own thing.

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Personal growth is encouraged.

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Financial gain is within reach.

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Use of force criticized in protests (AP) - As protests grip the nation, officers have doused crowds with pepper spray, struck protesters with batons, steered police cars into throngs, shoved demonstrators and screamed curses. Some police action has been directed against people smashing windows, breaking into stores and burning cars, but many find other instances more difficult to understand — like the elderly man knocked over by police as he walked with a cane on a Salt Lake City sidewalk.

The protests began after the May 25 death of George Floyd, a black man who died in Minneapolis after a white police officer who is now charged with murder, Derek Chauvin, pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck for several minutes even after he stopped moving and pleading for air.

Now, some are questioning whether tough police

tactics against demonstrators are actually making the violence worse rather than quelling it.

While the protests and subsequent police interactions may be shocking to some, many African Americans aren’t surprised because they’ve endured police brutality for decades, said Chris White, director of the Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality, “What’s happening, it’s the way American society has always been,” White said.

U.S. Rep. Joyce Beatty, who was hit by pepper spray Saturday as scuffles broke out near the end of a demonstration in Columbus, Ohio, said police escalated matters by using heavy-handed tactics against “passionate” young demonstrators who were mostly orderly.

“Too much force is not the answer to this,” said

Beatty, who pressed for peaceful tactics on both sides in a video posted on Twitter by Columbus City Council president Shannon Hardin, who also was pepper-sprayed. Both are African American.

In Salt Lake City, a police officer shoved and knocked over an older man who was walking with a cane on a sidewalk near a protest. Another officer stepped in within seconds to assist the man, as did the officer who knocked him down. Police Chief Mike Brown issued a video Sunday saying he’d personally apologized to the man.

“It was hard for me to watch what happened, and I know it was even harder for him to experience it,” Brown said.

In New York, where video showed two police vehicles driving into a crowd, knocking aside demonstrators, Mayor Bill

de Blasio decried what he called “structural racism” that leads to violence against minorities, but also defended police.

“It is inappropriate for protesters to surround a police vehicle and threaten police officers,” he said.

“That’s wrong on its face and that hasn’t happened in the history of protests in this city.”

Two police officers in Atlanta were fired and three others placed on desk duty over excessive use of force during a protest incident involving two college students Saturday night.

Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said Sunday that she and the police chief made the decision after reviewing body-camera footage.

Footage shown on TV as captured by local reporters shows a group of police officers in riot gear and gas masks surround a car being driven by a man with

a woman in the passenger seat. The officers pull the woman out and appear to use a stun gun on the man.

They use zip-tie handcuffs on the woman on the ground.

In a message some saw as encouraging police violence, President Donald Trump praised U.S. Secret Service officers guarding the White House amid demonstrations and said any protesters who breached its fence would face “the most vicious dogs, and most ominous weapons, I have ever seen.

That’s when people would have been really badly hurt, at least.”

In a letter titled “Dear America,” civil rights leader Rev. William Barber II, a pastor at Greenleaf Christian Church in Goldsboro, North Carolina, said protesters have the right to decry “brutal and inhumane” treatment at the

hands of police.

“What if, instead of a President who tweets ‘when the looting starts, the shooting starts,’ we had leadership that could unequivocally say, ‘When you use police power in the name of the state to murder, lynch, and destroy, you will be prosecuted for your crimes,’” Barber wrote.

Trump wasn’t alone in using loaded language.

The Minnesota Department of Public Safety sent a tweet Saturday saying it would strengthen its response to “a sophisticated network of urban warfare.” Hours later, video emerged of police shooting paint projectiles at people gathered on the front porch of a home after curfew in Minneapolis. “Light ‘em up,” a man is heard saying before the shooting began.

No one appeared seriously injured.

Two officers fired after ‘excessive force’ arrests ATLANTA (AP) — Two police officers have been fired and three others placed on desk duty over excessive use of force during a protest arrest incident involving two college students, Atlanta’s mayor said Sunday.

Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said at a news conference that she and police Chief Erika Shields made the decision after reviewing body-camera footage of a Saturday night incident that first gained attention from video online and on local news.

“Use of excessive force is never acceptable,” Bottoms told reporters. Shields called the footage “really shocking to watch.”

