TACOMA — A Tacoma man accused of e-mailing death threats to state and local elected officials, including Gov. Gary Locke, has entered a modified guilty plea. David W. Cooksey, 49, was charged with intimidating a public servant, threatening to bomb or injure property, threatening the governor and his family, and drunken driving. He entered a modified guilty plea Monday in Pierce County Superior Court, maintaining his innocence but acknowledging that a jury would likely convict him. Judge Frank Cuthbertson sentenced Cooksey to a year and a day in prison, with credit for the seven months he has served awaiting trial.
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Mount Vernon: Family has a history of abuse
The father of a foster parent charged with 44 counts of first-degree child rape, first-degree child molestation and sexual exploitation of a minor was himself a child rapist, according to court records. Fifteen years ago, Harold Edgar Young pleaded guilty to second-degree child rape after two of his granddaughters accused him of sexual molestation. Prosecutors allege Harold Young’s 41-year-old son, Ronald H. Young, sexually abused six young boys under his care at the home he and his wife share on Key Peninsula, west of Tacoma. Ronald Young is accused of photographing the abuse and posting some of the photos on the Internet.
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Vancouver: $25 gifts surprise students
Clark College student Diane Simpson was among students who received one of 14 gift certificates worth $25 apiece that Clark alumni handed out Monday afternoon at the college bookstore. Alumni club president Bruce Gateley startled the store full of shoppers about 4:30 p.m. when he announced that everybody should stop right where they were. Then Gateley explained what the alumni were up to, and seven members of the group each handed a gift certificate to someone in line. The alums waited about 15 minutes and then handed out another seven gift certificates to a new group of shoppers.
The Columbian
Port Angeles: New
cemetery dedicated
Lower Elwha Klallam tribal officials completed an expansion of the tribe’s cemetery with an ancient burning ceremony Sunday afternoon. Tribal members have been working more than 40 years to expand the memorial park, known as Place Road Cemetery, to allow for future generations of Lower Elwha tribal members. Tribal officials say they are searching for a burial site near the waterfront graving yard to rebury skeletal remains recovered from the state Department of Transportation’s graving yard site in Port Angeles .
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