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The to-do list Cars: Cruzin’ to Colby is 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday, with vintage and classic cars cruising Colby in Everett. The show continues from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday with the cars on display; www.seattlerod-tiques.com.
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Tanks: See tanks in action at TankFest from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday at the Flying Heritage Collection, 3407 109th St. SW, Everett. $10-$14, 5 and younger free. Memorial Day: Events are planned around the county Monday to honor U.S. troops who died during service. See a list of events on Page A10.
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10th jail death since 2010 Melissa Lee Bradford, who was found dead Thursday, had been screened and “routinely checked,” a spokeswoman said. By Eric Stevick Herald Writer
EVERETT — Melissa Lee Bradford was arrested after a squabble with her sister just before 3 p.m. Wednesday. The Tulalip woman, 42, was
booked into the Snohomish County Jail about 30 minutes later. Within 24 hours, she was found unresponsive in the jail’s medical unit. Efforts to revive her failed. Bradford became the tenth
inmate to die at the jail since 2010. As is standard procedure with inmate deaths, the case is being investigated by detectives with the Snohomish County Sheriff ’s Office Major Crimes Unit. The Snohomish County Medical Examiner also has been asked to determine the cause and manner of death.
Aging bridges still the norm
The spate of inmate deaths prompted the county last year to ask for a federal review of jail operations. Since then, county officials have been working to improve medical care, increase staffing and reduce the jail’s average inmate population. A full-time See JAIL, back page, this section
In the year since a section of the I-5 bridge was sent into the Skagit River, little has improved with the state’s other problematic spans.
A hands-on approach
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Freshmen learn physics by building rockets and underwater robots
MOUNT VERNON — A year after an oversized truck knocked a section of the I-5 bridge into the Skagit River, traffic is flowing over the replacement span. But dozens of other aging bridges in Washington are still listed as deficient, and an online state bridge map for truckers is stalled for lack of funding. Two vehicles with three people fell into the water May 23, 2013. No one died, but state Trooper Sean O’Connell was killed a week later while detouring traffic through Mount Vernon and Burlington. A temporary span was in place in a month. A permanent span opened in September, and work was completed in November to square off the arched support beams and raise the clearance on the I-5 Skagit River bridge. The U.S. Department of Transportation 2013 National Bridge Inventory released in April shows that of the nearly 8,000 bridges in Washington, 5 percent are structurally deficient and 21 percent are functionally obsolete, the Skagit Valley Herald reported Friday. The state Transportation Department lists more than 3,700 bridges in its inventory, 141 of which are listed as structurally deficient, said spokesman Bart Treece. Structurally deficient does not mean the bridge is unsafe, said DeWayne Wilson, bridge management engineer for the state Transportation Department’s Bridge and Structures Office. If a bridge is unsafe for traffic, it will be closed, he said. A bridge is structurally deficient when it is in need of rehabilitation or replacement because at least one major component is deemed in poor or worse condition. Functionally obsolete means
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Freshmen Alayna Newland (left) and Yutanee Ryan react as they launch the rocket they made in teacher Tom Wier’s (right) science class at Archbishop Murphy High School Wednesday. The class moved on to launching rockets after recently completing a project building underwater robots.
By Amy Nile Herald Writer
EVERETT — Students at Archbishop Murphy High School are taking a hands-on approach to scientific exploration. They’re launching rockets into the air and probing underwater with robots.
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Though these freshmen aren’t yet allowed get behind the wheel of a car, they’ve built remotely operated vehicles that can cruise down to about 40 feet below the water’s surface. Their science teacher, Tom Wier, came up with the school’s first-ever underwater robot project. Students designed, built and
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tested four different remotely operated vehicles, or ROVs. “It’s engineering at its core,” Wier said. “I wanted everybody to have a concrete object that they cared about to start learning physics.” Students taking freshman science from Wier worked together to complete one robot in each of
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the four classes. They came up with a different design for each vehicle. “It was really fun,” said Kaylah Hogle, a designer in one of the classes. The students built the frame by cutting up about 10 feet of
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