In one photo, the man looks to be sitting on the roof peering down into CenturyLink Field at night. Another picture shows a man sitting on top of the Space Needle during the time when the roof was painted Galaxy Gold. It’s not clear whether the photos are real or edited images or if it’s even the same man, but the pictures apparently got the attention of the Seattle Seahawks. According to KIRO TV, the Seahawks retweeted one of the pictures with the caption, “Whoa,” but that post was later deleted.

The man or men in the pictures has not come forward and or been identified.

According to KIRO TV, the Space Needle officials didn’t know about the pictures until after they were posted, so the man presumably did not have permission to be there. KIRO TV says Seattle police are investigating.

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BICKLETON, Wash. (AP) — A freak snowstorm in May gave students a surprise day off on Wednesday in the Cascades town of Bickleton.

Ten to 12 inches fell overnight within a 5- or 6-mile radius in the Klickitat County community at an elevation of about 3,000 feet.

“You go down the hill and get out of it,” schools Superintendent Ric Palmer said of the snow.

The heavy snow brought down tree branches on power lines, taking out electricity and phone service, Palmer said from home, where he was using generator power.

He said it was the lack of power at school rather than the snow that forced him to cancel classes. Still, it marked the first snow day of the school year, after only a few delays caused by snow during the winter.

“Yeah, they love it,” Palmer said about his students. He noted, however, that they will have to make up the time before classes end next month.

About 170 students attend kindergarten through 12th grade in one building in Bickleton.

Utilities should be restored and classes were likely to resume on Thursday.

A recorded message about the freak snow on the school phone line had an incredulous tone: “I repeat it’s Wednesday, May 22, and we have had to cancel school.”

A couple of inches of snow also fell on 3,100-foot Satus Pass on Highway 97 between Goldendale and Toppenish, the sheriff’s office reported. But no significant problems were reported.

The Paradise ranger station at Mount Rainier recorded nearly a foot of snow overnight and the snow level dropped to near 2,000 feet, the National Weather Service said.

More mountain snow was expected on Thursday, forecasters said, but showers elsewhere should diminish and temperatures turn moderate through the Memorial Day weekend.

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While appearing on the local Fox affiliate’s morning show, Q13 Fox News This Morning, Freeman, 75, appears to begin nodding off after a followup question asked by anchor Bill Wixey — less than a minute into the interview.  As his co-star Michael Caine answers Wixey’s question in further detail, Freeman falls deeper into a snooze, gently nodding as Caine speaks. At roughly a minute into the interview, it is apparent Freeman is having trouble staying awake and is seen leaning forward, bowing his head.

The interview eventually cuts away to video clips of the film before returning to a shot of the two actors again. It is here where Morgan is seen completely slouched over.

Freeman has not yet commented on the incident.

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SEATTLE (AP) — The woman who limped into a downtown Seattle coffee shop said she’d been shot in the leg — a statement that brought police cars and fire trucks rushing to the scene.

Traffic was shut down on a nearby street Tuesday afternoon as police searched for a shooter, although no one in the coffee shop had heard a shot.

As Seattle police later reported on their website, that’s because there was no gunshot. As medics treated the woman, police determined that she had been carrying a kitchen knife in her purse. Although sheathed, the knife had managed to puncture both the purse and the woman’s leg.

As the Seattle police blotter noted: “Sometimes Crimes Solve Themselves.”

The woman was taken to a Seattle hospital for treatment.

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SEATTLE (AP) — Police say they’ve taken their best shot at finding missing Utah mother Susan Powell. Now, her dad is hoping a review of the newly released case file — containing tens of thousands of pages of detective reports, maps, interview transcripts and more — might turn up something the investigators missed.

Chuck Cox told reporters Tuesday at a news conference in Seattle that a private eye has offered to help comb through the records, perhaps yielding new or overlooked clues about the sensational case.

“That’s one of the reasons we wanted it: to find out what (the police) really had, because that would point us in a different direction and give us a place to search for my daughter,” Cox said.

Susan Powell disappeared in December 2009, and her husband, Josh Powell, was long a suspect in the case. But last year, he killed himself and the couple’s two young sons in an explosive house fire in Washington state, and investigators turned their attention to Powell’s brother, Michael, who, they now believe, helped Josh Powell dispose of Susan’s body.

Michael committed suicide by jumping off a parking garage in Minneapolis three months ago. That left authorities with no direct suspects, and this week they announced they were closing the active part of the investigation and opening their books on the case. They insisted they never had enough evidence to charge either brother.

“We didn’t have a body. We don’t have a crime scene,” West Valley City Deputy Chief Mike Powell said.

The documents show that police had always doubted Josh Powell’s bizarre alibi. Powell claimed he wasn’t home when his wife vanished because he had just left the house — in the middle of the night — to take their 2- and 4-year-old boys camping in the Utah desert in the middle of a snowstorm.

They describe how Powell gave muddled answers when asked where authorities should look for her, and how detectives painstakingly followed up on tips called in by hunters, campers, prisoners, other law enforcement agencies and even psychics. They checked mine shafts and shallow pet graves, tracked down a potential witness in Michigan, used wiretaps and put a tracking device on Josh Powell’s van.

Detective reports also reveal that Josh Powell apparently had an affair with a woman he met through a dating service months before his wife vanished. The woman, whose full name is redacted, told them they had sex five to six times during daytime meetings, and he paid her about $800.

The revelations about the affair and about Michael Powell’s potential involvement were surprising, Cox said, and he was eager to see what else was in the files.

Cox and Anne Bremner, a Seattle attorney for the family, said they continue to believe that prosecutors did, in fact, have enough evidence to arrest Josh Powell and convict him for murder. Not having a body can make it tougher to prove a murder charge, but prosecutors across the country have won convictions in such circumstances.

In this case, Bremner said, the circumstantial evidence was remarkably strong: Powell’s alibi was nonsensical. He hemmed and hawed when questioned by police. He couldn’t explain why he had her cellphone with the digital SIM card removed, and he couldn’t explain why, in the days after she disappeared, he rented a car and drove it 800 miles.

There was also a potential motive: Josh Powell cleaned out Susan Powell’s retirement accounts 10 days after her disappearance, and he had taken out $1.5 million in life insurance policies on her.

“In some ways, circumstantial evidence is the best evidence,” said Bremner, a former prosecutor. “With direct evidence, you can have a witness lie. With forensic evidence, you can have problems with collection. But circumstantial evidence never lies and you can’t change it.

“They could have arrested him, and they should have, based on that evidence.”

Bremner told the news conference that even as Utah police close the active part of their investigation into her disappearance, federal authorities continue to review the case — a claim that was denied by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Salt Lake City.

Bremner said she and Cox were apprised earlier Tuesday of the federal investigation by an agent who has been directly involved in the case. She said she requested permission to announce the development at the news conference, and the agent granted it. Bremner said the scope involved looking into what Josh Powell’s father, Steve, knew about his daughter-in-law’s disappearance.

In response, Melodie Rydalch, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Utah, issued a statement saying that federal agencies in Utah had assisted in the investigation and would be happy to do so again should circumstances warrant.

