3-car collision kills 1, injures 1

One person was killed and another was hospitalized Friday after a three-vehicle collision in the Laurelhurst neighborhood.

The vehicles collided at 40th Avenue Northeast and Sandpoint Way, near Children's Hospital & Regional Medical Center, just after 11:30 a.m., said Seattle Fire Department spokeswoman Helen Fitzpatrick.

A sport-utility vehicle was traveling south on Sandpoint Way when the 32-year-old driver struck a Lexus sedan, said Seattle police spokeswoman Renee Witt. The Lexus then spun around and struck a Honda.

A 79-year-old woman riding in the Lexus was killed. An 80-year-old man driving the vehicle was taken to Harborview Medical Center, Witt said. Nobody else was seriously hurt. The names of those involved were not released.

Witnesses told police that the SUV driver had been speeding. The case is under investigation.

Fort Lewis

2 soldiers who died are identified

The Department of Defense identified two Fort Lewis-based soldiers who died this week in Iraq.

Sgt. Maj. Bradly D. Conner, 41, of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, died near Al-Hillah in central Iraq on Wednesday after a bomb exploded near his vehicle. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group.

Sgt. Jason W. Vaughn, 29, of Iuka, Miss., died Wednesday in Baqubah from wounds he suffered when a bomb detonated near his vehicle. He was part of the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division.

Earlier this week, the Army announced that six Fort Lewis-based soldiers were killed in Iraq on Sunday.

Sunday's attack was the deadliest for Fort Lewis soldiers since six were killed in a suicide bombing in a military dining hall in Mosul in December 2004.

Seattle

Emmert received threatening e-mail

University of Washington police are investigating the source of a threatening e-mail received last month by UW President Mark Emmert. Emmert received the e-mail April 20 through his private university e-mail address. The e-mailer accuses Emmert of not doing enough to protect 26-year-old Rebecca Griego, a UW employee who was fatally shot by her ex-boyfriend in a murder-suicide, according to UW police.

According to a search warrant filed in King County Superior Court, the e-mail reads, "It's a good thing for you I am not related to her or I would hunt you down and kill you now."

UW Police Chief Vicky Stormo said investigators determined the e-mail was sent from Colorado and have filed for a search warrant with the e-mail carrier to trace the source. Stormo also said the UW has added security measures, but she declined to be specific.

Emmert's daughter attends school in Colorado, and some of Griego's family members live there, Stormo said.

Griego was shot to death April 2 in Gould Hall by her ex-boyfriend, Jonathan Rowan, who then turned the gun on himself.

Seattle

Three Seattle-area police officers who died last year in the line of duty will be honored Sunday during a ceremony at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, D.C.

Seattle police Officer Joselito Barber, King County sheriff's Deputy Steve Cox and Brier police Officer Edwanton "Eddie" Thomas will be added to the memorial. U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales will deliver the keynote address and read the names of the 145 officers who died last year, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund.

Barber, 26, was killed Aug. 13 by a speeding driver who was 10 days out of prison. Cox, 46, was shot twice in the head by a convicted felon while investigating a case in White Center on Dec. 2. Thomas, 28, died Sept. 12 after struggling with a former mayor of Brier during an aid call at his home. The officer had congenital heart-valve disease.

The memorial, which was dedicated in 1991, has 17,917 names engraved on it. Washington state has 258 officers listed, including 57 from the Seattle Police Department dating back to 1881.

Wellesley, Mass.

UW grad to head Wellesley College

Wellesley College has selected a University of Washington graduate and biologist as its newest president.

Kim Bottomly will succeed Diana Chapman Walsh, who is stepping down June 30 after leading the women's liberal-arts college for 14 years, Wellesley announced Thursday.

Bottomly, a Montana native, has been instrumental in recruiting and retaining women in the sciences at Yale, where she now serves as deputy provost, according to a Wellesley news release.

Bottomly graduated from UW with a zoology degree and earned her doctorate in biological structure at the UW School of Medicine. She joined the Yale faculty in 1980.

