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Collapsed bridge survivor: ‘I’m glad to be here breathing’

After he and his wife's truck plunged into the Skagit River when the Interstate 5 bridge at Mount Vernon collapsed, Dan Sligh said he feels fortunate to have survived.

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Attorneys say an appeal is planned after a federal judge ruled that the office of America's self-proclaimed toughest sheriff systematically racially profiled Latinos in its trademark immigration patrols.

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