Autistic boy found at transit center

An 11-year-old autistic boy who was missing from the Wallingford neighborhood for about five hours yesterday was found safe last night at a transit center in Lynnwood.

A Community Transit employee found the child at the bus station about 8:30 p.m., said Seattle police spokesman Rich Pruitt. The boy was reported missing after he didn't meet his father after his day at school.

Man fires shots near picketing Machinists

Snohomish County sheriff's deputies said they had no leads in the search for a man who fired several shots into a vacant car after confronting picketing Boeing Machinists late Saturday night.

Around midnight, a man wearing a Los Angeles Lakers sweat shirt approached strikers near the Boeing plant in Everett and asked for a cigarette, said Dave Hayes, a sheriff's spokesman.

The strikers didn't have any, so the man walked away, pulled out a gun and fired in the opposite direction of the strikers, Hayes said.

2 bodies recovered after plane crash

Searchers have recovered what they believe are the bodies of two American men who were aboard a missing float plane.

The plane vanished from radar Sunday night as it was coming into the Port Hardy airport on northern Vancouver Island. On board the Cessna 185 were Bryan Gilbert, 46, of East Wenatchee, and Marshall Stout, 30, of California.

Gerry Pash of the Rescue Coordination Centre in Victoria said the investigation has been turned over to Port Hardy Royal Canadian Mounted Police. A helicopter and three Coast Guard ships took part in the search. A backpack with identity papers from one of the two people on board was found by searchers yesterday.

The plane was on its way from Ketchikan, Alaska, to Washington state and had been scheduled to make a fuel stop in Port Hardy.

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I-5 motorcyclist dies making lane change

A motorcyclist died on Interstate 5 last night after hitting a concrete pillar on the shoulder of the express lanes.

The man, identified by the State Patrol as Dustin R. Henthorn, 31, of Everett, was traveling north near the Mercer Street exit about 4:45 p.m. when he apparently lost control of his motorcycle while making a lane change, said Patrol Sgt. T.J. Johnson.

Henthorn died at the scene.

An elderly Renton couple missing from home for several days were found this morning at a U.S. Post Office in Yelm, according to the King County sheriff's office.

Herb Gray, 87, and his wife, Gloria, 81, who suffer from dementia, were found safe at about 10 a.m. at the post office, the sheriff's office said.

Gloria Gray was last seen about 1 a.m. Sunday when she nearly crashed her silver Mazda 626 into a deputy's car on Sunset Boulevard in Renton. At that time, though, the couple hadn't been reported missing, so the deputy didn't know they were at risk, police said.