“However, we do not have plans to conduct any further investigation,” she said.

West Valley City Deputy Police Chief Mike Powell said he wasn’t immediately aware of any ongoing federal investigation.

Steve Powell had a sexual obsession with Susan Powell and thoroughly documented it in journals seized by police. He is currently serving a prison sentence after being convicted of voyeurism charges for secretly recording young neighbor girls.

Utah police said Monday that they do not believe he was directly involved with Susan Powell’s disappearance but may know more about it than he has let on.

Police said both Steve and Michael Powell were uncooperative in the investigation.

They interviewed Michael numerous times about why he left his car at an Oregon junk yard weeks after Susan’s disappearance — a fact police didn’t learn until nearly two years later. Officials said he offered evasive answers about why he got rid of the car and how he had used it in late 2009.

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With more than 80 percent of the expected ballots counted late Tuesday night, the Multnomah County election website showed the fluoride proposal failing, 60 percent to 40 percent.

Mayor Charlie Hales supported fluoridation and said “the measure lost despite my own ‘yes’ vote.

“That’s sure disappointing, but I accept the will of the voters,” he said in a statement.

Fluoridation foes were delighted.

“We’re very excited with how the numbers look,” said Kellie Barnes with the anti-fluoride group Clean Water Portland.

If the early returns hold up, “then Portlanders spoke out to value our clean water and ask for better solutions for our kids.”

Voters in Portland twice rejected fluoridation before approving it in 1978. That plan was overturned two years later, before any fluoride was ever added to the water.

The City Council voted last year to add fluoride to the water supply that serves about 900,000 people. But opponents quickly gathered enough signatures to force a vote on the subject.

Rejection of the proposal would keep Portland the largest U.S. city without fluoride in the water or with plans to add it. San Jose, Calif., — which is larger than Portland — has been working to add fluoride to its water supply.

Voters had weeks to make their choice in the mail-ballot election. By Tuesday it was too late to rely on the postman, so drop boxes were placed across the city to accommodate those who waited until the final day.

“We were still getting ballots from drop sites close to 8 p.m.,” said Eric Sample, a Multnomah County elections spokesman. That meant a “pretty darn long night” of vote counting that likely would stretch into Wednesday, he said.

Supporters and opponents of fluoridation raised hundreds of thousands of dollars and traded accusations of sign-stealing and shoddy science in an election that has been the city’s most contentious of the 21st century.

A sampling of voters dropping off ballots earlier Tuesday in rainy Pioneer Courthouse Square found people opposed to fluoridation.

“People don’t like change. When in doubt, say no,” said Tracy Rauscher, a native Portlander who, like a native Portlander, did not use an umbrella.

Portland’s drinking water already contains naturally occurring fluoride, though not at levels considered to be effective at fighting cavities. Backers of fluoridation say adding more of it to the water is a safe, effective and affordable way to improve the health of low-income children whose parents don’t stress proper nutrition and dental hygiene.

Opponents describe fluoride as a chemical that will ruin the city’s pristine water supply, and they argue that adding it would violate an individual’s right to consent to medication.

Although most Americans drink water treated with fluoride, it has long been a contentious topic. In the 1950s, fluoridation was feared as a Communist plot. Today, people worry that its effect on the body has not been sufficiently examined.

“I don’t want chemicals in my water,” Sarah Lazzaro said after voting Tuesday. “I know that there are really no known health risks with it, but there’s a lot of things we find out later in life really do have health risks.”

The issue re-appeared on Portland’s radar late last summer, when health organizations that had quietly lobbied the City Council for a year persuaded the panel to unanimously approve fluoridation by March 2014.

Days before the vote, 227 people — most of them opponents — signed up to testify at a public hearing that lasted 6 1/2 hours. When their objections weren’t heeded, they quickly gathered tens of thousands of signatures to force Tuesday’s vote.

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National Park Service officials say Klaus Bielstein of Muenster, Germany, was climbing North America’s tallest peak with an 11-member expedition team Sunday evening when he suddenly collapsed at the 13,500-foot level of the roughly 20,000-foot mountain.

Expedition guides radioed for help and began CPR on the unconscious man. Officials say rangers reached the team within an hour and a nurse pronounced Bielstein dead.

Bielstein’s body was recovered and taken to a local funeral home.

Officials say the death is the first major incident in this year’s climbing season at Denali National Park and Preserve.

According to officials, 920 climbers are registered to climb Mount McKinley, known locally as Denali.

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Mark J. Moeller is charged with criminal use of a computer, misuse of confidential information and official misconduct. Moeller was served with a summons on Tuesday.

It’s not immediately clear if the 25-year-old man has an attorney.

Police say Moeller used the Alaska Public Information Safety Information Network to run queries on his sister-in-law, as well as a 23-year-old woman he arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence in December. Police say he also ran queries on the woman’s former boyfriend and obtained information about the man from Alaska State Troopers.

Moeller was hired by the police department in October 2011 and resigned in February.

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REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Microsoft thinks it has the one.

The company unveiled the Xbox One, a next-generation entertainment console that promises to be the one system households will need for games, television, movies and other entertainment. It will go on sale later this year.

Don Mattrick, Microsoft’s president of interactive entertainment business, said the company has spent the past four years working on the “all-in-one home entertainment system.”

The console was demonstrated Tuesday at Microsoft’s Redmond, Wash., headquarters using voice control to seamlessly switch back and forth between watching live TV, listening to music, watching a movie, browsing the Internet, as well as simultaneously running apps.

Microsoft executives touted the Xbox One as a replacement for the set-top box from your cable provider. It has its own guide and you can change channels by voice command.

Senior Vice President Yusuf Mehdi demonstrated how the console switched quickly between channels after saying show names like “Mary and Martha” or “Watch MTV.” His voice command of “What’s on HBO?” brought up the channel guide for HBO.

“No more memorizing channels or hunting for the remote control,” Mehdi said.

The interface for the TV goes well beyond the functionality in Nintendo’s Wii U, which still requires users to press buttons to change the input source on the TV. Xbox One seamlessly switched between games, movies and TV shows with a single voice command.

“You can switch to your game like it’s a TV channel flip,” said Marc Whitten, Microsoft’s chief production officer of interactive entertainment business. He called it a “lag-free instant experience.”

Microsoft also unveiled a new version of its camera-based Kinect system with better motion and voice detection. It showed how users can watch live sports on TV while getting updates on fantasy leagues on a split screen. In an effort to stay ahead of rivals, Microsoft said new content for the popular “Call of Duty” game can be downloaded on the Xbox One before any other system.

Microsoft says more games will be shown at next month’s E3 video game conference in Los Angeles.

It’s been eight years since the launch of the Xbox 360. The original Xbox debuted in 2001, and its high-definition successor premiered in 2005.

For the past two years, Microsoft has led the gaming industry in console sales with the Xbox 360.

In recent years, Microsoft expanded the scope of the Xbox 360 beyond just games, adding streaming media apps and the family-friendly Kinect system.

