SEATTLE — Princess Cruises said a crew spent an extra two hours sanitizing the Sapphire Princess ship in Seattle on Sunday before passengers boarded for its next Alaska cruise.
Spokeswoman Julie Benson told KING-TV that 96 passengers who returned over the weekend from a seven-day trip sought medical attention for a norovirus, which causes vomiting and diarrhea.
Effort failing in legal pot initiative
An effort to legalize marijuana for adults in Washington is in danger of not making the ballot this year, after support from the state’s progressive establishment failed to materialize.
Initiative 1068 would remove all state penalties for marijuana possession, cultivation, use and sale. Campaign chairman Douglas Hiatt on Monday told the Associated Press more than 100,000 people have signed a petition to get the initiative on the ballot. The group needs 241,000 signatures.
Rainier climber presumed dead
A park spokesman said a climber missing after a weekend avalanche on Mount Rainier is presumed dead. Mount Rainier National Park spokesman Kevin Bacher said the park believes the climber is a 27-year-old man from Olympia, but is not releasing his name.
Not guilty plea in high school rape
A convicted sex offender who was enrolled in a Seattle high school pleaded not guilty Monday to a new charge of third-degree rape.
Prosecutors says 18-year-old Jose Reyes sexually touched a 14-year-old developmentally disabled girl on May 18 in a girls’ restroom at Roosevelt High School.
Reyes became a registered sex offender after pleading guilty to a charge of indecent liberties with force in 2007 in King County.
Walla Walla: Jail guard attacked
A Washington state spokeswoman said a state penitentiary inmate attacked a corrections officer with a sharpened toothbrush, causing superficial neck wounds.
Spokeswoman Shari Hall said the attack happened Monday morning in the common area of the Delta Unit, one of four close-custody living units housing high-risk offenders at the Walla Walla prison. She said the prisoner acted as if he were on his way to the shower.
Lake Forest Park: Woman stabbed
Police are looking for two men who stabbed a woman and took her jewelry as she was walking about 1 a.m. Monday in Lake Forest Park, a north Seattle suburb.
KIRO-TV reported the woman was able to walk home and call 911. She was taken to a hospital.
She said the men approached her while she was walking near Lake Forest Park Elementary.
Elma: Bear wakes up, leaves rest area
A rest area on Highway 8 near Elma is back open after a snoozing black bear woke up and left.
Transportation Department crews closed the rest stop about 5 p.m. Sunday because the bear was sleeping in a tree between the rest rooms and the truck parking area.
Fish and Wildlife Department spokesman Craig Bartlett said the bear woke up and left.
Ore.: Tips flood in on missing boy
Twenty-two state, local and federal agencies are following up on more than 1,200 tips in the search for a 7-year-old Portland boy who has been missing for four days.
Kyron Horman disappeared from Skyline Elementary School on Friday. Multnomah County sheriff’s deputies and volunteers have been searching the densely wooded area near the pastoral school since then.
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