BANGOR – A Trident submarine was damaged after snagging a tow line in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and the Coast Guard is investigating, Navy officials said.
The USS Nevada was submerged when it caught and severed a 500-foot line between the tugboat Phyllis Dunlap and one of two barges being towed from Honolulu to Seattle with a load of empty containers late Tuesday or early Wednesday, Coast Guard Petty Officer Paul Roszkowski said.
A second tugboat was sent to retrieve the barge, he said.
Members of the sub’s crew felt the impact, and damage was found in a fiberglass part of the sail, the large vertical structure on top of the sub, after the vessel returned to its base on Hood Canal, Navy Lt. H.K. Sweeney said.
Spokane: Man arrested for burning a cross
An 18-year-old Spokane man has been arrested in connection with a July 15 cross burning in front of the apartment of a black man in nearby Spirit Lake, Idaho.
Nicholas J. Schmitt was arrested Thursday.
Schmitt and Michael R. Simmons, 23, allegedly burned a cross fashioned from Tiki torches in front of the man’s apartment. The resident awoke to find the burned cross on the lawn of his apartment.
Arrest warrants were issued last month for Schmitt and Simmons, but Kootenai County Prosecutor Bill Douglas said authorities were not able to locate Simmons.
Douglas said both men likely will be charged with malicious harassment, which is a felony hate crime in Idaho and is punishable by up to five years in prison and $5,000 in fines.
Olympia: Court requires DUI recording warning
Drivers whose sobriety is in question must be told if they are being recorded, and if the warning is not audible the recording cannot be used as evidence, the state Supreme Court has ruled
At the same time, in a case covering four disputes over recordings in drunken driving investigations in 2001 and 2002, including two in Auburn, the high court ruled unanimously Thursday that even if a recording is made improperly, other evidence can be used against the driver.
As a result, the ruling revived at least two driving-under-the-influence cases that had been dismissed by judges who ruled that because investigators failed to warn drivers before taping them, all other evidence was also invalid.
Tacoma: Boater dies in apparent accident
A man has died in an apparent boating collision, police said.
Brian Hendry, 49, of Tacoma was found dead on some rocks Thursday morning after officers received a report of a boating accident, Officer Mark Fulghum said.
Hendry apparently went out in his 19-foot boat Tuesday evening and hit some pilings near the site of the old Asarco copper smelter in Ruston, not far from where his body was found, Fulghum said.
Hendry’s vehicle and boat trailer were found early Wednesday at the Point Defiance Marina.
Oregon: Man arrested for abandoning baby
A 37-year-old transient from Wyoming is facing child abandonment charges after his 8-month-old baby was found alone Friday morning in a stairwell at a Gresham motel.
Two sisters who live at the motel found the boy wrapped in a blanket, with a warm bottle of formula tucked next to him.
About four hours later, a man identifying himself as the boy’s father, Danny Martinez, arrived at the Gresham Police Department, said Officer Grant McCormick.
Detectives interviewed Martinez for four hours, and then arrested him. He was also accused of third-degree rape, for an incident involving a 16-year-old girl at a Gresham hotel earlier this week.
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