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A boat is stolen Island. mudslide hit.rington when he on his erald dition at Har e saw re ttH Ocean the later found on nearby Eleuthera Cuba borview Medin critical conSuddenly : @Eve “This is a ical captain Tws,itter very debris swa mud, rock HERALD Wednesday: A ferry boat , very har Center. STANLEY / THE JUDYdy Can et llowed the trees and other bathing or d Vin day ldN teenager cen white ra , ” tall, veh a said t spots Heicles in fron road and a lot of frien of Darrington. “We . the t of him. ok.com/ “I was ds; bo lost swimming in an inlet on Eleuthera a ce lot residents accoun Fa Island of people thre Camano ted for righ aren’t truck with e cars back, and Harris-t now.” Thursday: Evidence suggests com thee news I greetTh slideofcru boats. A raldNet. man, who a boat,” said the Lyn saw a shed at leas relief, A4 somebody has tried to steal withthem arrest ying as) He Moore’scarr t six hou been to pick up was heading to Dar nwood ing are bar’s security system also has way 530. Th in splinters across ses, rington apparently in outly e slide, esti Highjust saw thehis children. “After damaged by someone who least 135 (higher to Harrismated to linkedfeet Crimes . $2.00 be at the road. Eve darkness coming that, I wid broke in to watch television e h. and weeks stre in srecent tche 180 feet dee acro rything was Was Moore a mile to PRESS arrest seconds.” from p,Everett, gone in thress FELIPE MAJOR / ASSOCIATED the Sunday: Bahamian police Washingt fromthe stretchfrom northonside where it.20 e bro18 by police as he tries ke off De Oliveira ore is escorted from a plane Harris-Moore before dawn ThA5 09.09 rive e slide hap of the Bahamas, had only right), Colton Harris-Mo to brake to dawn in northern Eleuthera a few seco bare feet in shackles (top pened abor. a.m., 17 mile to escape in a stolen boat. ore was arrested before Handcuffed and with his nds ut out of his car.avoid the slide. He Bahamas, on Sunday. Harris-Mo dammed the s east of Arlington. 10:45 jumped upon his arrival in Nassau, He felt he had Debris thin rive police. to By g r, Noah to thre to according low help do Island, atening -lying area Haglund tried to mov , so when police arri someNeighbors dowrnstream to flood breaks. ResHeralsd Write ved e gath som he er at the Oso when it e debris. idents and “We hea Oso to Stan fire station bus to wait for EVERETT — wood wer inesses from screaming” rd a woman and ANNIE MULL high updates. e told a baby IGAN / FOR a new in er ground As leadto seek er prepa THE HERALD untilthe De Oliveira the rubble, he said. daybrea “This isresthetake N helm k. of saw emergen Snoh pull a bab omish Coun wor happen cy thinnmen tystgover y g thatt,’s eve he’ll be ed ing some Police say from the mud and crews our com facin r Tru a deb dy Oso mu ar of 6-m the ris. nity,” said LaD All-St Fire onth-old was same old probl ouceur of Harborview ems. fl District Snohomish in the Darring Coun . Coun child was listeMedical Center, wheown to Tuesday ty is Game cilman Dave ton Bieber Baseball’s All-Star re Somers won forensic lone De Oliveira d in critical conditio the For thecoun Kagan Ichiro will bethe modern Kla Ha Ya Days, the city’s ty execuAnaheim, Calif. APPROXIM DARRINGTON tive’s sed on tch. and was stuc had been runnin n. job further in Tuesd willelecti The screams you’ll hear thereay’s as usual, KaATE ske g late n Doe, ba k behind big summer festival, runs withbut on Seattle Mariner, SITE OF SL updates and a pledge toSeeseek