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Show DAILY HERALD A4 Tuesday, December 4, 2007 FAST FACT ; Albert C" Putty" Read and aew made the first transatlantic flight aboard the Lame Duck from May 16 to 27, 191 9. They flew, with stops, from Trespassey Bay, Canada, to Plymouth, England. : MORNINGBRIEFM I Source: The Book of Answers Compiled from Daily Herald wire services The Nation Rain and wind slam Northwest PORTLAND, Ore. ' Untold numbers of residents found themselves in the dark Monwinds day as hurricane-forc- e and heavy rain battered the Northwest for a second day, blocking roads with trees, power lines, high water and mud. At least two people died. Oregon transportation officials warned drivers not to attempt passage through the Coast Range as the second of two storms blew through. "This storm is hitting the coast so hard, it's not leaving any road open," Transportation Department spokeswoman Christine Miles said. The first wave of severe weather in the Northwest, which hit Sunday, was expected to reach the Upper Midwest with snow Tuesday, the National Weather Service said. That region had already been battered over the weekend by ice and snow before the storm blew into the Northeast on Monday. The governors of Washington and Oregon declared states of emergency, which will allow for easier aid to stricken communities. Helicopter rescues were being launched for stranded hikers and some homeowners trapped by flooding, state Pi CO. : : of- emergency management ficials said. An estimated 30 to 40 people evacuated a flooded mobile home park near Astoria in northwestern Oregon, said Peter Williamson of the Red Cross. Mudslides halted ERIC Brian Boitano center and a group of former Olympic skaters take to the ice during a practice session at AT&T Park in San Francisco, Monday. The group was preparing for the Brian Boitano Skating Spectacular starring musical guest Barry Manilow, which will take place at AT&T Park on Wednesday. This will be the first ice show ever held at an outdoor ballpark, . h Amtrak passenger train service between Eugene, Ore., and Vancouver, British Columbia. Wind gusts of more than 100 mph were reported along the Oregon coast, with the highest reading at 129 mph at Bay City, the Weather Service said. Gusts hit 81 mph at Hoquiam, Wash., it said. Most major roads in south- western Washington's Grays ! I larbor and Pacific counties were closed, and virtually all roads into the coastal city of Aberdeen were cut H I said. , "In 30 years of law enforcement, it's as bad as I've ever seen," said Grays Harbor i him in June of aggravated battery. An appeals court threw that verdict out in September and ordered Bell retried as a juvenile. Under his deal, Bell pleaded guilty to a juvenile charge of second-degrebattery in re-- i! turn for an sentence, with credit for 10 months he already has served. Bell had faced being placed in a juvenile facility until his 21st birthday. Bell also must pay court costs plus $935 to Barker's family, . testify should his r? In the Barker attack stand trial County Sheriff Michael J. Whelan, whose own truck was undergo counseling and be reinsmashed in his driveway by a. tegrated into the school system, " his lawyers said. falling tree. second-degre- e ' e s ' 'Jena Six' teen pleads guilty to battery RISBERGAssociated Press San Francisco Skating i north-sout- iii 1 judge dismisses election fraud suit ' Ga. A black teenJENA, La. ager whose prosecution in of a white classmate led to one of the largest civil rights ; protests in years pleaded guilty A judge disATLANTA missed a lawsuit Monday that had claimed a transgender city councilwoman tried to fool voters by running as a female, Monday to a misdemeanor bat , and the candidate was set to Tuesday. tery charge that could see him : seek The ruling cleared the way released from a detention cen- ter in about eight months. for a runoff to include Michelle Bruce, who is running for a Mychal Bell, 17, originally second term on the city council was charged as an adult with in the suburban Atlanta town attempted murder in the beatof Riverdale. ing of Justin Barker in Decem"It was a waste of taxpay- ber 2006. That charge was re- duced before a jury convicted - ' ers' money and the court's ; time for a frivolous lawsuit," said Bruce, 46. "They're trying to derail the wish of the voters." City Attorney Deana Johnson said the decision means the runoff slated for Tuesday will be held as scheduled, barring a ruling ijtherwise from the ' Georgia Supreme Court. Evel Knievel attack victim wants money Of all the LOS ANGELES bones Evel Knievel broke over the years, the costliest may have been the left arm of a PR man by the name of Shelly Saltman. Saltman won $12.75 million in damages against Knievel after the motorcycle daredevil attacked him with a baseball bat in 1977 in a rage over a book Saltman had written about the showman. With interest, the sum has grown to more than $100 million by Saltman's estimate, and he intends to try to collect it. "We are going hot and heavy after his estate," Salt- man told The Associated Press after Knievel died Friday at 69. "What he tried to do to me and how it hurt my family, I'm owed that." TED ; ... S. WARRENAssociated Press Amy Anderson right hugs Melanie Tapia after a flash flood swept down a tributary of Kennedy Creek near Olympia, Wash., and went through their restaurant, the Ranch House BBQ, Monday. Drenching rain swelled rivers and flooded streets across much of Western Washington on Monday, and high winds gusting to more than 80 mph blew trees into power lines and onto roads. The World V Iran has expelled Canadian ambassador Iran OTTAWA, Canada has ordered Canada's ambassador to leave the country, the Canadian foreign minister said late Monday, calling the move entirely unjustifiable. Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier suggested the expulsion of Ambassador John, Mundy, who was recently appointed and yet to have his credentials accepted, was a move by the government in Tehran. Canada and Iran have tried to come to an agreement on an exchange of ambassadors for some time, but Canada is not willing to accept the candidates Tehran has proposed thus far. Political positioning, violence continue in Iraq AsBAGHDAD, Iraq g sailants shot to death a government aide in Baghdad and a school principal north of the capital Monday as political wrangling continued over legislation considered key FERNANDO VEROARA Associated Press to stabilizing the country. The slayings were o sign of The Learning the ongoing threat facing state Former bullfighter Nicolas Nossa, left, and a young bullfighter employees, who are viewed by practice during a bullfighting class in Coachi, Thursday, Nov. insurgents as collaborators with 2.9, 2007. About two dozen pupils study the art of "toreo," the government. or bullfighting, at the Jeronimo Pimentel school founded Police in the capital said two years ago by a former Spanish matador at the foot of Maj. Gen. Fauzi Hussein Colombia '$ highland country, an adviser at the high-rankin- Ropes US-backe- d d, Ministry of Information, was gunned down while driving in western Baghdad. His driver was injured. The ministry oversees the police, who in November lost 46 officers to violence. The previous month, 117 were killed, according to government figures. The school principal was assassinated in Samarra, about 70 miles northwest of Baghdad. Police said two men opened fire on the unidentified school official's car as he drove to work. More than 300 teachers or educational employees have been killed since the start of the war in March 2003, according to the government. Another assassination was reported in the northern city of Kirkuk. Police Brig. Gea Sarhad Qadir said armed men traveling in two vehicles opened fire on a car carrying a local sheik who was involved in community efforts to fight insurgents. The sheik, Atallah Iskender, was killed, as was his driver. Qadir s said the assailants dragged from the vehicle and burned them on the road. Iskender was a member of the Hawga Awakening Council, which has recruited about 6,000 volunteers to work alongside US. and Iraqi forces to quell the insurgency in the region, Hawi-j- a is a mainly Sunni city near Kirkuk that has been plagued by insurgent attacks. then-bodie- In a former insurgent stronghold, police said they had uncovered a mass grave containing 20 bodies, including those of five women and three children. Capt. Said Jumaili, a police spokesman in Gharma, in province, said the victims had been dead at least two months when they were found Sunday. Violence had dropped considerably in the past two months, but politicians again Monday showed little inclination to match the trend with political reconciliatioa Mexican singer slain in hospital bed A MexiMEXICO CITY can singer was shot to death in her hospital bed, police said Monday, the fourth time in a year assailants have killed performers of a popular northern music whose lyrics often focus on drug trafficking and violence. ecution-styl- e gunshot. Also Monday, the newspaper El Universal reported that at least one member of the band z de la Sierra" had been kidnapped on Saturday by armed men after leaving a performance in the western state of Michoacan. Law enforcement authorities in Michoacan said they could not confirm that report, but the band did cancel a scheduled news conference on Monday in Mexico City. The group's publicist, Cristina Gonzalez, said she had no information on any kidnapping and attributed the cancellation to "travel reasons." Some musicians in northern Mexico write songs called "narco corridos," which focus on the exnloits of rfnur traf. , 0 fickers. Pena's songs were mostly romantic ballads. "K-Pa- France tells Algerians the colonial era was 'profoundly unjust' Zayda Pena, 28, was shot in the heart Saturday in the French ALGIERS, Algeria city of Mat amor os, across i President Nicolas Sarkozy the border from Brownsville, Texas, while recovering from e i t it una gunshot wound to the neck mui system proiounaiy deon received just" Monday in a step toward Friday, police tective Abel Infante said. ending decades of rancor with t No suspects had been identAlgeria, once the crown jewel ified Two people with Pena were among French colonies. killed in the Friday shooting. France in the past has Pena headed a band known steadfastly rebuffed entreatas Zayda y kw Culpables ies, notably from Algeria, to apologize for an era marked "Zayda and the Guilty Ones." 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