The weather off the coast of Unalaska Island continued to cooperate yesterday with a salvage team tackling fuel removal from the broken Selendang Ayu soybean freighter.

Calm weather allowed the team to remove nearly 10,000 gallons of fuel mixed with water yesterday, said Petty Officer Thomas McKenzie. The total fuel and water removed stands at more than 35,000 gallons, he said.

Bad weather has hampered cleanup since the Selendang Ayu went aground and split in two Dec. 8, causing a major oil spill. Most of the estimated 442,000 gallons of fuel once on the boat are believed lost.

Six crew members were lost at sea in a helicopter crash just before the disabled ship wrecked off the western coast of Unalaska Island in the Aleutians.

Spokane

Six arrested in fatal shooting

Police arrested five men and one woman Saturday in the shooting death of Calvin Banks, 24, outside Crazy Eights bar early New Year's Day.

Two more men were being sought, said police spokesman Dick Cottam.

Police discovered four handguns hidden in the house where they found the six suspects early Saturday.

One 18-year-old man was jailed for investigation of second-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree assault, police said.

Four other men were jailed for investigation of conspiracy to commit first-degree assault.

A 21-year-old woman who lives at the house where the men were found was also held for investigation of rendering criminal assistance, police said.

Tukwila

Police seek robber who stabbed clerk

A man who committed an armed robbery in a Tukwila convenience store Saturday night is still at large.

At 9 p.m. Saturday, a man with a knife entered the Checkers III Grocery, 10359 51st Ave. S., and demanded that the clerk hand over the money in the cash register.

After the clerk complied, the man jumped over the counter and assaulted the clerk, stabbing him three times.

Medics transported the clerk to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.

Tukwila police said the clerk's wounds were not life-threatening.

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