OMAK — Work on a casino in Omak has been halted after human remains were found.
Colville tribal officials say a new location will be sought for the $24 million casino.
Work began July 7 after a groundbreaking ceremony at the site on U.S. 97.
Tribal Chairwoman Jeanne Jerred says she doesn’t know how old the remains are or whether workers found the remains of more than one person. The casino was scheduled to open next summer and was expected to employ 250 people.
Seattle: Fire crews rescue man in trench
After two hours, rescue crews have freed a construction worker who had been trapped from the waist down in a ditch filled with dirt, concrete and asphalt in West Seattle.
The man was not identified Wednesday afternoon and his condition was not immediately known.
@3. Headline News Briefs 14 no:Phone calls fair game in shooting trial
A recent Washington Supreme Court ruling that inmates’ phone calls aren’t private likely means jurors in the second trial of Naveed Haq will hear what he told his parents in phone calls from the King County Jail.
Haq stormed into a Seattle Jewish center in 2006 and shot six women — one fatally — as he ranted against Israel and the Iraq war.
King County prosecutors say the ruling has allowed them to access recordings of Haq’s calls. Prosecutors say some of Haq’s comments about being a martyr could help their case, while Haq’s own lawyers say his remarks could help bolster their claim that he was insane.
@3. Headline News Briefs 14 no:Diesel spilled from tug at Terminal 5
The Coast Guard and state Ecology Department are investigating a 100- to 400-gallon diesel oil spill in the west Duwamish Waterway in Seattle.
Ecology spokeswoman Kim Schmanke says a boom was deployed quickly enough to contain practically all of the spill.
Schmanke says the diesel leaked Tuesday evening while being moved from one tank to another on the tugboat James T. Quigg, owned by Olympic Tug and Barge. The crew had just finished loading fuel into a cargo ship at Terminal Five, and Schmanke says there was no leak during that operation.
@3. Headline News Briefs 14 no:Police arrest man in traffic-circle death
Seattle police have arrested a 28-year-old man accused in the beating death of a 60-year-old man at a traffic circle last week.
Police Director John Hayes says Brian Keith Brown’s family contacted the Seattle branch of the NAACP, which helped coordinate his arrest on Wednesday.
Brown is accused of knocking James Paroline to the ground with a single punch on July 10 after Brown intervened in a dispute Paroline was having with several teenage girls. An autopsy showed the victim fractured the back of his skull. The King County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled the cause of death was a head injury.
Brown was charged by King County prosecutors this week with second-degree murder.
Rome: Hearing set in student slain case
A date has been set for a court hearing on whether an American and two other suspects in the slaying of a British college student in Italy must face trial, a lawyer for one of the suspects said Wednesday.
A judge is expected to rule at the Sept. 16 hearing on whether Amanda Knox, 21, of Seattle; her former Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito; and Ivory Coast citizen Rudy Hermann Guede be tried for the slaying of Meredith Kercher, said Sollecito’s lawyer Luca Maori.
Associated Press
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