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95-Year-Old WWII Vet Finds Out He's Not a US Citizen
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsDuring a routine trip to his local DMV in Washington state, 95-year-old Leeland Davidson got the surprise of his life: Despite having served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and having lived in America most of his life, he's not a U.S. citizen. Never was. Davidson was born in Canada in 1916, but he always assumed that because his parents were Americans, he is too. It appears now that his parents never registered his birth with U.S. authorities, and he got Canadian citizenship by default instead. He only discovered the error recently, when he applied for a new ID in order to visit ...
9 Sixth-Graders Suspected of 'Fight Club' in Washington State
By not in system - AOL NewsTACOMA, Wash. -- Nine sixth-grade boys suspected of participating in a so-called "fight club" have been expelled from a Tacoma middle school. School officials tell The News Tribune they found out about the club when the relative of one participant spoke to a television station about it. KCPQ-TV also aired a cell phone video showing two kids fighting. The fights took place at Stewart Middle School and in homes. A Tacoma Public Schools spokesman says the school expelled the boys as of Monday. When they can return will be determined on a case-by-case basis, with school officials factoring in ...
Wash. Couple Rescued After 4 Days Trapped in Snow
By not in system - AOL NewsSEATTLE - John and Patricia Norvell kept thinking someone would come help them as they sat trapped for four days on a secluded, forest road near Mount St. Helens with only jelly beans to eat and snow for water. But as the third and fourth days approached, John said he felt dark at times, even as his wife's spirits remained high. The 63-year-olds from Vancouver, Wash., played cribbage, spooned snow into water bottles, and ran the engine just a few minutes at a time to stay warm and save gas. Sometimes, they turned the ignition just enough to run their heated seats off the battery. Their ...
Fire on WA State Reservation Burns Several Homes
By not in system - AOL NewsWHITE SWAN, Wash. - Dozens of firefighters battled a blaze fueled by strong winds on Washington's Yakama Indian Reservation that destroyed 18 homes, officials said. The fire apparently started in one house in the early Saturday afternoon and then spread in the town of White Swan, bolstered by 40 mph winds. The blaze raged for most of the day. Early Sunday, Yakima County District 5 Fire Chief Brian Vogel told The Associated Press that the wild land fires had been controlled, but thousands of logs on log decks at one of the mills were still burning. They're expected to burn for another 24 ...
1999 Child Kidnapping Case Gets Fresh Look
By David Lohr - AOL NewsThe mother of a toddler who disappeared from a Washington state bowling alley more than 12 years ago is hoping renewed interest in the case will result in new leads. "I have been through hell in the years since she has been gone," Theresa Lewis told AOL News. "My daughter vanished out of thin air and nobody knows anything. All I want is closure. I need to know what happened to my daughter." Two-year-old Teekah Lewis was last seen at about 10:30 p.m. on Jan. 23, 1999. Lewis said she had taken her daughter with her to New Frontier Lanes on South Center Street in Tacoma. There, Lewis, along ...
Mega Millions Jackpot: Stuff to Buy With $355 Million
By Steven Hoffer - AOL NewsMost lottery tickets are good for five minutes of daydreaming. But a couple of lucky lottery players find themselves millions of dollars richer today, after the Mega Millions' organizers announced that two winning tickets to Tuesday's $355 million drawing were sold in Idaho and Washington state. The two winners matched up the numbers 4, 8, 15, 25, 47 and the mega ball number 42 in Tuesday night's drawing. Although the lucky lottery players will actually split the $355 million jackpot, Surge Desk got to thinking what a person might do with such a sudden influx of expendable cash. With $355 ...
Four Loko Banned by Washington State Liquor Control Board
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Nov. 10) -- Next week, Washington state residents will no longer find "blackout in a can" beverage Four Loko on liquor store shelves. The infamous party drink responsible for the hospitalization of nine Central Washington University students at an Oct. 8 house party is being placed under emergency ban by the state's Liquor Control Board, set to go into effect Nov. 17, according to The Seattle Times. The temporary ban, which passed unanimously and includes all caffeinated alcohol drinks, will remain in place for 120 days as the board deliberates protocol for a permanent prohibition. The ...
Washington Senate Election Results: Murray Clings to Lead Over Rossi
By Dave Thier - AOL News(Nov. 3) -- In Washington state, a tense senatorial race between three-term Democratic incumbent Patty Murray and Republican challenger Dino Rossi remains too close to call, with the contenders separated by a single percentage point. According to The Christian Science Monitor, a key deciding factor will be mail-in ballots, which can be postmarked from as late as midnight on Election Day. Unsurprisingly, there are murmurs of a recount coming from both parties. According to The Seattle Times, both the Republicans and Democrats have lawyers on standby for the inevitable legal battles when a ...
C-SPAN's Supreme Court Broadcasts: Assisted Suicide
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyThis is the third in a series of 10 special Politics Daily columns to complement C-SPAN's broadcasts this fall of audiotape recordings of some of the most famous and important Supreme Court oral arguments of the past 50 years. The C-SPAN broadcasts will afford most Americans their first opportunity to hear the actual words spoken by the justices and the lawyers before them in arguments that shaped the law that has shaped our lives in countless ways. The third featured tape in the series, focusing on the Washington v. Glucksberg right-to-die/assisted suicide argument in 1997, will be heard on ...
Survivor Recounts Grisly Details of Near-Fatal Bear Attack
By Mara Gay - AOL News
(Oct. 11) -- Bandages aside, John Chelminiak doesn't seem like a man who was nearly killed last month in a bear attack. The 57-year-old Bellevue City Council member from Washington state was the victim of a black bear mauling Sept. 17 that took his left eye and almost his life, but he was unfazed today as he recounted the terrifying encounter and announced his release from the hospital. "I actually feel very good, very strong, continue to get better every day," he told NBC's "Today" show. "Yesterday I got the good news from the doctors that I'll be able to go home later today, so I'm very ...
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