Xbox has been the exclusive home to such popular gaming franchises as sci-fi first-person shooter “Halo,” racing simulator “Forza” and alien shoot-’em-up “Gears of War.” In recent years, Microsoft expanded the scope of the Xbox 360 beyond just games, adding streaming media apps and the camera-based Kinect system.

Nintendo kicked off the next generation of gaming in November with the launch of the Wii U, the successor to the popular Wii system. The Wii U features an innovative tablet-like controller, though its graphics is on par with the previous-generation Xbox 360 and Sony’s PlayStation 3. Nintendo said the console sold just 3.45 million units by the end of March, well below expectations.

Sony was next, teasing plans for its upcoming PlayStation 4 — without showing the actual box — at a February event in New York. The reaction to that console, which featured richer graphics and more social features, was mixed.

Microsoft didn’t waste any time showing off the Xbox One console, new Kinect sensor and Xbox controller at the beginning of Tuesday’s presentation.

Microsoft’s stock fell 6 cents to $35.02 in early afternoon trading Tuesday.

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SEATTLE (AP) — A Sound Transit light rail train hit a man Tuesday morning in Seattle’s SODO neighborhood.

The transit agency initially said injuries appeared minor. But the fire department said the man in his 50s suffered heavy trauma and was taken to Harborview Medical Center with life threatening injuries.

Central Link light rail service was interrupted for the investigation.

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WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (AP) — Newly released police records show that Utah officials believe Josh Powell likely killed his wife and that his brother, Michael Powell, helped dispose of the body, but authorities felt they didn’t have enough evidence to prove that theory in court.

During the investigation, Josh Powell killed himself and his two young sons and then left all of his belongings to his brother, who later jumped to his death from a parking garage in Minnesota.

The documents, released late Monday, gave the public a glimpse into what police knew of Susan Powell’s 2009 disappearance. Among the revelations: Josh Powell likely had an affair months before his wife disappeared.

Also, Susan Powell wrote in her journal that she was afraid of her husband and worried he might kill her.

The West Valley City Police Department has come under criticism for not doing enough to bring Josh Powell to justice. Documents show that detectives doubted Josh Powell’s bizarre story that he left his sleeping wife at home in the middle of the night to take the boys camping in the Utah desert during a snowstorm, and they questioned his odd behavior in the days after the disappearance.

The files discussed how detectives painstakingly followed up on tips they received from campers, hunters, prisoners and other law enforcement agencies and even psychics.

Following Josh Powell’s death last year — and his decision to make his brother the main beneficiary of his life insurance policy — police focused more closely on Michael Powell.

Michael Powell, an ardent supporter of Josh Powell, killed himself Feb. 11.

He was interviewed numerous times last year after investigators determined he left his car at an Oregon junk yard weeks after Susan’s disappearance — a fact police didn’t learn until nearly two years later. Officials said he offered evasive answers about why he got rid of the car and how he had used it in the weeks after her disappearance.

His suicide left investigators without any person of interest in the case. While authorities believe the brothers were responsible for Susan Powell’s disappearance, they said repeatedly Monday that they never had enough evidence to bring charges — an assertion that has been questioned in the past by legal experts as well as law enforcement in Washington state.

“This is a circumstantial case, yes,” said West Valley City Deputy Chief Phil Quinlan. His fellow deputy chief, Mike Powell, added, “We didn’t have a body. We don’t have a crime scene.”

The Powell brothers used sophisticated computer encryption to communicate, Quinlan said. Investigators have been unable to decipher that secret communication.

The case file shows that in August 2010, police contacted a West Valley City woman, whose full name is redacted, after her phone number was discovered in Josh Powell’s phone records.

She told police she had a sexual relationship with Josh Powell after meeting him through a dating service about six or seven months before Susan Powell disappeared. The woman said she knew Josh Powell by the name John Staley, and she didn’t know he was married. It wasn’t until after she saw news coverage of the case that she discerned his true identity.

The woman “advised she and Josh had sex five to six times in various areas of the Salt Lake Valley,” and “stated Josh Powell paid a total of approximately $800 during this time frame,” detective Ellis Maxwell wrote in one report.

She also gave detectives a tour of areas where she said they conducted their encounters — always during daytime, Maxwell wrote.

The woman initially called 911 just days after Susan Powell disappeared and claimed she had been having an affair with Josh Powell for the past two months, Maxwell wrote. At the time, however, she declined to provide corroborating information.

The file includes other details, and contained emails from Susan Powell’s father, Chuck Cox, who expressed hope his daughter might be found in the days after her December 2009 disappearance.

Cox believed Josh Powell poisoned his wife’s pancakes before she was taken from the couple’s house.

“The question is, where did he put her and will we find her before she does die?” Cox wrote in an email to Utah authorities, according to the police file. “One possibility is that she is still alive, but we need to find her before she does die, if the poison was not a fatal dose, she may … be found.”

Susan Powell was reported missing after failing to show up for work. Josh Powell maintained his innocence and said he had taken the couple’s young boys on a midnight camping trip in freezing temperatures the night she was last seen.

Police found a small amount of her blood on the floor next to a recently cleaned sofa and carpet in their house, and Josh Powell’s bizarre behavior following the disappearance left lingering questions.

When he arrived at his house following his purported camping trip, he had his wife’s cellphone in his van, with the digital SIM card removed. He couldn’t explain why he had her phone, police said.

Asked why he didn’t tell his boss he wouldn’t be coming into work that day, a Monday, Josh Powell said he thought it was Sunday.

The day after Susan Powell was reported missing, Josh Powell rented a car at the Salt Lake City airport. He returned it two days later, having driven it more than 800 miles. And 10 days after she was reported missing, Josh Powell cleaned out her retirement accounts, without ever offering to provide any information to help police find her.

Josh Powell eventually returned to the couple’s hometown of Puyallup, Wash., where he got caught up in a battle with Susan Powell’s parents for custody of the boys, 7-year-old Charlie and 5-year-old Braden.

On Feb. 15, 2012, he locked a social worker out of a rental home at the start of a supervised visit, attacked the boys with a hatchet and set the house afire. All three were killed in the blaze.

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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Gov. Jay Inslee signed off on an $8.7 billion transportation budget Monday that puts money toward maintaining state roadways and continues spending on existing big-ticket projects.

But he vetoed some sections, including a proposal to spend $81 million planning a replacement bridge that would extend Interstate 5 over the Columbia River.

“There is no wisdom in expending these funds if the state of Washington does not contribute adequate funding to actually build the bridge,” he said before vetoing the section. “We all need to understand a central fact. This project needs to be funded this year. There is no other option.”

The effort to replace the bridge connecting Portland with Vancouver, Wash., has encountered obstacles in the predominantly Republican Washington state Senate, where several members are opposed to the Columbia River Crossing proposal in its current form. They say it is too low and should not include light rail transit, and are concerned about costs.

The $3.4 billion project would include two new double-decker bridges with five travel lanes in each direction — up from three — and space for pedestrians, bicyclists and light-rail trains. Oregon and Washington are each responsible for $450 million, with the federal government and toll revenue paying the rest. Oregon has already approved its portion, but if Washington state does not, the federal match will fall through.

