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Sheriff provides refuge for abused livestock By Erin Golden The Bulletin
Most of the animals that end up at the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office Livestock Rescue have been through a lot. There are horses so thin that their ribs and spine jut out, chickens that haven’t had enough to eat and a sheep with a bad leg injury from a dog attack. Though a few were picked up as strays, many were the
victims of abuse and neglect at the hands of owners who either didn’t know or didn’t care how to properly care for their animals. Since the Sheriff’s Office opened the facility in September 2009, it has housed 30 horses, several donkeys, chickens and goats, a pot-bellied pig, a sheep and a couple of ducks. The animals are nursed back to health, protected as evidence in ongoing criminal cases, and eventually put
up for adoption. It’s an effort that has helped ease the demands on other private rescue operations that have seen a significant uptick in the number of people unable to care for their horses. And according to Sheriff’s Office officials, it’s an important part of a renewed effort from law enforcement to track, prevent and prosecute animal abuse and neglect cases in the county. See Refuge / A4
“If people realize that our laws actually have some teeth ... It’s been so huge, the sheriff’s department being willing to go out and confiscate (these) animals.” — Dr. Jennifer Cole, Tumalo-based veterinarian
Sunriver-area man charged with murder Grand jury alleges killing was meant to cover up rape, assault By Erin Golden The Bulletin
HUMAN GENOME
Reawakened gene is tied to form of muscular dystrophy
JELD-WEN TRADITION: Walking the course for a cause
By Gina Kolata New York Times News Service
Identifying a new disease mechanism, geneticists have found that the reawakening of a gene in a stretch of seemingly useless, or junk, DNA causes a common form of muscular dystrophy. It is almost certain, experts say, that other diseases will be found to have similar causes. The discovery also points the way, they say, toward new research on treatment of this disease. The human genome is riddled with so-called dead genes that have not been active for ages, part of a vast amount of the genome that has no known function. But this is the first time, geneticists say, that they have seen a dead gene come back to life and cause a disease. “If we were thinking of a collection of the genome’s greatest hits, this would go on the list,” said Dr. Francis Collins, a human geneticist and director of the National Institutes of Health.
Gene part of ‘junk DNA’ The disease, facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy, known as FSHD, was known to be inherited in a simple pattern. But before this research, reported online Thursday in Science by an international group of researchers, its cause was poorly understood. The culprit gene is part of what has been called junk DNA, regions whose function, if any, is largely unknown. In this case, the gene had seemed permanently disabled. But, said Collins, “the first law of the genome is that anything that can go wrong, will.” David Housman, a geneticist at MIT, said scientists would now be looking for other diseases with similar causes. “As soon as you understand something that was staring you in the face and leaving you clueless, the first thing you ask is, ‘Where else is this happening?’” Housman said. See Dead genes / A6
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D.J. Gregory, 32, walks the front nine at Crosswater Club on Thursday during the first round of the Jeld-Wen Tradition. Gregory, who has cerebral palsy, in 2008 walked 44 PGA Tour events in 45 weeks.
A grand jury indictment handed down Thursday against a Sunriver-area man asserts that he may have murdered 28-year-old Roberta “Bobbie” Jones to cover up a rape and assault. Michael Shawn Sain Sr., 30, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder, one count of murder, one count of first-degree abuse of a corpse and one count of felon in possession of a firearm. He appeared in Deschutes County Circuit Court on a video link from the jail for a short hear- Michael Sain ing attended by Jones’ family members and several detectives. Sain did not speak during the proceedings, and his court-appointed attorney, Geoff Gokey, did not ask for his client’s release from jail. Jones, a mother of two who lived south of Sunriver, not far from Sain, went missing on Aug. 4. The next day, police were called to a duplex on Northeast Dawson Drive in Bend, where they found evidence of foul play and began searching for Jones. Officials found a distinctive car associated with Jones — a green 1992 Infiniti Q45 with a missing hood — in the Fall River area, and on Aug. 7, a Mt. Bachelor security guard spotted Jones’ body near a spur road off U.S. Forest Service Road 45. An autopsy determined that Jones had been shot multiple times and suffered other injuries. Sain was arrested on Aug. 5 on unrelated charges — he had failed to show up to court on Aug. 4 to be sentenced for unauthorized use of a vehicle and violated his parole — and police began to consider him a person of interest, though they did not release his name. See Sain / A6
‘Best gig in the world’ French officials deport Gypsies amid crackdown
By Sheila G. Miller The Bulletin
SUNRIVER — Walk a mile in D.J. Gregory’s shoes. Better yet, 18 holes. If that still sounds too easy, try 3,256 holes. That’s the distance Gregory, 32, walked in 2008. It’s a lot for anyone. For Gregory, who suffers from cerebral palsy and walks with a cane, it’s downright difficult. And he loved every minute of it. On Thursday, Gregory was at the Jeld-Wen Tradition to do a little more walking, this time in support of professional golfer Olin Browne and for Gregory’s foundation, Walking for Kids. A self-described sports nut, Gregory started playing golf at age 9 using a self-taught, one-handed swing; he attended his first tour event when he was 12. “I just fell in love with the sport,” he said. The Savannah, Ga., resident made it a habit of walking the courses and following players he admired; in 2006 Gregory wondered what it would be like to walk every event. He approached the PGA Tour brass in 2007 with the idea, and they agreed to help him out. See D.J. Gregory / A4
“I didn’t do this journey for attention. I didn’t do it to be recognized. And I didn’t do it to inspire or motivate others. It was more for selfish reasons.” — D.J. Gregory, founder of Walking for Kids
By Steven Erlanger New York Times News Service
LA COURNEUVE, France — About 100 French riot police officers swooped down on an encampment of gypsies, also known as Roma, here at 7 a.m. Thursday, taking names and filling out expulsion orders. Fully padded, but without helmets, the officers were aggressive but polite, accompanied by a Romanian policeman and three interpreters. Mihai Lingurar, 37, and his wife, Rada-Soma Rostach, were ordered to leave France within a month for overstaying their three-month allowance as Romanian citizens and being unable to prove that they had full-time work. Their fourth child, however, Marc, 5 months old, is in intensive care at a hospital here, on the northeastern edge of Paris. Marc weighs about 8 pounds and has been in and out of a coma.
D.J. Gregory encourages professional golfer Olin Browne at the Jeld-Wen Tradition. Gregory walked nine holes with Browne, who on Thursday was playing for Gregory’s charity.
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Appeal to Doctors of the World The police were not interested in hearing about Marc this morning, Lingurar said through an interpreter. But he will get help to challenge the family’s expulsion, citing medical grounds, from Doctors of the World, said Livia Otal, 29, a Romanian who works with the Roma for the nonprofit organization. The Lingurar family, along with many of the Roma — they dislike the name Gypsies — have been caught up in a major push by the government of President Nicolas Sarkozy to crack down on crime and illegal immigration. See Roma / A6
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