Teachers in Bellevue vote to go on strike
BELLEVUE — Teachers in Bellevue have voted to strike, meaning classes won’t start Tuesday for some 16,000 students in the east Seattle suburb.
Key issues for some 1,200 teachers, counselors and other classroom specialists are pay and curriculum.
Contract talks with the Bellevue School District reached an impasse over the weekend, and a mediator was called in to help. District spokeswoman Ann Oxrieder says a lengthy negotiating session ended late this afternoon without a contract.
Bellevue city leaders say they’ll support an expanded Boys &Girls Club day camp on Tuesday to provide child care and could open two additional day camps if the strike continues through Thursday.
D.C.: Soldier from Spokane killed in Iraq
The Department of Defense says a 23-year-old soldier from Spokane has been killed in Iraq.
The Pentagon said Monday that Spc. Carlo E. Alfonso, died last Tuesday of injuries he received when his vehicle struck an improvised explosive device in Sadr City.
Alfonso was assigned to the 40th Engineer Battalion, 2d Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, based in Baumholder, Germany.
Forks: Vancouver man escapes from prison
Washington Department of Corrections officials say a prisoner has escaped from the minimum-security Olympic Corrections Center about 25 miles south of Forks.
Michael D. Johnson, 22, of Vancouver, Wash., was last seen in his living quarters at the prison about 6 p.m. Saturday, but couldn’t be found Sunday morning, the department said in a news release. Corrections Sgt. Jack Cornish says officials don’t immediately know how Johnson was able to get away.
Johnson had been at the prison for less than a week on drug violations and firearms possession convictions, according to court records. He is described as 5 feet, 4 inches tall and about 140 pounds with a slender build.
South Dakota: Fight blamed on Hells Angels
Hells Angels members started a bar fight that led to a shooting during the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, according to Meade County State’s Attorney Jesse Sondreal.
An investigation shows the Hells Angels “instigated the assault” in a fight with the Iron Pigs, another motorcycle club, at the Loud American Roadhouse in Sturgis, Sondreal said in an e-mail.
Witnesses and authorities have said the two clubs got into a fight just before the Aug. 9 shooting.
Seattle police Detective Ronald Smith, an Iron Pigs member, is accused of shooting Hells Angel member Joseph Patrick McGuire, 33, who was hospitalized.
Smith, 43, has said he was attacked and that he fired in self-defense.
A grand jury has charged both Smith and McGuire, an Imperial Beach, Calif., native, with felony aggravated assault and a misdemeanor alternative count of simple assault. They can only be convicted of one of the charges.
Smith also faces a felony charge of perjury and a misdemeanor of carrying a concealed pistol without a permit.
Associated Press
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