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Rescuers Looking For Survivors After Avalanche In Mt's Near Seattle

Submitted by News Desk 2 on Sun, 04/14/2013 - 01:08

Seattle, WA. -

Rescue officials are looking for 1 snowshoe still missing after an avalanche collapses onto several others. Three others have already been found and account for in the spring time disaster in the mountains east of Seattle.

Initial reports suggested three showshoers were caught in the avalanche and drug 1,200 feet down the mountain, but 2 of them and another person on Red Mountain, near the Alpental Ski Area off I-90 have been located and are safe.

The man is thought to be a 60-year-old man according to reports by two of the survivors who were with him.

Then And Now: Microsoft Co-Founders Bill Gates And Paul Allen Reunited For Picture

Submitted by News Desk 2 on Thu, 04/04/2013 - 10:56

Microsoft co-founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen have come together to recreate a famous picture for the Living Computer Museum on Seattle Washington.

The two also spoke to attendees and reports say they were more than just polite to each other, indicating a warming of relations between the two.

Staff members embarked on a long search to track down the exact computer models for the picture that were used in the 1980's picture according to a 'Geek Wire' report.

Millennium bomber Ahmed Ressam Given Longer Sentence For LAX Bomb Plot

Submitted by News Desk 2 on Wed, 10/24/2012 - 17:29

The bomber who crossed into the U.S. near Seattle plotting to blow up Los Angeles International Airport, Ahmed Ressam, was re-sentenced to to 37 years in prison.

He had been sentenced to a shorter term, but prosecutors argued that part of the deal was that he was suppose to help U.S. authorities with information about Al-Qaeda and other members.

Sometime in 2003 he stopped talking to officials after he had been placed in solitary-confinement for 23 hours a day.

TSA Forced Leukemia Patient To Peel Back Bandages And Denied Request For Private Screening In Seattle

Submitted by News Desk 2 on Tue, 10/09/2012 - 17:30

Seattle, WA -

In an apparently blunder again, the TSA required a person traveling to Hawaii who had leukemia to peel back her bandages in public, opened her sterile saline bag which contained required liquid medicine, and denied her request to be screened in private.

The woman, Michelle Dunay, of Detroit was traveling to Hawaii via Seattle for an end of life trip when the incident happened at Seattle's Sea-Tac airport.

2 Seattle Men Busted By Border Patrol For Candy Smuggling

Submitted by News Desk 2 on Wed, 07/18/2012 - 12:15

The Customs and Border Patrol briefly detained two Seattle men after discovering illegal candy in their possession while crossing into the United States.

Brandon Loo and Christopher Sweeney were detained for about two hours by CBP at the U.S./Canadian border as they were re-entering the United States for illegally transporting candy prohibited in the United States deemed to be a choking hazard.

Man Returns Cash he Stole From Sears in 1948 With Interest

Submitted by News Desk 2 on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 12:27

Seattle, WA -

An elderly man made his way into a Sears department store in Seattle and delivered an enveloped addressed to "Sears Manager" and inside was a note and $100 dollars. The note said he had stolen $20 or $30 dollars from a Sears cash register back in the 1940's and wanted to pay it back, with interest.

The man was recorded by store security cameras, but Sears officials said they don't know who he is and that they have no plans to release the video.

Washington Man Cuts Off Arm With Homemade Guillotine

Submitted by News Desk 2 on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 11:47

BELLINGHAM, Wash. -

Police say a homeless man who lived in the woods with others made a guillotine and cut off his own arm. After severing the arm, he went to a nearby walk-in clinic where the medical staff called for an ambulance. The man was airlifted Harborview Medical Center in Seattle along with his self-amputated arm in the hopes of re-attaching it.

Amanda Knox Lands in Seattle After Acquittal of Murder Trail in Italy, former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito Also Free

Submitted by News Desk 2 on Tue, 10/04/2011 - 23:43

Amanda Knox arrived back home in Seattle, Washington about an hour ago after leaving Rome and making a connecting flight in London.

Knox had been in an Italian prison for the last 4 years after she was convicted of murdering her roommate, Meredith Kercher, and her boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito had also been convicted and was acquitted today by an Italian Appeals Court jury.

Boeing 787 Dreamliner Finally Gets FAA and EASA Flight Certification; First 787 Delivery Sept 28 to ANA Japan

Submitted by News Desk 2 on Sat, 08/27/2011 - 10:34

Seattle, Wa. -

The FAA and the EASA both granted the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner flight certifications in a ceremony at Paine Field in Everett, Washington, where Boeing manufactures the 787. The 787 has undergone long delays and cost overruns stemming from union strikes, contractor supply problems and wiring re-designs.

But all that's been fixed, either by making it right or building a second airplane factory in South Carolina, which is still embroiled in debate.