Everett Daily Herald, April 13, 2015

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This week’s watchwords Tax Day

Track

WNBA

Record Store Day

Your tax return is due Wednesday. The good news: The federal tax credit for energy-efficient upgrades was extended for 2014.

More than 40 high school teams will gather at Snohomish High on Saturday for the Eason Invitational, the state’s most prestigious meet.

The Women’s NBA draft is Thursday, and Seattle Storm have the No. 1 pick.

Founded in 2007, held the third Saturday of April, we celebrate the fastfading culture of the independently owned record store. This year’s official ambassador is rocker Dave Grohl. More at recordstoreday. com

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Planes still parked on runway Paine Field extends Boeing’s lease while company deals with supply problems

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Boeing aircraft sit lined up on Paine Field’s 11/29 runway last week. Paine Field agreed to extend The Boeing Co.’s lease on the crosswind runway to park planes while supply and logistic problems are addressed.

Herald Writer

EVERETT — The Boeing Co. has informed officials at Paine Field that it needs to use the airport’s “crosswind” runway as a parking lot for a few months longer because of supply-chain problems. Shortages of parts, especially

luxury seats for 787 Dreamliners, are fouling Boeing’s production and delivery schedules, according to sources at the company. They spoke on the condition that they not be identified because they are not authorized to talk publicly about production issues. Runway 11/29 has been closed since October 2010, when Boeing started parking early

More e-file taxes than ever before By Eric Stevick Herald Writer

the buzz

EVERETT — It’s a pretty hefty windfall. Taxpayers in Snohomish County could get close to $700 million in IRS refunds this year if history repeats itself. By and large, the money comes back faster these days, with more people filing their returns electronically. Wednesday is the final day to file federal taxes without seeking an extension. More than two-thirds of Americans filed

by April 3. The IRS already has received more than 99 million returns and issued 77 million refunds averaging more than $2,900. There will be some stragglers, as a recent Sno-Isle Libraries online survey found. It asked patrons from Snohomish and Island counties to describe their tax-filing personality. Slightly more than half of the 200 respondents said they use an online tax tool to help them file. Nearly a quarter were

Brand loyalty I knew the Ford Taurus would come back into style: Hillary Clinton officially launched her campaign for the Democratic nomination for president in a video address on Sunday. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, among her likely Republican challengers, told his supporters “it’s up to us

See TAXES, Page A2

to stop her” (Page A5). We’d like to take the opportunity here to congratulate all of those who held on to their vehicles from 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000 or 2004 with bumperstickers for a Bush or a Clinton for their thriftiness and foresight. Cruisin’ for a bruisin’: Six Greenpeace activists who boarded an oil rig bound for

production 787 Dreamliners on it. The airplanes came out of the company’s Everett plant with many problems, requiring substantial rework. Crosswind runways are used when wind changes from a prevailing direction. Paine Field agreed to extend Boeing’s lease of the crosswind runway, but that means delaying

its reopening likely until fall 2016, said Arif Ghouse, the airport’s director. “They were on track and we were on track to have them vacate the runway by May of this year,” he said. Earlier this year, the company approached the airport administration about extending the lease because of “supply and logistic

issues,” he said. Boeing declined to comment on why it needs more time. High-end seats for first class cabins are still the main problem, said a Boeing employee on the 787 program. Seat-supplier Zodiac Aerospace has struggled to keep up See PLANES, Page A2

Major heroin dealer behind bars Richard Shanahan could be locked away for life after Mill Creek police found the drug and stolen firearms during a massive raid last year. By Rikki King

Richard Shanahan

Herald Writer

MILL CREEK — Police believe they’ve put the city’s biggest heroin dealer behind bars. And he’s likely to stay a while. Richard Shanahan recently was sentenced to 30 years in state prison for trafficking drugs and stolen guns. The case started nearly a year ago, when police raided a Mill Creek storage unit and found heroin and more than 30 stolen firearms.

Seattle six days ago to protest offshore drilling have now abandoned the rig because of rough seas (Page A8). The protesters vowed to return, and next time, they said, they will remember to bring the Dramamine. Channel-surfing the vast cultural wasteland: The FYI network moves the backyard makeover concept

Melanie Hebert

“That’s one of the largest, if not the largest, seizure of guns and drugs that we’ve had in this police department’s history,” Mill Creek officer Ian Durkee said. The 30-year sentence, handed down in January, isn’t the end of Shanahan’s legal troubles, though. He’s due in federal court in June for sentencing in a separate bust involving drugs

and guns. In that case, out of Bothell, lawyers are expected to recommend

to Australia with the premiere of “Outback Nation” tonight at 10 (Page B4). Here’s a drinking game for adult viewers: Take a swig from your can of Foster’s Lager every time you hear the host say, “That’s not a knife (or shovel or rake or wheelbarrow). ... Now, that’s a knife (or shovel or rake or wheelbarrow).”

—Jon Bauer, Herald staff

15 years, to overlap with his lengthier local sentence. However, Shanahan, 35, could face decades in federal prison, enough to amount to a life sentence. For now, he’s being held at a Seattle lockup. Shanahan has been dealing drugs for most of his adult life. He’s sold heroin, methamphetamine and ecstasy, with convictions dating back to 2003. His former girlfriend, Melanie Hebert, 31, was sent to prison in March for the Mill Creek case. In storage units rented by the pair, detectives found ledgers tracking the sales of drugs and guns, including evidence that Shanahan was selling more than a pound of heroin a day, worth See HEROIN, back page, this section

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