Police on Sunday night identified the fired officers as Investigator Ivory Streeter, who was hired in December 2003, and Investigator Mark Gardner, who was hired in August 1997.

Bottoms said the woman, Taniyah Pilgrim, was

released without charges.

She said the man, Messiah Young, was released, too, and she’s ordering the charges against him dropped. She didn’t specify what charges he faced. A police report says Young was charged with attempting to elude police and driving with a suspended license.

Dramatic body camera video that police released Sunday night shows police taking another young man into custody in a downtown street alongside a line of stopped cars. The man is pleading with police to let him go, saying he didn’t do anything.

Young, sitting in the driver’s seat of a car stopped in the street holds up his phone, appearing to shoot video as an officer approaches and pulls the driver’s side door open. Young pulls the door shut and says repeatedly, “I’m not dying today.” He urges the officers

to release the other man and let him get in the car as the dark sedan advances a bit.

The car gets stuck in traffic and officers run up to both sides of the car shouting orders. An officer uses a stun gun on Pilgrim as she’s trying to get out of the car and then officers pull her from the vehicle.

Another officer yells at Young to put the car in park and open the window. An officer repeatedly hits the driver’s side window with a baton, and another officer finally manages to break it.

As the glass shatters, an officer uses a stun gun on Young and officers pull him from the car as officers shout, “Get your hand out of your pockets,” and, “He got a gun. He got a gun. He got a gun.” Once he’s out of the car and on the ground, officers zip tie Young’s hands behind his back and lead him away.

Police reports do not list a gun as having been

recovered.

The mayor said she had delayed the news conference several hours to review all the body-camera footage because she and Shields wanted to be certain about what happened.

“I really wanted to believe that the body-worn camera footage would provide some larger view that could better rationalize why we got to this space,” Shields said. “And having spent most of the afternoon with the mayor, reviewing the footage exhaustively, I knew that I had only one option, and that is to terminate the employees.”

Bottoms said she had spoken to leaders at Spelman College and Morehouse College, where she said the the young people were students. She said she’d also spoken to representatives for the students but hadn’t yet spoken directly to them.

Shields offered an apology and said she knows the officers’ behavior was unacceptable and caused further fear.

“Sometimes the best thing, the only thing you can do as a police chief is come in and clean up the mess that’s before you,” Shields said.

“When wrong is wrong, we have to, as law enforcement, start dealing with it in the same manner that we would deal with it with non-law enforcement,” Shields said. “For some reason, we’ve fallen into a gray area where there’s a separate set of rules for law enforcement, and if we want to get out of this space that we’re in now we have to change how we manage internally.”

Shields said she experienced a broad range of emotions as just a few hours before she saw the video, another of her officers was seriously injured.

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Officer Maximilian Brewer suffered significant injuries to his legs and remained in the intensive care unit Sunday evening, Shields said, adding that she hopes he’ll be able to walk again. The ATV rider was taken into custody at the scene and to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

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FOUR-DAY FORECAST FOR NORTH BEND TONIGHT TUESDAY WEDNESDAY

Breezy early; otherwise, clear

Partly sunny and breezy

LOW: 47° 63° LOCAL ALMANAC

47°

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Astoria Burns Brookings Corvallis Eugene Klamath Falls La Grande Medford Newport Pendleton Portland Redmond Roseburg Salem The Dalles

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Medford 48/85

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Flurries

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40s

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41/80

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Willamette Valley Portland Area Tonight Tue. Tonight Tue.

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38/77

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37/78

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49/82

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10:13 p.m.

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11:44 p.m.

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11:02 p.m.

Port Orford 9:58 a.m.

9:55 p.m.

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Half Moon Bay 10:26 a.m.

10:23 p.m.

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43/78

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50/88

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44/77

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51/66

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51/65

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43/77

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45/67

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46/80

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45/77

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62°

43/76

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Gold Beach Jun 5

62°

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Elkton

Coos Bay / North Bend

48/62

8:51 p.m.

5:39 a.m.

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Unrest overshadows peaceful protests WASHINGTON (AP) — Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets across America again Sunday, with peaceful demonstrations against police killings of black people overshadowed by unrest that ravaged cities from Philadelphia to Los Angeles and flared near the White House.

City and state officials deployed thousands of National Guard soldiers, enacted strict curfews and shut down mass transit systems to slow protesters’ movements, but that did little to stop parts of many cities from again erupting into mayhem.

