This is KGW News at noon,
and Miss Taylor, is Mr.
Coburger prepared to
plead to these charges?
Your Honor, we will be
standing silent because Mr.
Coburger is standing silent.
I'm going to enter not
guilty pleas on each charge.
Brian Coburger, the man accused
of fatally stabbing for Universy
of Idaho students last fall,
has pleaded not guilty to the
murder charges against him.
Thanks for joining us.
I'm Christine Pitawanitch.
Coburger's hearing lasted
about 15 minutes in Moscow.
ID in a courtroom there.
And as you just saw,
Coburger chose to remain silent
when it came time to enter a pl,
which by law requires the judgeo
enter a not guilty plea for him.
A grand jury indicted Coburger last week.
After determining there was
enough evidence to file charges,
the judge explained the four counts of
firstdegree murder and burglary in Idaho.
A firstdegree murder conviction
carries a maximum sentence of le
in prison or the death penalty.
Prosecutors now have 60 days to
decide whether they will seek
the death penalty for Coburger.
The judge set a tentative trial
date for October 2nd,
now to the Oregon coast,
where police believe they found the body.
Of the Beaverton High School senior who
was presumed drowned near Cannon Beach,
the body washed up at Tollevana
Park yesterday morning.
Crews had been searching for 18r
old Jacob Stokes for nearly ten days.
A little over a week ago,
he and a group of three friends
were waiting in shallow water wn
they were knocked down by a wave
and got caught up in a riptide.
A Cannon Beach Fire spokesperson said.
Two of them got out on their ow.
Firefighters rescued 1/3.
Stokes was a senior at Mountaine
High School in Beaverton and a member
of the cross country and track teams.
He was set to go to Oregon State
in the fall and officials are
just now waiting for the medical
examiner to make an official ID.
And in Cowlitz County,
first responders rescued a man
who was missing for five days.
Yesterday morning,
someone called 911 and said they
saw tire tracks going off the
road and also saw a small green
truck at the bottom of a hill.
Sheriff's deputies confirmed the
truck matched the description oe
one belonging to the man who was
reported missing earlier in the week.
Firefighters hiked through waist
deep brush expecting the worst,
but they found the 56 year
old driver still alive and
we hauled the patient up in in a
Stokes basket and supported with
a a rope system to get all that.
You know there was a.
About 19 responders total on the
scene to to make this happen and
get the the gentleman up the hi.
Officials say the man was severy
ill and unable to communicate.
He was flown to a nearby hospital and we're
still waiting for an update on his condition.
And we're hearing from a man who says a group
of teenage skateboarders attacked him at
Esther Short Park in Vancouver last week.
A park volunteer was trying to stop the teens
from skateboarding on the park's gazebo.
Darrell Bullock says he was theo
check in on his homeless friend,
but decided to jump in to help when things
escalated between the teens and the park.
Volunteer Bullock says things
got physical pretty quick,
and he wound up using his martil
arts training to protect himsel.
I've got 7 staples in the back of my head in
my arm. I can't straighten my arm out. My
arm was swollen out like
this from two different
hits with the skateboard.
Still, he says he would jump in again
if he had to a GoFundMe was set
up to help with his medical bil.
He says he'll donate any money t
exceeds the Gofundmes 10,000 dollar goal.
Vancouver police, meantime,
are still investigating and
have not made any arrests.
Absent Bonham, Boquist, Finley,
Hansel, Hayden, Kanope, Linthic,
Robinson, Thatcher, Weber,
eighteen eyes, the call is remo.
Colleagues, the quorum is not present,
so that is a familiar phrase in Salem.
As the GOP Senate walkout reaches 14 days,
Republicans seek to block Democc
bills on abortion, gender affir,
healthcare and gun safety.
Hundreds of other bills,
including the biennial state bu,
are also being held up.
10 senators have already accrued 10 absences,
which means they're disqualified
from reelection, according to a
state law voters passed last ye.
The senators have vowed to
challenge that law in court.
OK, to our weather now,
something a lot of people have
been talking about because it's
much cooler than last week.
Much cooler. You know,
it was only 66 yesterday, and we're still.
