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More charges for shooter’s father By Diana Hefley Herald Writer
TULALIP — The father of the boy responsible for the deadly shootings at Marysville Pilchuck High School is facing more
weapons charges. A federal grand injury earlier this week indicted Raymond Fryberg Jr. on five additional counts of unlawful gun possession. Prosecutors allege that Fryberg, 42, had a cache of guns, despite a
court order prohibiting him from owning any. Fryberg initially was indicted in April on a single gun charge, involving the .40-caliber Beretta that his son brought to school Oct. 24. Jaylen Fryberg, 15,
opened fire inside one of the school’s cafeterias and killed four students and seriously injured a fifth. The Tulalip boy committed suicide with the same gun. Prosecutors allege that a 2002 protection order issued by the
Tulalip Tribal Court prohibited Raymond Fryberg from buying guns. The Tulalip man is accused of lying on federal paperwork by See CHARGES, back page, this section
Digging deep for tanker overruns
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Delivery of the military jets remains on schedule, but Boeing says it will spend $536 million to keep the program on track. By Dan Catchpole Herald Writer
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Finger pickin’ good. Arlene McCown, of Port Orchard, practices on her dobro outside her motorhome early Monday in a wooded campsite at the Darrington Bluegrass Festival. McCown started playing later in life than most, yet has picked it up quickly and is downright good, according to others who have been playing alongside her. The festival, which runs through Sunday, is one of a number of events the logging town near Whitehorse Mountain hosts. For more on things to do and what to see in Darrington, see Venture on Page A13.
Stream fishing idled by drought By Chris Winters Herald Writer
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EVERETT — The persistent drought in Washington state has led the government to restrict fishing on more than 30 rivers, including several in Snohomish County. The state Department of Fish and Wildlife has canceled fishing
on some rivers and streams and imposed “hoot-owl” restrictions — only allowing fishing between midnight and 2 p.m. each day — on others. The restrictions took effect Saturday at 12:01 a.m. until further notice. “We’re going to continue monitoring the conditions,” said Annette Hoffman, Fish and
Planet envy Call me a dwarf, will ya? NASA geologists, reviewing images from the New Horizons probe, are struggling to explain how Pluto got its elephant skin-like surface. One theory is that it’s caused by heat from the dwarf planet’s interior (Page A8). And the only explanation for the heat is the boiling rage Pluto felt when it was
demoted from the planetary varsity team. Channel-surfing the vast cultural wasteland: “Hell on Wheels,” is still working on the railroad but begins its fifth and final season on AMC tonight at 9. Cullen Bohannon and his crew are now in Truckee, Nevada, trying to tunnel through the Sierra Nevadas (The Clicker, Page C8).
Wildlife’s fish program manager for the North Puget Sound region. The ongoing drought has led to record low flows in many rivers across the state, and water temperatures are spiking at levels considered harmful to fish. As a result, fish in the river systems now are concentrated in cooler pools and holes, making them more vulnerable to poaching and predation. “We’re trying to maintain as much fishing as we can,” Hoffman said.
When he’s done there, would Bohannon consider taking over the reins of Big Bertha, the long-stalled boring machine that’s supposed to be digging a Highway 99 tunnel beneath Seattle? Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1947, President Harry Truman signed an act that established the speaker of the House and the Senate
“This year, it’s just unprecedented. We feel these steps are necessary to preserve these fish,” she said. It is currently the season for steelhead and other game trout. In Snohomish County fishing is now prohibited on the following rivers: ■■The Stillaguamish River from Marine Drive upstream, including both North and South forks and all tributaries; See FISHING, back page, this section
president pro tempore as next in line if the president and vice president died in office (Today in History, Page C8). Originally, the line of succession went vice president, secretary of the Department of Short Straws, eeny, meeny, miny, moe, rock, paper, scissors, lesser of two evils, second cousin once removed and then Al Haig.
—Jon Bauer, Herald staff
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Fishing restrictions on 30 rivers statewide, including many in Snohomish County, have been imposed by the state Department of Fish and Wildlife.
EVERETT — The Boeing Co. is digging deeper into its wallet to cover cost overruns for designing and developing the U.S. Air Force’s new aerial refueling tanker, the KC-46 Pegasus. The aerospace giant said Friday it is spending $536 million to help keep the program on track to deliver 18 combat-ready airplanes to the military by August 2017, as required by its fixedprice contract with the Pentagon. The Air Force on Friday expressed confidence in Boeing’s ability to meet the deadline and expects the tanker to fly by September, nine months behind Boeing’s internal schedule. The latest cost overruns are due to problems with the airplane’s integrated fuel system, which provides fuel to the tanker’s engines and aircraft refuelling in air. Components of the system must be redesigned, manufactured, installed, tested and certified. The fuel system issues were identified during ground tests conducted on the first test airplane in recent months at Boeing’s Paine Field plant, where the tanker is being assembled. The KC-46 is based on the twin-aisle 767 jetliner. That pushes the program’s total cost to about $1.26 billion more than the contract, which caps the federal government’s share at $4.9 billion. In July 2014, Boeing announced a $425 million pretax charge — $272 million after taxes — to resolve problems with
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