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ABC’s Robin Roberts Needs Transplant
TV host says
her sister is a
perfect match
(AP) — Five years after being
treated for breast cancer, "Good
Morning America" co-host Robin
Roberts has a new health fight on
her hands.
Roberts said Monday she is be
ginning chemotherapy treatment for
m yelodysplastic syndrom e, or
MDS, a blood and bone marrow
disease once known as preleukemia.
She is expected to get a bone mar
row transplant sometime this fall.
Her older sister, Sally Ann Rob
erts, an anchor for WWL-TV in New
Orleans, is considered a perfect
match to donate marrow and said
she will do so.
"My doctors tell me I'm going to
beat this, and I know it's true," Rob
erts, 51, said on the show Monday.
Sally Ann Roberts said she's
thankful she has marrow her sister
can use and that she can assist in
her treatment.
"I'm just so very grateful that I did
match her because there are many,
many people right now who are
dying for a match and have no one
in their family who are eligible," Sally
Ann Roberts said.
She said her family is now en-
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Shooter's Wife Arrested
The wife of Trayvon
M artin
sh o o te r
George Zimmerman
was arrested on Tues
day, charged with per
jury in connection
with her testim ony during her
husband's boqd hearing. Shellie
Zimmerman, 25, and her husband
are accused of misleading the court
about their finances in order to re
ceive a lower bail bond.
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Good Morning America host Robin Roberts (center), with her sister Sally-Ann Roberts (right) and
ABC News' Diane Sawyer on GMA Monday, after Robin Roberts announced she has been diag
nosed with a blood and bone marrow disease. She will undergo chemo and a bone marrow
transplant later this year.
couraging everyone to sign up to be
donors.
"The wonderful thing about be
ing a donor is that it takes so very
little," Sally Ann Roberts said. "I
will go through a physical and when
... the doctors deem it's time, I will be
prepared with some injections to
separate the marrow from the blood,
then simply go through something
like dialysis. I may miss a week of
work, if that much."
Robin Roberts also hopes that
attention paid to her diagnosis will
encourage people to donate bone
marrow that might help someone
else with the disease.
She developed MDS as a result
of her breast cancer treatm ent —
a m anner o f transm ission so un
Privatization Raises Alcohol Prices
(AP) - Savvy shoppers from W ashington
state regularly flock to Oregon because it
lacks a sales tax. Now, anecdotal evidence
suggests they are being joined by drinkers
searching for cheaper alcohol.
Oregon liquor stores near the state line
report an uptick in business from W ashing
ton residents who say they're paying more
for spirits, not less, since the privatization
of the state-run sales system took effect
June 1.
W ashington voters approved Initiative
1183 last fall, taking the state out o f the liquor
business for the first time since Prohibition.
The measure allows stores larger than 10,000
square feet and sm aller stores in some areas
usual it affects only a few hun
dred people per year, said Dr.
Richard Besser, ABC's medical
correspondent.
R oberts has co n trib u ted to
"Good Morning America" since
1995, and was named co-anchor in
2005. The former Southeastern
Louisiana basketball star worked
at ESPN for 15 years.
to sell liquor.
Supporters touted the m easure as a free-
market reform that would give consum ers
more choices and lower prices.
However, the initiative also im posed an
additional 10 percent distributor fee and 17
percent retail fee on spirits to reim burse the
state for m illions of dollars in lost revenue.
The result was higher prices for consum ers
at many retail outlets.
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Attack Helicopters to Syria
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham
Clinton said on Tuesday that Rus
sia is sending a shipment of attack
helicopters to Syria, warning that
the conflict there could escalate with
out a regime change. Russia and
China have refused to cooperate in
attempts to help end the 15-month
conflict that has left more than 13,000
Syrians dead.
Witness Describes Rape
Penn State assistant coach Mike
McQueary, a key prosecution wit
ness in the trial of fellow football
coach Jerry Sandusky, testified
Tuesday that he saw Sandusky rap
ing a young boy in the showers.
Some of the alleged victims in the
sexual abuse case testified earlier.
Fatal Crash on Columbia
The driver of a van died after his
vehicle crashed into a propane truck
Monday morning on Columbia Bou
levard at Peninsular. His identity
was being withheld until notifica
tion of next of kin. The driver of the
propane truck was injured.
Balloon Lands near 1-205
A hot air balloon with 10 people
landed safety in a grassy area west
o f 1-205
n ear O r
egon City
S a tu rd a y
m o r n in g
a fte r the
operator couldn’t land safely at two
other locations due to wind condi
tions. No one was injured and the
balloon was deflated and removed
from the area.
Light Rail Tax Proposed
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Vancouver’ s City Council took pub
lic testimony Monday over a pro
posal to pay for light rail through
downtown to Clark College by tax
ing businesses a set amount each
month for each full-time employee.
The so-called head-tax was alterna
tive to plans to raise $2.5 million
annually to run and maintain a light-
rail system in Vancouver.