SEATTLE TIMES: After a grand fir about 125 feet tall snapped east of Stevens Pass and fell onto a Bothell family’s SUV on Dec. 21, officials at the state transportation department spoke of the accident as a rare and tragic occurrence that would have been hard to foresee.
Read MoreEVERETT HERALD: Amy Davis dutifully checked the road conditions before getting into her pickup truck for the long drive east across Stevens Pass last Friday.
“I thought we were free and clear,” the Marysville woman said.
The roads, it turned out, were fine.
Read MoreKOMO NEWS: Two people were killed and four others in the same family were injured when their SUV was struck by a falling tree near Stevens Pass on Friday afternoon, the Washington State Patrol said.
Timothy Owen, 58, of Bothell was driving a 1999 Chevy Suburban in the eastbound lane when the large tree fell around 1:20 p.m., troopers said. Owen and his wife, Cheryl Reed Owen, 56, were killed.
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER: There was the time when a Snohomish County judge mistook her for, well, she's not sure. She just knows that he absentmindedly asked her if she belonged in the courtroom during voir dire, the process of selecting a jury.
Read MoreSEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER: Neither Ethel Adams nor her attorneys complained to state Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler about Farmers Insurance's initial denial of her claim. But dozens of outraged people, after reading about her and seeing her story in the news, contacted Kreidler on her behalf, demanding the commissioner do something about her case.
Read MoreSEATTLE TIMES: Farmers Insurance has agreed to pay Ethel Adams, the woman who was nearly killed in a road-rage wreck last spring. Farmers Insurance finally agreed yesterday to pay Ethel Adams, the woman who was nearly killed in a road-rage wreck last spring.
Read MoreFarmers Insurance said yesterday it might yet provide coverage to innocent bystander Ethel Adams for injuries she suffered in a road-rage crash last spring.But the company’s reasoning was just as odd as its previous decision that Adams’ crash was not an accident because a stranger caused it on purpose. I wrote yesterday about the plight of Adams, a 60-year-old Everett woman who nearly died last March when a truck crashed into her while she drove on Aurora Avenue North.
Read MoreSEATTLE TIMES: Ethel Adams was driving along minding her own business last March when a pickup truck was forced into her lane, slamming into her head-on...
Read MoreSEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER: The plaque -- unveiled last week -- honors Kristopher Kime, the young man killed two years ago while trying to help a woman being pummeled during Seattle's Mardi Gras riots.
Read MoreSEATTLE TIMES: A photograph of Kristopher Kime hangs in the office of Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels to remind the mayor of the importance of public safety. The city went a step further yesterday to console the family of the 20-year-old beaten to death during the Mardi Gras melee last year, agreeing to pay it $1.75 million.
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