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Energy Secretary visits Hanford site in Wash.
Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said Wednesday he intends to have a new plan by the end of the summer for resolving technical problems with a waste treatment plant under construction at the nation's most contaminated nuclear site. The waste treatment plant has long been considered the cornerstone of cleanup at ...
Time Lapse: Rebuilding Bridge Post-collapse
Traffic is moving again across the Interstate 5 Skagit River bridge in Mount Vernon, a key route in Washington between Seattle and Canada. (June 19)
Diverted United 787 passengers resume Tokyo trip
Passengers from a United Airlines Denver-to-Tokyo flight that diverted to Seattle when the Boeing 787 had an oil filter issue resumed their trip Wednesday, a spokeswoman said. The airline put about 200 passengers in hotels Tuesday night and they took off from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Wednesday morning on another 787, ...
Correction: Dish-Sprint story
In a story June 18 about Dish Network Corp.'s announcement that it will not submit a revised bid to purchase Sprint Nextel Corp., The Associated Press reported erroneously that Softbank's competing bid for Sprint falls short of Dish's. In fact, the two offers are not directly comparable. Softbank is offering ...
Coast Guard suspends search for missing fisherman
The Coast Guard has ended its active search for a Washington man missing from a fishing boat west of Juneau. KINY-radio (http://bit.ly/WBe2Xg) reports 25-year-old Alan Young of Chehalis (shuh-HAY'-lihs) fell Monday night from the Swift into Icy Strait 30 miles west of Juneau during the chum salmon fishery. The skipper, ...
Traffic returns to Wash. bridge that collapsed
Cars and trucks are rolling again across the Interstate 5 Skagit River bridge, restoring the traffic flow on the main route between Seattle and Vancouver, British Columbia. A temporary span opened Wednesday morning, replacing a section of the bridge that collapsed May 23 when it was struck by a truck ...
Port Angeles woman sentenced for role in killing
A Port Angeles woman who watched her boyfriend strangle her friend and helped dispose of the body won't spend any more time behind bars. A Clallam County Superior Court judge sentenced 27-year-old Kendell K. Huether on Tuesday to 17 months. With credit for the year-and-a-half she has spent in jail ...
Airbus clocks 59 orders for new A350 wide-body jet
Airbus raked in orders Wednesday for its new A350, announcing 59 sales of the wide-body jet that flew for the first time last week. Singapore Airlines ordered 30 A350-900s, with an option to buy another 20 of the 900s or the larger 1000 model. The airline had already ordered 20 ...
Wash. parents' ruse snares man wooing daughter
A father who discovered his 15-year-old daughter was being wooed on Facebook by a man twice her age took matters into his own hands. He hatched a Facebook ruse that drew the 30-year-old Federal Way man to Spokane earlier this month. Then the father and a couple of his buddies ...
Lakewood police kill suspect holding gun
Lakewood police shot and killed a man in a confrontation Tuesday night at a duplex in the Tillicum area when he refused orders to drop a gun and made a threatening move, Lt. Jeff Alwine said. Officers had been looking for the man because he was wanted on an arrest ...
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