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Guardrail Safety —Federal tests find a design issafe —but not everyone is convinced.C6
Federal email —Hllary Clinton's private server reveals a larger problem: the messy patchwork of rules governing the device use of millions of federal employees.AS
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Putin's vanishingactThe Russian president hasn't been seen in over a week. A6
WARM SPRINGS — The Confederated Tribes of
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Warm Springs has contacted the U.S. Department of Interior's Office of Inspector General to investigate alleged financial mismanagement within its tribal government. On Feb. 24, the Warm Springs' ll-person Tribal
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Council passed a motion to call the inspector general
A project aims to record stories from survivors of Pakistan's split from India. bendbelletin.cem/extras
to investigate a series of issues, according to council members Orvie Danzuka, Scott Moses and Carlos Smith. The tribes' acting secretary-treasurer, Mike Collins, did not carry out that action in the timeframe
designated by the motion, say the three councilors, leading Danzuka to call the Inspector General's of-
fice on March 2. The inspector general's office refused to confirm
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an investigation was underway and no council min-
utes exist from the meeting. Collins, though, did confirm the tribes had reached out to the inspector gen-
Urn artists look for the beauty in death
eral and are awaiting word on what to do next.
See Tribes/A4
Legal help,but
APEX, N.C. — Of all the pieces Julie Moore crafts
Car plate tracking falls under scrutiny
in her home studio, the most popular is a brightly
By Taylor W.Anderson
By Robert Ambrogi
coloredfabricvessel she
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The Washington Post
By Allen G.Breed The Associated Press
calls "the party jar." guest of honor is inside the jar. "People that are viva-
cious and celebrate life — this one is what they really like," she says, lifting the ornately woven lid from the urn. "I want it to be a piece of art that they look at and they don't think, 'Oh. That's Dad's ashes.'" Cremations in the
United States have tripled since 1985, accounting
Education Foundation, which puts on The Desert Op'
years so they can effectively catch criminals
college education ended in 1998, with a paralegal studies degree from Highline Community College in Des Moines, Washing-
and find stolen cars.
ton. But this summer,
They say officers can prevent new
Cummings could start taking on legal clients who need help filing for divorce or child custody. Like a fully licensed attorney, she'll be able to open
license plate readers, surveil lance cameras
Nordeen, marks a
mounted atop patrol
cars at some departments in Oregon that
to the Cremation Association of North America.
for today's race at Mount Bachelor.
organization expects that to grow to 55 percent over
store data from the
crimes with automated
Orthopedics Great revised course Friday
increasingly transient, the
never went to law schooL Her formal
drivers for at least two
Chuck Thomas, nordic race director for Mount Bachelor Sports
for about 44 percent of all "dispositions," according With families becoming
groups are asking lawmakers to let them cars of hundreds of thousands of Oregon
Photo by Andy Tullis, map by Greg Cross I The Bulletin
Dutchman Flat
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look like urns. "At least 1 in 5 Americans have an urn in their
varies by department. See Plate/A5
And as cremations soar, more people are looking
Parking lot
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elimination of the planned fat tire race.
of Washington state's
ambitious experiment to revolutionize access to legal services, particularly among the poor. In the United
them to the depart-
ment, where they're stamped with time and geolocation information and kept on file for a length of time that
the next decade.
own fees. Cummings is part
and store license plate numbers on all cars they pass. The readers sweep up license plate numbers and send
wait for snow, which never came. Hence, Mt. Bachelor the reroute to higher elevation and
an office and set her
take photos and read
The race was postponed in Januaryto
for urns that, well, don't
lawyers Michelle Cummings
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But in this case, the
nothem
States, 80 to 90 percent
of low-income people with civil legal problems never receive
help from a lawyer. SeeLegal/A4
house," says Robin Simonton, executive director of
Raleigh's historic Oakwood Cemetery. "And if you're going to put someone on your mantle, you want them to look nice." SeeUrn /A4
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