Protesters in Philadel-

phia hurled rocks and Molotov cocktails at police, officials said, while thieves in more than 20 California cities smashed their way into businesses and ran off with as much as they could carry — boxes of sneakers, armloads of clothes, and cellphones, TVs and other electronics.

In Minneapolis, a tanker truck driver drove into a massive crowd of demonstrators nearly a week after the death of George Floyd, a black man who pleaded for air as an officer pressed a knee into his neck. No protesters appeared to be injured, and the driver was arrested.

Tensions spiked outside

the White House, the scene of three days of demonstrations, where police fired tear gas and stun grenades into a crowd of more than 1,000 chanting protesters across the street in Lafayette Park. The crowd ran away and piled up road signs and plastic barriers to light a raging fire in a nearby street. Some pulled an American flag from a building and threw it into the blaze.

A building in the park with bathrooms and a maintenance office went up in flames and people broke into banks and jewelry stores. As demonstrations persisted past curfew, Washington police said

they were responding to multiple fires set around the capital.

The entire Washington, D.C., National Guard — roughly 1,700 soldiers — was called in to help control the protests, according to two Defense Department officials who insisted on anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the matter.

As the protests grew, President Donald Trump retweeted conservative commentator Buck Sexton who called for “overwhelming force” against violent demonstrators.

Secret Service agents had rushed Trump to a White House bunker on

Friday night as hundreds of protesters gathered outside the executive mansion, some of them throwing rocks and tugging at police barricades. The president spent nearly an hour in the bunker designed for use in emergencies like terrorist attacks, according to a Republican close to the White House who was not authorized to publicly discuss private matters and spoke on condition of anonymity.

The account was confirmed by an administration official who also spoke on condition of anonymity.

Former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, visited the site of

protests in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, and talked to some of the demonstrators. He also wrote a post on Medium expressing empathy for those despairing about the killing of George Floyd.

At least 4,400 people have been arrested over days of protests, according to a tally compiled by The Associated Press. Arrests ranged from stealing and blocking highways to breaking curfew.

In Salt Lake City, an activist leader condemned the destruction of property but said broken buildings shouldn’t be mourned on the same level as black men like Floyd.

Reporters suffer attacks covering protests NEW YORK (AP) — A Fox News reporter was pummeled and chased by protesters who had gathered outside the White House early Saturday as part of nationwide unrest following the death of George Floyd.

For several journalists across the country, the demonstrations were taking an ominous, dangerous turn.

A television reporter in Columbia, S.C., was hurt by a thrown rock Saturday and a journalist in Minneapolis was shot in the thigh by a rubber bullet. A television

news photographer in Pittsburgh said he was beaten by demonstrators, and police in Louisville, Kentucky, apologized after an officer fired what appeared to be pepper bullets at a television news crew.

Fox’s Leland Vittert was rattled following the Washington attack that he said was clearly targeted at his news organization.

“We took a good thumping,” he told The Associated Press. A live shot he was doing was interrupted by a group of protesters

who shouted obscenities directed at Fox. Flanked by two security guards, he and photographer Christian Galdabini walked away from Washington’s Lafayette Park trailed by an angry group before riot police dispersed them.

Vittert said there were no markings on him or the crew’s equipment to identify them as from Fox. But he said during the demonstration, one man continually asked him who he worked for. He didn’t answer, but the man found

a picture of Vittert on his cell phone and shouted to other protesters that he was from Fox. “The protesters stopped protesting whatever it was they were protesting and turned on us,” he said, “and that was a very different feeling.”

He compared it to when he was chased away from a demonstration in Egypt during the Arab Spring of 2011 by a group that shouted, “Fox News hates Muslims.”

A correspondent from

the website The Daily Caller followed Vittert and the demonstrators as they left the park. At one point, someone took Vittert’s microphone and threw it at his back. One woman chasing him wore a t-shirt that said, “I can’t breathe,” a reference what Floyd said earlier this week when a Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee against his neck.

Vittert said he was “extremely grateful” to the Daily Caller for documenting the scene; Galdabini’s

camera was smashed.

“They were putting themselves at risk,” he said.

“It makes me proud to do my job and to be a journalist,” he said. “I’m proud to be an organization that is unyielding in our coverage.

