Human Interest
Seems Like Yesterday
50 years ago (1963)Four leaders in the Boy Scout program were honored at the annual recognition Dinner of Evergreen Area Council. They were John Lehmann and Addison Shoudy who received 50-year medals, and Vernon Luby and Walt Jellison, who received Silver Beaver Awards.
Date: 05/24/2013 | Seems Like Yesterday
Today in History
Today is Friday, May 24, the 144th day of 2013. There are 221 days left in the year.Today's highlight:On May 24, 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge, linking Brooklyn and Manhattan, was dedicated by President Chester Alan Arthur and New York Gov. Grover Cleveland.On this date:
Date: 05/24/2013 | Life
Purported psychics arrested in scam
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — Authorities said a Southern California couple arrested on felony grand theft charges purported to be psychics and promised at least one customer they could rid her of negative spirits.They allegedly told the woman...
Date: 05/23/2013 | Off the Wire
Vets remove tiger's basketball-sized hairball
CLEARWATER, Fla. -- It's not unusual for a cat to get a hairball, but a 400-pound tiger needed help from veterinary surgeons in Florida when he couldn't hack up a basketball-size hairball by himself.
Date: 05/23/2013 | Nation & World
Populations plummet for frogs, toads, salamanders
Frogs, toads and salamanders continue to vanish from the American landscape at an alarming pace, with seven species - including Colorado's boreal toad and Nevada's yellow-legged frog - facing 50 percent drops in their numbers within seven years if the current rate of decline continues,...
Date: 05/23/2013 | Nation & World
Seems Like Yesterday
50 years ago (1963)A front page color photograph showed Judy Walsh, Judy Cooper and Marcia Herivel, all graduating seniors at Everett High School, ready to picnic on a sailboat on the waterfront. The issue promoted outdoor living at its best, right here in...
Date: 05/23/2013 | Seems Like Yesterday
Pages for the history books
Diane Janes has been collecting tribal photos for years
Date: 05/23/2013 | Local News
Today in History
Today's highlight:On May 23, 1934, bank robbers Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker were shot to death in a police ambush in Bienville Parish, La.On this date:In 1430, Joan of Arc was captured by the Burgundians, who sold her to the...
Date: 05/23/2013 | Life
Seems Like Yesterday
50 years ago (1963)Top scholastic honors for the Lake Stevens High School Class of 1963 were earned by Vance McFarland, valedictorian, and Terry Godfrey, salutatorian. Vance, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter McFarland, had a grade point average of 3.946, while Terry,...
Date: 05/22/2013 | Seems Like Yesterday
Slow pokes: Acupuncture helps hypothermic sea turtles
QUINCY, Mass. -- Two endangered sea turtles that are shells of their former selves after getting stranded on Cape Cod during a cold spell are getting some help easing back into the wild -- from an acupuncturist.Dexter and Fletcher Moon, juvenile Kemp's Ridley sea turtles,...
Date: 05/21/2013 | Off the Wire
Decision on wolf protections in Lower 48 delayed
BILLINGS, Mont. -- Federal wildlife officials are postponing a much-anticipated decision on whether to lift protections for gray wolves across the Lower 48 states.
Date: 05/20/2013 | Northwest
Animal-rights worker arrested for taping rodeo
JORDAN VALLEY, Ore. -- A member of an Illinois-based animal-rights group has been arrested after refusing to stop videotaping at an annual Eastern Oregon rodeo where horses are roped by the legs in an event the state Legislature is considering outlawing.
Date: 05/20/2013 | Northwest
Eric Idle gives commencement to Whitman graduates
WALLA WALLA -- English entertainer and former Monty Python member Eric Idle delivered the commencement speech Sunday at Whitman College in Walla Walla where his daughter, Lily, was among the 375 graduates.The college gave Idle an honorary doctorate of humane letters degree.
Date: 05/20/2013 | Northwest
City backs off on bra ban for bar
MILWAUKEE -- A historic Milwaukee bowling alley and bar almost went without the appropriate support after a city inspector decided dozens of bras hanging from its ceiling were a fire hazard.
