Today is Tuesday, Feb. 9, the 40th day of 2010. There are 325 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
In 2000, Boeing Co. engineers and technical workers in Everett began a 40-day strike.
ON THIS DATE
In 1950, in a speech in Wheeling, W.Va., Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis.) charged the State Department was riddled with Communists.
In 2009, third baseman Alex Rodriguez admitted to taking performance-enhancing drugs, telling ESPN he had used steroids while with the Texas Rangers for three years.
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