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Visitors hoping to catch a glimpse of the bald eagles on Camano Island in Washington State's Puget Sound are more likely to see a different bird in the sky: a police chopper skimming the cedar forests in search of an outlaw. Colton Harris-Moore, a gangly 18-year-old with furtive eyes and a dimpled chin, has been on police blotters since he was accused of stealing a bike at the age of 8. Since then, he is suspected of having committed nearly 100 burglaries in Washington, Idaho and Canada. Police allege that he graduated from bikes to cars...
...Earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from Pacific Lutheran University and a law degree from University of Puget Sound School of Law (now called Seattle University School...
...those is Monica Guzman, 26, who is fluent in Twitter, Facebook and iPhone and runs the Big Blog on the P-I. She and her colleagues will continue to be based at the same building overlooking Puget Sound, with its iconic globe still spinning on the roof. But as for the shape of the product they'll create, that's constantly morphing. "Part of what I do is the future," Guzman says, referring to her online presence, her immersion in the Seattle buzz and her ability to improve her reporting through public input. But she also acknowledges that what...
...helicopter-ambulance accidents reviewed by the Congressional Research Service in 2006. "The same accidents keep happening over and over," says Stacey Friedman, founder of Safemedflight.org, which advocates for crash victims' families. Her sister Erin Reed was a nurse who died in a medical-helicopter crash in Puget Sound...
...NTSB clash this week, Stacey Friedman will fly from her home in Sacramento to attend the safety hearings in Washington. She will tell people that the helicopter her sister was riding in crashed into the Puget Sound in the middle of a heavy storm, that her sister's body was recovered in pieces. She probably will not cry. She has been telling the same story for years. "The industry is supposed to save people," Freidman says, "but actually it's killing people all the time...