We’re going to keep on telling our story and doing exactly what we’re doing.”

Suzanne Scott, CEO of Fox News Media, said in a memo on Saturday that Fox was taking all necessary security precautions to protect its journalists covering the story.

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under the direction of city leadership, the statement from the governor’s office said.

“The National Guard is on stand by to assist the Seattle Police Department as requested by Mayor Durkan,” Inslee said.

“They will only be utilized if absolutely necessary and we appreciate their efforts to help in this important work.”

Residents should remain in their homes “to the extent possible” and not travel in or through Seattle, said Durkan, Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best and Seattle Fire Department Chief Harold Scoggins in a statement.

“This curfew is intended to prevent violence

and widespread property damage, and to prevent the further community spread of COVID-19 through continued gathering,” they said.

The tense scenes in Seattle followed a violent night in Portland, Oregon, where authorities said those responsible for the damage to police headquarters, a shopping mall and businesses will be tracked down.

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler also imposed a state of emergency and a curfew, which resumed Saturday at 8 p.m. and will lift at 6 a.m. Sunday. And city officials in Eugene, Oregon, enacted a 9 p.m.

Saturday curfew in part of the city following destruc-

tive behavior by some during protests.

Portland Fire Chief Sara Boone, who is African American, said the anger and violence is not only about the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, but a system that allows people of color to “feel fear every day.”

“This is a moment of reckoning,” Boone said at a news conference with other city leaders. “We are going forward, together, to create an actual community where respect and dignity are our core values.”

Jo Ann Hardesty, an African American member of the City Council, said those responsible for the looting and burning were

a small group of people who took the opportunity of earlier peaceful protests — that police had largely stayed away from — “to steal stuff and break stuff.”

“We can get justice for black people, but we don’t have to destroy our community to do it,” Hardesty said. She offered to help identify rioters from video images so they could be arrested and prosecuted.

In the past, Portland has seen numerous violent protests, often between far-right demonstrators and those opposed to them. Community activists have told police their heavy presence can be a trigger for violence.

The People of Color Caucus of the Oregon

Legislature called the rioters opportunists and outliers who were disregarding the leadership of black community organizers. At one point, black community members placed themselves between a business and vandals to protect it from being destroyed, they said.

“We are just beginning to lay plans to reopen and these actions are destructive to our efforts as we try to weave together what COVID-19 has already torn apart,” the nine lawmakers said.

Portland police arrested at least 13 people before dawn Saturday. Seattle police were reviewing the use of force in one of at least seven arrests Friday night.

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Although many dispersed soon after, dozens remained downtown in defiance of the curfew, setting fires, breaking into retail stores and taking items while police fired tear gas and arrested at least one person.

The governor said he had activated up to 200 members of the Washington National Guard in response to a request from the city to help protect property, as well as manage crowds and traffic. Guard personnel will be unarmed and work

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Keselowski wins after late crash at Bristol BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) — Brad Keselowski has a new crew and is fighting for a new contract at Team Penske. His confidence is still intact and he’s convinced he can compete for a championship this year.

Being in the right place at the right time is helping.

Keselowski inherited his second win in a week when the leaders crashed in front of him with a

lap remaining Sunday at Bristol Motor Speedway. He won the Coca-Cola 600 seven nights ago at Charlotte Motor Speedway when a caution with two laps remaining helped him get to victory lane.

“I felt like I was in Las Vegas,” Keselowski said about the Bristol win. “I went from having a bad hand to a full house real quick.”

The victory dropped into Keselowski’s lap when Chase Elliott

and Joey Logano collided as they raced for the win. Keselowski was third with a lap and a turn remaining when opportunity opened. Logano cleared Elliott for the lead with three to go, but Elliott stalked him while seeking his second win in three days.

They made contact in the fourth turn and drifted into the wall as Keselowski slid past.

He had just one trip around the

0.533-mile concrete bullring to close the victory.

“We were in position and able to strike when it counted,” Keselowski said. “Joey and Chase got together there. I don’t know what all caused it, but we were just in position to strike and here we are in victory lane.”

Logano finished 21st and Elliott was 22nd.

Clint Bowyer was second for

his best finish in a year and a 1-2 finish for Ford and lamented how quiet it was after NASCAR’s fifth event without fans.

