HOQUIAM – Rhys Davis, the Republican candidate for Grays Harbor County commissioner, scrambled Thursday morning to remove a Web site that he helped create called “Racks By Rhys.” It featured amateur photos of topless and completely nude women.
The popular FM radio host said he created the Web site four years ago with a friend as a joke and thought he had deleted it shortly thereafter.
“This is something we were playing around with to see how to build a Web page,” Davis said. “If you notice, it doesn’t even look good. As soon as we were done, I deleted all of the files on my laptop and I thought that would delete the Web site. But it didn’t. I regret this and I’m big time sorry.”
Running a campaign as the “People’s Candidate,” Davis, 54, of Hoquiam is hoping to unseat Commissioner Al Carter, a Democrat, in District 3.
Davis said he found out the Web site still existed when a reporter with Grays Harbor Radio, contacted him about the story about 6 a.m. Thursday. Within moments, Davis said he began trying to locate the Web site and delete it. It was taken down a few hours later.
Carter said he didn’t have any comment about the situation, but acknowledged hearing about the Web site and visiting it Thursday. He declined to say who told him about the Web site.
The site, www.racksbyrhys. com, featured more than a dozen women showing their breasts.
The Daily World
A litter of newborn kittens found Tuesday night in the undercarriage of a bus that had just made a round trip to Sea-Tac Airport seem to be doing fine, reports the bus company employee who took them in.
Mary Deguzman and her daughter have been taking shifts to feed the kittens every two hours, Deguzman said Thursday.
The newborns were apparently abandoned by their mother in the undercarriage of a Bellair Airporter Shuttle. After returning to the Ferndale bus yard, a Bellair driver heard mewing coming from the front of his bus.
Deguzman took in the kittens that night. She brought them back with her to work Wednesday to see if the mother cat would return for them, but she didn’t, Deguzman said.
Deguzman’s own cat is due to have a litter of kittens soon.
“We’re hoping when she does, we’re just going to sneak these little guys in there and feed her extra special,” she said.
The Bellingham Herald
A Bellingham woman died Wednesday evening when her sport utility vehicle plunged off the side of Chuckanut Drive, according to the Washington State Patrol.
Star C. Sams, 37, was driving her SUV south on Chuckanut near the Whatcom-Skagit county line about 7:30 p.m. near the Clayton Beach trailhead.
The SUV missed a curve, traveling off the road and down the cliff, according to the State Patrol.
Rescuers made their way to the car but found Sams already dead. No one else was in the vehicle.
Troopers are investigating to try to determine what caused Sams to miss the curve.
The Bellingham Herald
Two ongoing construction projects will cause traffic disruptions again next week on I-405.
There will be overnight closures of the right southbound lane of I-405 near NE 116th Street from 7 p.m. to 5 a.m. Monday through Thursday and there will be 15-minute rolling slowdowns on all southbound lanes near NE 116th Street between midnight and 5 a.m. each night next week.
Drivers should expect closures of up to three lanes of northbound I-405 in the Totem Lake area Monday through Thursday nights for paving and surveying. The first lane will close at 9 p.m. and all lanes will reopen by 6 a.m.
King County Journal
Citing the “political climate” of the local sheriff’s race, Kitsap County prosecutor Russ Hauge is referring the investigation of a sheriff’s deputy who shot a man out of a tree to the state’s attorney general’s office.
Hauge said Thursday he wants to ensure the probe of the shooting, which occurred June 22 in Navy Yard City, is “free from any claim of bias,” because of the complexity of the case and what has become a heated race for the next sheriff of Kitsap County.
The shooting began when William A. Jones, 32, of Bremerton climbed a tree and had reportedly been talking to himself. Deputies arrived in an attempt to remove him from the tree, and one is alleged to have mistakenly fired a handgun rather than a stun gun to bring him down.
Kitsap Sun
A bee in a blouse caused a head-on collision Wednesday afternoon that injured three people.
The Cowlitz County Sheriff’s Office said Barbara J. Lansing, 52, of Longview was driving when a bee buzzed through her vehicle window and flew inside her blouse.
Lansing’s vehicle crossed the center line and hit a southbound car, injuring the driver, Earl S. Holverson, 56, of Kelso and his 6-year-old grandson, Russell E. Scott of Longview, the report said.
The sheriff’s office said Holverson had a broken sternum, several broken ribs, a broken hip and numerous cuts on his face. He was treated and then transferred to another facility. His grandson’s front teeth were broken and he had facial injuries. Lansing bruised her right leg. They were treated and released.
The Daily News
The Federal Aviation Administration has given permission for larger planes to land at the Pullman Moscow Regional Airport in southeast Washington.
An FAA waiver approved Thursday will allow Boeing 737s and de Havilland Dash 8 Q-400s to land at the airport, which serves an area including Washington State University and the University of Idaho.
The waiver was granted after three years of work at the airport, including widening of the safety areas along the runway. Officials plan to have the larger planes landing by this fall.
Associated Press
Two divers aboard the Coast Guard icebreaker Healy died during a routine dive operation in the Arctic Ocean about 500 miles north of Barrow, Alaska, the agency said Friday.
The cause of deaths was being investigated, the Coast Guard said.
Lt. Jessica Hill, 30, of St. Augustine, Fla., and Petty Officer 2nd Class Steven Duque, 26, of Miami had entered the water Thursday afternoon to examine the ship’s rudder, which is done often as it operates in Arctic ice.
During such dives the ship sits idle, and pumps and propellers are disengaged, the Coast Guard said.
The 420-foot, Seattle-based Healy is primarily used for scientific research in the Arctic under sponsorship of the National Science Foundation.
Associated Press
Two teenagers who fled Oregon with two dozen stolen weapons were arrested in Montana after one of them shot himself in the leg, apparently while twirling a handgun on his finger.
Emily Ann Whitehead, 18, and Christopher Stahl, a juvenile, were arrested at a Missoula hospital’s emergency room Wednesday after Whitehead brought Stahl there for treatment of a gunshot wound.
Court records said the teens stole 25 guns and video gear from Stahl’s father in Terrebonne.
Whitehead was charged Thursday with obstructing a peace officer, deceptive practices and theft, all misdemeanors. Stahl has not appeared in court.
Associated Press
A quick-thinking YMCA leader averted tragedy Friday, grabbing the wheel of a bus loaded with schoolchildren after the driver suffered what police believe was a sudden seizure.
Assistant director Sarah Hansen, 22, of Ashland managed to maneuver the Laidlaw bus across one lane of traffic and to stop it in the fog lane, according to Oregon State Police.
None of the 19 children aboard was hurt, police said.
Emergency crews treated the victim while Hansen and the other counselor distracted the young people, said Lisa Rupert, associate executive director at the Medford YMCA, where Hansen works.
The driver was taken by ambulance to the Rogue Valley Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead, police said.
Associated Press
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