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Murder trial testimony turns to DNA Prosecutors say genetic material from a steering wheel police took in as evidence in 1995 and tested nine years later identifies Patti Berry’s killer.
By Scott North and Diana Hefley Herald Writers
EVERETT — There was a mystery within a mystery during the long hunt for Patti Berry’s killer. Who was Individual A?
For nine years after Berry’s body was found dumped near the Everett Mall, detectives chased leads without finding evidence conclusively pointing toward a suspect. Then, in 2004, a forensic scientist working for the Washington State Patrol swabbed the steering
wheel from the slain woman’s car. Detectives had wrapped it up and tucked it away as evidence in 1995, within days of Berry’s stabbing death. Jean Johnston was looking for DNA. At the urging of Snohomish County cold-case detectives, she was using techniques that
Cramped quarters at school Many of Everett’s schools are growing more crowded
hadn’t been available when Berry was killed. Ten and two. Four and eight. Johnston swabbed the steering wheel in the places she thought most likely to give up See DNA, back page, this section
Clock ticking on tanker work Construction issues have delayed the first test plane for the Air Force. A full militarized KC-46 is expected to fly sometime in April. By Dan Catchpole Herald Writer
By Chris Winters Herald Writer
BOTHELL — Deborah Wrobel, the technology specialist teacher at Woodside Elementary School, used to have a classroom. That was before the start of this school year, when record enrollment at Woodside meant that new classes were created, rooms shuffled, and Wrobel and another specialist teacher found themselves working without a room of their own. In Wrobel’s case, that involves pushing a heavy metal cart laden
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with 30 Chromebooks from classroom to classroom. “This is my classroom,” she said, pointing to the pack on her back while she gingerly steered the cart into Gaylynn Lynch’s 5th grade class, located in a portable building on campus. Lynch heads out as Wrobel begins her lesson. Wrobel has been teaching at Woodside for 11 years, and while pushing a cart around might be second-nature to her — she used to work as a flight attendant — she recently pulled a muscle in her shoulder while learning
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how to maneuver the cart, and another teacher strained her back. “You can’t strong-arm a 350pound cart,” Wrobel said. Wrobel’s experience is emblematic of a crowded school in a crowded district. Woodside’s enrollment as of Oct. 6 was 804, well over the 564 the school was built for. Schools throughout the Everett Public Schools district face similar pressures, especially in the south end of the district where Woodside is. These demographics will be
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the subject of a special school board meeting Wednesday night, where district staff will outline their crowding problem as part of a year-long series of meetings intended to identify possible solutions. Of the district’s 17 elementary schools, 12 of them are over capacity — only the five in the northern part of the district which feed into Everett High School have any excess room. The district’s high schools tell a similar story: Everett High in
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Adina Anderton (left) begins working on a Chromebook as her fellow classmates, including Cassidy Strickland (right), collect their computers from a mobile cart brought to their classroom Monday morning at Woodside Elementary School in Bothell. Overcrowding at the school has made it necessary to temporarily dismantle the school’s computer lab. Instead of students going to the lab, computers are brought to their classrooms.
EVERETT — Boeing workers are hustling to get the first test plane for its aerial-refueling tanker program into the air sometime in the second half of November — about five months later than the company had planned. Boeing is testing wiring it had to remove from test planes, redesign and reinstall, causing the delay. The aerospace giant won’t say how close it is to getting the airplane into the air. But the Air Force general who until last week oversaw the tanker procurement program said that the first test flight won’t happen before mid- to late-November. That first test plane won’t yet be a fully configured tanker when it first flies. It will be a 767-2C, an interim design based on Boeing’s successful passenger jet, the 767-200ER. A full militarized version, the KC-46 Pegasus, is expected to fly in April 2015, Lt. Gen. John Thompson said at an Air Force Association conference last month. The Air Force ordered the new tanker, which can also serve as a cargo and personnel carrier, as a replacement for the aging KC-135, which was based on the Boeing 707. Both the Air Force and Boeing say they are confident the company can deliver the first batch of 18 tankers by August 2017, a date set in the contract.
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