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"• Portland Observer Black Histoiy Month
Stimulus: 1-2 Million Jobs
The econom ic stim ulus law added
between I million to2.1 million w ork­
ers to em ploym ent rolls by the end o f
last year, according to a new report
released Tuesday by the nonparti­
san C ongressional Budget Office.
No Total Fix for Toyota
The president o f T oyota's U.S. o p ­
erations acknow ledged to skeptical
law m ak ers on T uesday that the
com pany's recalls o f m illions o f its
cars m ay "not totally" solve the
problem o f sudden and dangerous
acceleration.
Tearful
Sentencing
Former NBA star
Jayson W illiams
w as s e n te n c e d
to five years in
prison Tuesday for fatally shooting a
hired limo driver in 2002, ending an
eight-year legal odyssey by tearfully
apologizing to the victim's family. He
will be eligible forparole in 18 months.
Tl Week in
The Review
Women on Subs Okay
February 24, 2010
Officer Dies in Accident
A Portland police officer has died in
a traffic accident in Vancouver. Crim i­
nalist A dam C ushm an, 35, was killed
Sunday night w hen the car he was
driving hit a dum p truck. The Clark
C ounty sh eriffs office says the truck
had stalled on a street and the driver
had turned o ff its lights to restart it.
The P entagon has m oved to lift a
decades-old policy that prohibits
w om en from serving aboard N avy
subm arines, part o f a gradual reco n ­ Fire Evacuates School
sideration o f w om en's roles in a m ili­ A southeast P ortland elem en tary
tary fighting tw o w ars w hose front school was safely evacuated T ues­
lines can be anyw here.
day after a custodian noticed a small
fire in the boiler room. The fire at
W oodstock Elem entary School was
quickly extinguished but everyone
w as still evacuated from the building
as s precaution, school officials said.
Man Bulldozes his Home
A n O hio m an says he bulldozed his
$ 350,000 hom e to keep a bank from
foreclosing on it. Terry H oskins says
he has struggled w ith his bank over
his hom e for years and had p ro b ­
lem s w ith the In tern al R evenue
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