News 2008-08-04 Andanh.com

Family mourns son who was stabbed to death Mon, 04 Aug 2008 03:59 GMT
Family members have identified a 21-year-old man who died after being stabbed in the chest as Tomasz Matczak. Issaquah police arrested the man's 19-year-old girlfriend in connection with his death and booked her into King County Jail over the weekend.

Seattle security expert helped uncover major design flaw on Internet Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:59 GMT
A Seattle Internet security expert recently discovered a major threat against the fabric of the Web.

Getting There: Left turner must drive full circle, big or not Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:24 GMT
Maneuvering in traffic circle; turning from First Avenue onto Pike Street; dangerous intersection at James Street and Terry Avenue

Man recalls bear attack in Montana Sun, 03 Aug 2008 20:28 GMT
EUGENE, Ore. Steve Bartley of Springfield recognizes the irony in the way his plan to motorcycle through the Montana mountains was interrupted.

Possible sites unveiled for Delridge Skate Park Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:31 GMT
Earlier this week, officials from Seattle Parks and Recreation and representatives from Grindline Designs and Abottswood Design Group unveiled three potential sites for the Delridge Skate Park, the area's first public skate park.

$1 million lottery winner says third tour is his 'duty' Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:36 GMT
YAKIMA Instead of its exercises with tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles, the Washington National Guard's 81st Brigade Combat Team is relearning the use of quicker and lighter armored Humvees and other vehicles to protect supply convoys.

Possible human foot found ashore in Clallam County Mon, 04 Aug 2008 03:20 GMT
A shoe with what is believed to be a human foot was found on a Clallam County beach, and U.S. authorities are working with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to see if there's a connection to five feet that have washed ashore there.

New GI Bill assistance offers tuition coverage Mon, 04 Aug 2008 05:02 GMT
Increasing numbers of veterans are using federal benefits for community colleges or for-profit schools, rather than traditional four-year universities.

City Hall takes the Excess Award in fall vote Mon, 04 Aug 2008 05:08 GMT
A dog-days-of-summer rundown on causes, candidates and issues.

Ralph V. Heino Sr., 1918-2008: Violinist 'very passionate about the arts' Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:42 GMT
Ralph V. Heino, Sr., a violinist, composer and a former member of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, died July 26.

It pays to own a home at Seafair Mon, 04 Aug 2008 05:07 GMT
As crowds enjoyed the final day of Seattle's annual hydroplane races at Seafair, residents around Genesee Park earned extra money and authorities arrested suspected drunken boaters.

Service held for mother, daughter killed in crash Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:38 GMT
A memorial service for Elizabeth "Beth" Crews, 10, and her mother, Brenda Houston, 47, who were killed in a plane crash last week drew, more than 400 people to an Auburn-area church.

British Columbia celebrates its 150th birthday Mon, 04 Aug 2008 05:04 GMT
VICTORIA, B.C. Canada's youngest and westernmost province, home of the Spirit Bear and the birthplace of Greenpeace and Joni Mitchell, is celebrating its 150th anniversary.

She's there when other people's kids need her Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:10 GMT
After surviving unspeakable horror, Sheila Singleton is working to help build better lives for other people's children.

Tricky spot on Oregon river takes three lives Sun, 03 Aug 2008 20:29 GMT
AGNESS, Ore. In June 2007 Valerie Casey, 47, of Phoenix, Ariz., fell out of her raft at Blossom Bar Rapids on the Rogue River and drowned, trapped against a rock. It happened again last June 27 to Cynthia Vontungeln, 52, of Irvine, Calif., who shared an inflatable kayak with another woman.

Oregon dam removal provides new information Sun, 03 Aug 2008 20:29 GMT
SANDY, Ore. The Marmot Dam on the Sandy River wasn't huge but it released major new information about river restoration when it was removed in October.