vehicle. ARLINGTON The committee vote on Elena a slow-dri Joh, ormation, 2016 g from downtown MU the in emanatin DSL Sunday. players solut M’s ving ion IDE through ID ay ions. inf formerbent John , Page E Wednesd to see more be plenty ofIncum “I had a car gan’s Supreme Court nominat Lovick conceded A3 are for teen idol JusEverett Lee. Saturthat is Cliff Wedn be to Parade pitcher was sure esday 0 of Sunset The photos from me that driving in . game, including is set for Tuesday. She’s 10 front tin Bieber. His sold-out show e executive-elect’s Had he beewas going so slow,” may Miles the scene, go day evening. CeleTh brations he first chalconfirmed, but Republicans lenge .A6 e chan is Tuesday night. even .befor would hav n a few seconds fast said. KATIE MAYE to HeraldNet Cros R / THE HERA e been him swo ging er, Clas the vote. rd .is. .D4 jobs sifing drafti LD . ed .next in the slide. that . . . E2 Tiffanydelay Doe, year’s budg com. Horoscope Ferrians holds Dear et. “I feel of John he’ll turn his . AbbTh a portrait of her . . .D4 y. en . . .D5 atten son, Keaton Farris Moneywise. nal police sketchfound in 1994 Lottery . . .field to do about repla tion to what See Make a herd of turtles: , at her home re . RES . igi E1 IDENTS, Page Or rn . . .A2 s weuari on Lopez for you Movies . . . ose remainObit es. . . . B4 A2 courthouse. Beyo cing the county By Jerry Co iter Here’s a craft project Can’t have one without the Island on Thursday. IAN TERRY / THE wh. . .D5 Wr Viewpoints Loan snark to focus on plannnd that, he wants Herald and the kids and a way to HERALD other: Desperate to cut costs, . . . B7 Gloomy to population grow ing for a surge of start a conversation with the state government has es are set no VOL. 111, NO. 52/38, C8 Not the blue vest with the — Class 41 Sound Transit th and convincing © 2013 THE them about the Gulf Cama furloughed a third to connect light DAILY HERA OLYMPIA Stanwood- , markLD CO. smiley face, please: WalMake to rail spill. Paine oil governCoast A3 Field / state the the ay leak of and capping nd north Everett. begin in about ➤ BP optimisti Mart’s Sam’s Club warehouse ment’s work force for As he c takes ict Mo son of 6 4296 a sea turtle out of a terra 3 55555 those /goals A3 , School Distr a raucous sea omin Uganda 7 Some 64 on chain is offering small-busirs willkill attacks ➤ Bomb cotta pot saucer, a few wood have the day today, sending end of in Snoh to smooth over ness loans of up to $25,000 to about 35,000 employees furlough / B1 ing the ve bargaining discs, a pair of googly eyes ➤ 35,000 state workers on llecti its club members (Page B4). home without pay (Page tion of See Cup fiERS, and some paint (Page C1). D1 co County. 1-0 / A12 nal, Page an injec aries World SOM ed wins The terms of the loans Spain ish ➤ eiv leftover the use sal rec Then r s B1). District rs for educato Cleary aren’t bad, but to ward off poduring Tour / D3 little BP the make crashes g to Among Armstron joke: materials Mc ➤ No lla tential default of loans, Sam’s employees deemed too state do ndate from the That led to that you can poke executive WH AT sJAIL Club will require anyone who vital to dismiss for the — a ma nding lawsuit. contracts pins.CAN’T with voodoo w THE DAILY HERALD CO. CUR VOL. 110, NO. 152 © 2010 fails to repay the loans in full day, state troopers and school-funegotiating ne this year E | The Bauer, Herald staff —Jonseries to work as Wal-Mart greeters liquor store staff. teachers ng average raises until the debt is satisfied. containi percent. hool ●

