Rape victim met attacker online, police say
Mountlake Terrace police have arrested an Issaquah man for allegedly raping a woman he met on MySpace.com.
The man, 31, appeared in an Everett courtroom Wednesday for a bail hearing. He is being held on suspicion of second-degree rape. Investigators believe the man broke into a Mountlake Terrace woman's home May 30 and raped her, said Assistant Chief Mike Mitchell.
Investigators say the man befriended the woman on the Web site. Then, after getting her address and phone number, he showed up at her home, Mitchell said. Police tracked down the man through the site. When he came to the department Tuesday for a meeting with investigators, he was arrested, Mitchell said.
Police are looking into whether he may have assaulted other women he met on the Web site.
RentonCharges in crash that killed baby
A Renton man accused of running a stop sign and colliding with a car, killing a 9-month-old girl, was charged Wednesday with vehicular homicide and vehicular assault.
Bradford Burchard, 29, who does not have a valid driver's license, was seen leaving a bar May 31 and driving erratically about a half-hour before the crash, according to charging documents. Beer bottles were found in his car, and he had a blood-alcohol level of 0.20 percent, more than twice the legal limit, according to King County prosecutors.
The impact of the crash caused the baby to be thrown from a Honda Civic. Others in the car remain hospitalized — a 23-year-old woman who could be paralyzed for life and a 2-½-year-old boy who remains in "a permanent vegetative state," according to charging papers.
EverettHit-and-run death leads to charges
Snohomish County prosecutors have charged a 25-year-old Marysville man with the hit-and-run death of 22-year-old Jonathan McCamey of Arlington.
Dale Brodahl faces three to four years in prison if convicted.
Police and prosecutors believe Brodahl knew he hit a man while he was driving in Arlington early Friday but didn't stop, according to the Arlington Police Department. An anonymous tip and bits of Brodahl's vehicle left at the scene helped lead to the arrest, according to the document.
Brodahl was in Snohomish County Jail on Wednesday with bail set at $50,000.
Dublin, IrelandFugitive files appeal to fight extradition
An American fugitive who has been ordered extradited to the United States to face charges he killed three Washington State University students while allegedly driving drunk has filed an appeal to Ireland's highest court.
A lower court ruled May 23 that Frederick Russell, 27, should be sent back to Washington. The Irish Supreme Court said it had received a notice of appeal from Russell's legal team.
In 2001, Russell fled while awaiting trial for allegedly killing the three students and injuring three others in a crash that year on the Idaho-Washington border.
Irish police arrested him in 2005, nine months after receiving a tip from U.S. law enforcement that he was working as a security guard at a Dublin lingerie shop and using an alias.
Point Reyes Station, Calif.18-year-old dies after fall from boat
An 18-year-old Washington state man who fell off a sailboat died after nearly five hours in the ocean, authorities said Wednesday.
An autopsy was planned Wednesday to determine what killed Andrew Brinkley, of Vancouver, the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner-Coroner's Office said.
The U.S. Coast Guard searched for Brinkley off the coast of Point Reyes National Seashore after the sailboat, Fat Chance, issued a mayday call Tuesday morning. The sailboat's engine had failed.
RichlandNo radiation leak after container falls
Some workers at the Hanford nuclear reservation were ordered to take cover Wednesday morning after a sealed container holding contaminated waste slid off a forklift.
The incident occurred at about 10 a.m. in the 200 West area of the site, where workers have been retrieving contaminated waste and removing contaminated equipment.
At the time, workers were removing a container of radioactive waste from the Plutonium Finishing Plant.
Workers looked and verified that the container was not breached, and radiological monitoring determined that no contaminants had been released, the U.S. Department of Energy said.
The take-cover order was lifted by 11 a.m.
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