Date: 05/19/2013 | Off the Wire
Navy dolphins find rare 1870s torpedo
SAN DIEGO -- In the ocean off Coronado, a Navy team has discovered a relic worthy of display in a military museum: a torpedo of the kind deployed in the late 19th century, considered a technological marvel in its day.But don't look for the primary discoverers to get a...
Date: 05/19/2013 | Nation & World
Today in History
Today is Saturday, May 18, the 138th day of 2013. There are 227 days left in the year.Today's highlight:On May 18, 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt signed a measure creating the Tennessee Valley Authority.On this date:
Date: 05/18/2013 | Life
Justin Bieber will have to pay for monkey business
BERLIN -- Justin Bieber will face a bill for thousands of dollars for his pet monkey's two-month stay at an animal shelter since it was seized by German customs, officials said Friday as a deadline expired for him to reclaim the animal.
Date: 05/18/2013 | Nation & World
NOAH celebrates 10th anniversary on Saturday
NOAH will celebrate its 10th anniversary at its current location at an event from noon to 3 p.m. on Saturday. NOAH has been at the location, a facility they are quite proud of, since 2003. Since then, the have found homes for more than 20,000 animals and spayed or neutered more than...
Date: 05/17/2013 | Fur & Feathers
Today in History
Today is Friday, May 17, the 137th day of 2013. There are 228 days left in the year.Today's highlight:On May 17, 1973, a special committee convened by the U.S. Senate began its televised hearings into the Watergate scandal.On this date:
Date: 05/17/2013 | Life
Edmonds woman, man charged with animal cruelty
EDMONDS -- Two people have been charged with misdemeanor animal cruelty as part of an ongoing Edmonds police investigation into alleged animal abuse.
Date: 05/16/2013 | Local News
Zoo gets orphaned polar bear cub
It may have been the most anticipated package ever delivered to the zoo in Buffalo, N.Y.: an orphaned polar bear cub that arrived Wednesday from Alaska and will spend the summer with another cub born six months ago.
Date: 05/16/2013 | Nation & World
Today in History
Today is Thursday, May 16, the 136th day of 2013. There are 229 days left in the year.Today's highlight:
Date: 05/16/2013 | Life
Looking for homes
Animals up for adoption at Everett shelter (21 new photos)
Date: 05/16/2013 | Fur & Feathers
$125,750 for students
Rotary funds 42 college scholarships at annual ceremony
Date: 05/15/2013 | Local News
Man could be charged over poor conditions for horses
EVERETT -- Snohomish County animal control officers have ordered an Everett-area man to take better care of his horses or face potential criminal charges.
Date: 05/14/2013 | Local News
Army won't kill gulls to help salmon-eating terns
GRANTS PASS, Ore. -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Monday it will not continue killing gulls that have been eating baby Caspian terns at the West Coast's largest nesting colony, located at the mouth of the Columbia River.
Date: 05/13/2013 | Northwest
Kennedy death conspiracies rake in millions
On the very day John F. Kennedy died, a cottage industry was born. Fifty years and hundreds of millions of dollars later, it's still thriving.Its product? The "truth" about the president's assassination."By the evening of November 22, 1963, I found myself being...
Date: 05/12/2013 | Nation & World
King, Messiah: Baby names suggest high hopes
WASHINGTON -- Talk about high expectations for a newborn: King and Messiah are among the fastest-rising baby names for American boys.They're just a little behind Major, the boy's name that jumped the most spots on the Social Security Administration's annual list of popular baby names.
Date: 05/12/2013 | Nation & World
Facebook graffiti photos send tagger to jail
SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah tagger who was so proud of his graffiti that he posted photos of his artwork on Facebook has been arrested after police sent him a friend request through a fake online profile.Police say 20-year-old Matthew...
Date: 05/11/2013 | Off the Wire
Today in History
Today is Saturday, May 11, the 131st day of 2013. There are 234 days left in the year.Today's highlight:
Date: 05/11/2013 | Life
Venom killed climber covered with bee stings
TUCSON, Ariz. -- A medical examiner said a Tucson climber founded dead, hanging from a southern Arizona cliff in his climbing gear, died from venom from bee stings.Steven Johnson had hundreds of bee stings when found Monday in the Santa Rita Mountains. And the Arizona Daily...
