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May 17, 2017
CAREERS EDUCATION
The
Trump Reveal under Fire
Week
in
Review
President
Donald Trump
on
Tuesday
defended his
right to share
“facts pertaining to terrorism,”
with Russian diplomats last
week, saying he has “an absolute
right” as president to do so. But
Trump did not say whether he revealed classified
information about the Islamic State group, as pub-
lished reports have said, and as a U.S. official told
The Associated Press.
Wildfire Closes Bridge
A fire in wood pilings on Sunday off River Road in
north Portland consumed an acre of land, spread to
a warehouse and closed the nearby Fremont Bridge
as a precaution. Firefighters on land and in boats on
the Willamette River worked overnight to put the
fire under control. No cause has been determined,
but officials said there have been reports of warming
and cooking fires in the area.
Our Mission
Portland Mothers Protest
We are in the business of
rebuilding the lives of people
Help minorities, ex-offenders, and income unemployed people
re-enter the workforce and attain middle-class wages.
Offer those with the highest unemployment rates, the
opportunity to build essential skills to join the workforce.
Provide the opportunity for those who need it to better
themselves, and build a future
Engage young people to learn that
Mothers marched on Mother’s Day in downtown Port-
land Sunday to promote world peace, revisit the or-
igins of the holiday and to show opposition to using
the term “Mother of All Bombs” for one of the largest
non-nuclear weapons in the U.S. arsenal. The bomb
was launched against ISIS earlier in the month.
Charged in Beheading
A man who walked into an Es-
tacada grocery on Sunday covered
in blood and carrying a human
head stabbed a store employee be-
fore being subdued by other em-
ployees. Joshua Lee Webb, 36, is
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charged with murder in the decapi-
tation death of his mother earlier on
Sunday at the home they shared in
Colton and with attempted murder
in the attack on the store clerk.
PSU Names New President
Portland
State
University
on Monday named Rahmat
Shoureshi as its next president.
A native of Iran who has achieve
great academic success in the
United States over 40 years,
Shoureshi is currently the inter-
im president and provost of New
York Institute of Technology.
At PSU, he wants to improve
cross-disciplinary efforts and ensure Portland State
remains welcoming, including finding ways to ad-
dress stubbornly rising tuition costs.
New Names for Dunn Hall
The University of Oregon has narrowed its search
for renaming Dunn Hall, the building on campus
that was named after a KKK leader. The names un-
der consideration are Nellie Franklin, the first black
woman to graduate from the university; former law
school dean Derrick Bell; pioneering Civil Rights
leader Dr. DeNorval Unthank Sr., and DeNorval
Unthank Jr., the first African American to graduate
from the school’s architecture program.
Pedestrian Killed on MLK
A pedestrian was killed Friday afternoon on North-
east Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard when he was
stuck by a vehicle in rush hour traffic. Toby Gene
Holtrop, 49, was transported to a Portland hospital,
but did not survive his injuries. The driver of the car,
Justen Wayne Ashworth Fivecoats, 27, was released
after questioning.
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