In Brief -April 28, 2008
Around the Northwest
- Trouble within the Snoqualmie tribe as 8 members are banned and 60 are disenrolled.
- UW Medical Center takes a medical marijuana patient off the transplant list.
- Around 150 elected and appointed public officials in Oregon have resigned as a new statewide ethics policy is in effect.
- A defiant and colorful Rev. Jeremiah Wright faced his critics in a speech at the National Press Club this morning.
- Reno continues to be rocked by moderate earthquakes.
- The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld an Indiana law requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls.
- Different day, same old story: oil prices continue to rise to almost $120 a barrel.
- Afghan President Hamid Karzai survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban.
- Chernobyl - 22 years later.
- 1789 - Mutiny on the Bounty.
- 1945 - Italian strongman Benito Mussolini is executed.
- 2001- Dennis Tito becomes the first civilian to pay for his own ticket into space.
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