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Hawks’ drought over. While the National Football League’s most valuable player looked on, the Seattle Seahawks made a little history Saturday afternoon. The Seahawks won a playoff game for the first time in 21 years, finishing off the Washington Redskins 20-10 despite playing the last three quarters without running back Shaun Alexander.
Scott Johnson
Tribes sue to stop park. The state still hopes to open a new state park on Camano Island this year, even though the Tulalip Tribes recently filed an appeal to stop it after ancestral graves were found there. “We feel they have chosen not to listen to any of our spiritual concerns and are proceeding to open this park in 2006 as a tourist attraction on the graves of our ancestors,” said Hank Gobin, the Tulalips’ cultural resources director.
Cathy Logg
No regrets for Burt. In the end, Kayla Burt said there were no tears, no anger and no regrets. There was just a sense of peace in knowing what she had already accomplished and that pushing it any further wouldn’t be worth it. The former Arlington High School basketball star and member of the University of Washington women’s basketball team garnered national attention after she suffered a heart attack in 2002 that forced her from the team. She returned in 2004, earning respect nationwide, including the 2005 Herald Woman of the Year in Sports award.
Mike Allende
House fire may be arson. Federal agents are investigating the likelihood that ecoterrorists ignited a fire Tuesday morning that gutted a $3 million house under construction. Someone spray-painted a threatening message on a pink bedsheet and draped it across the front gate to the house in the 1000 block of Good Road, FBI spokeswoman Robbie Burroughs said. No one was injured in the fire.
Diana Hefley
Schools may add to math requirement. Students starting ninth grade in Everett high schools in the fall could face an extra year of math. More math is just one of several changes the Everett School District could make to its graduation requirements in an effort to better prepare students for college and jobs. Other highlights include giving students who take challenging courses a bump up in class rank, and requiring extra classes for those who fail portions of the Washington Assessment of Student Learning.
Melissa Slager
Cable fix for I-5 on fast track. Now that the state believes it has solved a deadly mystery on I-5 in Marysville, it is moving as quickly as it can to fix the problem. Planting a second fence of steel cable barriers in the I-5 median should make the stretch of freeway in Marysville as safe as any other section of cable-protected road in the state, the Department of Transportation said in a report due for release today. It will take until fall for the $2.5 million cable barrier to be installed.
Lukas Velush
Pencil isn’t safe enough, voters fret. In essence, there has risen a stink in favor of ink. Snohomish County election officials sent out new mail-ballot instructions this week to 164,000 voters telling them to use only No. 2 lead pencils to mark their ballots. The trouble is, 10 voters who had just received their ballots called election officials worried that their votes could be erased. Voters used to be able to use either a black ink pen or a No. 2 pencil. But that caused problems in November, when some people voted with felt pens that bled through some paper ballots, making it difficult for election machines to tabulate their votes. So in with pencils, out with pens.
Jeff Switzer
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