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November 16, 2015
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World, 5A BRUSSELS — Once a happy-go-lucky student at one of Brussels' most prestigious high schools, Saint-Pierre d'Uccle, Abdelhamid Abaaoud morphed into Belgium's most notorious jihadi, a zealot so devoted to the cause of holy war that he recruited his 13-year-old brother to join him in Syria. The child of Moroccan immigrants who grew up in the Belgian capital's scruffy and multiethnic Molenbeek-SaintJean neighborhood, the fugitive, in his late 20s, was identified by French authorities on Monday as the presumed mastermind of the attacks last Friday in Paris that killed 129 people and injured hundreds.
• Baker City Police not alone in having to replace its canine oficer
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Gage Bingham with his mom, Stacy.
Oregon, 5A A study co-funded by the Oregon Department ofTransportation and the Alaska University Transportation Center has shown that Oregon's primary road de-icing chemical can weaken bridges in a way traditional visual bridge inspections can't detect and potentially set them up for shorter life spans. And the study's lead researcher estimates the effects of years of de-icing with magnesium chloride could be apparent soon.
• Gage Bingham, 7, underwent surgery today to install mechanical heart support as he awaits a transplant, the same proceduretwo ofhisolder sisters have undergone
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Turkey shoot set for Sunday The Powder River Sportmen's Club's annualTurkey Shoot is set for Sunday, Nov. 22, from 9 a.m. until dark at the Club's Virtue Flat range north of Highway 86 about half a mile east of the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center. Cost is $3 per entry, and prizes are cash payback. Events include a 50-yard chicken silhouette (for handguns), lucky .22 shoot, 200-yard turkey head shot, and at 2:30 p.m., a running deer competition (100 yards for ironsighted rifles, 200 yards for scoped rifles). You don't need to be a club member to compete. More information is available by calling Wayne Bloom at 541519-4000.
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Baker City Police Department officer Coleton Smith handles one of the few drug-detecting dogs in Oregon that does not alert to marijuana.
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questions about the legality of the search in court if the dog is Marijuana-sni5ng police dogs trainedto alerttothepresence are no longer needed in Oregon. of marijuana. Also, the dog's When recreational marijuana handler would not know if it is became legal July 1, some drug- alerting on legal marijuana or detecting dogs — including Tur- illegal narcotics. Baker City Police Chief Wyn bo, who worked for the Baker City Police — were retired. Lohner said that as far as he The dogs' ability to sniff out knows, Baker City is the only marijuana is an obsolete skill. department in Eastern Oregon "July 1 hurt the dog programs that has a drug detection canine that is not trained to alert on acrossthe state,"said Baker City Police Sgt. Wayne Chasmarijuana. tain, who was Turbo's original Capa,a 21-month-old Gerhandler. man shepherd and Belgian The issue is a legal one. Malinois cross, started working In a search situation that earlier this week with offtcer leadsto thediscoveryofnarcot- Coleton Smith. ics, where legal marijuana is Capa is not trained to alert to the presence of marijuana. presentasw ell,therecould be ldillen©bakercityherald.com
Oregon State Police iOSP) utilizeseightdrug-detecting dogs and is bringing in new canines that don't alert to marijuana, saidOSP Canine Program Coordinator Sgt. Clay Core. OSP has a drug-detecting dog in Ontario, but it's also trained to detect marijuana. In an email to the Herald, Core said OSP offtcials anticipated the passage of Measure 91. awe took a proactive approach and began purchasing dogs that do not respond to theodorof marijuana in the fall of 2014," Core wrote. SeeDogs/Page 8A
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Gage Bingham is undergoing surgery today to install mechanical heart support, which will help his heart function until he gets a transplant. Gage, 7, is the third child of Jason and Stacy Bingham of North Powder to face a heart transplant. Their oldest daughter, Sierra, has had two — 2006 and 2015; Lindsey, their third oldest, had a transplant in 2012. The three children were diagnosed with a condition called dilated cardiomyopathy. The Binghams' two other children, Megan and Hunter, have not been diagnosed with that condition. Gage is at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital in Palo Alto, Calif.— the same place where his sisters received their hearts. While they wait, the family lives at the nearby Ronald McDonald House. The Binghams are keeping everyone updated through their blog: http//jasonandstacybingham.blogspot.com/. Another website, www.heartsforbinghams.org, posts updates and has a link for donations to help the Binghams. Their story has been featured on NBC's Dateline 4ttp://www.nbcnews.com/video/ dateline/52114628).
Issue 82, 18 pages
A Baker City man died in a single vehicle crash Saturday evening on Highway 7 just south of Baker City. Kenneth Ammons Jr., 69, was driving south near Milepost 48, about two miles from the city limits near Beaver Creek
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Loop Road, when his 2005 Toyota Camry veered off the highway and rolled several times, according to Oregon State Police. Ammons was taken by ambulance to St. Alphonsus Medical Center-Baker City, where he was pronounced dead.
Oregon State Police are investigating the cause of the crash. It was the second fatal crash on Highway 7 in three days. See Crash/Page 3A
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