Everett Daily Herald, January 21, 2015

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OBAMA: No backing down ■ Economy: Plan

■ Education and

calls for tax increases on the wealthy. ■ Vows to veto any legislation that seeks to roll back his work.

■ GOP response:

The new Congress understands how Obama’s policies have failed Americans and will chart a new course.

children: Seeks two

years of free tuition, tax credits for some families and expansion of the child care credit.

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Threats preceded killing A couple repeatedly called police after their grandson, who has schizophrenia, vowed to harm himself and his family. By Diana Hefley Herald Writer

MILL CREEK — Police in Mill Creek were worried Shane Hathaway would harm his grandparents.

Officers had been called to the couple’s house multiple times after Hathaway threatened to harm himself and his family. The 24-year-old has been diagnosed with schizophrenia, detectives wrote in an affidavit

released Tuesday. Hathaway is now behind bars, accused of killing his grandmother and injuring his grandfather Jan. 15 inside their Mill Creek home. He was being held on $2 million bail for investigation of seconddegree murder and attempted second-degree murder. Hathaway has declined to speak with detectives.

His grandfather, 83, called 911 just before midnight Thursday reporting that Hathaway had attacked him with a knife. He said he’d been stabbed in the chest and his throat was cut. A Mill Creek police affidavit filed with the court quoted the See THREATS, back page, this section

Looking for opportunities Composite materials boosters aren’t daunted by loss of research center

Mail theft a wider crime Bits of vital information can be left behind when thieves, often searching for money, checks and credit cards, discard paperwork. By Eric Stevick Herald Writer

carbon fiber >> Everett-built wings for the 777X are key to

By Dan Catchpole Herald Writer

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a rapidly evolving field, they say. Composite materials have long been used in aerospace, where they offer lighter, stronger and non-corrosive alternatives to metal. Carbon-fiber material is also widely used in the windpower industry. Global demand for composites is expected to significantly grow in coming years.

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EVERETT — Industry boosters here learned this month that Paine Field won’t be the home of a new federally supported research center devising new and cheaper ways to make and use carbon-fiber-composite materials in manufacturing. The state is still a leader in using carbon-composites, but expanding research here is important to remaining ahead in

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Automakers, for example, are using them to make lighter and more fuel-efficient vehicles. Last year, one of the world’s biggest producers of composite materials, SGL, and BMW Group broke ground on a new facility in Moses Lake for making carbon-fiber composites for the car maker’s i-series of electric and hybrid cars. Down in Sumner, Toray Composites makes material that goes into Boeing airplanes. In Burlington and Kent, Hexcel

Page-turner We know how this will turn out: America will now “turn the page” after years of war and recession, President Barack Obama said in his State of the Union speech Tuesday night (Page A8). Since the president also called for a new war authorization to fight Islamic Dear Abby. . . .D5 Good Life . . . .D1

Corp. makes components of composites for aerospace manufacturers. In the past year, both companies announced plans to expand their work here in response to work for Boeing. “We already are a leader,” said Alex Pietsch, the governor’s top aerospace policy advisor. He was part of the state-led effort to get a federal grant worth $70 million for a research center. The state Department of

State militants, the page apparently was marked “MORE MIDEAST WAR, NEXT PAGE.” Made in the USA: Ford’s first shipment of 100 Mustangs to China is on its way. It’s the first time in the pony car’s 50-year history that it will be sold overseas (Business Briefly, Page A9).

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The cars will be closely followed by a companion shipment of essential Mustang accessories, which include wife-beater T-shirts, Marlboro Reds and Lynyrd Skynyrd CDs. Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1908, New York City officials passed an ordinance Short Takes . . .D6 Sports . . . . . . . C1

forbidding women from smoking in public establishments (Today in History, Page D6). The ordinance was quickly repealed, but it would be another 12 years before the nation got rid of the law that kept women at least 25 feet away from the entrances to polling places.

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Carter Passmore repairs a carbon fiber piece with a honeycomb core during an Everett Community College Aerospace Composite Certificate class held at Snohomish High School.

EVERETT — It is seldom a headline-grabbing crime, but it can take an enormous financial and personal toll on its victims. Mail thieves operate year round but were especially busy during the holidays, trolling from box to box and grabbing what they could get their hands on. In November, Sgt. Gregory Sanders of the Snohomish County Sheriff ’s Office retrieved mail strewn over six blocks in the Getchell area. Deputy Jim Miner found piles of mail after tracking two sets of shoe prints into some woods near Granite Falls. In Lake Stevens last month, there were roughly 70 complaints of stolen mail, including many packages. Typically, the thieves are looking for money, checks and credit cards. Then again, “simple mail theft can lead to bigger things,” Sanders said. Bits of information, such as Social Security numbers and dates of birth, can be cobbled together to develop profiles and steal identities. Snohomish County Superior Court dockets are rife with cases of identity theft, many having started at the mailbox. Nationwide, billions of dollars are stolen each year through identity theft. The sheriff ’s office and the cities it contracts with receive about 3,000 reports a year of credit and debit card fraud, said sheriff ’s spokeswoman Shari Ireton. Many began with mail theft. Often, mail thieves discard paperwork that is of no use to them, but could be important or sentimental to the intended recipients. After a spate of thefts near Christmas, several deputies

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