KIRKLAND – A construction worker was killed and another injured when a car drove through a clearly marked work zone on Interstate 405 early Friday. The driver was arrested and is under investigation for vehicular assault and vehicular homicide, the State Patrol said.
Alcohol is suspected as a contributing factor in the accident, said trooper Courtney Stewart.
The man, who drove his car past lights and bright orange barrels into the three-lane construction zone in the northbound lanes near Kirkland, suffered only minor injuries in the accident, Stewart said.
Both men hit by the 1999 Honda Passport were in their 20s.
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Fort Lewis: Soldier charged with murder
Army authorities have charged a soldier with murder in the stabbing death of another soldier last week at this base south of Tacoma.
Pvt. Anthony Cruse, 19, of Licking, Mo., is accused of killing 22-year-old Pvt. Timothy W. Crislip of Elmhurst, Ill., June 15 outside a barracks.
Officials have suggested no motive for the stabbing. Cruse was arrested a few hours afterward and was formally charged with premeditated murder Wednesday.
Crislip served a year in Iraq ending in April 2006 with Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 44th Air Defense Battalion at Fort Campbell.
Associated Press
Montesano: Coach charged in sex case
A Hoquiam High School coach has been charged with first-degree sexual misconduct with an 18-year-old female wrestler.
Todd Hoiness, the school’s head football coach and an assistant wrestling coach, appeared in Grays Harbor District Court at Montesano with his attorney, Doug Bitar, on Thursday, and was released on his own recognizance, the Daily World of Aberdeen reported.
According to a police report obtained by the newspaper through a public disclosure request, the girl acknowledged having sex with Hoiness.
The legal age of consent in Washington state is 16, but state law forbids school employees from having sexual relationships with students. The teen was a senior at the time.
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Tukwila: Parents sue over woman’s drowning
The parents of the woman who drowned in a Tukwila public swimming pool in March are suing the city, claiming negligence contributed to her death.
In a King County Superior Court complaint filed Tuesday, Ben and Geneva Green say the city “failed to exercise ordinary care in providing and managing a reasonably safe general use swimming pool for patrons.”
On March 29, a swimmer found Candice Green’s body in the deep end of a city pool where she had been taking swimming lessons. Medics arrived and the 26-year-old woman died at Harborview Medical Center on April 1.
Associated Press
La Center: Cowlitz Tribe presses for casino
Leaders of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe, undaunted by a string of setbacks, pledged Friday they will persevere until a large casino resort is built near La Center.
Cowlitz Chairman John Barnett, during brief remarks at a breakfast for casino supporters, made a passing reference to “the long journey we are going through.”
The continuing dispute over the tribe’s past is only one piece to the volatile casino battle. In recent months, the cities of Vancouver and La Center have passed resolutions opposing the Cowlitz casino. La Center also rejected an agreement for the tribe to spend $18 million to extend sewer lines and to expand the city’s treatment plant.
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