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• The Bendreal estate brokeralready is serving time onfederal convictions Bulletin staff report The Oregon Attorney General's Office moved Monday to dismiss its case against Tami Sawyer, a former Bend real estate broker, now a federal prisoner, over allegations she stolefrom a former client's estate.
Prosecuting Sawyer further would add no more time to her sentence on federal convictions for fraud norresultin any real chance of restitution for the family of the late Thomas Middleton. A Middleton family member said Tuesday he
was unhappy the state decided to drop its case. Sawyer cost his family its inheritance, said David Middleton, 43, of Redmond, youngest of Thomas Middleton's three sons. "They're basically saying that because she's in jail with the fed-
eral (convictions), she won't get any more time," Middleton said Tuesday. "She'll get away with two more felonies." Sawyer, 50, and her husband, Kevin Sawyer, a former Bend police captain,were ordered by a federal judge in May to pay $5.82 million to victims they bilked out of millions. See Sawyer /A5
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JOHN SPENCE• 1918 — 2013
Superstorm anniversary — A year later, catching up
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feeling Sandy's bite. A6 By Andrew Clevenger The Bulletin
Cycling vacation — A slow ride on the Olympic Discovery Trail in Washington. O3
ln national news — Lawmakers confront the White House about awave of insurance cancellation notices trig-
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And a WedexclusiveSyria's beleaguered Christians.
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By Kimberly Kindy The Washington Post
Nearly 1 million chickens and turkeys are unintentionally boiled alive each year in U.S. slaughterhouses, often because fast-moving lines fail to kill the birds before they are dropped into scalding water, Agriculture Department records show. Now the USDA is finalizing a proposal that will allow poultry Graphic companies
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removing pathogens from the food supply and making plants more efficient. But that would also make the problem of inhumane treatment worse, according to government inspectors and experts in poultry slaughter. USDA inspectors assigned to the plants say much of the cruel treatment they witness is tied to the rapid pace at which
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John Spence, right, talks with Jonathan West in 2012 shortly after West — a Marine — received the Congressional Gold Medal for his service during World War II. Spence, who died Tuesday in Bend, served in WWII and was the first to try out a new diving apparatus that allowed for much greater freedom underwater. Erick Simmel, a filmmaker and historian, says every combat swimmer since can be traced back to that swim by Spence. By Scott Hammers The Bulletin
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merica'sfirst frogman," John Spence, died Tuesday in Bend. He was 95. Lyle Hicks, owner of Jake's Diner and an active member of the veterans group Oregon Band of Brothers, said he went to visit Spence Tuesday morning and learned he had died during the night. JW. Terry, president of the Band of Brothers, said Spence had been at an assisted living facility for about a year. In the years before Spence's death, Hicks, Terry, and California filmmaker and historian Erick Simmel collaborated
with Spence to develop a detailed biography of his service in the U.S. Navy. Portions of that biography are excerpted here, including all quotations from Spence. Born in 1918, Spence was the son of the sheriff in Centerville, Tenn. Spence was 9 when his father was killed, ambushed by a group of moonshiners. Spence joined the Navy in 1936 and was sent to diving school. Assigned to the USS Idaho, he was primarily a gunner, but on occasion he'd be called on to dive, doing ship maintenance wearing a diving helmet tethered to an air source on deck. See Frogman /A5
"It was silent. The only sound was my own breathing. It made me feel kind of like Buck Rogers." — John Spence, recalling his experience as the first to test a new diving apparatus
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill Tuesday that would authorize the release of some of the unallocated water behind Bowman Dam. The legislation, introduced in July by Rep. Greg Walden, R-Hood River, would allow 5,100 acre-feet of unallocated water behind the dam to flow into the Crooked River, which would enable Prineville to seek permtss>on from the state to pump more groundwater for its own use. It also moves the Wild and Scenic River boundary line about a quarter-mile down the river, away from its current location in the center of Bowman Dam. The change would open the 240-foot-high dam to hydropower development, which could bring as many as 50 new construction jobs over two years, according to Walden. "This is a good, solid piece of legislation that solves a community problem and needs to move forward," Walden said Tuesday after the vote. The House passed an identical bill during the previous Congress, but similar legislation introduced by Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., languished in the Senate and never received a vote by the full chamber. This time, Walden hopes the Senate will develop and pass its own bill, and the two versions can be reconciled. "We're poised to work something out. I think this is a positive step forward," he said. See Bowman /A4
Troubled-youth ranches flourish with little regulation
employees work, flipping live birds upside down and shackling their legs. If the birds are not properly secured, they might elude the automated blade and remain alive when they enter the scalder. Over the past five years, an annual average of 825,000 chickens and 18,000 turkeys died this way, USDA public reports show, representing less than 1 percent of the total processed. See Poultry/A4
By Jeri Clausing The Associated Press
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. David Hall was afraid of his own son. They were getting into violent, physical fights requiring police interven-
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tion. Fearing the teen would end up in juvenile detention, Hall had his son hauled away in handcuffs and shackles to a southern New Mexico ranch for troubled youths.
He didn't see him again for 11 months, when police raided the Tierra Blanca ranch amid allegations of abuse. There are few options for parents like Hall, and in that vacuum, a relatively unregu-
lated, off-the-grid industry of reform youth camps has flourished,despite a decade
of high-profile cases alleging beatings and other abuse at some camps. Proponents of such pro-
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grams — which can cost upward of $100,000 a year — say they are an effective, last-ditch solution to save troubled youth from the criminal justice system. See Youth /A5
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