Ed-Woodway Lynnwood
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Sausage: The Everett Sausage Festival is noon to midnight today and noon to 7 p.m. Sunday at 2619 Cedar Ave., Everett. You’ll find beer, wine, sausage, rides, vendors and more. A free shuttle runs every 20 minutes from the south parking lot of the Everett Transit Station.
First loss: Kamiak claims thrilling victory over Monroe,
Fall fun: Imagine Children’s Museum’s Harvest Festival is 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. today at the 1502 Wall St., Everett. Museum admission is $9.80.
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Rock: Randy Hansen, a Jimi Hendrix tribute performer, plays at 7 tonight at Historic Everett Theatre, 2911 Colby Ave. Tickets are $12 to $25 and are available at the door.
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Ex-optometrist charged John Patrick O’Brien, who is also under investigation in North Carolina, is accused of sexually molesting a child. By Diana Hefley Herald Writer
EVERETT — A former Everett optometrist accused of groping a
10-year-old patient also is under investigation in North Carolina for downloading child pornography. Everett detectives suspect
John Patrick O’Brien was generating his own sexually explicit images in August when he photographed a young patient in various stages of undress. O’Brien, 33, allegedly took off the girl’s shirt, pants and underwear while her father was in the next room.
Everett detectives reportedly recovered eight photographs of the child from O’Brien’s cellphone. They continue to search the computers seized at O’Brien’s home. There is an indication that he removed the See O’BRIEN, Page A2
They still have each other House burned down but Everett barber and his wife look to the future
Details of death revealed at trial The forensic pathologist who conducted Patty Berry’s autopsy said she was stabbed in the throat and face, and her car was soaked in blood. By Scott North Herald Writer
to buy a similar house with the money left over. “Molly is cheerful and optimistic and I’m the doom and gloom. If I was an anchor, she’d be a sail,” Barber said. While Barber frets about losing the home he lived in for 30 years, Chachulski plunges ahead, meeting with insurance
EVERETT — Patti Berry died after being stabbed as many as 18 times in the throat and face. She was attacked while on the driver’s side of her car. Perhaps she was seated behind the wheel. Or maybe she was standing outside. Only her killer knows for sure. Blood soaked the seats. It pooled on the floorboards. It was splattered all over the vehicle, inside and out, from the front bumper to the back window. Some drops even wound up on top of the car’s roof. A Snohomish County jury late this week absorbed those and other details about the violence that befell the young mother after she left work July 31, 1995. There were photos and testimony about evidence found during the 14 hours investigators spent poring over the bloody car. Similar details were offered from her autopsy. The testimony came as prosecutors continued to present evidence in the first-degree murder trial of Danny Ross Giles. They contend that genetic tests and a skein of poorly told lies link the frequent felon to Berry’s killing more than 19 years ago. Giles, 46, insists he had nothing to do with the death. His attorneys maintain he’s the victim of flawed police work and investigators’ tunnel vision. Starting Thursday and for much of Friday, jurors heard from Dr. Daniel Selove, the forensic pathologist who conducted the autopsy. Berry, 26, likely slipped into unconsciousness within a couple of minutes after one of the major arteries in her throat was severed, he testified. He identified eight stab wounds within a 3-inch area on her throat. The blade also
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the buzz
EVERETT — Paul Barber hasn’t raised his prices for a haircut in 14 years. Barber, 64, thinks his $9 cuts are what keep his customers returning. But he also recognizes that times change, and business isn’t what it used to be. “I used to have a pretty good
crowd from the military, but now everybody’s on deployment,” Barber said. More clientele came from students in Everett Community College’s criminal justice program — “Those guys liked to get their hair cut,” he said — but the professor he knew in that program retired, and Barber no longer has the contacts at the school he used to.
Scotch, neat Don’t drink the water: Residents of Mercer Island, one of the wealthiest communities in the state, are again being advised to boil their water because of an E. coli outbreak in its water system (Page A7). In order to reserve enough bottled Evian water for drinking and cooking, Mercer Islanders are having
to go to extremes, washing their Lexus vehicles in Napa Valley chardonnay and bathing their bichon frise dogs in goat’s milk, imported, of course. Lawyers by the dozen: A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by six mid-West and Southern states that sought to overturn a California law that bars the sale of eggs that are
Then on May 9, his house at 2010 23rd St. burned down, and untangling the web of insurance and planning for the future has become a burden for him and Molly Chachulski, his wife of five years and friend for 30. The fire left them still owing on a $106,000 mortgage, because they discovered after the fact that they were underinsured; they simply wouldn’t be able
laid by hens in cramped living conditions. (Page A10). The judge found that the states did not “have standing” to lay their suit because the chickens could not stand not having suitable room to lay. Just keep your distance from Pennsatucky: A married couple from Bravo’s “Real Housewives of New Jersey” were sent to
prison for conspiracy and bankruptcy fraud. Teresa Giudice was sentenced to 15 months; her husband, Giuseppe, to 41 months (Page D4). Bravo has not commented on the sentencing or the Giudices’ further participation on “Real Housewives,” but Netflix is said to be offering both guest roles on “Orange is the New Black.”
—Jon Bauer, Herald staff
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Despite the fact their house burned down earlier this year, Paul Barber and his wife, Molly Chachulski, remain upbeat enough to tell stories and kid around between customers in Paul’s barber shop in Everett.
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