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Flaherty probe heads to disciplinary office unit only when an initial investigation finds enough evidence to support a “reasonable belief” that misconduct may have occurred. An attorney in the bar Disciplinary Counsel’s Office will now analyze the case to identify any unanswered ethical issues and will correspond with Flaherty until the bar has enough information to dismiss the complaint or move on to the next step, wrote Kateri Walsh, the bar’s community relations admin-
By Hillary Borrud The Bulletin
The Oregon State Bar has found enough evidence of possible misconduct by Deschutes County District Attorney Patrick Flaherty to refer the matter to its disciplinary office for further investigation. The bar notified Flaherty of its decision May 18. Under Oregon State Bar rules, complaints are referred to the disciplinary
istrator, in an e-mail Tuesday. Meanwhile, Flaherty has questioned why the bar has made the investigation file available to the public, since it is based on an anonymous complaint. The district attorney also denied that he discouraged a county attorney from cooperating with the bar’s investigation. Flaherty did not return calls for comment Tuesday. See Flaherty / A4
Deschutes District Attorney Patrick Flaherty’s use of a grand jury is under investigation.
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Jewelry thefts appear linked Friday’s heist at Saxon’s in Bend similar to a crime in Grants Pass By Scott Hammers The Bulletin
Bend police are exploring the possibility that a recent jewelry theft may be related to a similar crime four months ago in Grants Pass. Detective Heather Yerrick of the Grants Pass Department of Public Safety said Tuesday that the Bend Police Department had contacted her department to compare a January theft from a Grants Pass jeweler with Friday’s theft from Saxon’s Fine Jewelers in Bend. On Jan. 17, in Grants Pass, a man inspecting diamonds provided by an employee of Hart’s Jewelers took the stones — valued at an estimated $296,000 — and ran from the store, getting into a van driven by a second man about a block away. The van was found about a half-mile away. Friday, a man dashed from the Saxon’s in the Old Mill District to a van driven by a second man, carrying an assortment of jewelry a store employee had shown him to examine. The van was ditched a few blocks away, and the two men escaped on foot. Bend Police have not disclosed the value of the jewelry taken from Saxon’s. Detectives from the Bend Police Department did not return calls for comment Tuesday. See Jewelry / A5
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Brad Baird, owner of Baird Funeral Home and Crematory, places a set of cremains in the common grave at La Pine Cemetery on Tuesday.
At long last, resting in peace By Leon Pantenburg For The Bulletin
LA PINE — A crowd of about 20 gathered at the La Pine Cemetery on Tuesday for the burial of five people no one present knew. The containers of cremains found a final resting place after years of storage. The ashes of Ruth Mentzer (19401999), Kathleen McIntyre (1944-1998), Danile Hansen (1953-2006), Steven White (1949-2007) and Robert Stricklen (1957-1999) were buried after a service conducted by Pastor Norman Soyster of La Pine Christian Center. The remains had been abandoned, said Hugh Gobler
of the La Pine Genealogy Society, and the organization decided to take the lead in getting them buried. The project was inspired after an Associated Press story in 2005, which mentioned that 3,489 cremains were stored in a room at the Oregon State Mental Hospital. The remains were unclaimed by families who had long abandoned their sick relatives. “We talked about getting involved in that situation if we could and found out that there were abandoned remains in La Pine,” Gobler said. “It seemed like the proper thing to do was to inter them.” See Cremains / A4
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SAN DIEGO — Life after the military is looking brighter than ever for America’s four-legged veterans since one of their own helped in the mission to kill Osama bin Laden. War dog organizations say the number of people asking about adopting retired military canines has risen dramatically since the mission involving Cairo, the Navy SEALs dog tasked with tracking anyone who tried to escape from bin Laden’s compound and alerting the special operations forces to anyone approaching. While about 300 retired U.S. military dogs are put up for adoption each year, military officials say they’ve received more than 400 adoption applications since the May 2 raid. In the past, most military
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Heidi Ackerson sits in the street with one of her dogs on Tuesday in Joplin, Mo. Ackerson and her husband hid in a closet during the tornado that tore apart their home on Sunday.
Researchers see pattern in rise of deadly twisters By Brian Vastag and Ed O’Keefe The Washington Post
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“We’re really excited about doing this. It’s a happy thing. We’d rather see these remains properly buried than sitting on a shelf in the back.”
Chyba, a 12-year-old former military dog who served in Iraq with the Army, was adopted last year. Gregory Bull The Associated Press
dogs were euthanized once their tours were done. “They made a really big deal about Cairo being a super dog but all dogs in the military are super dogs,” said Ron Aiello, president of the U.S. War Dogs Association. See Dogs / A4
The extraordinary Joplin twister — the single deadliest tornado since officials began keeping records in 1950 — was a rare destructive phenomenon known as a “multivortex,” hiding two or more cyclones within the wider Inside wind funnel. Sunday’s storm smashed • A grim search for the missing, the southwest Missouri city’s hospital, left nothing but splinPage A5 tered trees where neighbor- • Tornadoes hit hoods once stood, and killed Oklahoma, at least 122, with the death toll Texas, Kansas, expected to rise. The storm Page A5 injured another 500 and damaged or destroyed at least 2,000 buildings. Added to the record 875 tornadoes that tore across the country in April, this latest disaster has experts asking why 2011 has spawned so many deadly storms. While researchers suss out the causes for this year’s record-breaking season, one thing is certain: Unusually big twisters are blasting through heavily populated areas. See Tornadoes / A5