House Transportation Committee Chairwoman Judy Clibborn, D-Mercer Island, said that veto “makes perfect sense to me.”

“Until we have a revenue package, we don’t really know if we’ll need that money,” she said.

Including the bridge planning money, Inslee vetoed a dozen sections of the transportation budget Monday, including a provision for an audit of State Route 520 that Inslee said duplicated work already being done, and a study of guardrails that Inslee said no funding was available for.

The budget does continue funding for the Alaskan Way Viaduct tunnel project in Seattle, a replacement bridge for State Route 520 over Lake Washington and high-occupancy lanes on Interstate 5 in Tacoma.

Inslee said the budget “makes key investments in our transportation system to keep people and goods moving safely and smoothly throughout the state.”

Earlier in the day, Inslee spoke at a rally in support of a funding package for transportation projects.

House Democrats support a proposal to raise the gas tax by 10 cents per gallon to help maintain existing roads, as well as to fund a handful of pending big-ticket projects, but the plan faces skepticism from the Senate majority.

The tax would provide money for connecting State Routes 167 and 509 to Interstate 5, the North Spokane Corridor and the $450 million needed for Washington’s share of the Columbia River Crossing Project.

Washington lawmakers are in the midst of a special legislative session to address a projected deficit of more than $1.2 billion in the next two-year state operating budget, plus a court-ordered increase in funding for the state’s education system, but Inslee has said that transportation funding must be addressed as well.

Most of the $81 million that had been allocated toward the Columbia River Crossing in the transportation budget would have been withheld until the U.S. Coast Guard looked at how the project design would hamper river traffic and navigation.

Sen. Ann Rivers, a Republican from La Center who has been a critic of the current bridge project, said that she was disappointed by the governor’s veto of that section.

“The Legislature worked really hard to give the governor an option, and he just took it off the table,” she said. “We’ve always said we want a project that works.”

Inslee said that the veto of the funding money for the Columbia River Crossing shouldn’t “be taken at all that we can’t move forward.”

“It would be foolish to turn down $850 million in federal money when they recognize we’re going to end up paying more for this project if we don’t do it this year,” Inslee said. “Washington taxpayers will have to shell out more tax dollars to deal with this bridge if we don’t take this option that is available to us today.”

Rivers debated the notion that the federal money was a sure thing.

“I’m not willing to stake the future of our general fund on these major projects,” she said. “I think we have to proceed thoughtfully and thoroughly. Right now we’re operating on a wing and a prayer.”

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The transportation budget is Senate Bill 5024.

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WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (AP) — A police agency is closing the active investigation of the disappearance of Susan Powell, a Utah mother whose now-dead husband was a prime suspect, citing a lack of leads.

West Valley City police are also releasing the case file, with details that have been kept under wraps since Powell vanished in 2009.

Police held a news conference Monday afternoon.

Police spent two days unsuccessfully searching in rural Oregon last week for any trace of Powell. West Valley City Manager Wayne Pyle told The Associated Press that police were at the end of the investigation, without any active leads, and might close the case.

Police have said they would reopen the case if they get new information.

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Adam Fahnestock, 30, was accused of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest on Saturday, according to the Malheur County Sheriff’s Office. He was taken into custody around 2 p.m. at the Jordan Valley Rodeo Grounds. The Illinois-based group Showing Animals Respect and Kindness (SHARK) claims he is a volunteer for their organization.

Fahnestock was on private property, therefore rodeo organizers were legally allowed to keep him from videotaping, according to The Argus Observer.

The rodeo in southeast Oregon is the only one in the state known to hold an event that sponsors call “horse roping” and opponents call “horse tripping.” A video released by SHARK last year also shows the horse roping event from 2012′s Big Loop Rodeo, according to The Argus Observer.

The Oregon Senate has voted to ban the event. The House is considering the bill.

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SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The FBI says it still has not made any arrests after searching a downtown Spokane apartment as part of an investigation into the discovery of a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin.

The letters were postmarked last Tuesday in Spokane and addressed to the downtown post office and the adjacent federal building.

Few details have been released, but investigators in hazmat suits spent from 7 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Saturday executing a search warrant at a three-story apartment building. Authorities said there was no public health risk.

Agency spokeswoman Ayn Sandalo Dietrich said Sunday investigators appreciated the patience of the building’s residents and neighbors.

The Spokane investigation comes a month after letters containing ricin were addressed to President Barack Obama, a U.S. senator and a Mississippi judge. A Mississippi man has been arrested in that case.

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The Bellingham Herald reports that 31-year-old Luis Gonzalez-Jose raped the girl last year while her mother was in the shower at their home in Whatcom County and then took her to a Planned Parenthood in August to get an abortion. To conceal her rapist’s identity, the girl told Planned Parenthood employees that a 14-year-old boy impregnated her.

The girl later told Whatcom County authorities that Gonzalez-Jose told her that “it would be best for her” not to have the baby.

He pleaded guilty to second-degree rape of a child in April.

After serving his six-year sentence at the Washington Corrections Center, Gonzalez-Jose will be deported.

SEATTLE (AP) — Scientists are eager for access to information from a quarter-billion dollar lab at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean that they hope will teach them about climate change, earthquakes and even the origins of life on Earth and other planets.

The $239 million National Science Foundation project will install video cameras, seismic monitors and other gauges along a volcano in deep waters off the Pacific Northwest coast, giving researchers the ability to monitor activity 2 miles below the ocean surface.

The project could potentially warn of earthquakes that would threaten the Seattle area, according to scientists.

“It really will make a huge difference,” said University of Washington oceanography professor John Delaney, who is leading the effort.

Thanks to nearly 600 miles of electrical wires and Internet cables this project will provide continuous information, separating it from other efforts. Oceanographers have dropped information collecting devices into the ocean before, but those devices were battery-powered and only able to record a snapshot of data. They also have used satellite images to study the oceans, but they haven’t provided information much below the surface.

The potential topics of exploration off the Oregon and Washington coast include earthquakes, volcanos, animal migration, climate change, ocean acidification and exotic microbes. It also will prepare researchers to study oceans on other worlds, Delaney said.

The lab insures exploration will no longer be limited by time or bandwidth and multiple research projects can be conducted at the same time, he said.

Project leaders expect challenges.

“I’m assuming it’s not all going to work,” said Gary Harkins, chief engineer in UW’s Applied Physics Laboratory. “We’ve put 4 ½ years into the design and construction. I’m sure we’ll spend the next 20 years trying to improve what we’ve done.”

Harkins expects they’re all going to learn a lot this summer, when they take the components out into the ocean to be installed, an operation that is expected to start by the beginning of July.

One issue involves dealing with the water itself. “Corrosion is one of the main enemies down there,” Harkins said. He said some equipment they have been testing is made out of airplane grade titanium, which is particularly durable.

Scientists will turn on 40 sensors, of 13 different types, over the summer, and add dozens more next summer. The lab is expected to be fully operational by early 2015.

