COPALIS BEACH – Two men died Sunday after they and a friend were caught in a powerful rip-tide while surf-fishing for perch off Copalis Beach, according to the Grays Harbor Sheriff’s Office.
After watching his friends get swept away, Mao H. Chen, 54, of Redmond, ran to the nearby Green Lantern Tavern and alerted authorities.
Hung-Sun Tsai, 57 of Olympia, survived after being carried to shore by members of the Ocean Shores Surf Rescue team. He was taken to Grays Harbor Community Hospital in Aberdeen, where he was treated for hypothermia, then released.
The other two men – one 61 from Bellevue, the other 42 from Highlands Ranch, Colo. – were already lifeless when the rescuers brought them ashore, Chief Criminal Deputy Dave Pimentel said. The Sheriff’s Office is not releasing their names because next of kin may not yet have been notified.
The Daily World
Lake Kachess: Plane wreckage discovered
The wreckage of a missing Czechoslovakian-made L-39 training jet, missing since last October, has been found west of Lake Kachess and north of Gale Creek in a heavily-wooded area. Some of the remains of the occupants were also found.
Kittitas County Undersheriff Clay Myers said pieces of the 40-foot-long aircraft were discovered about three weeks ago by hikers roaming in the area. No pieces were larger than a car door, he said.
An intensive, nearly weeklong search for the plane and its passengers, pilot Rocky Stewart of Hollister, Calif., and Scott Smith, no address given, was called off Oct. 25 when nothing was found. Searchers were looking in a 2,700-square-mile area north of Cle Elum and south of U.S. 2 for the downed plane. Myers said the wreckage was a little more than one mile off the search pattern.
The Daily Record
Spokane: Transgender lawsuit dismissed
A federal judge has ruled against a U.S. Customs and Border Protection employee who claimed discrimination by co-workers after undergoing a sex change.
Tracy Nichole Sturchio, formerly known as Ronald Sturchio, sued the Department of Homeland Security, alleging a hostile workplace, retaliation and sexual discrimination.
After a six-day bench trial, U.S. District Judge Robert Whaley said in a ruling made public Monday that Sturchio failed to prove discrimination under federal law.
Associated Press
Kitsap County: Police arrest deadbeat parents
Local police spent Sunday rounding up parents who owed child support and never showed up for court.
Kitsap Sheriff’s spokesman Deputy Scott Wilson said officers from the sheriff’s office, Bremerton police, State Patrol and Port Orchard police searched for parents with a total of 85 civil warrants that had been issued after they failed to show up for court hearings.
Some people rounded up had more than one warrant. The majority of the parents were fathers.
More than 15 people were booked into Kitsap County jail with the aim they would pay back their owed child support, in some cases totaling tens of thousands of dollars.
The Kitsap Sun
Port Angeles: Sea monster film shooting
Ever had that feeling when you’re swimming in a body of water and your feet can no longer touch bottom that there’s something else in the water with you, watching?
That’s one of the themes being explored in a new, short film featuring locations on the north Olympic Peninsula and two actors from Clallam County.
Part fact, mostly fiction, the story of “Willatuk: The Legend of Seattle’s Sea Serpent” is also a metaphor for a healthy relationship between humans and their environment, said Oliver Tuthill Jr., the film’s writer, director and producer.
The cast and crew filmed on the Makah Reservation recently and on Saturday filmed segments in Kenmore, a suburb of Seattle that borders Lake Washington.
The Peninsula Daily News
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