Highway flagger killed on Hwy. 101

The State Patrol says a highway flagger who was killed Monday on Highway 101 along Hood Canal was a 49-year-old woman from Clallam County.

Lynette Anderson, of Beaver, was killed when a dump truck backed over her at a paving project near Brinnon. The state Department of Transportation says the victim is believed to have worked for Lakeside Industries, based in Issaquah.

Trooper Krista Hedstrom says investigators are trying to determine how the accident occurred. Troopers are questioning witnesses and checking safety equipment on the truck, such as the alarm that beeps when the truck is in reverse.

Seattle

City Light chief is reconfirmed

Seattle City Council on Monday reconfirmed Jorge Carrasco for his second four-year term as superintendent of the publicly owned utility Seattle City Light. Council members cited his financial-management skills, conservation efforts and efforts to transform the utility since he was hired in 2004. Previous superintendent Gary Zarker left his job during bitter reconfirmation hearings.

Council President Richard Conlin and council members Tim Burgess, Sally Clark, Jan Drago, Jean Godden, Bruce Harrell, Nick Licata and Richard McIver participated in the 8-0 vote. Councilmember Tom Rasmussen was absent.

Tukwila

Driver who was fatally shot is ID'd

A young man shot and killed by a passing motorist early Sunday on northbound Interstate 5 near Boeing Access Road has been identified by the King County Medical Examiner's Office as Ahmed Mohamed, 18.

Tukwila Police, who investigated the shooting, said Mohamed was driving at about 2:30 a.m. when he was shot. Friends in the car took him to Seattle's Harborview Medical Center, where he died.

The medical examiner's office reported Monday that the cause of death was a gunshot wound to the head.

Seattle

Man sentenced in jewelry heist

A 38-year-old man was sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court in Seattle to nearly six years in prison for robbing a jewelry courier outside a Bellevue restaurant in September.

Sergio Santamaria, a Mexican citizen, was also sentenced by U.S. District Judge James L. Robart to three years of supervised release.

Santamaria was one of three men who robbed a jewelry courier outside a Bellevue McDonald's restaurant on Sept. 27, according to the U.S. attorney's office. The men were arrested after a police chase just off Interstate 90 near Snoqualmie.

According to documents filed in the case, Santamaria and two other men followed a jewelry courier from his Seattle hotel to a McDonald's restaurant in the Factoria neighborhood, where the courier stopped for breakfast. A van driven by Santamaria was used to block the courier's rental car, and one of the men pointed what appeared to be a gun at the courier and demanded his keys and wallet. The courier turned over his keys, just as one of the men broke the back window of the car and stole a backpack containing approximately $221,000 in jewelry.

The three men drove off in the van but were tracked and stopped by Bellevue and Issaquah Police.

Seattle

Abandoned ferries officially for sale

Wanna buy a ferry?

The state's General Administration office is selling the four abandoned Steel Electric ferries, idled when they were taken out of service last November.

Until July, the state will accept offers from state agencies, counties, cities, government organizations and nonprofits. The minimum bid is $350,000 for the Illahee, Nisqually, Klickitat and Quinault. If there are no bids, the boats will go for sale on eBay.

There have already been two expressions of interest: the city of Port Townsend, which wants one of the boats as a meeting hall, parking garage or retail space and the Washington Scuba Alliance, which wants to sink the boats as a dive attraction.

Canadian border

New signs reveal wait times at border

If you're trying to decide the best crossing at the Canadian border, the state Department of Transportation has just made it a little easier.

The state has installed new signs at four Whatcom County crossings to give the wait times at each.

The signs are at:

• Interstate 5 in Blaine at the Peace Arch crossing

• Highway 543 in Blaine, the Pacific Highway, or truck crossing

• Highway 539 in Lynden

• Highway 9 in Sumas.

Wait times are also available on the Web at www.wsdot.wa.gov/traffic/border/

Spokane

Wayward moose is relocated

State wildlife agents tranquilized a moose that wandered into an RV parking lot east of Spokane, just off I-90 at the Barker Road exit.

A Fish and Wildlife Department spokeswoman, Madonna Luers, says the 2-year-old female was loaded into a horse trailer Monday and hauled to a remote area on the east side of Mount Spokane.

Luers says agents have to escort or move about a dozen moose a year that get in the way in Spokane County. She says this moose had to be tranquilized because it was too close to the interstate.

Seattle Times staff and news services