The sensors and cameras will be placed along two cables. One stretches out 310 miles to cross the Juan de Fuca plate and reach underwater volcanoes and tectonic activity at Axial Seamount. Another goes in a loop about 75 miles offshore but will include instruments in shallower waters.

The observatory will span the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate. It’s part of the national Ocean Observatories Initiative, and has grown out of a more than 20-year quest to improve knowledge of the oceans and share data among scientists and the public.

Several universities are contributing. A team from the University of Washington is building and installing the lab. The University of California at San Diego is establishing the online infrastructure. Oregon State University will help build the lab and set up land components at Pacific City, Ore. Rutgers University, the University of Maine and the Raytheon company are working on education and public engagement.

Related projects are being considered to study the ocean off Alaska, the U.S. East Coast and near Argentina and Chile. The University of Victoria already has a smaller observatory in Canadian waters.

“I’ve been to 14 countries in the past few years. Every one of them wants to know how they can do something around the lines of what we’re building,” Delaney said.

American scientists have wanted to do something like this for a long time, Harkins said. Until now they were held back by both technology and money, he said.

Both equipment and finances will continue to be a factor in the project. For example, it won’t be easy or cheap to make repairs once a remote-controlled device installs the lab.

Everything must connect in simple, consistent ways because the device, which is controlled from above by someone in a ship, will be transporting the components to the bottom of the ocean and then connecting them, explained Larry Nielson, senior field engineer for the Applied Physics Laboratory.

“It’s being designed by electrical engineers to be as versatile as possible,” added Geoff Cram, senior mechanical engineer. “It will be able to handle instruments in the future that no one has thought of.”

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Online:

U.S. Ocean Observatories Initiative: http://www.oceanobservatories.org/

UW Interactive Oceans: http://www.interactiveoceans.washington.edu/

Applied Physics Lab Regional Scale Nodes: http://www.apl.uw.edu/project/project.php?id=rsn

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SEATTLE (AP) — Forecasters say Washington is in for a change in weather to a cool, wet spell that is expected to last the rest of the week.

The National Weather Service says high temperatures will be in the 50s to lower 60s with nighttime lows in the 40s in Western Washington where rain and showers are forecast for the lowlands.

Check out the CBS Seattle Weather Page for up-to-the-minute forecasts

The snow level in the mountains is dropping to 3,500 feet Tuesday night and Wednesday. That will make driving harder through the higher Cascade passes.

The Weather Service also forecasts rain across Eastern Washington with the potential for thunderstorms. Highs could reach into the 70s, but the cooler weather is expected into the weekend.

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Officers have arrested one suspect and seized a handgun.

Police received multiple reports of shots fired across Martin Luther King Jr. Way South. Officers found the woman hiding and medics took her to a hospital. She isn’t cooperating with investigators.

They located one suspect and are looking for at least one more from one group. All the suspects from the other group remain at large.

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Police spokeswoman Dani Myren says officers were sufficiently concerned about the thickness of the ice covering Cheney lake that none of them wanted to venture onto it. So a standoff ensued.

KTUU-TV reports that police negotiators and Fire Department dive teams were staging on the lakeshore when the young man finally surrendered late Thursday afternoon.

“At some point, someone identified this address as associated with this gentleman,” Myren told the station.

Myren says officers went to a home earlier in the afternoon to serve 19-year-old Siaosi Sila with a warrant alleging failure to comply with probation conditions. The spokeswoman says Sila saw police as he approached the home in a vehicle, bailed out and headed for the lake.

“Basically, he’s parked out there on the ice,” Myren added to KTUU. “The salient issue is that he doesn’t want to go back to jail.”

It wasn’t immediately clear why he was on probation.

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Sheriff’s spokeswoman Shari Ireton says a resident in the search area spotted Vincent Nutter on Friday night. When deputies responded, Nutter climbed 40 feet up a tree and refused to come down — until blasts of water from a fire hose changed his mind.

Ireton says Nutter was held on outstanding warrants and may face additional charges. She says he raced away from deputies Friday afternoon in a stolen car.

Officials said the man abandoned the vehicle and fled on foot into a wooded area of the county, initially eluding police dogs and a helicopter. A neighborhood lockdown was lifted about 6 p.m.

Officers say Nutter fled after they tried to arrest him on a warrant alleging he failed to show up for a court hearing. The Daily Herald of Everett says Nutter is a convicted felon who had been charged with unlawful gun possession and having methamphetamine.

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An employee at a Starbucks in Philadelphia is credited with recognizing 24-year-old Caleb “Kai” McGillvary, whose fledgling celebrity took a turn toward notoriety when authorities announced this week that he was wanted in the beating death of a New Jersey lawyer three times his age.

The unlikely pair met amid the neon lights of New York City’s Times Square over the weekend and headed back to the squat brick home of 73-year-old Joseph Galfy Jr. on a quiet cul-de-sac in suburban Clark, N.J., authorities say. On Monday, Galfy was found beaten to death in his bedroom, wearing only his socks and underwear. McGillvary was arrested Thursday shortly after leaving the Starbucks and charged with killing Galfy.

McGillvary gained a measure of fame in February after intervening in an attack on a California utility worker. In an interview viewed millions of times online, he described using a hatchet he was carrying to repeatedly hit a man who had struck a worker with his car, fending off a further attack, and thus became known as “Kai the hatchet-wielding hitchhiker.”

Galfy’s funeral was held Friday in a small stone chapel in Warren, N.J. He was buried in East Hanover.

Galfy was an “excellent land use attorney,” said friend Robert Ellenport. He said Galfy loved to travel and was a fan of the New York Giants and the Seton Hall University basketball team. Galfy would fly to warmer climes to watch Seton Hall play its first games of the season and was urging Ellenport and his partner to travel to Bali, one of Galfy’s favorite vacation spots.

The victim’s sister-in-law, Diane Galfy, said at her home that “he was a very well-respected man. That’s what we want people to know,” she said. She said her husband didn’t want to talk and her children were devastated.

Galfy was a respected lawyer who in recent years handled land use and domestic violence cases, according to Union County Prosecutor Theodore Romankow, whose office is prosecuting McGillvary. The two knew each other through legal circles.

“He was just a nice man, a gentle man, well-regarded in the community,” Romankow said.

In addition to his law practice, Galfy was the attorney for the planning board in Green Brook, N.J., and played drums in a wedding band.

Authorities said McGillvary was arrested Thursday evening after he walked into a Starbucks near a bus station in downtown Philadelphia and ordered two coffees. The woman who served McGillvary recognized him and alerted her manager, who called the police.

McGillvary took off before police arrived, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey said, and without his coffee. But an officer went to a nearby bus terminal and found McGillvary, who was arrested there.

“He wasn’t lying low,” Romankow said. “He was out there.”

McGillvary was arraigned Friday and being held without bail on charges in Galfy’s killing, though a court official said he has a U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement detainer for three arrests in Canada in recent years.

Spokesman Harold Orb told The Associated Press in a statement late Friday that ICE has lodged a detainer against McGillvary.

