OCEAN SHORES – Some of the last large pieces of a shipwreck are being removed from the dunes at Damon Point State Park in Ocean Shores.
The Global Diving and Salvage company is performing the work for the state Ecology Department.
Crews have been removing sludge from the old ship’s tanks since last year when a beachcomber poking around discovered the oil.
The ship, the Catala (kuh-TALL-uh), had been a floating hotel at the 1962 World’s Fair in Seattle. It ran aground at Ocean Shores and was buried under sand for decades until it was exposed a few years ago by winter storms.
Puyallup: Suspicious fire burns amphitheater
A fire has destroyed the stage at an amphitheater near Puyallup.
Central Pierce Fire and Rescue Chief Jack Andren says the fire is listed as suspicious until investigators determine how it started.
The fire was reported about 11 p.m. Tuesday and destroyed the two-story outdoor stage that was once used for religious productions.
The amphitheater hasn’t been used for a couple of years and was recently sold to the Pierce County parks department.
Seattle: Man charged in downtown shooting
A Seattle man has been charged with first-degree murder and attempted murder for a downtown shooting that left one man dead and a passerby wounded.
Jasper A. Harris, 25, spoke briefly to Carlos Lamont Rodriguez before taking an AK-47 rifle from the trunk of a car and shooting Rodriguez in the back near Pine Street and Second Avenue on Friday night, investigators said.
A second man who was passing by was shot in the leg.
Officials have not disclosed a motive for the shooting but have said the dead man and the shooter apparently did not know each other.
Harris was arrested shortly after the shooting, after he was found in a nearby trash bin. His arraignment is scheduled for Tuesday in King County Superior Court.
Shoreline woman convicted of hate crime
A 25-year-old woman accused of making racist remarks to the Middle Eastern owner of a delicatessen was convicted of a hate crime by a King County Superior Court jury.
Nichol A. Kirk of Shoreline was found guilty of assault and malicious harassment on Tuesday and faces six to 12 months in jail.
Prosecutors said Kirk and Brian Lappin, 35, of Seattle entered Saleh’s Delicatessen and Kirk began shouting racial epithets at the clerk when he refused to sell the couple beer and cigarettes.
The owner of the business asked the pair to leave, and Lappin became verbally aggressive as well, police and prosecutors said. A scuffle ensued.
The clerk and business owner are from Yemen.
Lappin pleaded guilty to malicious harassment in April and was sentenced to nine months in jail.
Tacoma: Shipping company pleads guilty
A Greek shipping company has agreed to pay a $1 million fine after pleading guilty in U.S. District Court to illegally dumping oily wastes into the ocean, the U.S. attorney’s office says.
A portion of the fine to be paid by the company, Calypso Marine, will be used for environmental restoration projects in the Columbia River estuary and along the coasts of Oregon and Washington. The company entered its plea on Monday.
Coast Guard inspectors boarded the 35,000-ton bulk carrier Tina M when it was anchored in Kalama, a port on the Columbia River, on May 21. It came to the United States from South Korea.
The vessel’s chief engineer, Jesus Sedigo Reyes, who directed the discharge activity by the ship’s crew, pleaded guilty to making a false statement to the Coast Guard. He is scheduled to be sentenced July 6.
Crew members had been ordered to conduct discharge activities at night to minimize the risk of detection.
Associated Press
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