SEATTLE – A 23-year-old snowboarder reported missing at Stevens Pass actually spent the night at a friend’s apartment, but sheriff’s deputies arrested him Monday for an outstanding drunken driving warrant.
The snowboarder became separated from his friends on the slopes Sunday, and when he couldn’t find them afterward, he mistakenly thought they had left without him. He hitchhiked to Issaquah and stayed with a friend.
Meanwhile, searchers worked late into the night looking for him. They had resumed Monday morning when the missing man called his roommate to say he was safe, said King County sheriff’s Deputy Richard Barton. Barton said they arrested the man shortly afterward.
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Wenatchee: BPA to repair damaged towers
The Bonneville Power Administration is working to repair 13 ice-damaged power transmission towers on Badger Mountain.
The heavy ice buildup broke the tops off several towers and took 13 offline last Friday, BPA spokesman Ed Mosey said.
No power outages occurred because electricity was automatically rerouted along other lines, he said.
Crews hoped to have the towers, which carry power from Chief Joseph Dam, back in service by Dec. 15, he said.
Twenty-six BPA workers stationed around the Northwest were called in to help with repairs.
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Yakima: Man sought in fatal shooting
A man sought in a fatal shooting that apparently occurred during a drug ripoff has been identified by an eyewitness at the urging of the victim’s family, Yakima County sheriff’s deputies said.
German Lopez-Arreguin, 21, of Yakima was being sought in the death of Demecio Abundiz, 22, sheriff’s chief of detectives Stewart Graham said.
Lopez-Arreguin was described as skinny, about 5 feet 7 inches and driving a white 1995 Chevrolet Monte Carlo with Washington license plate 616 PFI.
A witness who has not been identified was reluctant to give a full account until after he spoke to relatives of Abundiz late Thursday, hours after the shooting at Century Landing, a boat launch across the Yakima River from Union Gap, Graham said.
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Idaho: Pilots found on Rainier to be buried
The remains of two Air Force pilots killed when their jet slammed into Mount Rainier in 1968 will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery on Tuesday.
Lt. Col. Ivan O’Dell and Col. Wilfred Crutchfield died while flying from Mather Air Force Base in California to McChord Air Force Base in Washington state.
The wreckage of their T-33 trainer was found in October 2004 by hikers after it moved with a glacier down the side of the volcano from 10,900 feet to 6,700 feet.
Marjorie O’Dell, who has lived in Idaho Falls for 12 years, was contacted in November 2004 and told her husband’s remains had been found. She and her two daughters, Donna Woolstenhulme of Victor and Karen Thomas of Chicago, plan to attend the services at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Alaska: Augustine volcano gets live camera
Scientists at the Alaska Volcano Observatory began broadcasting a live view of Augustine Volcano.
The view from the observatory Web site was started two days after trembling at the lower Cook Inlet volcano lifted its alert level to “restless.”
Augustine’s “volcano cam” went online Thursday from Homer, about 75 miles to the east.
Web monitoring of Augustine joins cameras pointed at Mount Spurr, 80 miles west of Anchorage, and Veniaminof Volcano, on the Alaska Peninsula near Perryville.
The Web site is at www.avo.alaska.edu/activity/ monitoring.php.
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D.C.: Representatives donate campaign cash
Republican Reps. Cathy McMorris and Dave Reichert of Washington state said Monday they are donating to charity $1,000 given to each of their campaigns by a former California congressman who admitted taking more than $2 million in bribes.
McMorris and Reichert, who were each elected in 2004, said they will give away money contributed by former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham, R-Calif., who resigned last week after pleading guilty to taking $2.4 million in bribes in exchange for steering government work to defense contractors.
More than a dozen Republican lawmakers and challengers, including Jim Feldkamp of Oregon, have said they are donating to charity the campaign cash given by Cunningham.
McMorris said in a news release late Monday she will give $1,000 received from Cunningham’s political action committee to Second Harvest Inland Northwest, a Spokane-based food bank.
Reichert’s chief of staff said Reichert will donate $1,000 to Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation, a nonprofit organization that helps seriously ill children and their families. The group has a chapter in Redmond.
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