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As fires rage, feds cut funding on prevention
As the West battles one catastrophic wildfire after another, the federal government is spending less and less on its main program for preventing blazes in the first place. A combination of government austerity and the ballooning cost of battling the ruinous fires has taken a bite out of federal efforts ...
EPA levies $2.5M penalty against US cement maker
The Environmental Protection Agency levied a $2.5 million penalty against a big cement maker and required the company to invest $30 million in pollution controls at plants in nine states alleged to have violated the federal Clean Air Act. Ash Grove Cement Co.'s penalty was announced Wednesday by the EPA ...
Renton man pleads guilty to selling fake Chihulys
The U.S. attorney's office says a Renton man who made $40,000 selling generic pieces of glasswork on the Internet as Chihuly (shuh-HOO'-lee) artwork pleaded guilty Wednesday in Seattle. Thirty-five-year-old Michael Little could get up to 20 years in prison when he is sentenced Oct. 4 in federal court for wire ...
Energy Secretary visits Hanford site in Wash.
Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said Wednesday he intends to have a new plan by the end of the summer for resolving technical problems with a waste treatment plant under construction at the nation's most contaminated nuclear site. The waste treatment plant has long been considered the cornerstone of cleanup at ...
Time Lapse: Rebuilding Bridge Post-collapse
Traffic is moving again across the Interstate 5 Skagit River bridge in Mount Vernon, a key route in Washington between Seattle and Canada. (June 19)
Man convicted of fraud wins appeal in 9th circuit
The conviction of a former Alaska prosecutor on wire fraud charges is no longer valid, a federal appeals court has determined. A 2010 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court narrowed the definition of the kind of wire fraud to which Avery pleaded guilty in 2007, according to an opinion issued ...
Diverted United 787 passengers resume Tokyo trip
Passengers from a United Airlines Denver-to-Tokyo flight that diverted to Seattle when the Boeing 787 had an oil filter issue resumed their trip Wednesday, a spokeswoman said. The airline put about 200 passengers in hotels Tuesday night and they took off from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Wednesday morning on another 787, ...
Correction: Dish-Sprint story
In a story June 18 about Dish Network Corp.'s announcement that it will not submit a revised bid to purchase Sprint Nextel Corp., The Associated Press reported erroneously that Softbank's competing bid for Sprint falls short of Dish's. In fact, the two offers are not directly comparable. Softbank is offering ...
Traffic returns to Wash. bridge that collapsed
Cars and trucks are rolling again across the Interstate 5 Skagit River bridge, restoring the traffic flow on the main route between Seattle and Vancouver, British Columbia. A temporary span opened Wednesday morning, replacing a section of the bridge that collapsed May 23 when it was struck by a truck ...
Port Angeles woman sentenced for role in killing
A Port Angeles woman who watched her boyfriend strangle her friend and helped dispose of the body won't spend any more time behind bars. A Clallam County Superior Court judge sentenced 27-year-old Kendell K. Huether on Tuesday to 17 months. With credit for the year-and-a-half she has spent in jail ...
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