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20-6 victory over the Rams puts Hawks at No. 1 in NFC,
BOWLS: There are a slew on New Year’s Day, including a Rose Bowl semifinal with Oregon vs. Florida State; but the Huskies don’t play until Friday when they take on Oklahoma State in the Cactus Bowl.
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Boeing tanker takes test flight The aerial-refueling plane “performed flawlessly.” By Dan Catchpole Herald writer
EVERETT — The Boeing Co.’s aerial-refueling tanker program moved ahead Sunday morning as the first test plane, a non-military
version of the KC-46 tanker took off on the program’s first test flight before 9:30 a.m. The early morning sun’s rays caught the plane engines’ exhaust as it roared down the runway at Paine Field. The test flight marks the beginning of a fast-paced flight testing schedule with little margin for delays or other problems. With the flight test program
six months behind schedule — due largely to problems with the plane’s wiring — Boeing has focused on getting the first test airplane into the air. So, while most of Boeing’s Everett plant has been quiet for the holidays, workers on the KC-46 program have put in long hours to get the first See TANKER, Page A2
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Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch (24) is brought down by a host of St. Louis Rams defenders during the first half of Sunday’s game at CenturyLink Field in Seattle.
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SPOKANE — Researchers at Washington State University are working on environmentally friendly ways that use less salt to reduce snow and ice on roads. Their work comes amid
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years,” said Shi, who is assistant director of the new Center for Environmentally Sustainable Transportation in Cold Climates. It studies cold climate road ecology, a field of study which includes green snow and ice control. Funded by the U.S.
Add a celery stalk I coulda had a V8: Researchers at Washington State University are looking at alternatives to salt for deicing roads, noting that the salt accumulates and harms the environment and can corrode vehicles. Among the alternative deicers being tested are compounds made Dear Abby. . . . B3 Horoscope . . . B8
Department of Transportation, the center is a collaborative effort between WSU, the University of Alaska-Fairbanks and Montana State University. Roadways made slippery by snow and ice are a big problem in the northern United States.
from tomato juice and the spent barley mash from vodka distilleries (Front). Have they considered just using a bloody Mary mix? Haven’t trusted her since “Manchurian Candidate”: Angela Landsbury, the 89-year-old former star of the TV whodunit “Murder She Wrote” from 1984 to
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Year-long traffic delays on the way A detour will be set up while Everett demolishes and replaces the 102-year-old Broadway Bridge. By Chris Winters Herald Writer
EVERETT — A likely year-long detour around the Broadway Bridge project begins in midJanuary, adding nearly a mile of driving for northbound vehicles and nearly a half-mile for southbound travelers. The 102-year-old bridge over BNSF Railway tracks — the hump in Broadway just north of Hewitt Avenue — will be demolished, and a new, wider bridge with no weight restrictions will be built in its place. Last refurbished in 1931, the present bridge carries 40,000 vehicles per day. Northbound traffic will be detoured east on Hewitt, north on Cedar Street, then west on Everett Avenue to rejoin Broadway. That’s about a mile longer than the 500 feet of Broadway it avoids. Southbound Broadway traffic will have a shorter detour, turning east on California Avenue, south on Virginia Street and west on Hewitt, back to Broadway. That’s an additional half-mile of driving. Burlington-based contractor Interwest Construction has been setting up signs and signals for the detour routes. In mid-January, the bridge will be closed to traffic and be taken down. The city was unable to provide a more specific date. It will take more than a year to build a new bridge with wider lanes and no weight restrictions, to open in January or February 2016. The city has installed several Web cameras around the bridge area so people can monitor traffic conditions. To view the cameras online, go to everettwa.org/default. aspx?ID=2080. There are two existing cameras on Broadway that are part of the traffic signal system. A third camera near Cedar and Hewitt will be used to keep an
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1996, is acting again, this time as Madame Arcati in a touring production of Noel Coward’s comedy “Blithe Spirit” (Page B4). Even though she always had a good alibi when people started dying around her on her TV show we’re going to be a little suspicious if her fellow cast members start giving up the ghost. Sports . . . . . . . C1 Your Photos . . B1
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On the rocks: Street Smarts has some winter driving tips, including what to keep in the car (Page A3). Sure, throw a bottle of bloody Mary mix in the trunk. It might not give you much traction if you’re stuck in snow, but you can enjoy a cocktail while waiting for a tow. Just designate a driver.
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