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Zoo Heartbroken The
H.W. Bush Funeral
Charged in Neighbor’s Death
by Lily’s Death George
Former
Presi-
Amber Guyger, a white former
Week Review
The Oregon Zoo is in mourning
following the sudden and
unexpected loss of Lily, the
youngest of the zoo elephant
family, one day before her sixth
birthday. Despite exhaustive
efforts by veterinarians and care
staff to save her, Lily succumbed
late Thursday night to a sudden
onset of endotheliotropic
herpesvirus, a rapidly progressing
and often fatal disease to
which calves are particularly
susceptible, zoo officials said. “I
can’t imagine a more devastating
loss for this zoo family and our
community,” said Dr. Don Moore,
zoo director.
dent George H.W.
Bush, who died
late Friday, was
transported from
Houston to lie in
state at the U.S.
Capitol Monday ahead of a state fu-
neral on Wednesday at the Nation-
al Cathedral in Washington, D.C.
Wednesday was also designated
as a national day of mourning by
President Trump who will attend
the funeral with the first lady.
Dallas, Texas police officer, was
indicted on a murder charge last
week for the killing of Botham
Jean, her black unarmed neighbor.
Guyger has said she mistakenly
went to his apartment instead of
her own and shot him.
Black Senator Again Objects
A massive earthquake, -- register-
ing 7.0 magnitude according to the
U.S. Geological Survey -- rocked
Anchorage, Alaska Friday, send-
ing debris crashing to the ground,
damaging buildings and causing
“major infrastructure damage,”
officials said. The quake broke
store windows, opened cracks in
a two-story building downtown,
disrupted electrical service and dis-
abled traffic lights, snarling traffic.
It also threw a full-grown man out
of his bathtub.
For the second time, a controver-
sial Trump pick for the U.S. Court
of Appeals has been sidelined by
Tim Scott of South Carolina, the
only black Republican senator.
Scott said Thursday he would op-
pose the nomination of Thomas
Farr because of accusations Farr
previously supported measures
to disenfranchise African-Amer-
ican voters. Earlier this summer,
Scott opposed court nominee Ryan
Bounds, dooming the nomination
of a person from Oregon who as a
college student produced writings
that mocked multiculturalism and
cultural sensitivity.
Major Quake Hits Alaska
Officer Punched at Max Stop
Authorities said an officer was
punched in the face on Saturday
night after police responded with
pepper spray against one individ-
ual while respoding to an “un-
ruly” group at the Lloyd Center
MAX platform. That person then
punched the officer and ran from
the area, according to police. How-
ever, he was taken into custody
without incident one block away
Timbers Advance to Finals
and charged with assaulting a pub-
The Portland Timbers are headed lic safety officer.
to Atlanta to play for Major League Intel Workers Sent to Hospital
Soccer’s title game after beating A total of 22 Intel employees suf-
Sporting Kansas City, 3-2, on the fered breathing issues Monday
road last Thursday for a Western morning, sending 6 people to the
Conference Championship. The hospital -- the second time within a
Timbers’ MLS cup final against week Intel workers were overcome
Atlanta United will be played on by something they breathed at the
Saturday, Dec. 8.
Ronler Acres campus in Hillsboro.
Correction: Vanport to Maxwell
Dr. Pearl Alice Marsh, whose father was a logger in the historical
town of Maxville in northeast Oregon, helped Portland writer and
poet S. Renee Mitchell make contact with and write about the expe-
riences of the actual black descendants of the town. In last week’s
front page story about the musical project “Maxville to Vanport,”
we regret attributing the help to another member of the creative
team Mitchell did not name.
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