ETT, WASrg. He HINGTO Jaylen Frybe a N By Kari Bray tribal member ● Wendy Fryberg, d WWW.H Herald Writer is the son of School Boar ERALDN former Marysville ET.COM — Music, member. ● MARYSVILLE spilled out of family said two / THE HERALD 75 and BATES le ds ¢ DAN (HIG Frien Nate prayers and peopinto the parking — A burst of of the shooting victims are Jaysville HER IN OU Mary LLE the YSVI ing of TLY rg, MAR one build and at the Andrew Frybe tal staff move ambulance into Providence the ING AR sville Pilchuck EAgathe reds hund S) red an as gunfire at Maryon Friday left Hatch andins. All three freshmen Firefighters, medics and hospi lot from s high the y evening. victim len’s cous to the Pilchuck High School shooting tt, following the shooting at e Church on Fridaschool colHigh School went more Grov and four her , Evere dead toget their r in Students wore and wrapped two students a grieving com- grew up ing dance as a group Regional Medical Cente , homecom Jaylen school on Friday. wounded, and ors, red and whited each other. month after “Why?” this g, r aroun askin earlie ity ecom arms te, mun their freshman hom freshman athle s. Some told of The shooter, a ing was voted They shared storie life after open s in a rush to get took his own day’s first lunch ing king. were like three brothclimbing fence hearing gunfire “They father, fire during the police said. off campus after Others told of Nate’s grand y morning. period, Marysville a girl who has ers,” saidh, a former Marysville moments dalyn Cowan Frida hless Hatc BY SAlso Aman l breat killed was — Don Triba ying, COTT N ip and Tulal ck student terrif ORTH publicly identified. AND N r tables or in dark been School Board ), Marysville Pilchu were yet OAH not huddled unde d classrooms. HAGL (@amandalynm18 s, all students, Board member. “They thing D HeFour otherUNvictim rald Wr every corners of locke iters italized: three in critarable. They did back tears. Many A few blinked EVERET remain hosp serious condition. insep . back in them T one A8 County , Page ical—and Sn couldn’t hold been identiof at least See SHOOTING teromhas shoooh announ ExecutiveThe The vigil was one Friday, ish r and Tulalip Aaron playe city Reall footb ard effectiveced Thurs fied on daas three held in the come talk, y he as he an May 31, a mo will resign ng people to inviti ting at ve scene d shoo the a tha to reach t came calls for his staff faced ol cry and pray after departments begin uck High Scho mine wh an investigatio mounting s from various fire Marysville Pilch including the n to de eline of events 10:49 a.m. Medic yment . a campa ether lawsPol terd . left two students, at least four wereice tim full SWAT deplo to help the injure to haras ign that appe broken in rtment calls for a in from a cellphone . dead and s ter, Depa ria come high shoo the call Police cafete ars 911 that sville unity de m. The first l arrives in the a.sig on Reards and conduc 11 a.m. The Mary A9 an alert to the comm ned at the schoo t sur9vei ned Page , send ls statio on’s politi 10:3 r VIGIL schoo office See sville The police Reard cal10:4 m. ce 1. a.llan rivals 11:07 a.m. Mary t . — is at the enon’s announcem own . us clear of threa shooting occurred . an at the school school is in lockd entthe entire school camp came after County d of his 10thwhere shooter — a freshm team declares the State3 of . Police confirm the Police later say he took his own life a.m 4:35 p.m. The SWAT leaders address befor10:4 the ing . shoot r in Evere e busin .B2 Our Towns. . . .B3 longe no Stormy tt. e. . . D6 Obituaries . . . down andess He als other students . TV . . . . . . . . . .C3 Dear Abby. . . .C5 Horoscop 33333 9 . . . . . .C4 By Dian The Buzz will penden o said he suppo shooting at least five 6 42963 a Hefl. .C1 Lottery . . . . . 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Class en starving, locke and naked, dehydrated and . . .D2 Good Life 1, he scurrilou the focus of in 201 d up in the Islan MONDAY: Sheri cs . . . . . . . . . . . forging a $355 Comi d County Jail for ff check against s accusatio “false and is trying to changTy Trenary Keaton, 25, had . ns” lev him e course. effort by . It’s part of less than a mile attended Coupeville High “a conc eled gro Scho up from ol, erted that are Today: Keaton Farris s that op the jail. He basketball and , 25, ran track. His dad,played football and ability tointent on unde pose” him was in a mental health the small town Fred, is a mailm rmining lea crisis . Keato his when he died from Reardon d, he said. and find his footin n returned home last year an in was inv to rest g after being diagn year by tion and starvation dehydradisorder. estigated osed the with bipolar Patrol, Washing last Island County Jail. inside the His parents belie an His death gations d never charg ton State ve he was in illustrates why more sode before he PHOTO died on April 7. the throes of a manic epimust during of misusing co ed, for alleFarris played footbCOURTESY OF THE FARRIS FAMILY be for 18 days, shuffl Keaton was behin done to protect unty mo an extram peopl is the foc School his sopho all at Coupeville High ney arital was sent to Islan ed among three other jails beford bars with mental illness e living d County. closure us of a state affair. He He graduated more and junior years. e he from Lopez High The Coupeville winding up in jails. from 2008. into usiCommission invPublic DisSchool in didn’t arrive with jail didn’t get his medical recor Day political ng county res estigation any ds. He 2 medi Monday: cation even thoug a new prescriptio