The track is built like an arena, referred to as “The Last Great Colosseum” and can hold about 140,000 spectators.

Seven-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson was third and once again showed he’s close to snapping his 104-race losing streak.

Sports Briefs BASEBALL Players call for longer season, more pay

John Gunther Photos, The World

North Bend bowlers Kian Pryor, Chase Taylor and Angel Espat roll balls on roll-up lanes in the parking lot for North Bend Lanes during a practice last week.

NB bowlers get innovative to stay sharp JOHN GUNTHER The World

NORTH BEND — As the national high school bowling championship nears, the North Bend bowling team is getting nervous about its preparation — or more specifically it’s lack of preparation.

North Bend Lanes, along with all the other bowling alleys across the state, has been closed during the coronavirus pandemic. So the bowlers haven’t been able to practice the skills that brought them to the cusp of the state championship during the winter before the Bulldogs ultimately finished second.

Their season performance, which included winning seven straight tournaments and setting a record with their strong start in qualifying at state, gave them the chance to compete in the national tournament in Ohio.

In recent weeks, the Bulldogs have come up with at least a partial solution.

In the bowling alley’s parking lot, they are setting up three short practice lanes that usually are used to take to elementary schools to introduce youngsters to the sport.

The Bulldogs have been rolling plastic balls toward pins set up on those fabric lanes.

“The lanes are a little short and a little dry, but the ball’s about the right size and it has holes,” said John Newsum, one of the parents who help Rod Duryee coach the team.

The teammates take turns setting up the pins and rolling the balls toward them.

It’s not the real thing — not close. But it does help, Duryee said.

“The kids can’t slide,” Duryee said. “They are limited to a one- or two-step approach.

“But it keeps the mechanics and basics going.”

During the practice sessions, Duryee works with the bowlers on their form and their release of the balls.

The training is helping, said Angel Espat, the lone senior on the team.

“A master always goes over his basics, no matter what stage of life he is in,” Espat said.

“It’s great to go over your form and stance. It’s great to get out and interact (with the team).”

Of course it would be better to be inside

North Bend team members planning for the national tournament include, from left, Kian Pryor, Angel Espat, Jake Newsum, Keegan Jelinek, Chase Taylor and Konnor Jelinek. the building practicing on the real lanes.

Jake Newsum and Chase Taylor.

“It’s almost infuriating, because it’s right They have been selling tickets for a raffle there,” Espat said. “As much as we want to help fund the trip and a couple of them to go in there, even though this is dumbed also have taken jobs to support the trip. down, it’s also beneficial.”

Duryee said it was the players who drove Teammate Keegan Jelinek agreed. his decision to set up the practice sessions.

“I think all in all, it helps,” he said. “We’re “The kids kept calling and asking what not trying to worry about knocking down all our we do about practice,” he said. “I knew we pins — we are trying to get the physical memo- had these roll-up mats to bring to the grade ry of rolling the ball back so when we are in the schools. That’s what we have right now.” lanes again, we will get back to rolling strikes.”

Duryee and the bowlers hope the lanes are Plus, the interaction with the teammates open again soon, when Coos County enters when they have been mostly separated is Phase 2 of Gov. Kate Brown’s reopening priceless. plan, ideally this weekend.

“We are still having fun,” Jelinek said.

There’s always a chance that the national “It’s not what we want, but we have to make tournament will be canceled — it already has it work.” bene postponed and moved — but the Bulldogs Through it all, the bowlers are looking are moving forward with their plans for the trip. forward to nationals.

“I am going to keep pressing the kids until “I think our team is ready,” Jelinek said. they say no,” Duryee said.

“We are rusty, but we are a great team toPeople interested in supporting the team gether. When we are all hyped up and in the for its trip to the national tournament can buy mindset, we do really good.” a raffle ticket for an eight-day trip to Mexico Espat said the team’s strength is “our natu- and $1,000 in spending money. The tickets are ral competitive drive and our chemistry.” $20 and only 600 are being sold. To purchase Six members of the team are planning to a ticket, contact Duryee by text at 541-808head to the national tournament — Espat, 1217 or visit the restaurant at North Bend Jelinek and his brother Konnor, Kian Pryor, Lanes, which is open for dine-in service.

