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MEASURE 90
T e compexcases o jLlvenieo en els Sizgge By Claire Withycombe The Bulletin
supervtsed for a mnumum of 36 months and will have to
Two recent juvenile aggravatedmurder casesw ith
register asasex offenderin Oregon.
local ties illustrate how Ore-
Fallen Angel —Pacific Crest Trail "angel" Lloyd Gust died Wednesdayafter years of good deeds.B1
conspired in the death of
courts across the state, winning and losing at various stages of appeal. Engweiler was 15 when he murdered 16-year-old Erin
Redmond resident Barbara Thomas, the mother of one
Reynolds, but he was tried as an adult in Multnomah
Justin Link, who in 2001
gon guidelines on sentencing youths convicted of violent crimes can be challenging and complex.
Engweiler
Link
assigned a parole officer in Deschutes County. Engweiler's father, Glenn Engweiler, lives in Sisters. Conrad Engweiler is scheduledtobe released Oct.
The Deschutes Adult Parole & Probation con-
firmed Thursday that Conrad Engweiler, who raped, sodomized and strangled a high school classmate in
16 from the Oregon State Correctional Institution after
serving 23 years. He will be
Beavertonin 1990,hasbeen
sentences they received in
impacts if voters
of his friends, will be resen-
County Circuit Court. He
tenced next year in Deschutes
was sentenced to life in pris-
sayyes
County after a 2013 Oregon Supreme Court decision.
on without parole in 1991 for aggravated murder. The
By Taylor W.Anderson
Both men were juveniles at the time of their convic-
court imposed a mandatory
The Bulletin
minimum sentence of 30 years. SeeEngweiler/A4
would allow everyone to vote in Oregon's primary
tions and sentencing, and they have contested the
Ebola —With a victim in Texas, what's your real likelihood of contracting it?A5
The ballot measure that elections
lntt
aas put a newfocus on whether
WARM SPRINGS WORKING TOGETHER IN THE NAS FORUM
And a Web exclusiveThe long-delayed signing of an Afghan security agreement is prompting new questions. bendbnlletin.cnm/extras
NOV. 4 the process ELECTION would improve
the state's
progressive fusion voting system.
Oregon is one of 10 states that allows candidates to list endorsements of mul-
EDITOR'5CHOICE
tiple parties on theballot through fusion voting. The process can tip elections
In rural California, tap water has simply vanished
against a candidate who is endorsed by only one major party toward a major party candidate who is also endorsed by third parties. It's apractice that was
common in the 19th century before most states banned it; Oregon enacted it in 2009.
Some minor party leaders now say it gives third parties a way to influence policy without unseating politicians and say Ballot Measure 90 would strengthenthe fusion votingprocess. "Fusion voting gives minorparties apathtobe involved in a meaningful way
By Jennifer Medina New Yorh Times News Service
PORTERVILLE, Calif.
— After a nine-hour day working at a citrus packing plant, her body covered in a sheen of fruit wax and dust, there is nothing Angelica Gallegos wants more than a hot shower, with steam to help clear
that can actually impact
election outcomes without having to go down the route ofbeing the spoiler party as the onlyoption," said Steve Hughes, director of Oregon's Working Families Party. SeeMeasure 90/A5
her throat and lungs. "I can just picture it, that
feeling of finallybeing clean— reall y refreshed and clean," Gallegos, 37, said one recent evening.
Clerk: 90 might save
But she has not had
running water for more than five months — nor is there any tap water in her
near future — because of a punishing and relentless drought in California. In the Gallegos household
money By Ted Shorack
and more than 500 others
in Tulare County, residents cannot flush a toilet, fill a drinking glass, wash dish-
Photos by Msg Roussos/The Bulletin
Much like the rest of Ore-
gon, some Deschutes County voters are still unsure
es or clothes or rinse their
hands without reaching for a bottle or bucket.
SeeDrought/A4
ABOVE: The Avitar, an Unmanned Ground Vehicle, or UGV, is used as a field search robot for various police departments and was used for a demonstration simulation
about a ballot measure that
would restructure the state's primaryelection system. Members of the League of Women Voters posed
of a robbery at the WarmSprings Working
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Together in the NAS Forum, Flights and Jobs Fair at the Kah-Nae-Ta Resort on Thursday. NAS stands for National Air-
Measure 90, which will be
RIGHT: An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, or UAV, Icarus helicopter sits on a display
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on the Nov.4 ballot. Blankenship mentioned
s
that the change could end up saving the county money it spends on overseeing the local election process. SeeCounty clerk/A5
table during the WarmSprings Working Together in the NAS forum.
After outrage, Facebookpromisesresearch scrutiny By Vindu Goel New York Times News Service
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SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook said Thursday that future research on its 1.3 billion users
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County Clerk Nancy Blankenship on Thursday regarding the intricacies of
United States, including drones.
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questions to Deschutes
space System andgoverns air travel in the
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view Facebook's research projects, andthecompany declined
off a global furor when it was disclosed this summer. In essence, Facebook's
to disclose what guidelines it
message is the same as it has
wouldbe subjected to greater
woulduse to decide whether research was appropriate.
always been: Trustus; we promise to dobetter.
internal scrutiny from top man-
Nor did it indicate whether it
But no outside body will re-
agers, especiallyif they focused will get consent from users for on "deeplypersonal topics"or projects such as its emotion specific groups of people. manipulation study, which set
That was unlikely to calm
the storm causedbypublication of the emotion study in June. In the study, Facebook
changed the number of positive and negative posts that a
the trust they hadplaced inthe
Manyusers sawthe manipulation, which was never
social network. The company's defenders, including sites such as OKCupid, noted that Internet companies routinely performed even m ore manipulat iveresearch on customers as they sought to
disdosed to the individuals
improve their products.
half-million users saw in their news feeds to assess the impact
on the emotional tone of their future posts.
affected, as agross violation of
SeeFacebook/A5