h been subcampaigns, ources on ish County Sherif SnohomFred Farris and n in his pocket when he was he had an f Ty Trenary arrested. Tiff by a Go ject to repeat d he has is championing talk to their son. any Ferrians weren’t allow ld changes in ed to They frequently from offi Bar blogger ed efforts Snoho how the county and told correction to recall mi called to check see or ce. uses on him him of Econo sh County Exe s officers he was Reard It’s a challenge to the jail. his medication. cutive Aa bipolar and need mic Allian balan himself on said tha ron ed ce the needs of business ce Re Snohomi t The Island Coun ownriage, hishas taken a tol defending sh Coun ardon announce ty Jail chief later ers didn’ and l ty on neighbors with those claimed his staff s his t know Keaton at the Eve his marcost him ability to gov was mentally ill. rett Go resignation, eff living on the marg The chief ’s statem lf and Co ect ins. lars” in “tens of thousaern and has untry Clu ive May 31 incarceration are ents and details about Keato legal fee nds of do Day , at b 3 s. part Tues n’s the on “Candid of the 700-page lday: Thursday con Island County’s report compiled Martin, 60, is worki Gene morning. clusion of his much a ly, I don’t veter an detec by State of tive Ed Wallace. tigation found his way back after ng that correction take ...” family can tak know how His investhe Coun MARK MULLIGAN / THE HER s offi Keaton refused he told e or sho ty speech is enou the crowd water and meal cers documented how homeless for years being uld to memb ALD BY NOAH gh.” s. ; . “Enou ers HAGLUN innovative progr he says Reard gh AND E D ams RIC STEV the day on’s announcem compassion helpe and ICK See KEATON, Page Herald d him get Writers A8 voted unafter the Coun ent came there. Many of authority animously to ty Council tho rem ove se Sn ove his involv Marysvill ohom r the co puters A timelin un an caught ish County po ed in “The co e Mayor Jon e of the system d records ma ty’s comby liti politic career . nagemen is vital to unty executiv Nehring: when Sn surprise Thurs cs were Page A4 of Aaron Rea al That ste guessed t rdon, and all the city of Ma e position tive Aaronohomish Coun day where it to article p was taken of up. was going certainly the other citiesrysville his inten Reardon an ty Execudetailin s last week in in response to end Herald Co nounced tion to make the . I will “The lon STARTING g evidenc Th e wit lum res He Th h Reardon ign on partn rald, wh e an e that AT pointed g view is we Muhlstein nist Julie top priorioever fills that ership calls for nouncement May 31. ’re dis in on of paign ’s staff engagedmembers of Rea wh In position came aft y the rdo ty the sho things that occu apagainst in a cam tion, an a new crimina a er Mike Pa of mine.” rt term, using matter, Pan’s personal life details rred. ing l on inv ttis it’s go wit public his political riv estiga shouldn’t ing invest on no ge B1 h Master the state spoof em records als have go some of the thi t surprisBuilders , a lobbyist for igation Public Dis ail req Kin mi ne the by ngs tha Assoc addresse ssion an ue g and Sn Web pa dignity t Snohom on.” s and att sts, d recen closure Comges. ohomish iation of He an “W d ral ish t res art e’re ack d. Many County Co pect da day out. icles in “We tha De y The shocke surprised but unties: A Heral interview of those tar d. LesSchwab.co for his car nk Executive mocrats: work tha It’s time that thein and for Mr. It’s been a dif not members d investigatio Patrol inv ed as part geted were m Re and wis eer in public Reardon fi of recog t they do be the great of the estigatio county ardon. He’s leacult time a campa of Reardon’s n links h ser nit subject State Reard n. during him and his fam vice, in sta Washi ion.” this 175/65TR-14L adminis good financial ving the records ign of harassm ff to ity didn’ton last week sai Party Ch ngton State De Washing difficult time.” ily well X that, we trative conditio and people requests waged ent and mo air ton ma but he co happen at hisd that activcra n tic Sta wh Party Ch Dw “The De a time whcan be grateful. n. For 2012 Wa o cooperated against airman te Republican mocraticight Pelz: soning ndoned the co direction, lik shi Kir Th wit “It en e ng by it to tha ere’s ha Party wo is a som ton Wi their fam crimina told it oc was OK becaunduct, reauld us who good day for tholbur: his years nk Aaron Re l invest State Patrol ily and eone has to pu curred se ard in do iga be oth he wa t front an n’s spend tio outside It’ll be ment. As lieve in good se of ple of Sn of service to the on for d do wh er priorities ing of pu n into Rearthe offi s up to the gov oh the Sn pe m. at’s County om ern ce. oh oleader of bli ” ish Coun best for om County, the entire the Sn Lovick (De ish County Shc money. “We’re nate thrDemocratic Pa Snohomish mized hyAaron Reardon ohomish While Re state of Washi ty and eriff Joh rty to no how effi extremely ple n “This mocrat): Reardon ee candidate mieverythin pocrisy, corru epitomistakes ardon has cle ngton. ase s arl running ciently the coun d with sary dis is the end to an Council . A majority of to replace itics tod g that is wron ption and grateful while in office, y made traction news, ou these days. Wi ty is I won’t g with po for our unnecesfinal ch will have to agrthe County say of powe ay. 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After a fatal shooting in the school cafeteria on Oct, 24, 2014, Marysville Pilchuck High School students are bussed to a nearby church to be reunited with their families. (Photo by Genna Martin)

