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Teen Arrested in
Benson Shooting
Abortion Again Before Court
Bush justices
Charged with attempted murder may change
outcome
A team o f tactical police
u n its e x e c u te d search w ar­
rants at tw o northeast Port­
land hom es Friday m orning,
arresting 17-year-old D ennis
Ray W ilson in connection with
last m o n th ’s sh o o tin g n ear
B enson H igh S chool.
T h e p re -d a w n ra id s o c ­
cu rred at 1905 N.E. Ju n io r St.
and 634 N .E . C hurch St. W il­
so n w a s c h a rg e d w ith a t­
tem p ted m urder, assault and
unlaw ful use o f a w eapon.
D etectives believe the Jan.
24 shooting w as gang related.
T w o w om en leaving a bask et­
ball gam e at the school, driv-
ing northbound on N ortheast
12th A venue, w ere not the in­
tended targets, police said.
D river 2 3 -year-old Ebony
W o o d s an d p a s s e n g e r 22-
year-old A llison P rasad sus­
tained m inor injuries from shat­
tered glass.
Investigators believe W il­
son w as shooting at a vehicle
n ear the school, but instead hit
the v ic tim s’ autom obile.
T he investigation is continu­
ing, and anyone w ith inform a­
tion is asked to call D etective
M itch H ergert at the G ang
E nforcem ent T eam 503-823-
4106.
(A P )— The Supreme Court said
Tuesday it will consider the consti­
tutionality o f banning a type of
late-term abortion, teeing up a con­
tentious issue for a new ly-consti­
tuted court already in a state o f tlux
over privacy rights.
The Bush adm inistration has
pressed the high court to reinstate
the federal law, passed in 2003 but
never put in effect because it was
struck down by judges in C alifor­
nia, N ebraska and New York.
The outcom e will likely rest with
the two men that President Bush
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(A P) — T he Suprem e Court
stepped into a dispute Tuesday over
whether white managers can be sued
for calling black em ployees “boys.”
The court unanim ously o ver­
turned an appeals court decision
that said the term “boy” alone was
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nation.
Ash had 15 years experience with
The decision, one o f the first Tyson Foods and Hithon 13 years.
actions with new Justice Samuel A white man w ho got a m anage­
Alito, is a loss for Tyson Foods Inc. ment jo b they sought at an A la­
which was sued by tw o longtime bam a plant had less than tw o years
black em ployees w hoclaim ed they experience.
Eric Schnapper, a law professor
were passed over for prom otions
by a white manager whocalled them at the U niversity o f W ashington
"b o y s.”
w ho is representing the men, told
A jury aw arded Anthony Ash justices that the term "boy” is of­
and John H ithon $1.75 m illion fensive and is considered a slur by
apiece in damages, but a judge threw other courts.
Elijah Mikell Craig, 24, was ar­
rested and charged with kidnap­
ping, rape, sodom y and sexual
abuse Friday in the attack on a
woman last month in the 8 1 (X) block
o f Southeast C enter Street.
The U.S. M arsh al's Fugitive
Task Force, team ed with detectives
from the Portland Police Bureau
Sexual Assault Detail, carried out
the arrest.
A u th o ritie s
charged C raig with
forcing the female vic­
tim to a secluded area
and sexually assault­
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m em ber but missed.
Craig was identified
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"T his form o f verbal abuse has
its origins in the slave era." he wrote
in the appeal.
The case returns to the I IthU .S .
Circuit C ourt in Atlanta.
T he lawyers for Tyson Foods
said that ev id en ce show ed the
m anager "w as rude and curt to all
em ployees — w hite and black —
but had never used racial epithets.”
Ash and Hithon were am ong six
people w ho sued under a 1964 civil
rights law
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One o f the many car windows broken by vandals
Monday night.
Portland police are looking for inform a­
tion leading to an arrest for the persons or
persons responsible for a w ide swath of
vandalism M onday night in northeast Port­
land.
About 7:30 p.m., several w indow s were
broken out o f cars in the vicinity o f W ygant
Street between I l ,h and 18"' Avenues.
A nyone with inform ation in the case is
urged to call O fficer Chapin at the N orth­
east Precinct at 503-823-5700.
Tailgating No.l Driver Error
Behavior risky,
costly and deadly
T ailgating isa ris k y ,c o s tly and
som etim es dead ly d riv er b eh av ­
ior that is O re g o n 's n um ber one
erro r in au to m o b ile crash es, a c ­
co rd in g to the O regon D ep art­
m ent o f T ra n sp o rta tio n 's Safety
D ivision.
“ Drivers are tailgating so much
today that it has becom e the lead­
ing factor in crash es,” said an
O D O T spokes person.
T ailgating is a factor in nearly
one-third o f all Oregon vehicle co l­
lisions. not just fatal crashes, where
speed, alcohol and failure to use
passenger restraints play a more
deadly role.
“Thousands of drivers who think
they're saving tim e are actually los­
ing money in the cost o f collisions
and in term s o f injuries and som e­
times fatalities," said Steve Vitolo,
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T ra n s p o r ta tio n
S a fe ty
D ivision's traffic law enforcem ent
analyzed.
C h ie f D errick F oxw orth e x ­
p re sse d g ra titu d e to th e U .S.
M a rsh a l's S ervice, the O regon
State Police C rim e Lab and the d e­
tectives from the Portland Police
Bureau Sexual Assault Detail, call­
ing these types o f partnerships “ in­
strumental in solving neighborhood
crime."
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th ird tr im e s te r , in
which a fetus is par­
tially removed from the
womb, and the skull is
punctured or crushed.
Justices on a 9-0
vote vote in a New
H am pshire case reaf­
firm ed in January that
states can require pa­
rental involvem ent in
a b o r tio n d e c is io n s
and that state restric­
tions m ust have an
exception to protect
the m o th er's health.
The federal law in the current
case has no health exception, but
defenders maintain that the proce­
dure is never m edically necessary
to protect a w om an’s health.
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A lito. Ju stices had
been split 5-4 in 2000
in striking dow n a
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what critics call par­
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cause it lacked an ex ­
ception to protect the
health o f the mother.
But Justice Sandra
Day O ’Connor, who
John Roberts
was the tie-breaking Samuel Alito
vote, retired late last
month.
tions on ab o rtio n s, w hich w ere
A lito, in his ru lin g s on the 3rd leg alized in the R oe v. W ade d e ­
U.S. C ircu it C ourt o f A ppeals in cisio n in I973.
P h iladelphia, has been m ore w ill­
The federal Partial-Birth A bor­
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w om an ju stice , to allow re stric ­ type o f abortion, generally carried
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fines and increases in autom o­
bile insurance rates.”
In2(X )4.13,000crashesoutof
4 1 .(XX) total across the state were
the result o f rear-end collisions
caused by drivers w ho were fol­
low ing too closely.
“ Drivers throughout the state
are inclined to press speed limits
and follow too closely in what
seems like a race to get to their
destination,” V itolo said.
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years ago has
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parole after 37 years.
Deniz A ydiner, 30, was sentenced
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May 2 9 ,2 0 0 1 , in her locked second-
story dorm itory room.
Police said A ydiner lived near the
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