“Once charges are fully adjudicated, he will be turned over to ICE and placed in removal proceedings,” Orb said.

ICE officials did not immediately return a request to confirm the detainer. It’s not clear whether McGillvary would be deported rather than sent to New Jersey to face prosecution in Galfy’s death.

Romankow said that McGillvary, who said in his TV appearance he prefers to be called “home-free” instead of homeless, traded on his newfound prominence to meet fans across the country.

Those fans include Terry Ratliff, 32, of Kingsland, Ga., who said he spoke to McGillvary a few times recently about working on music with him. Ratliff said he made about $70 from a YouTube video featuring McGillvary and sent him $34 on May 8. Ratliff said McGillvary was in New York at the time.

The two haven’t met, but Ratliff started a fund for McGillvary’s legal defense that has only raised $66 so far. It’s not clear whether McGillvary has a lawyer, and the public defender’s office in Philadelphia had no record of him.

“If he is telling the truth, then maybe better legal representation will help get that truth out,” Ratliff said.

McGillvary has made statements before, though, that don’t add up.

He has said he is from Sophia, W.Va., but Mayor Danny Barr said Friday that he and the fire chief know everyone in the town of 1,334, have never heard of him and found nothing about him in town records.

McGillvary also wrote statements on Facebook following Galfy’s death that were “sexual in nature,” Romankow said, and noted that they could have been self-serving.

McGillvary’s last post, dated Tuesday, asks “what would you do?” if you awoke in a stranger’s house and found you’d been drugged and sexually assaulted. One commenter suggests hitting him with a hatchet, and McGillvary’s final comment on the post says, “I like your idea.”

Ratliff says he is the commenter McGillvary was responding to. He said he had sent McGillvary an email the night before the post saying he had a song idea for him. Ratliff says when McGillvary responded with “I like your idea,” on Facebook, Ratliff wasn’t sure if McGillvary was referring to his email about music or suggestion to beat up the man.

It was a hatchet that helped give McGillvary a brief taste of fame in February when he gave a rambling, profanity-laced interview to a Fresno, Calif., television station about thwarting an unprovoked attack on a Pacific Gas & Electric employee. The interview went viral, with one version viewed more than 3.9 million times on YouTube. McGillvary later traveled to Los Angeles to appear on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

Noting that his photo had been all over, Ramsey said it apparently wasn’t difficult to recognize McGillvary.

“Being on YouTube too much,” the police commissioner said, “is not always a good thing.”

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The Alaska Volcano Observatory said Thursday a continuous cloud of ash, steam and gas from Pavlof Volcano has been seen 20,000 feet above sea level. The cloud was moving to the southeast Thursday.

John Power, the U.S. Geological Survey scientist in charge at the observatory, estimates the lava fountain rose several hundred feet into the air.

Onsite seismic instruments are picking up constant tremors from the eruption at Pavlof, located about 625 miles southwest of Anchorage.

Residents of Cold Bay, 37 miles away, have reported seeing a glow from the summit.

Pavlof is among the most active volcanoes in the Aleutian arc, with nearly 40 known eruptions, according to the observatory.

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The journey began in Cordova, Alaska and some some of the salmon goes straight to the grills of  area chefs competing in the annual Copper River Cook-Off.

This year Master Sgt. Robert Schulman, a 31-year Air Force Reserve chef from the 446th Airlift Wing at Joint Base Lewis-McChord is joining the competition along with chefs from WildFin American Grill, Anthony’s and Seastar.

This is the 30th anniversary of the first shipment of fresh Copper River salmon to arrive in Seattle. According to copperrivesalmon.org, prior to 1983, the salmon was canned or frozen for shipment.

The plane carried 24,600 pounds of fish. Alaska Airlines say it will ship more than 2 million pounds of salmon this year to 95 cities. Three more flights are scheduled today. Copper River Salmon is considered by some to be the best salmon in the world for its rich flavor and high oil content.

We recommend: Best Copper River Salmon Recipes.

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(CBS Seattle/AP) —Here’s a warning to postal carriers in Seattle- this is one of the worst cities in the country for dog attacks.

The U.S. Postal Service says 42 letter carriers were attacked by dogs in Seattle last year, tying for second place with San Antonio. Los Angeles was the worst with 69 attacks.

Our area was redeemed a little thanks to Tacoma’s rank as one of the cities with the fewest attacks, 21. Wichita, Kansas had just 20 attacks.

According to the Postal Service, nearly 5,900 postal workers were attacked last year. It is a small percentage of the 4.7 million Americans who are bitten by dogs every year, but it’s significant. The agency says if a letter carrier feels threatened by a dog, your mail might not get delivered. Customers may then be required to pick up any mail at the post office.

The USPS released the rankings in time for National Dog Bite Prevention Week, which starts Monday.

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Kennewick authorities tell KEPR-TV that 22-year-old Katherine York was driving Virginia Maiden’s stolen Toyota SUV while going through the McDonald’s drive-thru Tuesday.

Maiden told police that her vehicle was stolen from her apartment complex Tuesday morning.

After Maiden spotted her car, she called Kennewick police who responded to the scene as York was pulling out of the drive-thru. York and a male passenger were detained, but the unidentified man was later released.

Police found stolen clothes from Sears and JC Penney in the vehicle.

York was charged with possession of a stolen vehicle as the investigation into the shoplifting continues. She was booked into the Benton County Jail.

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Voters in Washington state and Colorado made pot use for adults over 21 legal last fall, but that was just the first step. On Thursday, Washington officials are expected to release the first draft of rules governing the state’s new marijuana industry.

Washington’s Liquor Control Board has been devising rules for the industry, covering topics such as how the plants will be grown, how marijuana products will be tested for strength and quality, and how many retail stores will be allowed.

The rules are expected to become effective in August, and the board will begin accepting applications for growing, processing and retailing licenses in September. The state expects to issue pot licenses in December.

So when would people be able to legally purchase marijuana in Washington? Probably not until spring of 2014.

While marijuana users look forward to legalized sales, state officials are anticipated that pot taxes would bring Washington hundreds of millions of dollars a year in new revenue.

All of this planning in Washington state — and Colorado — is set against uncertainty about what the ultimate response from the U.S. Justice Department might be. Marijuana remains illegal under federal law.

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SEATTLE (AP) — Officials in Washington state took their first stab at setting rules for the state’s new marijuana industry Thursday, nearly eight months after voters here legalized pot for adults.

Among the preliminary regulations: They want to track marijuana from “seed to store,” and while they’re putting a cap on the number of retail stores in each county, they’re not planning to limit the number of licensed pot growers or processors.

No sales of marijuana extracts, such as hash, would be allowed — unless the extract is infused into another product — and all pot-related businesses would have to have security systems, 24-hour video surveillance and insurance.

Any marijuana product sold at a state-licensed stores would carry a label noting that it “may be habit forming,” accompanied by a logo of Washington state — with a marijuana-leaf silhouette smack in the middle.

Staff at the state Liquor Control Board spent long hours visiting marijuana grow houses, studying the science of getting high and earning nicknames like “the queen of weed” before issuing the rules.