Another day, another marijuana raid in a vineyard Sun, 03 Aug 2008 21:16 GMT
SUNNYSIDE For the fifth time, a drug task force has raided a vineyard in the lower Yakima Valley, this time seizing more than 4,400 plants.

UI researcher faces deportation back to Poland Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:14 GMT
MOSCOW, Idaho A University of Idaho researcher who worked on bioterrorism defenses faces deportation to Poland after being denied residency by U.S. immigration officials.

Trucker stops to relieve himself, loses load Sun, 03 Aug 2008 21:16 GMT
SNOHOMISH A dump truck driver who couldn't wait to relieve himself is being blamed for losing his load.

Blue Angels and hydros wow the Seafair crowds Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:42 GMT
Crowds filled the areas around Lake Washington Saturday as Seafair celebrations continued with hydroplane races and the performances by the Navy Blue Angels.

Long history of domestic violence ends with man's death, woman's arrest Sun, 03 Aug 2008 23:03 GMT
Family members have identified a 21-year-old man who died after being stabbed in the chest as Tomasz Matczak.

Supreme Court: Cloaking justice Sun, 03 Aug 2008 23:33 GMT
P-I Editorial: The tension between individual privacy and public transparency is a worthy balance. But a Washington Supreme Court decision last week threw a cloak over the scales of justice.

Iraq War: Ebbing 'strategery' Sun, 03 Aug 2008 23:34 GMT
P-I Editorial: July has yielded the lowest number of U.S. troop casualties 12 since the start of the Iraq invasion in 2003. It's hard not to get excited and credit the surge. But there's much more to consider before we start cheering.

Social Security: The age to retire? Sun, 03 Aug 2008 23:34 GMT
P-I Editorial: The good news: Social Security can be fixed. There is a crisis coming and we have a few years to improve the program's viability. The tougher news: Any changes will be painful.

Beware 'Peak Price Oil' Sun, 03 Aug 2008 23:35 GMT
Martin P. Hayes, guest columnist: While the world focuses on long-term Peak Oil impacts, it is short-term Peak Price Oil trigger events that threaten our civilization with imminent collapse.

Letters to the Editor Sun, 03 Aug 2008 23:33 GMT

If not mass transit now, when? Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:39 GMT
P-I Editorial: Public transportation requires investment. Now is the time to spend money on mass transit.

Sunday Shorts Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:44 GMT
Sunday short subjects from P-I opinion page writers and editors.

Party surges but Obama underperforms Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:45 GMT
George F. Will, syndicated columnist: Polls since his trip abroad do not indicate Obama succeeded in altering the oddest aspect of this presidential campaign: Measured against his party's surging strength in every region and at every level, he is dramatically underperforming.

Gay sex trumps corruption on Senate sin list Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:41 GMT
Margaret Carlson, syndicated columnist: In Congress which is worse: being corrupt or being gay? Time is up. If you answered being gay, you've been paying attention, class. Of the 10 Commandments, it is much better to break the one about stealing than the one about sex.

Change in name only? Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:41 GMT
Is there hope for change in the post-Putin era in Russia?

Spending on kids: enough already Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:42 GMT
Betsy Hart, guest columnist: Can today's parents afford to give our kids five times as much stuff as our parents gave us? The answer is "no."

The even-handedness in Professor Obama's law exams Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:43 GMT
Ruth Marcus, syndicated columnist: The Obama law exams provide no smoking guns for opposition researchers. Rather, they are fleeting snapshots reminiscent of Obama's approach in "The Audacity of Hope," even-handed in a way that is simultaneously impressive and maddening.

New York City says it officially in English, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Korean, French Creole Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:43 GMT
Deroy Murdock, guest columnist: N.Y.C. Mayor Bloomberg's latest brainstorm outstrips his notorious war on trans-fats, both for sudacity and sheer senselessness. The city soon will conduct official business in English and Spanish plus five other foreign languages.

