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Northwest Briefing
Tuesday, May 11, 1999
EVERETT
A 4-year-old boy was in serious condition last night after he was struck by a hit-and-run driver while riding his bicycle.
The driver hit the boy about 7 p.m. at 108th Street and Meridian Drive Southeast and tried to flee the scene before being chased and beaten up by witnesses, said Snohomish County Sheriff's spokeswoman Jan Jorgensen. The 19-year-old male driver was taken into custody last night, she said.
The man became angry after his friends declined to look at his blue truck and sped off, Jorgensen said. He hit the boy and rammed into another car on the opposite side of the street, he said.
The boy was being treated for a skull fracture at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.
KENT
Police were continuing to search yesterday for the driver of a hit-and-run car that killed a 14-year-old bicyclist who was on a shopping trip with her father Saturday night.
State Patrol troopers issued a call for the public to help them locate the vehicle that struck Jennifer Bedingfield while she was riding home from a store in the 22400 block of Benson Road Southeast.
They said the car that struck the Kent Junior High School student may have been a dark 1980-82 Datsun four-door sedan. The vehicle would have extensive front-end damage and may have a shattered windshield.
Anyone with information about the vehicle or its driver is asked to call 425-455-7700.
TILLAMOOK, Ore.
A Tillamook County grand jury has indicted Larry Gene Cole on charges he murdered a state park ranger and tried to murder another to hide the deed.
It indicted Cole on 19 felony charges stemming from the April 27 shootings at Oswald West State Park. In addition to aggravated murder, which carries a possible death penalty, the charges include attempted murder, first-degree kidnapping with a firearm, burglary, theft, robbery and assault. Aggravated murder carries a possible death penalty.
Cole, 52, was arraigned Friday and is to enter a plea July 8.
He was arrested shortly after he confronted the two state parks rangers, took their keys and wallets, marched them a quarter mile up a trail and fired bullets into their heads.
Ranger Danny Blumenthal, 50, died at the scene. With two bullets in his jaw, ranger John "Jack" Kerwin played dead and survived.
COEUR d'ALENE, Idaho
Tribal elders want artifacts and grave sites protected when the federal government starts cleaning up mining pollution on nearby river beaches.
More than 30 tribal campgrounds and possible burial sites dot the riverside from Cataldo along the Coeur d'Alene River to Spokane Falls on the Spokane River, according to a tribal map. Some date back to the start of the Coeur d'Alene Tribe's history, said elder Felix Aripa.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency may excavate some river beaches along those areas where levels of heavy metals are deemed dangerous to health or environment.
Elders want the cleanup monitored, Aripa said. If artifacts or human remains are exhumed during the work, the tribe wants to make sure they are disposed of properly.
The Native American Graves Protection and Reparation Act requires tribal involvement during potential disturbances to burial sites.
BREMERTON
It's unlikely that tolls would be reinstated to pay for replacing the east end of the Hood Canal floating bridge, state Department of Transportation officials say.
But Olympic Peninsula communities aren't taking any chances.
Jefferson County commissioners, Sequim and Port Townsend city councils and the Clallam County Economic Development Council have sent resolutions urging that tolls not be collected to pay for the work.
The Peninsula Regional Transportation Organization also has drafted a letter opposing the tolls.
"The concern is we don't have a high-level economy on the (Olympic) Peninsula right now," Sequim City Councilman Bob Smith said.
The bridge connects the north side of the Olympic Peninsula with Puget Sound's urban centers. Without it, motorists would have to drive south around Hood Canal.
Replacing the eastern half of the span, which was built in 1962, is projected to cost $180 million -- virtually the entire amount budgeted by the Transportation Department for bridge-preservation work in a two-year budget period. Work is expected to begin in the 2001-2003 biennium.
The western half was rebuilt after the original span sank in a Feb. 13, 1979, windstorm.
P-I Staff and News Services
4-year-old boy hit by car; driver stopped, beaten up
Troopers seek help finding hit-and-run car and driver
Man indicted on 19 counts in shooting of park rangers
Tribe asks EPA to protect artifacts and grave sites
Tolls for Hood Canal span aren't likely to be resumed
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