“They are based upon hundreds of hours of internal research and deliberation, consultation with multiple industry experts and input from the over 3,000 individuals who attended our forums statewide,” said Sharon Foster, chairwoman of the state Liquor Control Board.

Foster — who began a speech at a recent conference by saying, “My friends now call me the queen of weed” — said the board is trying to create a tightly regulated system that ensures both large and small operations a place in the emerging market.

Last fall voters made Washington and Colorado the first states to legalize the sale of taxed marijuana to adults over 21 at state-licensed stores.

Marijuana sales in Washington should begin in early 2014 — unless the Justice Department has something to say about it. Pot remains illegal federally, and the DOJ could sue to try to block the licensing schemes in Washington and Colorado from taking effect.

Under the 46 pages of rules circulated Thursday, Washington state would use a criminal history point system in determining whether someone is eligible for obtaining a license to grow, sell or process pot.

A felony in the past decade or two misdemeanors in the past three years would disqualify an applicant — but applicants could get a free pass on up to two pot-possession misdemeanors, and any single state or federal conviction for selling, growing or possessing marijuana could be waived on a case-by-case basis.

The board also said it will conduct criminal and financial background checks on “financiers” of pot businesses — anyone who invests more than $10,000.

The “seed-to-store” system for tracking marijuana is designed to help prevent any pot from being diverted to the black market. It would require growers, processors and retailers to notify the board of any marijuana shipments, and to keep records such as when plants are harvested and destroyed.

The boy’s attorney indicated they plan to appeal.

Stevens County Prosecutor Tim Rasmussen asked for an exceptional sentence that would have put the boy in custody until at least the age of 16.

The boy pleaded guilty just before the start of his trial in April. He was charged with conspiracy to commit murder, juvenile in possession of a firearm and witness tampering.

The second defendant in the case, an 11-year-old boy, remains in custody.

The two fifth-graders were arrested Feb. 7 after officials discovered them trying to sneak a gun and knife into their school. Police interviewed the boys, who confessed they had been planning on attacking a classmate that same day.

The boys were expelled from school.

The 11-year-old boy is currently having his mental competency evaluated by doctors at Eastern State Hospital. The tests will evaluate the boy’s sanity and his fitness to stand trial.

Dr. Kevin Hyde addressed Wednesday’s sentencing hearing by phone, saying that he had met the 10-year-old boy for three sessions and felt he was not a high risk to commit violent acts. Hyde said the prosecution sentencing recommendation was inappropriate.

“I think it would be wrong to incarcerate this child until the age of 16. We don’t need to ruin this child’s life,” Hyde said.

The mother of the girl who was the target of the boys’ attack said her daughter forgave the boys, and asked for a sentence of longer than two years.

Rasmussen, in asking for an exceptional sentence, said the boy “was dangerous on Feb. 7 and he’s dangerous today.”

“He doesn’t think in terms of how his actions affect other people. There’s something missing in him,” Rasmussen said, adding that the boy’s thinking was “like a video game. There’s someone in your way, you kill them.”

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A state House committee will hear testimony Wednesday on a bill to make coaches pay for legal fees and other costs if the NCAA finds a major violation.

The bill would apply to former University of Oregon coach Chip Kelly, who turned the program into a national powerhouse. He left in January to coach the NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles.

The NCAA is investigating Oregon’s relationship with recruiting services.

Democratic Rep. Brent Barton says coaches have almost no incentive to play by the rules, and plenty of reasons to cut corners to build a name for themselves. He says players, students and fans shouldn’t be stuck paying the bill when a coach bends the rules.

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The Marchex Institute analyzed more than 600,000 phone calls from the past year, looking for the frequency of curse words. The study found Washingtonians curse about every 300 conversations. The most foul-mouthed people apparently live in Ohio, where curse words fly about every 150 conversations, according to the data. Maryland, New Jersey and Louisiana joined Ohio in the “potty mouth” category.

The study also found that 66 percent of curses come from men and cursing is twice as likely in the morning than in the afternoon or evening.

Marchex also looked at data on the most polite states, where people say “please” and “thank you” most often. Leaders in that category include South Carolina, North Carolina, Maryland and Georgia. Washington didn’t make the top five, but did rank in the top third in the country. Ohioans distinguished themselves in the least courteous category, ranking in the top 5 least courteous states, along with Wisconsin, Massachusetts and Indiana.

Way to keep it classy, Washington.

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The court clerk told KIRO TV that when the man handed over the cash, the two $20 bills were “way off in color and did not look real.” The clerk contacted police, but the man took off before police could catch him.

Police did confirm to KIRO TV that the bills were counterfeit; both of them had the same serial number.

The man could be charged with felony forgery.

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EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — A 54-year-old inmate was sentenced to death Wednesday for killing a Washington state corrections officer in a prison chapel two years ago.

Byron Scherf is a convicted rapist who already was serving life in prison when he attacked Officer Jayme Biendl, 34, and strangled her with an amplifier cord in January 2011.

A Snohomish County Superior Court jury took about an hour to convict him of aggravated murder last Thursday, and the same jury sentenced him to death Wednesday morning. The only other possible sentence was life in prison without release.

Scherf never testified during the trial and offered no statement at his sentencing. His lawyers didn’t dispute that he strangled Biendl, but suggested he didn’t plan to kill her.

The jury saw Scherf’s video confession and heard forensic testimony about how Biendl was strangled. Scherf said he first planned to ambush and beat up Biendl over something she said to him, but refused to say what that was.

In the confession, Scherf said he blacked out while pulling on the cord. When he came to, he was sitting in a chair in the back of the church sanctuary. He told detectives he had no memories of Biendl dying.

Snohomish County’s medical examiner told the jury it would have taken four to five minutes of constant pressure to strangle Biendl.

Scherf’s DNA was found on Biendl’s fingernails. His blood was found on her coat and the amplifier cord.

In the sentencing phase of the trial, defense lawyer Karen Halverson asked jurors to spare Scherf’s life, urging them not to be swayed “by the voices of vengeance or retribution,” The Daily Herald reported (http://bit.ly/10wPkWr).

But prosecutor Paul Stern reminded jurors of something Scherf told detectives in his confession: “If you take a life, you give a life.”

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The NBA relocation and finance committee voted in April to prevent the sale of the Kings from the Maloofs to Seattle investor Chris Hansen. In a conference call Monday, the recommendation remained unchanged.

Hansen upped his offer for the team by $75 million to $625 million earlier this month. An investor in Sacramento has also made an offer to keep the team in that city, but, according to the Sacramento Bee, the offer falls short of what Hansen’s group is offering. The Maloofs reportedly vowed not to sell the Kings to the Sacramento investors, but they are still denying those reports, according to the Bee.

In order to move the Kings to Seattle, the board needs a simple majority. A change in ownership required a three-quarters super majority.

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Five new comedies and three new dramas will help build on the strength of America’s top-rated network. Five of the new series will premiere in the fall and three at mid-season.

