SEATTLE – A homeless shelter has set up camp beneath an elevated stretch of freeway here as organizers continue their search for a new building to call home.
Residents of Safe Haven slept in an abandoned warehouse until May, when the city found a paying customer to rent the space. They moved to St. James Cathedral, but were forced out when the Catholic church began renovations in June.
Safe Haven’s sponsor is SHARE, a group of current and former homeless people who run 15 shelters and help oversee two tent cities in the region.
Observers say SHARE’s shelters typically attract a higher proportion of the working homeless, those who have some income but nowhere to stay.
Associated Press
Truck stuck in tunnel blocks Highway 99
Northbound lanes of Highway 99 were backed up more than three miles along the Alaskan Way Viaduct in Seattle on Friday after a truck got stuck in a tunnel.
Police said the oversize truck became stuck just after 11 a.m. in the Battery Street tunnel. It was finally cleared more than two hours later after workers backed it out to an exit off the waterfront viaduct.
Traffic was jammed on the upper roadway of the viaduct, and along the surface level of Highway 99 to the Spokane Street viaduct, three miles to the south.
Associated Press
Auburn: Woman jumps on car to stop theft
A woman went for a wild ride Monday on top of a stolen car in Auburn after she tried to apprehend the person who was connected with the theft of another stolen car last week.
She jumped on the car and was carried for two blocks before she was able to get off. The suspect then drove off and hasn’t been located.
King County Journal
Shine: Hood Canal Bridge shut for work
The Hood Canal Bridge is closed.
Workers promptly blocked access to the floating bridge at 8 p.m. Thursday, clamping the main north Olympic Peninsula transportation lifeline to Puget Sound until 4 a.m. Monday.
Several hundred cars crossed the bridge in the final hour before its closure. Many spectators laughed and raised their thumbs up as last-minute commuters drove by honking.
The closure is the first of two scheduled in August as part of the Hood Canal Bridge’s estimated $285 million improvement.
The second three-day closure is scheduled from 8 p.m. Aug. 21 to 4 a.m. Aug. 25 to replace the approach span on the Jefferson County side.
State Department of Transportation officials hope to replace and widen the 44-year-old east floating half of the bridge by the end of 2009.
Peninsula Daily News
Tacoma: Teenager shoots himself in mouth
A 17-year-old boy accidentally shot himself in the mouth with a pistol early Thursday, Tacoma police reported.
The University Place resident suffered a serious wound and was taken to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle for treatment, said police spokeswoman Tracy Conaway. He was still hospitalized late Thursday. No one else was hurt.
The incident occurred about 2 a.m. in an apartment on S. 12th Avenue. Conaway said a group of young people was hanging out together when the 17-year-old boy pulled out a gun. It discharged, firing a bullet through his mouth into his head, Conaway said.
Detectives were interviewing witnesses, but it appears the shooting was an accident, she said.
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