Soccer union approves salary cuts for MLS ANNE M. PETERSON Associated Press

The Major League Soccer Players Association voted to approve economic concessions for this season, including acrossthe-board salary cuts, while also agreeing to play in a proposed summer tournament in Orlando, Florida.

The proposal, made public by the union Sunday night, will now be sent to back to the league for approval by team owners.

“While a difficult vote in incredibly challenging times, it was taken collectively to ensure that players can return to compe-

tition as soon as they are safely able to do so,” the MLSPA said in a statement.

The MLS season was suspended March 12 because of the coronavirus pandemic. Teams had played just two games of the season.

Major League Soccer gave its teams the go-ahead Thursday to begin small voluntary group training sessions outdoors.

Teams must follow a strict protocol, as well as local public health and government restrictions. Not all of the league’s teams have returned to training.

Details of the Orlando tournament were still under con-

sideration, but the league’s 26 teams and limited staff would be sheltered at hotels with games played without fans at ESPN’s Wide World of Sports Complex at Disney World.

In addition to salary cuts, the union’s proposal includes reduced team and individual bonuses, as well as concessions to the existing and future terms of the collective bargaining agreement. Details were not immediately available.

MLS did not immediately comment on the proposal.

MLS first announced last month it was exploring possible “changes to player compensation” because

of the financial hit the league and teams were facing with the extended suspension in play.

“We are seeking to work collaboratively with the MLSPA to find a solution that provides a safety net for all players, opportunity to earn full salary in the scenario where all matches are played with fans, and in particular provides protection for the players at the lower end of the salary scale,” the league said in a statement at the time.

MLS and the players’ union agreed to terms of a new contract in early February, but it had not been ratified when the season was put on hold.

NEW YORK — Major League Baseball players ignored claims by clubs that they need to take additional pay cuts, instead proposing they receive a far higher percentage of salaries and a commit to a longer schedule as part of a counteroffer to start the coronavirus-delayed season.

Players proposed a 114-game regular season Sunday, up from 82 in management’s offer, a person familiar with the plan told The Associated Press. Done that way, the World Series could extend past Thanksgiving. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because no details were announced.

Opening day would be June 30 and the regular season would end Oct. 31, nearly five weeks after the Sept. 27 conclusion that MLB’s proposal stuck to from the season’s original schedule.

The union offered scheduling flexibility to include more doubleheaders as baseball crams the games into 123 days, leaving little room for days off.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL Former OSU standout, coach Osia Lewis dies NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Vanderbilt senior defensive analyst Osia Lewis died Sunday following a lengthy battle with cancer, the school announced. He was 57.

Lewis also was a special consultant to Vanderbilt coach Derek Mason. He joined the Commodores in 2016 as a senior defensive assistant and outside linebackers coach.

Before coming to Vanderbilt, Lewis spent five years as a defensive line coach at San Diego State.

He also had assistant coaching stints at UTEP, New Mexico, Illinois, Oregon State and Western Oregon.

Lewis was a standout linebacker at Oregon State from 1982-85.

He is survived by his wife, Darlene, a son, Marvin, and daughter, Kiana.

PRO FOOTBALL Hall of Famer Floyd Little battles cancer SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Pro Football Hall of Famer Floyd Little, who starred in the NFL for the Denver Broncos, has been diagnosed with cancer, according to a former Syracuse Orange teammate who has set up a GoFundMe page to help pay for treatment costs.

Pat Killorin, a center for Syracuse in the mid-1960s, created the fundraiser last Sunday.

Little, a three-time All-American at Syracuse from 1964-66, was selected sixth overall in the 1967 combined AFL-NFL draft by the Broncos. He spent his entire nine-year career with the franchise and rushed for 6,323 yards and 43 touchdowns. The 77-year-old Little led the NFL in rushing yards (1,133) and yards from scrimmage (1,388) in 1971.

He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2010.

TRACK & FIELD Gold medalist from 1956 Bobby Joe Morrow dies SAN BENITO, Texas — Bobby Joe Morrow, the Texas sprinter who won three gold medals in the 1956 Melbourne Olympics while a student at Abilene Christian University, died Saturday. He was 84.

Morrow’s family said he died of natural causes at home in San Benito.

Morrow won the 100 and 200 meters in Melbourne and anchored the United States’ champion 400 relay team, matching the world record of 20.6 seconds in the 200.