Date: 05/10/2013 | Nation & World
Prince Harry kicks off tour of U.S.
Britain's Prince Harry arrived in the United States Thursday, kicking off his seven-day official visit with a tour of Capitol Hill.The 28-year-old prince, who is third-in-line for the British throne, returns to the U.S. in hopes of mending his public image tarnished by his...
Date: 05/10/2013 | Nation & World
Today in History
Today is Friday, May 10, the 130th day of 2013. There are 235 days left in the year.Today's highlight:
Date: 05/10/2013 | Life
Man attacked by alligator while fleeing deputies
PINELLAS PARK, Fla. -- Authorities say a Florida man ran from the law and into an alligator's jaws.The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office says 20-year-old Bryan Zuniga was pulled over for failing to maintain a single lane Thursday at about 2:50 a.m.
Date: 05/10/2013 | Nation & World
Top schools recognized
29 in county awarded for students' academic progress
Date: 05/09/2013 | Local News
Today in History
Today is Thursday, May 9, the 129th day of 2013. There are 236 days left in the year.Today's highlight:
Date: 05/09/2013 | Life
See a resemblance?
The inspiration for TV's Marge Simpson grew up in Everett
Date: 05/08/2013 | Local News
Spokane deluged by carpenter ants
SPOKANE -- Spokane is seeing a large infestation of carpenter ants.Tim Kohlhauff of WSU-Spokane County Extension says his office is being deluged with phone calls about the insects.
Date: 05/07/2013 | Northwest
Items from Hemingway's Cuba home go to JFK Library
WASHINGTON -- While most Americans have never seen Ernest Hemingway's home in Cuba where he wrote some of his most famous books, a set of 2,000 recently digitized records delivered to the United States will give scholars and the public a fuller view of the Nobel Prize-winning novelist's life.
Date: 05/07/2013 | Nation & World
Lauryn Hill gets 3 months for failing to pay taxes
NEWARK, N.J. -- Grammy-winning singer Lauryn Hill has been sentenced to three months in prison for failing to pay about $1 million in taxes.She was also sentenced Monday in Newark to three additional months of home confinement.
Date: 05/06/2013 | Nation & World
David Chang, Paul Kahan tie for top chef honor
NEW YORK -- Food may not have been their first calling, but coming late to the culinary scene clearly hasn't slowed David Chang and Paul Kahan.
Date: 05/06/2013 | Nation & World
Figure in Attica prison uprising dies in Canada
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The only inmate convicted of murder following the 1971 Attica prison uprising has died in Canada, where he had made a name as a civil rights and peace activist.
Date: 05/06/2013 | Nation & World
East about to be overrun by billions of cicadas
WASHINGTON -- Any day now, billions of cicadas with bulging red eyes will crawl out of the earth after 17 years underground and overrun the East Coast. They will arrive in such numbers that people from North Carolina to Connecticut will be outnumbered roughly 600-to-1. Maybe more.
Date: 05/06/2013 | Off the Wire
Looking for homes
Animals up for adoption at Everett shelter (16 new photos)
Date: 05/06/2013 | Fur & Feathers
Lake Stevens man's fitness journey takes him to Alcatraz
Three bank robbers used spoons to dig out of their cells. They climbed up a vent and escaped from Alcatraz on the night of June 11, 1962.What became of them is a...
Date: 05/05/2013 | Local News
Public comment sought on Montana grizzly plan
HELENA, Mont. — Government biologists say merely providing habitat won’t be enough for grizzly bears to thrive along Montana’s Northern Continental Divide after the animals are eventually delisted from federal protections.People are...
Date: 05/04/2013 | Northwest
His mind remains strong
Three years after ALS diagnosis, there's no stopping Mike Kelly
Date: 05/04/2013 | Local News
Herald employee honored by mayor
Kim Heltne, who worked as executive assistant to five publishers at The Daily Herald over 35 years, is retiring from the paper.
