SEATTLE — The 48-car ferry Rhododendron was out of service for three hours Saturday morning on the Point Defiance-Tahlequah run because something was caught in its propeller.
Washington State Ferries spokeswoman Hadley Greene says the ferry went out of service at about 7 a.m. and returned to service at 10:10 a.m. She says it’s unknown what was struck in the vessel’s propeller.
The run is from Tacoma to the south end of Vashon Island. The Rhododendron regularly runs every 50 minutes.
@3. Headline News Briefs 14 no:Former university trustee gets 5 years
A former Whitworth University trustee has been sentenced to five years in prison for bilking an elderly woman out of $150,000.
Tom Delanty of Everett was convicted in November of 26 of 28 counts of first- and second-degree theft.
King County prosecutors say Delanty stole $150,000 from Huegli from 2000-05. At the time, Delanty was Huegli’s financial adviser and a Whitworth trustee.
Delanty insisted Nancy “Betty” Huegli wanted him to have the money because he was like a son. But Superior Court Judge Chris Washington told Delanty he believed he spent time with Huegli as an investment, not in friendship, and the relationship went sour only when Huegli and her family “saw your true colors.”
Huegli, now 92, lives in a Gig Harbor nursing home and was too frail to attend Friday’s sentencing of the 52-year-old Delanty. The courtroom was filled with Huegli’s family.
Huegli was in her 80s and living in Bellevue when Delanty began to help her with household tasks and bill-paying.
@3. Headline News Briefs 14 no:Four file for county elections director
State Sen. Pam Roach, R-Auburn, and former King County Councilman David Irons have filed to run for King County Elections director.
A Seattle newspaper reports Irons, also a Republican, and Roach will go against current elections director Sherril Huff in the Feb. 3 nonpartisan election.
The newspaper says Bill Anderson and Christopher Clifford have also filed for the position, which pays $146,000 a year.
On Nov. 4, voters changed the county charter to make the position an elective one. There will be no primary and whoever finishes first wins, even if they get a vote count short of a majority. The initial term runs to the end of 2011.
@3. Headline News Briefs 14 no:Bellevue man denies ties to Nazi crimes
In a new court filing that asks a federal judge to throw his case out, an elderly Bellevue man who faces being stripped of his U.S. citizenship for allegedly lying about his membership in a Nazi death squad denies the allegations.
A Seattle newspaper reports Peter Egner accuses the federal government of delaying its pursuit of him for so long that witnesses who could have helped in his defense have died and evidence has been lost.
The 86-year-old Egner says he knows nothing about the Einsatzgruppe, a Nazi-run Serbian police unit that rounded up Jews, political prisoners and other enemies of the Third Reich in the wake of Hitler’s attack on the Soviet Union in the early 1940s.
Lynden: Two suspected of donation kettle theft
The Bellingham Salvation Army reports it lost an estimated $300 to $800 last weekend when a man stole one of its donation kettles outside Lynden’s Food Pavilion.
Major Ken Dove told The Bellingham Herald that a man tore the kettle from its padlock off the stand Dec. 6 while a Salvation Army worker went on a break.
Lynden Police Deputy Chief John Billester said security cameras caught the theft on tape and police are working on identifying two men believed to be involved.
Oregon: Bank blast kills bomb expert
A bomb blast at a Woodburn-area bank killed a local police officer and a state bomb disposal technician.
Police said Saturday they had no suspects and didn’t know the motive.
“That person is dangerous and needs to be found as soon as possible,” said Lt. Gregg Hastings, spokesman for the Oregon State Police.
The explosion occurred late Friday afternoon after police arrived at the West Coast Bank branch office to check a suspicious device.
State police say the inside of the bank was extensively damaged. A bank employee found the bomb in bushes outside the bank, and officers took it inside, when it exploded.
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