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SEATTLE — A man died yesterday after driving his motorcycle into the side of a moving car in the Ballard neighborhood.
Witnesses told police the motorcyclist was driving at more than twice the 30-mile-an-hour speed limit while going north on Third Avenue Northwest, said Seattle Police Department spokesman Duane Fish.
Just after 2:30 p.m., the motorcyclist plowed into the right side of a car that pulled into the intersection at Northwest 55th Street after stopping at the stop sign, Fish said.
Although the motorcyclist had the right of way, he would have lost that right if he was speeding, Fish said.
The motorcyclist was taken to Harborview Medical Center, where he died. The driver of the car, a woman, was not injured. Their identities weren't available yesterday.
Man fleeing from police hit by SUV on highway
PACIFIC — A 32-year-old Puyallup man died after being hit by a sport-utility vehicle while running from a State Patrol trooper who had pulled him over in a traffic stop, the Patrol said.
A trooper stopped Luis Lizarraga-Ortiz about 2 a.m. yesterday for driving erratically on Highway 167 just south of the King County line, said Patrol spokesman Eric Robertson.
Lizarraga-Ortiz was uncooperative, and when the trooper tried to arrest him, a struggle ensued, Robertson said. Then Lizarraga-Ortiz ran onto the highway.
He crossed the first lane and had just entered the second when he was almost hit by traffic, said Robertson. Lizarraga-Ortiz jumped back into the first lane but was hit by a vehicle driven by a 37-year-old Puyallup man. Lizarraga-Ortiz died at the scene.
Conan O'Brien, ad exec wed in First Hill church
SEATTLE — Late-night funny man Conan O'Brien married Seattle ad executive Liza Powell at St. James Cathedral yesterday.
"Sorry about the rain," O'Brien said as he and his bride emerged from the Catholic cathedral after the afternoon ceremony.
O'Brien is in his ninth season on NBC's "Late Night with Conan O'Brien."
O'Brien's longtime friend and Harvard roommate, the Rev. Paul O'Brien, officiated. The two are not related.
The bride is the daughter of Seattle Dixieland band leader Jake Powell.
The pair became engaged last July, about a year after Powell, a Vassar graduate, met O'Brien while appearing on his show in a skit about advertising.
"She's a beautiful, beautiful, wonderful person in all ways," Paul O'Brien said.
The service, which was closed to all but invited guests, was attended by "Friends" actress Lisa Kudrow and several on-air staff members from O'Brien's show.
O'Brien, a native of Brookline, Mass., lives in New York.
Canadian Indian sentenced for violating bald-eagle law
SEATTLE — A Canadian Indian convicted of violating federal laws protecting bald eagles has been sentenced to two years in prison.
U.S. District Judge Thomas Zilly on Friday also ordered 47-year-old Terry Antoine of Duncan, B.C., to pay $147,000 in restitution and spend three years under supervised release.
In October, a jury convicted Antoine of one count of illegal importation and four counts of violating the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act.
During the trial, prosecutors displayed pictures of feathers and parts from at least 29 eagles seized from a storage locker Antoine had rented in Fife.
Prosecutors alleged he ran a black-market scheme of selling eagle parts to members of tribes in Washington, Montana and Arizona during the summer of 1998.
Antoine, a member of the Cowichan band of the Salish Tribe, maintains he was acting as a medicine man when he gave feathers and other parts to Indians for use in religious ceremonies.
He has not been accused of killing any eagles.
Bald eagles are listed as threatened in the Lower 48 states. They are not threatened in British Columbia, but it is illegal to hunt them there.
Information is from Seattle Times staff and news services.