Date: 05/03/2013 | Local News
A new home of the brave
Seattle Veterans Museum relocated, for now, to Everett
Date: 05/03/2013 | Local News
Montessori turns 50
Parents, kids appreciate the school's approach to learning
Date: 05/03/2013 | Local News
Art gallery party going to the dogs
If you are a human who loves your dog, why not pamper your pet Saturday with a bit of a party and a trip to an art gallery.Cole Gallery is hosting a special kickoff party to welcome artist Patty Forte Linna and her new show "Doggie Divas and the People Who Love Them" running...
Date: 05/03/2013 | Life
'Master Joe' lived a life of many talents
EVERETT -- Chuxiong Zhou's life journey took him from China to Everett. It took him from flying as a commercial pilot to laboring in the countryside during China's Cultural Revolution. It took him to...
Date: 05/02/2013 | Local News
Horse show coming to fairgrounds in Monroe, May 9-12
MONROE -- If you love horses, Key Horse Classic Show is an event for you.The show, May 9-12 at the Evergreen State Fairground in Monroe, will benefit Equest Special Rider.Admission is free.
Date: 05/02/2013 | Local News
An art show for pets, and their people
Art-loving dogs, and their people, should check out an unusual art show opening on Saturday in Edmonds."Doggie Divas and the People Who Love Them -- Paintings of dogs and their people," shows the pet-focused works of Patty Forte Linna.
Date: 05/01/2013 | Fur & Feathers
DB Cooper parachute packer ID'd as homicide victim
SEATTLE -- The man who packed the parachutes used by infamous skyjacker D.B. Cooper has been identified as the victim of a homicide in Washington state.
Date: 04/30/2013 | Northwest
Happy with Habitat
Foster mother of 40+ appreciates her new Marysville home
Date: 04/30/2013 | Local News
Cultural awareness award for school
MARYSVILLE -- The staff of Quil Ceda-Tulalip Elementary School has received a cultural awareness award from the Washington Education Association for its efforts to use Native American cultural...
Date: 04/30/2013 | Local News
Navy uses goats to keep Indian Island trimmed
PORT ANGELES -- Instead of weed-whackers, the Navy is using a herd of goats to control vegetation on Indian Island, the island near Port Townsend where munitions are stored and loaded on ships.
Date: 04/29/2013 | Northwest
Wild-horse advocates rally vs. roundups, slaughter
RENO, Nev. -- Wild-horse advocates staged weekend rallies across the country, including ones in Carson City and Las Vegas, to drum up opposition to the government's removal of mustangs from the range and to proposals to slaughter them.
Date: 04/29/2013 | Nation & World
Everett man loves his Amtrak Trails & Rails gig
A dream job may be just that -- a notion too good to be true. One Everett man comes close, although he isn't paid for his summer gig. It combines the mystique of train travel with the beauty and history of the American West.Gene Fosheim is a volunteer guide with
Date: 04/28/2013 | Local News
Commie Scotch whisky matures to excellence
The Scottish peat was put on trucks and trains. The destination was Communist-era Czechoslovakia. The recipient: apparatchiks desperate for a decent whisky.
Date: 04/28/2013 | Nation & World
The 'singing pharmacist'
Vitality: Drug store worker has a big voice and a big heart
Date: 04/28/2013 | Life
State moves toward compensation for wolf attacks
OLYMPIA -- State lawmakers are approving a plan that would compensate the owners of livestock who suffer losses due to wolf attacks.
Date: 04/27/2013 | Northwest
Therapy dogs help Mont. students with test stress
BOZEMAN, Mont. -- At Montana State University, final exams stress is going to the dogs.
Date: 04/27/2013 | Northwest
Today in History
Today is Saturday, April 27, the 117th day of 2013. There are 248 days left in the year.Today's highlight:On April 27, 1813, the Battle of York took place in Upper Canada during the War of 1812 as a U.S. force defeated the British garrison in present-day Toronto before withdrawing.
