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PR war over med school As WSU steps up its campaign for a medical school in Spokane, a study backing the proposal is roundly panned by a top official at the UW. By Sharon Salyer and Jerry Cornfield Herald Writers
I caused,” he said through a Spanish interpreter. The Monroe man pleaded guilty in July to first-degree domestic violence murder with a deadly weapon. He faced up to 28 years behind bars. Garcia-Pacheco isn’t believed to be in the U.S. legally and might be deported after he is released from prison.
EVERETT — The more Washington State University officials talk of the need for a medical school east of the Cascades, the more University of Washington leaders say it’s a bad idea. On Monday, three days after WSU regents approved the undertaking, Orin Smith, a UW regent, stepped into the fray. He sharply criticized a consultant’s study analyzing the need for a new medical school under WSU, saying it was “based upon faulty assumptions, omissions and erroneous data.” WSU’s drive to open a new medical school in Spokane is rapidly morphing into a major public relations battle with its cross-state rival in Seattle. UW established the state’s only public medical school in 1946. Today, UW runs a five-state medical-school program in which WSU participates. Pullman-based WSU maintains that despite that regional program, there is a physician shortage in
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Oscar Garcia-Pacheco and his lawyer, Fred Moll, wait in the courtroom Monday after Garcia-Pacheco was sentenced to 22 years in prison for the brutal stabbing and murder of his wife, Jacoba Ramirez-Rodriguez.
Husband killed her as she tried to hand him legal papers By Diana Hefley Herald Writer
EVERETT — Jacoba RamirezRodriguez had found the courage to walk away. She endured the slaps and punches for years. She believed her husband would change. Then in May 2013, she asked for a court’s help to keep Oscar GarciaPacheco away from her. She was divorcing him and she was afraid.
Garcia-Pacheco stabbed his wife 19 times on a Monroe sidewalk as she tried to hand him the court document that ordered him to stay away. “It is often said that the most dangerous time for a domestic violence victim is when the victim tries to separate,” Snohomish County Superior Court Judge Ellen Fair said Monday. In this case, that proved tragically true, the judge said.
Fair on Monday sentenced Garcia-Pacheco to 22 years in prison. She called the defendant’s actions “inexplicable, abhorrent and unspeakable.” “I’m very sorry for the loss and suffering this family has endured,” Fair said. Garcia-Pacheco, 33, said Monday that he cannot explain what happened. “I regret greatly what I did and I ask for forgiveness for all the pain
Google’s got good news for 34 Snohomish County teachers Herald Writer
EVERETT — Brenda Ehrhardt is no stranger to funding challenges in public schools. But Ehrhardt, the music
teacher at Sunnyside Elementary School in Marysville for the past nine years, got a bit of good news in an email Monday: The Internet giant Google is giving her $2,179.59 so she can buy choral risers for student concerts.
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“I just started yelling, ‘Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh!’” Ehrhardt said. “I just didn’t think that much money would be possible. Literally I was just jumping up and down.” Ehrhardt is one of 34 teachers in Snohomish County — and one of nearly 300 in the Puget Sound region — who woke up Monday
Mama mia No end to endless breadsticks after all: Under fire from a hedge fund that’s a key investor in its parent company, Olive Garden is defending its practice of giving customers as many breadsticks as they want, saying the policy conveys Dear Abby . . . B3 Good Life . . . . B1
morning to learn that they’d be receiving a check from Google’s charitable arm, Google.org. The teachers had posted their needs on DonorsChoose.org, a website that enables teachers to seek donations for specific projects to benefit students. “Education is really important to us and we thought, ‘What better way than to support our
“Italian generosity” (Page A9). In a related matter, Olive Garden’s Creamy Chicken & Gnocchi Soup conveys your Norwegian grandmother’s idea of Italian food. Get hoppin’ so we can get drinkin’: A shortage of workers has hit the Yakima Valley’s plentiful hop
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harvest, which is crucial to the craft beer industry (Page A9). To attract workers, farmers offer incentives like higher wages, bonus pay, and tearful pleas verging on hysteria from the nation’s beer lovers. Don’t know much about history: On this day in
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hometown heroes who make it happen every day in classrooms?’” said Darcy Nothnagle, a Google public affairs manager. Noting that Google has 1,400 employees in the Puget Sound region, Nothnagle added that “it’s a great way for our local offices to partner with local teachers, too, See GOOGLE, Page A2
2007, O.J. Simpson was arrested in the alleged armed robbery of sports memorabilia collectors in Las Vegas (Today in History, Page B4). Simpson later was convicted and was given a very special Instant Karma sentence of up to 33 years in prison.
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