Christine, in that same batch
of cooler air today, we are dry.
Radar has been picking up some
traceable amounts of moisture up north,
including up around Cowlitz and Clark County,
but nothing on the South
side of the Columbia River.
Meeting here in Oregon.
You can see on the satellite picture the
low clouds really have not been much.
Here's Snook Winds Casino
Resort in Lincoln City,
where it's 60 degrees right now.
Little bit of clearing
poking through the clouds,
but this is all the way out in Wasco County.
The Oregon Veterans Home.
Camry in the Dallas, so 59 degrees there.
Downtown Portland.
Clouds having buds to where it'.
Again, yesterday was 66.
I expect we'll get some partial
clearing and scattered locations
much like we had yesterday.
That would put us up to 67 and
4:00 PM Sixty 3:00 and 8:00,
o'clock there's the chance
for a trace of rain again,
radar showing we have a little
bit of moisture up in parts
of Clark and Cowlitz counties.
Otherwise we'll stay dry this afternoon.
The forecast starts to warm us
back up on Wednesday and we'll
have that seven day into the
holiday weekend coming out.
OK, thank you so much, Rod.
The city of Gresham says its budget is
$8,000,000 in the red and now it may be
looking at layoffs after voters narrowly
rejected a public service levy last week.
The five year operating levy would have
paid for 26 additional police officers
and 16 firefighters by raising property
taxes an average of $28.00 a mo.
Gresham's police chief says the
city now faces some tough decis.
I think it's going to be more
about having discussions about
how we adjust our services.
So I'm confident that our curret
staff will not be laid off.
But I do know that I and recogne
that we're going to have to have some
tough conversations about the wn
which we serve our community and what
what services we can really pro.
So this is the third time Greshm
has proposed a public safety
measure in the last 15 years.
Voters rejected the one in
2008 and again in 2014.
The City Council will meet on
June 6th to discuss what's next.
And a heads up if you ride
public transportation,
Trimed wants to hear from you at
its proposal to raise fares next year.
If approved,
2 1/2 hour fares for adults
would go up $0.30 and $0.15 for
youth and honored citizens.
So a public forum is scheduled.
It's going to be from 9:00 to 10
on Wednesday at the University f
Oregon's Portland campus in Old Town.
Afterward, the TriMet board will
take a vote on the increases.
You can testify in person,
virtually or in writing,
but you have to sign up in adva.
You can do that at trimet.org
and take a look at this. There e
been multiple bear sightings in
and around Portland's Forest Pa.
That includes. This one caught
on video and now two different
joggers are telling us about thr
close calls as our David Mulko
found Oregon wildlife officials
say while it's not unheard of,
it's certainly unusual.
Bro. BlackBerry in Forest Park sauntering
across 53rd Dr. sometime last week amidst
the ferns and fir trees. That's crazy.
I can't even believe this.
Oh my God, I'm up here all the
time with the dogs. That was my
bear. I recognized him. Yeah,
that was his gate. That was his size,
Kristen Shaw says. She was trail
running Thursday evening this wk
when she nearly ran into the exact same bear.
I stopped and I stood a bit wide and.
He considered me. I considered ,
but he didn't charge.
So then I calmed down. And
State Fish and Wildlife officias
say they've had at least four rt
black bear sightings in the are,
including along Skyline outside the park.
If it's the same bear, which it probably is,
but it's gotten into some unsecured garbage,
it's gotten into some beehives,
I put my arms out and wide, I said bear,
get away exactly what you're
supposed to do, say the experts.
Signs like this are now going u,
reminding folks not to run,
to avoid eye contact, to appear large,
as shotted and make a lot of no.
And he heard me and he didn't wt
anything to do with the situation either.
I think we reacted similarly toh
other and he took off at a nice pace.
I can't even believe this as log
as you give them a wide berth a.
It's not a, you know, mother wih
Cubs they they usually take off.
They want to get away from you.
This one doesn't seem to be a mm
but we don't really know exactlw
many bears there are in the par.
That is, you always
have to respect nature and and these are
wild animals because this they y
bro, black bear in Forest Park is most
unusual. I can't even believe this. I
can't.