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Injured cyclist improves as details emerge on crash By Erin Golden 20
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Police are investigating a crash that landed a cyclist in the hospital Wednesday afternoon. They believe the driver of a Dodge Durango was headed north on Century Drive near its intersection with Southwest Mammoth Drive when he swerved and ended up to the right of three cyclists riding in the bike lane.
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The condition of a cyclist who was injured on Wednesday when she was hit by a vehicle on Century Drive was upgraded from critical to serious on Thursday, as police tried to piece together exactly what led up to the crash. Shelli Zulauf, 40, of Bend, was riding her bicycle north on Century Drive near the intersection with Southwest Mammoth Drive when she was hit by the driver’s side of a Dodge Durango that had veered off the road and into the dirt to the right of the bike lane. The driver, 75-year-old Kirk Bashore, of Bend, then swerved back across both lanes of traffic. See Cyclist / A4
Police investigating bicycle accident
1 Kirk Bashore, 75, of Bend, is driving his Dodge Durango north toward Bend. He passes one bicycle that is five bicycle lengths behind Shelli Zulauf, 40, of Bend.
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2 Bashore later told police that it looked like one of the cyclists was drifting into the road, so he swerved to avoid her.
3 Zulauf is critically injured after being struck by the driver’s side of the Durango, which had drifted into the bike lane.
4 The Durango continues on the shoulder of the road for about 75 yards.
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Front bicyclist is 10 bicycle lengths ahead of Zulauf.
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5 It then crosses both lanes of Century Drive, crashes into the embankment and rolls over.
Ex-OLCC agent who allegedly stole boy’s identity may face deportation
Federal funds to bring broadband to more local businesses and a computer center to Crook County
By Nick Budnick The Bulletin
PORTLAND — For the second time in a month, the arraignment of a former Oregon Liquor Control Commission inspector who allegedly stole the identity of a murdered boy has been postponed to allow both sides in the case to agree on a sentence. Doitchin Krasev, a Bulgarian national who went by the name Jason Evers while becoming a controversial figure in Bend, faces a federal charge of making false statements on a passport application. He had been schedDoitchin uled to appear in federal court on Krasev was Thursday. known as But on Wednesday, federal Jason Evers Magistrate Judge Donald Ashwhen he worked as an manskas approved a motion made by Assistant U.S. Attorney OLCC agent Stacie Beckerman to delay the in Bend. hearing to Sept. 9. In her motion, Beckerman wrote that “the additional 60 days may provide the parties with an opportunity to resolve the case.” Beckerman, who was on vacation, could not be reached, and her supervisor, Bill Williams, declined to comment. Krasev’s federal defender, Susan Russell, did not respond to a request for comment. See ‘Evers’ / A6
By Keith Chu The Bulletin
WASHINGTON — Central Oregon will receive $8.3 million to bring broadband to more local businesses and provide high-tech services through two federal grants, the White House is expected to announce this morning. BendBroadband will receive $4.4 million to build fiber-optic connections to business parks in Crook and Jefferson counties, and Crook County will receive $3.9 million to build a new computer training center. Local officials said the grants — part of about $800 million in federal broadband funding announced this morning — would help strengthen the region’s economy by making businesses more competitive and preparing workers for the new energy and tech jobs that could make up the future of Central Oregon’s economy. Crook County will partner with Central Oregon Community College and the Oregon State University Extension Office to build and operate a computer training center at the Crook County Fairgrounds in Prineville, said County Judge Mike McCabe. “Our prayers have been answered,” McCabe said, when told that the county would receive the $3.9 million grant. See Grants / A6
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Health effects of Exxon Valdez spill were never studied By Kyle Hopkins McClatchy-Tribune News Service
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — You’d think that more than 20 years after the Exxon Valdez oil spill, scientists would know what, if any, long-term Inside • Gulf cleanup health dangers face the thousands of workers needed to clean efforts still up the Gulf of Mexico spill. hampered You’d be wrong. by storm, “We don’t know a damn thing,” Page A6 said Anchorage lawyer Michael Schneider, whose firm talked with dozens of Alaska cleanup workers following the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill in preparation for a class-action lawsuit that never came. See Spill / A6
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LARNACA, Cyprus — In retrospect, it might not have been such a great idea for a district judge in this porous island-state to grant bail to an alleged Russian spymaster adept at slipping across borders, stashing huge amounts of cash and running sleeper agents in the United States. With enough cash and connections, locals say, there are hundreds of ways in and out of Cyprus. The man who went by the name of Robert Christopher Metsos may well have found one of them. See Spies / A3
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