For next fall, the Network is increasing its comedy lineup with four new comedies, expanding its comedy block on Thursdays from 8:00-10:00 PM and creating an encore hour for comedy broadcasts on Saturdays.

PHOTOS: CBS 2014 Prime Time Shows

The new comedies are “The Crazy Ones” from executive producer David E. Kelley starring Robin Williams and Sarah Michelle Gellar; “The Millers”, a multi-generational family comedy from executive producer Greg Garcia starring Will Arnett, Margo Martindale, Beau Bridges and JB Smoove; “Mom”, an edgy family comedy from executive producer Chuck Lorre starring Anna Faris and Allison Janney; and “We Are Men”, an ensemble comedy starring Tony Shalhoub, Kal Penn, Chris Smith and Jerry O’Connell.

Two new dramas have been scheduled for Mondays at 10:00 p.m. “Hostages”, the serialized suspense thriller from executive producer Jerry Bruckheimer starring Toni Collette and Dylan McDermott, premieres in the fall, building to a season finale in January. Soon after, “Intelligence”, a high-octane action drama starring Josh Holloway, Marg Helgenberger and Meghan Ory, moves into the time period for the remainder of the season.

The freshman series will be joined by 20 returning shows including “NCIS”, the season’s most watched show; “The Big Bang Theory”, the season’s #1 comedy in viewers and demos; “60 MINUTES”, the season’s #1 news magazine; and “Elementary”, the season’s #1 new drama.

The other returning series include: “How I Met Your Mother”, “2 Broke Girls”, “NCIS: Los Angeles”, “Person of Interest”, “Survivor”, “Criminal Minds”, “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation”, “Two And A Half Men”, “Undercover Boss”, “Hawaii Five-O”, “Blue Bloods”, “48 HOURS”, “The Amazing Race”, “The Good Wife” and “The Mentalist”.

In addition, the proven hit returning comedy “Mike & Molly, starring Academy Award nominee Melissa McCarthy and Billy Gardell; the new steamy legal drama “Reckless”; and the new romantic comedy “Friends With Better Lives” are set for mid-season.

Police in Lincoln City, Ore., said 42-year-old Richard Swanson was hit at about 10 a.m. while walking south along U.S. Highway 101 near the city limits. He was declared dead at a hospital. The driver has not been charged.

Lt. Jerry Palmer said investigators found materials among Swanson’s belongings listing his website, breakawaybrazil.com.

Swanson set out on the trek to promote the One World Futbol Project, based in Berkeley, Calif., which donates durable blue soccer balls to people in developing countries.

“We are deeply saddened to learn about Richard’s death,” Lisa Tarver, chief operating officer of One World Futbol Project, said in a statement. “He was a very inspiring man who in a very short time walked his way into many lives. Our thoughts are with his family.”

Police said Palmer’s soccer ball was recovered.

Kristi Schwesinger, a Seattle interior designer and close friend of Swanson’s, said he had been a private investigator for many years, and switched to a new career as a graphic designer, but was laid off recently, and looking for an adventure.

“He was at a point in his life where he had raised his kids,” she said. “Both his boys (Devin and Raven) had graduated from high school. He had no mortgage. He had sold his condo recently and was between jobs.

“And he loved the game of soccer,” she said. “He stumbled on this great organization, One World Futbol, and decided this would be his passion the next year.”

In an interview with The Daily News in Longview, Wash., Swanson said he picked up soccer just five years ago and played on club teams and rooted for the Seattle Sounders.

“I felt destined that I should go on this trip,” he said.

His website said he left Seattle on May 1, and the trip would take him on foot for more than a year through 11 countries before reaching Sao Paolo, Brazil, where the World Cup soccer tournament will be played.

“It will be a trip of a lifetime where I will push myself further than I ever thought possible,” he wrote.

Swanson started out in flip-flops, and managed to spend 13 nights but switched to hiking sandals in Portland, Ore., Schwesinger said. He stayed two nights in Vancouver, Wash., with his son, Devin, but otherwise had been able to sleep on on the couches of one stranger after another who befriended him and helped him on his journey.

“It was all by word of mouth, Facebook, media contacts, friends and family who put the word out,” Schwesinger said.

Swanson spent Monday night in Lincoln City, where he was able to soak in a hot tub, and eat a gourmet breakfast, before he set off for Newport, not knowing where he would stay, she added. He posted photos and stories about his new friends on a Facebook page chronicling his journey.

Friends are talking about creating a foundation in Swanson’s memory, and sending his two sons to Brazil for the World Cup, Schwesinger said.

“The hardest thing is he was so young,” Schwesinger said. “Just today we were planning his surprise birthday party for Sunday. He was so young, so full of life, so excited by the journey he was on. To be taken from us so soon is really heartbreaking.”

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The woman wrote in to Capitol Hill Seattle and said she noticed the aircraft buzzing around her home in the Miller Park area one afternoon. She says her husband went to investigate and asked the man operating the remote control plane not to fly it near their home. The man apparently told the woman’s husband it is legal for him to fly his drone, and he then admitted it has a camera and he was doing “research,” according to CHS.

The woman says she did call police, but since the man left, the police didn’t come to the house.

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The legislation was sparked by recent fatal accidents in the state, including a March incident where a suspected drunken driver slammed into a family crossing the street in a residential Seattle neighborhood, a crash that critically injured a 10-day-old child and his mother and killed his grandparents.

The measure approved by the Senate Law & Justice Committee would require a mandatory arrest if a person has a prior offense within the past decade and increases mandatory minimum jail time for repeat offenders. If someone with a prior offense is arrested again on DUI, under the measure, as a condition of their release, a court must require that an interlock device be installed on the person’s car with proof to be filed with the court within 10 days, or the court can require participation in a sobriety monitoring program, or both.

The bill now heads to the Senate Ways and Means Committee.

“This bill, while it still has a ways to go, does do some very positive things,” said Sen. Mike Padden, a Republican from Spokane Valley who is the main sponsor in the Senate.

Lawmakers in the House and Senate and Gov. Jay Inslee have had several meetings on the proposed bill.

Not included in the bill were some initial ideas put forth by Inslee, including prohibiting people from purchasing alcohol for 10 years after a third conviction on drunken driving.

Inslee has said that the measure is a priority during the special legislative session that started Monday and he was happy to see the bill move out of committee.

While the bill was unanimously approved by the Senate committee, some Democrats expressed concern about the current lack of funding sources and the possibility that local governments would be stuck with the costs. Several amendments were rejected in committee, including one that would have extended a temporary beer tax to pay for the fiscal impact that would come from prosecuting, defending and incarcerating more drunken drivers.

“I don’t have an issue with the policy on much of what’s in this bill. I have an issue with the lack of funding sources and insufficient treatment being provided,” said Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles, D-Seattle.

Padden promised that costs would be examined by the fiscal committee.

“I think there was an understanding there that we go forward with the policy first,” he said. “I think people are committed to seeing this is paid for, or else there shouldn’t be a bill.”

Inslee said the benefits of the bill outweighed the costs.

“These lives that we intend to be saving as a result of this is worth this investment. I’m convinced of it,” he said.

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