Everett

College readies to make its move

Trinity Lutheran College is finalizing plans to move from Issaquah to downtown Everett.

The college, founded in 1944, will make its new home at properties on Wetmore Avenue and California Street, including the five-story Port Gardner Building and a 374-stall parking garage.

Remodeling of the 66,000-square-foot space should begin within the next few months, and classes are expected to start at the new campus by fall 2008. Current enrollment is about 125 students, but officials have said they expect that number to grow to 200.

Trinity began searching for a new campus in 2005 after leasing its 40.5-acre property in Issaquah to The City Church of Kirkland. Trinity is a private, independent Lutheran college that is regionally accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities.

Bremerton

Long process to ID burned remains

The Kitsap County Medical Examiner's Office said it could take weeks to identify the remains found inside a burned vehicle Thursday.

The human remains were found after firefighters extinguished a vehicle fire in Illahee State Park east of Bremerton, according the Kitsap County Sheriff's Office.

An investigator with the medical examiner's office said the identification process will take some time because of how badly the remains were burned.

Federal Way

Accused teacher charged in incident

A Federal Way teacher accused of molesting a female student was charged Friday with communication with a minor for immoral purposes.

Scott Riley, 52, was arrested Wednesday at Twin Lakes Elementary School after an 11-year-old girl told her mother she had been inappropriately touched during band practice April 16.

The girl later told police she had been struggling with a song and the teacher stood behind her. The girl said that, while she played, the teacher squeezed her buttocks repeatedly, according to Federal Way police.

Riley, who has been with the district nine years, is being held at the King County Jail in lieu of $50,000 bail. If convicted of the gross misdemeanor, Riley could spend up to a year in jail.

Seattle

Queen Anne fire ruled an arson

A fire at a home on Queen Anne Hill on Friday morning has been ruled an arson.

Firefighters were called to a vacant home in the 1900 block of Fifth Avenue West at 4:10 a.m., said Seattle Fire Department spokeswoman Helen Fitzpatrick. The blaze caused about $10,000 damage.

100 Mile House, B.C.

Woman killed by tiger at farm

A 32-year-old woman was fatally mauled by a tiger in an attack witnessed by several children at an exotic-animal farm in British Columbia, officials said Friday.

Tanya Dumstrey-Soos was taken to a hospital in 100 Mile House after the attack late Thursday at Siberian Magic, about 25 miles to the east, but doctors couldn't save her, said regional coroner Bruce Chamberlayne.

Scott Nelson, who employed Dumstrey-Soos as a receptionist and saleswoman at the 100 Mile House Advisor newspaper, said the farm was owned by Kim Carlton, the woman's fiancé.

Carlton "told me ... he didn't think the tiger had bit her. It's that she had a dress on, and she was standing there, and he was playing with the dress and grabbed her legs," Nelson said.

Dumstrey-Soos was found outside the tiger's cage when emergency services arrived at the farm, said Royal Canadian Mounted Police Cpl. Scott Ksionzyk.

"There is no indication that at any point the tiger was outside of the cage; nor is there any indication that the victim entered the cage," Ksionzyk said.

A number of youngsters, including one of Dumstrey-Soos' children, witnessed the attack, said RCMP constable Annie Linteau.

The Mounted Police said all animals, including three tigers, a lion and a lemur, remained secured on the premises.

Kent

Report of gunshots locks down school

Kentlake High School was locked down Friday after a report of gunshots in a classroom. King County sheriff's deputies searched the school but didn't find anything.

Deputies were called to the school at 2:11 p.m. by an employee at Kentlake who reported a "pop, pop, pop" sound coming from one of the rooms, said sheriff's spokesman John Urquhart. The lockdown was lifted around 4 p.m.

Deputies searched the room where the employee thought the noise was coming from and didn't find anything to indicate that shots were fired, Urquhart said.

Kentlake High School is at 21401 S.E. 300th St.

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