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December 24. 2003
Gore Son
Arrested
for
Marijuana
Early
Christmas
for Local
Kids
( AP) — The son o f former vice
president and 2000 D em ocratic
presidential candidate Al Gore has
been charged with marijuana pos
session.
Albert A. Gore III. 21. was ar
rested Friday night after he was
stopped for driving a vehicle with
out its headlights on.
Tw o passengers were also ar
rested and charged with m isde
meanor marijuana possession.
A M ontgomery County, Md.,
police officer noticed the car’s win
dows and sunroof were open, de
spite cold tem peratures. There was
also a smell of m arijuana coming
from the vehicle, police said.
A search of the vehicle turned
up a partial marijuana cigarette, a
cigarette box containing suspected
marijuana, and a soft drink can that
also smelled of marijuana.
In Septem ber 2(X)2, the younger
Gore was ticketed for driving under
the influence. In the summer o f2000,
he was cited by the North Carolina
Highway Patrol for driving 97 mph
in a 55-mph zone.
Jon Mathis o f Hasson Com
pany Realtors, David Yandell
from Radio Cab, Mark Dybvig
o f Swift Couriers celebrate
the holidays with Boise-Eliot
Elementary School students
Angela Williams, Whitney
Hall, Nancy Reyes, Shaniece
Holh and School Principal
James Brannon. Yandell and
his fleet o f Radio Cab drivers
brought 100 students at the
north Portland school bicycles
and helmets during a school
assembly last Wednesday.
photo by
M ark W ashington /
T he P ortland O bserver
A Secret No More
Daughter of senator framed by race issues steps forward
(AP) — The 78-year-old
daughterofthelateSen. Strom
Thurmond and a black maid
said that now that she has
come forward to disclose her
heritage, “at last I feel com
pletely free.”
"There are many stories like
Sally Hemings’ and mine,” said
Essie Mae W ashington-W ill
iam s. referring to T hom as
Jefferson's relationship with
one o f his black slaves.
“The unfortunate measure
is that not everyone knows
about these stories that helped
to make America what it is
today,” W illiams said.
W illiams announced she is
the illegitimate daughter of
Thurmond, a former segrega
tionist, and a black teenage
maid in his family home. Carrie
Butler.
Thurmond was 22 and But-
lerw as 16when Williams was
bom in Aiken, S.C., in 1925.
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Open minds. Open doors.
Essie Mae Washington-Williams
comes forward to disclose she is the
78-year-old daughter of the late Sen.
Strom Thurmond and a black maid
who worked in his South Carolina
family home. (AP photo)
She was raised in Pennsylva
nia by an aunt and uncle, see
ing her mother sporadically
and not meeting Thurmond
until she was 16.
A fter T hurm ond died in
June at age 1 (X), W illiams said
she began to think about end
ing “all the speculation and
questions" about the long-ru
mored relationship. She said
she did not come forward ear
lier because she didn’t want to
jeopardize Thurm ond’s politi
cal career.
“I am not bitter. I am not
angry,” she said during a news
conferencejust blocks the State
house where a monument of
Thurmond sits. "In fact, there is
a great sense of peace that has
come over me in the past year.
“I feel as though a great
weight has been lifted. I am
Essie Mae W ashington-W ill
iams, and at last I feel com
pletely free.”
Cabbie Killer Sentenced
Free H IV Testing
in NE Portland
(A P) — A man convicted o f w as robbery.
aggravated m urder in the death
B arr, a rre ste d in a P o rtla n d
o f a Portland taxicab d river has b ar d ay s a fte r the c rim e , a d m it
been sentenced to life in prison ted in M u ltn o m ah C o u n ty C ir
w ithout the possibility o f parole. c u it C o u rt on M onday th a t he
Stephen W. Barr, 63, pleaded to o k the tax i to h is w o rk p la c e ,
g u ilty to k il li n g G r ig o r y th en w ent in sid e and re trie v e d
R ogozhnikov, 33, avoiding the a han d g u n w ith the in te n tio n o f
death penalty.
sh o o tin g the d riv e r, w hom he
Barr killed R ogozhnikov early h a d n 't paid .
Feb. 16, ju st hours after he had
A fter dum ping the v ic tim ’s
been cited for drunken driving by body behind an electrical trans
Portland police and had his car form er box in front o f the bu si
tow ed. Police think the m otive ness, B arr took o ff in the cab.
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(Enter in rear door near Emerson, go to 2nd floor)
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For more information on H IV and testing
Call the Oregon AIDS Hotline 1 -8 0 0 -7 7 7 -AIDS
Multnomah County Health Department
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