Chelsea Rustad watches from a hallway as John Van Cuylenborg Jim Scharf, a detective for the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office, has led (right), Kelly Cook and Laura Baanstra talk to the media. Rustad’s investigations of unsolved homicides, which have been documented in AncestryDNA test led to the arrest and conviction of her second The Daily Herald’s “Who Am I” series. (Photo by Andy Bronson) cousin, William Talbott II, in the 1987 killings of Tanya Van Cuylenborg and Jay Cook. (Photo by Andy Bronson)

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Port is hopping

Imports from China create a logjam at major West Coast ports, sending more business Everett’s way. Page E1

War of words

Supporters and foes of the war in Iraq continue to make a weekly stand in downtown Everett. Julie Muhlstein, Page B1

Facing 18 sex charges, man dies ■ While on jail suicide watch, the Mountlake Terrace man is found dead in his cell.

After a Daily Herald investigation of a series of deadly cross-over wrecks on I-5 near Marysville, state officials ordered the installation of concrete barriers on the stretch of freeway.

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It’s a deadly mystery. Something is happening along I-5 north of Marysville that is causing cars and trucks to cut across the median separating the northbound and southbound lanes. Too often, the vehicles are blasting through the 30-inchhigh steel cable barriers the state Department of Transportation has installed to prevent head-on crashes. People are dying. The cable barriers are being blamed. Some people are so afraid they’ve begun avoiding I-5 just north of Marysville. “I don’t want to be the one who ends up having a head-on collision from someone else coming across the freeway,”

Boosters say the market is big enough for Paine Field to serve commercial passenger flights, but they face a test of wills. In Tuesday’s Herald.

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EVERETT — A convicted sex offender who allegedly used the Mormon church he attended to lure boys, died Saturday while on suicide watch in the Snohomish County Jail, officials reported. Correction ofHerget ficers responded David around 4 a.m. to a single cell in the jail’s special HerDavid where unit, custody get, 62, of Mountlake Terrace had been held since Friday. An officer was checking on Herget’s safety every 30 minutes, said Jim Harms, the jail’s public information officer. Paramedics arrived about 30 minutes after an officer found Herget and unsuccessfully tried to resuscitate him, Harms said. The cause of Herget’s death is under investigation pending an autopsy by the Snohomish County medical examiner. Herget was the first man to die in jail custody since 2003, Harms said. “It’s extremely unusual,” he said. Herget’s family members declined to comment. Mountlake Terrace police arrested Herget on Friday on suspicion of sex crimes involving boys he met at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Mountlake Terrace. Officers also searched his house Friday in the 5800 block of 225th Place SW. “We did recover quite a bit of evidence,” Assistant Police Chief Pete Caw said. Caw declined to comment on the items. Herget faced 18 charges of sex crimes, including six counts of child rape, six counts of child molestation, three counts of sexual exploitation of minors, and communicating with a minor for immoral purposes, Harms said. Herget was being held in lieu of up to $345,000 bail, Harms said. Officials put Herget on suicide watch after family members expressed concerns about the

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children, several warnMeadowdale built a ings from the Edmonds record of 255 wins and 39 School District, a twolosses. year probation of the girls Student athletes are often On the outside, it was a basketball program for a under such pressure to win successful reign. wildly state rules violation and, and earn scholarships that The success, however, is ultimately, Blair’s job. sports of their enjoyment came at a price. The cost Blair, 40, of Edmonds A9 Page ed. compromis included players bewilresigned May 25, citing motivadered by Blair’s Karen Blair parental pressure and outparents style, took the Mavericks to 10 straight tional at what they perceived as lack of support from the district. raged titles has accepted a position state tournaments, winning shoddy treatment of their She since in 2000 and 2004. Under Blair, Blair’s

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EDMONDS — The numbers assert that Karen Blair succeeded magnificently at what she was hired to do. In 11 seasons as head coach of the Meadowdale High School girls basketball program, Blair

as girls coach at Ballard High School in Seattle. In the weeks following Blair’s sudden resignation, The Herald contacted more than two dozen parents, former players, administrators, coaches and others. Some were Blair supporters, some were detractors. The Herald also obtained

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