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Pilot killed as glider hits building at Bend airport By Kate Ramsayer The Bulletin
A motorized glider crashed into the side of the old Cessna building at the Bend Municipal Airport on Sunday morning, killing pilot Miroslav Liska, 64, of Somis, Calif. At about 10 a.m., Liska’s HoacAustria Super Dimona powered glider crashed, under unknown circumstances, said Allen Kenitzer, Federal Aviation Adminis-
tration spokesman. Liska had registered the glider with the FAA in 2001, according to FAA records, which stated that the aircraft was manufactured in 1993. Gary Judd, manager of the Bend airport, said Liska was “a very nice gentleman,” and said that he didn’t know what could have gone wrong to cause the crash. See Glider / A5
Body found near Bachelor Remains are believed to be those of missing Bend woman By Kate Ramsayer The Bulletin
Roberta Marie Jones was last seen on Wednesday at a Bend apartment.
An autopsy is scheduled for today on the body believed to be Bend woman Roberta Marie Jones. A Mt. Bachelor security guard found the body off a small Forest Service Road southwest of Bend on Saturday evening. The guard found the body near Spur Road 816, off of Forest Road 45, at about 7:30 p.m., according to a news
release from the Bend Police Department. Detectives from the city of Bend and Deschutes County responded to the scene, according to the release. The detectives returned Sunday and gathered evidence from the scene with the help of personnel from the FBI’s crime lab. The autopsy should lead to a positive identification and a cause of death, according to the police department. The investigation into the case is ongoing.
HAULIN’ ASPEN FULL AND HALF TRAIL MARATHON
Gale-force outrage is gone, but voters are still angry
No ID required for ‘Evers’ to get married while in jail
Virginia district illustrates the challenges many Democrats are facing
OLCC agent’s real name is Doitchin Krasev, but he doesn’t have to prove it in order to wed
By Karen Tumulty The Washington Post
CHARLOTTE COURT HOUSE, Va. — The crowds that have been showing up for Democratic Rep. Tom Perriello’s town halls have been smaller and more polite than the angry throngs he saw during last August’s raucous congressional recess. Catcalls about socialism and death panels have given way to substantive Related and pointed • Colorado questions races may — about the help gauge intricacies of depths the new health of voters’ care law and discontent, financial regulations, finding Page A3 alternative energy sources, and that most perennial of Virginia problems, traffic. Most of all, people want to talk about the economy. Virginia’s largely rural 5th Congressional District, first represented in Congress by James Madison, is a good place to see what Democrats across the country are up against in 2010. In this district where unemployment is running in the double digits, “what you’re seeing is a deeper anxiety,” Perriello said Thursday after his second town hall in two days. “(Voters are asking,) ‘Can I just get through this quarter, and this month, and pay my bills? Can we ever get back’” to where things used to be? See Voters / A4
“What you’re seeing is a deeper anxiety. (Voters are asking,) ‘Can I just get through this quarter, and this month, and pay my bills?’” — Rep. Tom Perriello, a Democrat from Virginia
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Jones, 28, was last seen on Wednesday at a northeast Bend apartment. Thursday morning, police officers had responded to the apartment on Northeast Dawson Road, where they found evidence of foul play, according to police. Police have not described what that evidence was. Officers accounted for other people associated with the apartment, but could not find Jones. See Body / A4
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Getting a running start R
unners fill the street shortly after starting the Haulin’ Aspen Marathon early Sunday morning at Miller Elementary School in Bend. Nearly 600 runners and walkers took part in
the sixth annual marathon and half-marathon races, which this year included a 7-mile run for the first time. The course followed mostly single-track dirt trails to the finish at Shevlin Park. For more on the Haulin’ Aspen races, including results, see Sports, Page D1.
China spares no expense in transformation of city
A “stick man” carries a load in Chongqing, China, last month. The Chinese government has started remolding Chongqing into a gateway to the Chinese interior.
Chongqing shows new approach to urban development By Tom Lasseter McClatchy-Tribune News Service
CHONGQING, China — Some 900 miles from Beijing, a mega-city is rising from the banks of the mud-brown Yangtze River. Long a grimy industrial center notorious for its criminal underworld, Chongqing is to become a glittering gateway to the country’s interior. It’s a grand scheme carried out by a cash-rich authoritarian government. Want a centerpiece for tourist brochures? A $230 million opera house
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was erected down by the river, a bauble among the skyscrapers. Is there a problem with criminal gangs and police corruption? Put the top judicial official on trial and, as happened last month, execute him. Chongqing is a case study in urban development at the frenetic Chinese pace: Take a corner of the country that’s little known to most outsiders, install an ambitious governor and throw in mind-boggling amounts of state cash. See China / A4
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If Doitchin Krasev, the former Oregon Liquor Control Commission inspector known as Jason Evers, gets married in a Multnomah County jail, there will be no ring, no wedding party and no identification required to prove the groom’s name. State law does not require couples to present identification to Doitchin obtain a mar- Krasev is riage license, accused of even though stealing the many county re- identity of cording offices a murdered ask for driver’s Ohio boy licenses or other named Jason forms of identi- Evers. fication to minimize errors. Marriage will not bring any visitation benefits for Krasev while he is lodged at a Multnomah County jail, a chaplain said. It’s unclear whether the union will affect the Bulgarian’s legal case or plea negotiations between his defense lawyers and federal prosecutors. Krasev allegedly assumed the identity of a murdered Ohio boy named Jason Evers and lived illegally in the U.S. for 16 years, until he was arrested more than three months ago in Idaho by the U.S. State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service. Now, he faces a federal charge of providing false information on a passport application and, if convicted, could face a maximum 10year prison sentence, a $250,000 fine and deportation. Krasev’s attorney filed a request in late July for Krasev to be allowed to be married at the Multnomah County jail. Federal prosecutors did not oppose the motion to allow the marriage. See ‘Evers’ / A5
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