Date: 04/27/2013 | Life
Searching for one-of-a-kinds
An Everett estate sale draws lots of collectors (gallery)
Date: 04/27/2013 | Local News
Draft rule ends protections for gray wolves
BILLINGS, Mont. -- Federal wildlife officials have drafted plans to lift protections for gray wolves across the Lower 48 states, a move that could end a decades-long recovery effort that has restored the animals but only in parts of their historic range.The draft U.S.
Date: 04/26/2013 | Northwest
Rule OKS killing of wolves attacking livestock
SPOKANE -- A wolf caught in the act of attacking livestock or pets in parts of Washington can immediately be killed by the property owner without a permit, the state Fish and Wildlife Commission decided Friday.
Date: 04/26/2013 | Northwest
High tea has higher purpose to aid historic preservation
History lovers, here's your chance to return to a genteel past. A fancy tea is planned for Mother's Day weekend in one of Everett's most magnificent old homes. While celebrating the past, tea drinkers will be helping a future historian.
Date: 04/26/2013 | Local News
Today in History
Today is Friday, April 26, the 116th day of 2013. There are 249 days left in the year.Today's highlight:On April 26, 1865, John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, was surrounded by federal troops near Port Royal, Va., and killed. (Just...
Date: 04/26/2013 | Life
Police dogs no longer being trained to sniff for pot
BREMERTON -- Bremerton Police Officer Dahle "Duke" Roessel and his new dog partner, Dusty, combed the rooms of a West Bremerton hotel during a practice session Tuesday. Dusty, an 18-month-old black Lab, sniffed around for meth, heroin and cocaine that had been planted there.But not pot.
Date: 04/25/2013 | Northwest
Alexander Graham Bell's voice found on early record
Researchers have identified the voice of Alexander Graham Bell for the first time in some of the earliest audio recordings held at the Smithsonian Institution.The National Museum of American History announced Wednesday that Bell's...
Date: 04/25/2013 | Nation & World
After cancer, a 'canvas' for art
Donated tattoo conceals woman's mastectomy scars
Date: 04/24/2013 | Local News
Montana man reunited with bird he lost in a divorce
BUTTE, Mont. -- A Great Falls man who lost his macaw in a divorce more than five years ago has been reunited with the bird, thanks to an observant friend.Mike Taylor picked up the 25-year-old bird he calls "Love Love" at Montana's Parrot & Exotic Bird Sanctuary in Butte on Sunday.
Date: 04/22/2013 | Northwest
Oregon studies if seabirds eating protected salmon
GRANTS PASS, Ore. -- The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife is killing sea birds on the Oregon Coast to see if they are eating protected salmon.
Date: 04/22/2013 | Northwest
April 22, 2000: Elian Gonzalez seized by SWAT team
On Nov. 25, 1999, Thanksgiving Day, fishermen off the coast of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida found a five-year-old boy clinging to an inner tube. His mother and 11 others had drowned while trying to cross into the United States from Cuba.His name was Elian...
Date: 04/22/2013 | Time Travels
Alaska girl finds wandering spider in banana bunch
KETCHIKAN, Alaska -- Nobody is quite sure where the wandering spider came from, but its travels ended Monday in a pool of alcohol.
Date: 04/20/2013 | Northwest
Today in History
Today is Saturday, April 20, the 110th day of 2013. There are 255 days left in the year.Today's highlight:On April 20, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed a proclamation admitting West Virginia to the Union, effective in 60 days (June 20, 1863).On this date:
Date: 04/20/2013 | Life
Put on your Sunday best, join others for tea
When she was a young girl growing up in England, Rita Newberry said everybody wore hats.
Date: 04/20/2013 | Life
At talk, learn why we like corvids just as they like us
The corvid is a complex creature. Like humans, corvids, which include crows, ravens and jays, have complicated emotions, and they think, plan and reconsider their actions.The corvids also like to watch us humans, as we like to watch them. Sometimes the corvids even bring us little gifts.
