News Stories for February 2004
Stories for Sunday, February 29
Foss Maritime Plans To Scale Back Oil Spill Cleanup
Foss Maritime wants to scale back cleanup of a December oil spill at Point Wells near Edmonds. The Seattle company plans to ask state regulators to allow it to switch to passive techniques not requiring work crews tramping up and down the Kitsap Peninsula estuary where most of the fuel ...
State Lands Commissioner Plans More State Forest Logging
More logging would take place on one-point-four million acres of state forests in Western Washington under new long-range goals sought by Public Lands Commissioner Doug Sutherland. On Tuesday, the state's Board of Natural Resources is expected to set the new timber target. The Seattle Times reports that will call for ...
Stories for Saturday, February 28
Two Women File Suit Against UW And Former Husky Football Player
Two women who say they were sexually assaulted by a former University of Washington football player are suing both the school and the player. The lawsuit filed Friday in King County Superior Court alleges that Roc Alexander in 2001 sexually assaulted a former equipment manager for the football team and ...
Stories for Friday, February 27
State Warns Daycares Of Sex Offenders Living Nearby
A KIRO Team 7 Investigation into some child rapists living next door to daycares sparks a statewide warning. SEE MAPS Look at county maps showing locations of sex offenders and daycares Part I: State Illegally Placing Sex Offenders Near Daycares Part II: System For Tracking Sex Offenders Fails Miserably Earlier ...
Man Refuses Help, Dies After Three Days In Driveway
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- Neighbors are coming forward to help an elderly woman whose husband suffered a bizarre death. Seventy-nine-year-old Hariet Schibley is in the hospital in fair condition. She and her husband were found Thursday, lying outside their home in Orange County. Weird Headlines Sidebar MORE WEIRD HEADLINES Not ...
2 Shot Near Skagit Valley College
Two people have been hurt in a shooting in a car parked near the campus of Skagit Valley Community College. SKAGIT SHOOTING Images: Detectives Investigate Scene Mount Vernon police say they've arrested a 21-year-old man who suffered a hand wound. An 18-year-old woman was shot in the torso and was ...
New Details Emerge In Murder Of Tool Salesman
Pierce County detectives found tools stolen from a Snap-On tool salesman in a fatal robbery this week. MURDER OF BOB SHAPEL Slideshow: Images From The Case The stolen tools were in a Federal Way storage facility detectives searched Friday afternoon.Prosecutors said robbers stopped Robert Shapel in his truck and taped ...
Stories for Thursday, February 26
2 Arrested In Tool Salesman's Murder
Two men were arrested in the murder of a Snap-on Tools salesman in southeast Pierce County, police said late Thursday. MURDER OF BOB SHAPEL Slideshow: Images From The Case Pierce County Sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer told KIRO 7 Eyewitness News one of the men is a 24-year-old from Pierce County ...
Police: Bellevue Death Is Not A Murder Case
Bellevue police say the death of a woman whose body was found at a gas station early Thursday was not the victim of murder. Body Found Near Bellevue Community College The 41-year-old woman from Sumner, Wash., was found face down in some ivy behind the Shell station at 2659 148th ...
Stories for Wednesday, February 25
Missing Man Found Murdered
Police found a body believed to be that of a missing Pierce County man Wednesday afternoon, ending the search for a popular tool salesman who mysteriously disappeared from his route Tuesday. Authorities Reveal Grim News In Missing Man Case The Snap-On Tools truck driven by Bob Shapel, 55, was found ...
Surviving With Style Fashion Show
KIRO 7 is proud to sponsor the 10th Annual Surviving with Style Fashion Show & Luncheon.Join KIRO 7 Eyewitness News anchor Steve Raible and anchor/reporter Mona Locke on Thursday, May 11, 2007 at the Westin Hotel from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Come and enjoy lunch while watching beautiful cancer ...
Stories for Tuesday, February 24
Drug Sniffing Dog Back On The Job After Snorting Heroin
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- A drug dog is back on the job at the Orange County Jail. He got sick while sniffing through inmate mail. Officers say someone was trying to get heroin into the jail when a K-9 named Bow stopped the package. Weird Headlines Sidebar MORE WEIRD HEADLINES ...
Police Find Suspect In Eastside Manhunt
An Eastside school was locked down Tuesday morning while police searched for an armed man wanted in an assault case. Manhunt Leads To School's Lockdown The lockdown, at Eastgate Elementary School, ended at 10 a.m. after the suspect was taken into custody.It all started with a domestic violence incident just ...
Girl Lured Out Of Store, Sexually Assaulted
Police are looking for the man who lured a 10-year-old girl from a Tacoma grocery store and sexually assaulted her. Surveillance Tape Shows Suspect In Sexual Assault The girl was with her father on Valentine's Day when she went alone to get a shopping cart."[The] suspect contacted our victim, asked ...
Stories for Monday, February 23
Car Explodes Into Flames On 520 Bridge
A car burst into flames on the 520 Floating Bridge Monday morning following a 3-car crash, blocking traffic for over an hour and sending black smoke over the busy cross-lake arterial. 520 CAR FIRE Images: Burning Car Snarls Bridge Traffic Details of the 9:45 a.m. accident were not immediately available, ...
Stories for Sunday, February 22
Ferry Kalakala Not Leaving Lake Union Today
The historic ferry Kalakala will NOT be towed to Neah Bay today. Owner Steve Rodrigues needs to finalize plans before he can have the ship towed. That may happen within the next few days. Rodrigues has been amassing fines since November 30th, the date by which the boat's Lake Union ...
Stories for Saturday, February 21
Former Husky Softball Coach Files Federal Complaint Against UW
A former University of Washington softball coach --fired after a volunteer team doctor was accused of handing out drugs to players -- has filed a federal complaint against the school. Teresa Wilson filed Friday with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The move is the first step in a possible ...
Ferry Kalakala's Departure Delayed Again
At least one more delay for the Kalakala. The streamlined ferry was supposed to head for a berth at Neah Bay Saturday. Now it may not leave its spot on Lake Union until Sunday, at the earliest. Dan Harris, lawyer for Kalakala owner Steve Rodrigues, says the extra day is ...
Stories for Friday, February 20
Girls Escape Attempted Child Snatcher
Police are looking for a man believed responsible for two abduction attempts of 12-year-old girls on the Key Peninsula. Girls Describe How They Got Away The Pierce County Sheriff's Office says the man approached a 12-year-old girl, who was walking home from a school bus stop Feb. 5.The man told ...
Stories for Thursday, February 19
Protest Atop Crane Ends In Arrests
Police arrested nine demonstrators who took over a construction crane in Seattle to hang a banner Thursday morning.Police said four who stayed on the ground could be released but the five who had refused orders to come down could face charges of reckless endangerment and trespassing. CRANE PROTEST Slideshow: Demonstrators ...
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