THE MARINERS BEAT THE RANGERS 6-3 YESTERDAY IN EXHIBITION BASEBALL. CLIFF LEE GOT THE WIN--GOING THREE INNINGS--GIVING UP A RUN ON FIVE HITS.

AUTHORITIES SAY AN ANGLER DISCOVERED THE BODY OF A "NEAR FULL-TERM BABY" ALONG A DIRT ROAD JUST SOUTH OF MINAM STATE PARK. SHERIFF FRED STEEN OF WALLOWA COUNTY SAYS FOUL PLAY IS SUSPECTED AND PERSONS OF INTEREST ARE BEING INTERVIEWED. THE STATE MEDICAL EXAMINER IN PORTLAND WILL CONDUCT AN AUTOPSY. FISHERMEN IN THE AREA WERE INTERVIEWED FOLLOWING THE MONDAY AFTERNOON DISCOVERY. NO ONE IS IN CUSTODY AT THIS TIME.

COMMISSIONER LARRY GIVENS WILL HAVE SOME COMPETITION FOR POSITION 2 ON THE UMATILLA COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS. LIEUTENANT GLENN DIEHL OF THE UMATILLA COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE HAS ANNOUNCED HIS CANDIDACY FOR THAT POSITION. DIEHL SAYS WE HAVE TO GET BACK TO THE FUNDAMENTALS OF COUNTY GOVERNMENT. HIS SAYS ANOTHER KEY ISSUE IS THE COUNTY BUDGET. THE 50-YEAR-OLD DIEHL HAS BEEN WITH THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE FOR 22 YEARS.

THE PENDLETON SCHOOL DISTRICT CONTINUES TO SEE A DECLINE IN ENROLLMENT NUMBERS. SUPERINTENDENT JON PETERSON TELLS KUMA NEWS THEY ARE DOWN 15 STUDENTS FROM MARCH OF LAST YEAR. THE BUMP IS CURRENTLY AT THE MIDDLE SCHOOL, WHERE THEY ARE UP 20 STUDENTS FROM MARCH OF 2009. PETERSON SAYS IT IS COSTING THE DISTRICT MONEY. BY COMPARISON, HERMISTON IS UP 134 STUDENTS IN LAST WEEK’S STATE-WIDE REPORT.

PENDLETON POLICE HAVE BEEN KEEPING A THUMB ON GANG ACTIVITY IN THE AREA. POLICE CHIEF STUART ROBERTS SAYS HIS OFFICERS HAVE DONE AN EXCELLENT JOB OF MONITORING SUPSICIOUS ACTIVITY. ROBERTS SAYS THE RECENT TRESSPASS PROGRAM THEY IMPELEMETED TWO YEARS AGO HAS ALSO BEEN VERY BENIFICAL.