Date: 04/20/2013 | Life
Today in History
Today is Friday, April 19, the 109th day of 2013. There are 256 days left in the year.Today's highlight:
Date: 04/19/2013 | Life
Knox sometimes 'paralyzed' with anxiety, she says
SEATTLE -- Amanda Knox says in a new interview that she's sometimes "paralyzed" with anxiety stemming from the death of her roommate in Italy and the legal proceedings that saw her convicted then acquitted in a case that made headlines across the globe.Knox spoke to People...
Date: 04/19/2013 | Northwest
Unexpected tiger cub at Tacoma zoo is female
TACOMA -- Zookeepers in Tacoma say a newborn female Sumatran tiger cub that came as a surprise to them will be hand-reared because her mother is, well, just not that interested.
Date: 04/18/2013 | Northwest
Deer relocation completed; 10 die
CATHLAMET -- Despite moving fewer animals than planned and 20 percent of them dying, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials are pleased with a recently completed effort to relocate endangered Columbian White-tail deer.
Date: 04/18/2013 | Northwest
Dutch royal waves off 'your majesty' title
Dutch Crown Prince Willem-Alexander set the tone Wednesday for what could be a relatively laid-back monarchy, saying in his last major interview before he becomes king that his subjects don't have to address him as your majesty.The prince's comments, in a television...
Date: 04/18/2013 | Nation & World
Today in History
Today is Thursday, April 18, the 108th day of 2013. There are 257 days left in the year.Today's highlight:
Date: 04/18/2013 | Life
Looking for homes
Animals up for adoption at Everett shelter (17 new photos)
Date: 04/18/2013 | Fur & Feathers
Fin whale to be towed off Burien beach
BURIEN -- The city of Burien has a plan to dispose of the smelly carcass of a fin whale that washed ashore Saturday on its Puget Sound beach.
Date: 04/16/2013 | Northwest
Community Extra: Applause
Lake Stevens teen to lead psoriasis walkJ.T. Scott, 14, is among the top fundraisers for the annual Walk to Cure Psoriasis, set this year for May 19 in Seattle. He's also a youth ambassador for the National Psoriasis Foundation benefit.
Date: 04/16/2013 | Local News
April 16, 1912: Extent of Titanic disaster becomes known
Just before midnight on April 14, 1912, the liner Titanic — the world's largest steamship at that time — struck an iceberg and began to sink.The next morning, The Herald published what the world thought they knew about the accident:...
Date: 04/16/2013 | Time Travels
History of U.S. bombings, failed attempts
Here is a list of some of the worst bombings in the U.S. dating to the 1800s, including some famous attempts that failed:April 15, 2013: Two bombs explode in the packed streets near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring at least 130.
Date: 04/15/2013 | Nation & World
Everett woman’s gift of life to be honored by governor
Sharon Ballenger was a registered nurse, loving mom, animal lover and avid hockey player. But above all, her family says, she gave selflessly to others.Ballenger was 55 when she died in Everett on March 30, 2011 from cardiac arrest.
Date: 04/15/2013 | Local News
Proposal to rename park a fitting tribute to Drew Nielsen
In the spring, kids getting ready for baseball play catch in Everett's Northwest Neighborhood Park.The park hosts an annual Easter egg hunt, sponsored this year by Girl Scout Troop 43733. Every September, friends gather there for the Northwest Neighborhood's potluck picnic.
Date: 04/14/2013 | Local News
Montana Supreme Court hears bison relocation suit
MISSOULA, Mont. -- Backers of a government-sponsored conservation effort to transplant Yellowstone National Park bison to tribal reservations in Montana say a state judge erred in blocking the relocations because state law doesn't apply to moving bison on tribal lands.
Date: 04/13/2013 | Northwest
Northern Rockies wolf numbers drop 7 percent
BILLINGS, Mont. -- Aggressive gray wolf hunting and trapping took a toll in much of the Northern Rockies last year as the predator's population saw its most significant decline since being reintroduced to the region two decades ago.
Date: 04/13/2013 | Northwest
Dead whale washes ashore in Burien
BURIEN -- A dead whale has washed ashore near a public park in Burien in south King County.KOMO-TV reported that the Coast Guard started hearing about the whale as it floated about 100 yards off Three Tree Point on Saturday morning.
Date: 04/13/2013 | Northwest
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