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April 17, 2019
CAREERS Special Edition
Masters Champion Again
Tiger Woods reacts after winning the Masters golf tournament Sunday in Augusta, Ga. It had been 14
years since Woods last won the Masters, and he had gone nearly 11 years since his last major, the
2008 U.S. Open at Torrey Pines. (AP photo)
Life Sentence in Hate Murder
A man convicted of deliber-
ately running down a black man
with his Jeep in Gresham nearly
three years ago was given a life
sentence by a Multnomah County
judge Tuesday.
40-year-old Russell Court-
ier—a self-professed member of
a white supremacist group—had
been found guilty last month
of murder, hit and run, and sec-
Deputy Killed Near Kelso
ond-degree intimidation, which
functions as a hate crime in Ore-
gon. A 32 year minimum without
the possibility of parole was in-
cluded in his sentence.
Larnell Bruce, 19, was the vic-
tim who was killed. Prosecutors
argued the attack was racially mo-
tivated.
Colleen Hunt, 37, Courtier’s
then girlfriend, encouraged Court-
ier to hit Bruce while riding pas-
senger, prosecutors said.
Hunt previously agreed to a 10
year sentence when she pleaded
guilty to a lesser charge of man-
slaughter during the trial.
“I refuse to hate a whole race
over something that someone like
you has done,” Bruce’s father said
in court, speaking directly to Court-
ier, and condemning his ideology.
The
Week
in
Review
lookers scrambled to get a view of
the unfolding disaster. Notre Dame
Justin DeRosier, 29, a Cowlitz
was completed in the 13th century
County Deputy Sheriff, was fa-
and is considered a feat of architec-
tally shot Saturday night while re-
ture as much as a religious symbol.
sponding to a disable motor home
near Kalama. A suspect was shot
hotels, homeless shelters and re- Fee for Slave Descendants
the next night in a deadly con-
furbished jail cells.
Georgetown University could be-
frontation with two Kelso police
come the first college in the nation
officers. Identified as Brian Butts,
to mandate a fee to benefit descen-
33, he is a brother of Daniel Butts,
dants of slaves sold by the uni-
who killed Rainier Police Chief
versity nearly 200 years ago. By
Ralph Painter in January 2011.
almost a 2-to-1 margin, students
approved the measure Thursday,
Foster Care Failure Lawsuit
which still must be approved by
A lawsuit by foster care and dis-
the university to go into effect.
ability rights advocates against
the Oregon Department of Hu-
Notre Dame Cathedral Fire
Blazers in NBA Playoffs
man Services Tuesday alleges
A catastrophic fire engulfed the Charles Barkley, the NBA Hall of
that the state’s foster care system
iconic Notre Dame Cathedral in Famer and TV analyst, doubled
has failed to shield children from
Paris on Monday. The fire spread down Sunday on his March pre-
abuse and further neglect. The
rapidly and took over large parts diction that Portland will reach the
agency has struggled to house
of the cathedral as disbelieving on- Western Conference Finals.
foster children and places them in
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