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Nominate your cute pet!

IT’S TIME TO nominate your favorite hairy, furry, feathered, scaled or whatever’d friend for the 2013 Peninsula Daily News “Paws & Claws” Cutest Pet Photo… Continue reading

Updated: Federal investigators finish Skagit bridge probe; temporary span construction to start

The Associated Press MOUNT VERNON — Portions of a temporary Interstate 5 bridge could extend over the Skagit River in a day or two and… Continue reading

Esther Williams in 1950.

Swimming, movie star Esther Williams dies

By Bob Thomas The Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Esther Williams, the swimming champion turned actress who starred in glittering and aquatic Technicolor musicals of… Continue reading

Esther Williams in 1950.

Nominate your cute pet!

IT’S TIME TO nominate your favorite hairy, furry, feathered, scaled or whatever’d friend for the 2013 Peninsula Daily News “Paws & Claws” Cutest Pet Photo… Continue reading

Great Ethiopian Run coordinator Dagim Teshome will speak at the Port Angeles Library today.

Great Ethiopian Run coordinator to speak at Port Angeles Library

PORT ANGELES — Dagim Teshome will discuss his role as coordinator of the Great Ethiopian Run at the Port Angeles Library, 2210 S. Peabody St.,… Continue reading

Great Ethiopian Run coordinator Dagim Teshome will speak at the Port Angeles Library today.

Nominate your cute pet!

IT’S TIME TO nominate your favorite hairy, furry, feathered, scaled or whatever’d friend for the 2013 Peninsula Daily News “Paws & Claws” Cutest Pet Photo… Continue reading

Nominate your cute pet!

IT’S TIME TO nominate your favorite hairy, furry, feathered, scaled or whatever’d friend for the 2013 Peninsula Daily News “Paws & Claws” Cutest Pet Photo… Continue reading

Nominate your cute pet!

IT’S TIME TO nominate your favorite hairy, furry, feathered, scaled or whatever’d friend for the 2013 Peninsula Daily News “Paws & Claws” Cutest Pet Photo… Continue reading

PENINSULA POLL BACKGROUNDER: One year later, liquor taxes, fees bring more money for state

Peninsula Daily News and The Associated Press OLYMPIA — Liquor sales in Washington have increased in the year since booze hit the shelves of grocery,… Continue reading

Nominate your cute pet!

IT’S TIME TO nominate your favorite hairy, furry, feathered, scaled or whatever’d friend for the 2013 Peninsula Daily News “Paws & Claws” Cutest Pet Photo… Continue reading

Jean Stapleton

‘All in the Family’s’ Jean Stapleton dies

The Associated Press NEW YORK — Jean Stapleton, who played Edith Bunker in the groundbreaking 1970s TV comedy "All in the Family," has died. She… Continue reading

Jean Stapleton
Photo courtesy of Ron Garner

225-pound halibut caught in Strait off Sequim

SEQUIM — An Everett-area fisherman pulled in a 75-inch, 225-pound halibut near Sequim on Friday. Our outdoors columnist, Lee Horton, is working on a full… Continue reading

Photo courtesy of Ron Garner
UPDATED — Border entry fee study sparks opposition on Washington state-B.C. border

UPDATED — Border entry fee study sparks opposition on Washington state-B.C. border

By The Associated Press SEATTLE — By Michael Hill’s estimation, 90 percent of the people pumping gas at his station just south of the U.S.-Canada… Continue reading

UPDATED — Border entry fee study sparks opposition on Washington state-B.C. border
This photo shows Alexander Herrera in custody after Alaska Airlines flight 132 landed safely in Portland. (Courtesy: Ryan Oelrich) KOMO-TV

FBI: Man tried to open exit door on Alaska Airlines flight to Oregon

By KOMO-TV, Seattle PORTLAND, Ore. – A man was arrested after he allegedly tried to open an emergency exit door during a flight from Anchorage,… Continue reading

This photo shows Alexander Herrera in custody after Alaska Airlines flight 132 landed safely in Portland. (Courtesy: Ryan Oelrich) KOMO-TV

In Pierce County, man accused of putting infant in freezer to stop it from crying

By The Associated Press ROY, Pierce County — A 25-year-old man has been arrested after his girlfriend said he put their baby in a freezer… Continue reading

Motorists use another bridge to detour across the Skagit River in Mount Vernon.

Temporary fix set for crumpled I-5 bridge across Skagit River

By MANUEL VALDES and MIKE BAKER The Associated Press MOUNT VERNON — The state plans to install within weeks a temporary fix for an interstate… Continue reading

Motorists use another bridge to detour across the Skagit River in Mount Vernon.

Bridge collapse in Skagit is wake-up call, federal official says

By Donna Gordon Blankinship The Associated Press MOUNT VERNON — The chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board said Saturday that the Skagit River bridge… Continue reading

The collapsed section of the Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River. Traffic is being detoured to other highways over or around the river. The Associated Press

Plan extra hour to drive around fallen I-5 bridge over Skagit River

By DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP The Associated Press MOUNT VERNON — It's going to take time to find both short- and long-term fixes for the bridge… Continue reading

The collapsed section of the Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River. Traffic is being detoured to other highways over or around the river. The Associated Press
Bryce Kenning waits on the roof of his car for rescuers Thursday evening after it nose-dived from the crumbling Interstate 5 bridge into the Skagit River. The Associated Press

I-5 bridge collapse survivor — ‘The water was just flooding in’

By GENE JOHNSON and MANUEL VALDES The Associated Press MOUNT VERNON — Bryce Kenning saw the void before him in an explosion of dust, and… Continue reading

Bryce Kenning waits on the roof of his car for rescuers Thursday evening after it nose-dived from the crumbling Interstate 5 bridge into the Skagit River. The Associated Press
Bryce Kenning waits on the roof of his car for rescuers Thursday evening after it nose-dived from the crumbling Interstate 5 bridge into the Skagit River. The Associated Press

I-5 bridge collapse survivor — ‘The water was just flooding in’

By GENE JOHNSON and MANUEL VALDES The Associated Press MOUNT VERNON — Bryce Kenning saw the void before him in an explosion of dust, and… Continue reading

Bryce Kenning waits on the roof of his car for rescuers Thursday evening after it nose-dived from the crumbling Interstate 5 bridge into the Skagit River. The Associated Press