LOS ANGELES – An Alaska Airlines flight en route to Seattle landed at Los Angeles International Airport a few minutes after takeoff Wednesday because of cabin pressure problems, an airline official said.

No one was injured and the 121 passengers who had left from Ontario International Airport were put on other flights to Seattle, said Alaska Airlines spokeswoman Amanda Tobin.

It was the second Alaska flight in as many days to fail to reach its destination because of pressurization problems.

Alaska Airlines has had three similar problems in the last two months. The incidents involved different types of aircraft, however, and Tobin said they appear to be unrelated. The Seattle-based airline has begun pressurization inspections of its entire fleet of 110 aircraft, she said.

Associated Press

Bow: Light plane crash kills one person

A twin-engine plane crashed Wednesday evening near the Skagit-Whatcom county line, killing the pilot, the Federal Aviation Administration reported.

The plane went down shortly before 7 p.m. near the intersection of Chuckanut Drive and Sunset Road.

The aircraft reportedly was en route from Bellingham to Ogden, Utah, according to an FAA spokesman. The pilot was not immediately identified.

Associated Press

Cougar: Group makes 11-mile hike to safety

When their pickup became stuck in the snow in a remote forest area of Skamania County on Monday, it meant an 11-mile walk for a Battle Ground-area man, his friend, her young son and the family dog.

“They did everything right for a bad situation,” Skamania County sheriff’s deputy George Barker said Tuesday, after Jerry Baker, Sandra Connors, 6-year-old Russell Connors and the dog made it safely to Eagles Cliff General Store in Cougar.

The group’s adventure began Monday morning, Barker said, when they went for a drive into snow country in a large pickup.

About noon Monday, when they tried to turn around, the pickup became high centered and stuck deep in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest

Wisely, Barker said, the group spent Monday night in the truck, running its engine so the heater would work. Temperatures were in the low 20s.

The group began walking about 7:30 a.m. Tuesday. They had boots and warm clothing.

After walking 11 miles, and only a few miles from the store, the party found someone who gave them a ride.

The Columbian

Auburn: Dogs listed as possible danger

America’s top dog, Rufus, who won the Westminster Dog Show last week, had best steer clear of Auburn as a new home.

The Auburn City Council on Tuesday labeled Rufus a potentially dangerous dog because of its breed: a bull terrier.

The bull terrier was among 12 breeds the council declared potentially dangerous, requiring their owners to register their dogs with the city or face a misdemeanor charge punishable by up to 90 days in jail, a $1,000 fine or both.

The new ordinance also makes it a gross misdemeanor for the owner of a dog that is declared dangerous not to comply with restrictions already in effect. A gross misdemeanor carries a penalty of up to one year in jail, a $5,000 fine or both.

Glen Bui with the American Canine Foundation told the council his nationwide group will sue the city to have the new provisions in the ordinance tossed out.

King County Journal

Port Angeles: Waves of red roll onto beach

The gray spell of winter was cast aside with bright red waves of algae rolling onto Hollywood Beach in Port Angeles.

The red algae is a kind of rock weed that was most likely shaken loose by strong eastern winds and high tides during the past few weeks, said Liam Antrim, a marine biologist with Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary.

The beached algae intensifies in color because of the aging process, Antrim said.

About five different species of red algae exist in the Pacific Northwest and are hard to distinguish from each other, he said.

However, all the species are safe and nontoxic, he said, and much different than the red-tide plankton that causes shellfish poisoning.

Peninsula Daily News

Longview: Police arrest woman in murder plot

A Longview woman was jailed Monday afternoon on suspicion of trying to hire someone to murder her ex-husband.

Longview police arrested Stephanie Lee Williams, 37, after a weeklong investigation.

According to police, Williams wanted her former husband dead because she was frustrated over child-custody issues and other problems. The couple were divorced in 2004, and the ex-husband has full custody of their children, the police report said.

The former husband, who lives in Longview, told police that Williams asked him on Feb. 12 if she could have the children for an extended time. He told her he “wasn’t comfortable” with that.

The next day, Williams asked a woman if she knew anyone who would kill her ex-husband, the police report said. Worried that Williams really meant it, the woman informed police detectives of the conversation.

The Daily News

Seattle: Release of Kennewick Man info

Scientists plan to disclose their findings about Kennewick Man on Thursday in Seattle, nearly a decade after the discovery of the 9,000-year-old skeleton that attracted worldwide interest and sparked a lengthy legal fight.

“Kennewick’s story is finally going to get told,” said Cleone Hawkinson, president of Friends of America’s Past. Hawkinson has been working for years to ensure Kennewick Man’s bones would be studied by the top scientists in the country.

Tri-City Herald