Snohomish County sheriff's deputies are searching for two men who robbed a South Everett doughnut shop yesterday at gunpoint while wearing clown masks.

Employees at Henry's Donuts & Deli reported the men came in the front door and demanded cash about 8 a.m., said sheriff's spokesman Rich Niebusch. The men took an undisclosed sum of cash and left through the back door of the store in the 12700 block of Fourth Avenue West. They took no doughnuts.

The men are described as heavyset and wearing white clown masks with red noses and gloves, Niebusch said. No one was hurt.

Ratings to drop cost of flood insurance

King County is one of the top two communities in the country for work to reduce the threat of flood damage, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

The county has earned a Class 3 rating from FEMA's flood-insurance program, a designation that will lower flood-insurance costs for property owners. The only other community in the nation to receive that ranking is Tulsa, Okla.

Owners of property in unincorporated King County will get a 35 percent discount on flood insurance, compared with a 30 percent discount under the county's previous rating.

The ranking resulted from closely mapping flood-danger areas, enforcing regulations controlling development on flood-prone land, buying flood-prone land or relocating structures at high risk and running a flood-warning center to distribute information during floods, among other things.

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Driver gets 9 years in prison in death

An Everett man was sentenced Tuesday to nine years in prison for vehicular homicide for an incident in which he ran over and killed a 47-year-old Snohomish man with his truck.

Kevin Stewart was allegedly trying to steal from a house that owner Brian Somes was selling in the 9000 block of 52nd Street Southeast in Snohomish when he ran over Somes in the driveway in May 2004, according to charging papers.

Somes was on his way to work when he stopped at the vacant home.

Flagger on N.E. 180th hit by car, injured

A flagger directing traffic on 15th Avenue Northeast was hit by a car Tuesday.

The 63-year-old woman was guiding traffic near Northeast 180th Street when she was struck, said King County sheriff's spokesman John Urquhart. Her name was not released.

The 45-year-old Shoreline man's car apparently knocked the woman into a 6-foot-deep ditch, Urquhart said.

She was taken to Harborview Medical Center in critical condition. Her condition yesterday was not available.

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