Summer polls in presidential campaign are pure folly Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:44 GMT
Dan Rather,syndicated columnist: A presidential loss for Democrats in an election year when so many indicators are goingtheir way would likely lead to a prolonged wander in the wilderness.

Forsett uses Seahawks scrimmage to state his case for roster spot
Seahawks coach Mike Holmgren turned Saturday's scrimmage over the younger players, and several responded with impressive efforts. But no one came up bigger than Justin Forsett, the little rookie running back from Cal.

Al-Qaida: Explosives expert wanted by US killed Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:52 GMT
CAIRO, Egypt -- Al-Qaida confirmed Sunday the death of a top commander accused of training the suicide bombers who killed 17 American sailors on the USS Cole eight years ago.

Scientist: DNA led agents to anthrax suspect Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:29 GMT
WASHINGTON -- DNA taken from the bodies of people killed in the 2001 anthrax attacks helped lead investigators to Bruce Ivins, who oversaw the highly specific type of toxin in an Army lab, a government scientist said Sunday.

Obama makes bid in 7 longtime Republican states Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:51 GMT
WASHINGTON -- Alaska is young. Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia have growing populations and many black voters. Montana has seen recent Democratic inroads, and North Dakota has sent only Democrats to Congress since 1986. Indiana borders Barack Obama's home state.

Solzhenitsyn, chronicler of Soviet gulag, dies Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:56 GMT
MOSCOW -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning Russian author whose books chronicled the horrors of dictator Josef Stalin's slave labor camps, has died of heart failure, his son said Monday. He was 89.

9 climbers feared dead after avalanche on K-2 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:58 GMT
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- At least nine climbers were feared dead on K-2, the world's second highest mountain, after an avalanche cut ropes used to cross a treacherous wall of ice, officials and other climbers said Sunday.

AP IMPACT: Seoul probes civilian 'massacres' by US Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:59 GMT
SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korean investigators, matching once-secret documents to eyewitness accounts, are concluding that the U.S. military indiscriminately killed large groups of refugees and other civilians early in the Korean War.

Christina Applegate treated for breast cancer Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:17 GMT
LOS ANGELES -- Christina Applegate is undergoing treatment for breast cancer, but the disease was caught early and the actress is expected to fully recover, her publicist said.

Olympics protesters clash with police in Beijing Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:37 GMT
BEIJING -- A small group of protesters has clashed with police near Tiananmen Square in China's capital, saying they were evicted from their homes to make way for reconstruction ahead of the Olympic Games.

Report: China border station raided by 'rioters' Mon, 04 Aug 2008 06:02 GMT
BEIJING -- Attackers rammed a dump truck into a patrol station in China's restive Central Asian border province Monday morning, tossing grenades in a raid that killed 16 officers and wounded others, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported.

Stampede kills 145 at remote Hindu temple in India Sun, 03 Aug 2008 20:04 GMT
NEW DELHI -- Thousands of panicked pilgrims stampeded Sunday at a remote mountaintop temple in northern India during celebrations to honor a Hindu goddess, sending dozens of people plummeting to their deaths and trampling scores more. Police said 145 people were killed.

FBI investigates new attacks on Calif. scientists Mon, 04 Aug 2008 01:57 GMT
SAN FRANCISCO -- The FBI is investigating two firebombings targeting scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, as the latest in a rash of attacks against biomedical researchers who experiment on animals, authorities said.

Part II: Welcome to Iraq, and a long separation Sun, 03 Aug 2008 20:48 GMT
The phone call surprised Katie Kriesel, so soon after her husband, John, shipped out.

Rich begin feeling the pain in down economy Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:52 GMT
The rich are sharing your financial pain - and contributing to it.

Texas defies World Court, Bush on execution Sun, 03 Aug 2008 21:05 GMT
HOUSTON -- The planned execution this week of a man convicted in one of Houston's most brutal murder cases in a generation has become among the most contentious in the state that has the nation's busiest capital punishment system.

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