BREMERTON — More bones have been found at a south Kitsap County construction site where cadaver-sniffing dogs indicated the possible presence of human remains. The site is near the spot where a boot containing a severed foot was discovered over the weekend.
Kitsap County sheriff’s spokesman Scott Wilson had little information about the discovery late Monday. The Kitsap Sun says the bones have been turned over to forensics specialists with the King County Medical Examiner’s Office.
After the dogs alerted Monday, digging began with an excavator but stopped when detectives said they saw something in the dirt. Wilson says investigators then began more delicate digging.
A construction worker found the boot and foot on Saturday evening.
Mercer Island: Stolen car chase ends with police shooting, three arrests
Police say the car involved in a chase and police shooting on Mercer Island was stolen.
Police also say they no longer believe there was a fourth suspect who got away. Three are in custody.
Commander Leslie Burns says the incident began about 4:30 a.m. Monday when the stolen car sped away from the officer attempting to make a traffic stop. The chase ended on a dead-end street.
As the officer walked toward the car, Burns said, the driver reversed into the officer, causing a minor injury to his hand. He fired a couple of shots into the car. Three people ran away, but were caught.
Burns said officers have impounded a second stolen car that may have been involved.
Bellevue police are investigating the shooting.
Port Angeles: Jefferson County mystery dome is old Navy camera site
The director of the naval Undersea Museum at Keyport has identified a mysterious domelike structure near Dabob Bay in Jefferson County.
Bill Galvani said it housed a camera used to track Navy torpedo tests in Dabob Bay in the 1960s.
A photo of the site published in The Peninsula Daily News also was identified by Chimacum resident Fred Schubert, a retired weapons test director for the Navy who operated the camera. He said there were three domes that were replaced by new technology and closed by the end of the 1970s.
Kent: Federal Way man pleads not guilty in wife’s poisoning
A Federal Way man accused of poisoning his wife has pleaded not guilty to a murder charge.
KOMO-TV reported Joseph Naimo remains in jail on $5 million bail after Monday’s arraignment in King County Superior Court in Kent.
Prosecutors say the 62-year-old manager of a Kent pest control company used strychnine last November to kill his 53-year-old wife, Ann Naimo.
He told police she had a heart valve problem and became unresponsive after drinking alcohol.
Seattle: Sentencing Wednesday for rapist convicted of murder
A rapist already sentenced to life in prison is scheduled to receive another sentence Wednesday in Seattle for murder.
Curtis Thompson, 45, was convicted last month in King County Superior Court of stabbing a woman to death during a sexual attack. It was the third conviction for Thompson for a crime spree in August 2004 that included rape and assaults.
Thompson previously spent time in prison for four rapes, but in 2003 a Seattle jury declined to commit him as a sex predator because he said religion had transformed his life.
Clallam Bay: Japanese-American gets diploma, 67 years after WWII
In 1942, Taky Kimura was 18 years old, preparing for his high school graduation in Clallam Bay.
Instead, he and his family were confined along with other Japanese-Americans at a camp in California, where they spent the rest of World War II. But this Friday, Kimura will return to Clallam Bay High School to receive his diploma at last.
Kimura lives in Seattle and operates the Jun Fan Gung Fu Institute of martial arts, which was founded by Bruce Lee. Some of his students helped arrange for him to receive his diploma.
Kimura says he holds no bitterness against the government for what happened 67 years ago. As for his diploma, he says he is honored and humbled that the school would want him to participate.
Tacoma: Seven years after vandalism, glass plaza to reopen
A plaza outside Tacoma’s Museum of Glass was closed after kids broke one of the glass tube sculptures nearly seven years ago. Tacoma has spent around $175,000 to rebuild the “Water Forest” plaza, which is scheduled to reopen this week.
The plaza originally included 20 tubes of glass and bronze. Now they’ve been redesigned and rebuilt, with the top half made out of acrylic, a type of plastic, and the bottom half made of bronze.
Two boys roughhousing in the plaza pushed over one of the original glass tubes, which fell and shattered, leading city officials to question the safety of the pieces of art.
The News Tribune of Tacoma reported the plaza is scheduled to reopen on Wednesday.
Oregon: Contraband-for-sex alleged at women’s prison
The Oregon State Police arrested two former maintenance workers accused of trading drugs or illegal contraband to female inmates in exchange for sexual favors.
Lt. Gregg Hastings said Monday that 37-year-old Richard Rick of Beaverton and 34-year-old Troy Austin of St. Paul had maintenance jobs that placed them in contact with inmates at the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, a women’s prison in Wilsonville.
The investigation started in November, when heroin was found in an inmate’s cell.
Austin is charged with custodial sexual misconduct. Rick is accused of supplying contraband, custodial sexual misconduct and unlawful delivery of heroin and meth.
Both men have been lodged in the Washington County Jail.
Alaska: Three on cruise ship confirmed with swine flu
Three crew members on a cruise ship that visited Ketchikan tested positive for swine flu.
The 1,460-passenger Zaandam from Holland America Line was on a seven-night, round-trip cruise that departed Seattle on May 29 and returned Friday. It visited Ketchikan on Wednesday.
Vice president of public relations Sally Andrews said no passengers were identified with the virus.
Affected crew members were treated and isolated in their cabins. Andrews said symptoms were minor and they’re recovering.
The federal Centers for Disease Control was alerted.
The Zaandam took on new passengers Friday.
Andrews says Holland America distributed a letter to disembarking and embarking passengers about the situation. The Zaandam is scheduled Wednesday to be back in Ketchikan.
Associated Press
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