Bellevue Reporter, September 18, 2015

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Eastside mayors meet

Local mayors gather at Leadership Eastside event

Crime

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MISSING BROTHERS LEAVE VOID

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Burglar nabbed by dog

FBI execute warrant at residence on S.E. 25th Street Part of ongoing investigation, FBI says BY ALLISON DEANGELIS BELLEVUE REPORTER

Around a dozen Federal Bureau of Investigation agents executed a warrant on a home on the 15000 block of S.E. 25th Street early on the morning of Sept. 14, according to an eyewitness and local police. Around ten FBI vehicles and between 10 and 15 agents were seen at the residence around 6 a.m. on Sept. 14. The reason behind the FBI’s actions is unknown at this time. “I can confirm that we executed a search warrant at that location, and gladly report that our routine activity went smoothly,” said FBI

Bellevue Police K-9 catches home burglary suspect

Arts

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Psychedelic duds

Photo courtesy of the Cook family

The Cook brothers– Sage, 14, and Isaac, 9 –who have not been seen since they flew to Calif. on Aug. 28 for what their father thought was a supervised, court-mandated visit to their mother, who police believe abducted them. ‘Counter Couture’ exhibit showcases aesthetic, workmanship of hippie clothes

Sports

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Wolverines lose opener

National powerhouse Bishop Gorman defeats Bellevue on the gridiron

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Family, friends continue to search for brothers abducted by mother BY ALLISON DEANGELIS BELLEVUE REPORTER

In the haze of that first week after the Sage and Isaac Cook went missing – talking to the police, frantically making phone calls, trying desperately to locate the boys – the first day of school came and went unnoticed by David and Helen Cook. It wasn’t until later that they began to notice the children heading off to school, Sage and Isaac Cook absent from the crowds. “What’s been hardest, I think, has been seeing little kids hopping off of the school bus at the end of the day and skip home, or the groups of kids waiting for the bus

in the morning,” Helen Cook, the boys’ stepmother, said. “We used to do that routine with them every morning.” The boys, Helen and David Cook had been looking forward to the start of school, which would have been after Sage and Isaac returned from a visit with their biological mother in California. That was late August; the Cook brothers, aged 14 and 9 respectively, haven’t been seen or heard from in three weeks. While the Bellevue Police Department and the Los Angeles Sheriff ’s Department search for the boys, and David and Helen Cook desperately try not to think about the band practices, soccer games and other milestones the boys are missing. During David Cook’s divorce with the boys’ mother, Faye Ku, education had been a point of contention. As a Harvard graduate,

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Cook valued traditional schooling. Ku, meanwhile, was a proponent of “unschooling.” Unschooling is reportedly a method of self-directed homeschooling that puts the drive and responsibility for learning in the hands of the child, according to Home Education Magazine. It was one of many intense views Ku holds, David said; she also believes vaccinations cause diseases. The courts ruled in Cook’s favor in 2009. The dust had begun to settle when Ku abducted the two boys in June 2013 and headed to Sea-Tac Airport, where she attempted to board a plane to Taiwan. They were detained by the local law enforcement. Ku was arrested and charged with custodial interference. After that incident, she was allowed supervised visits with her SEE COOK, 10

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Charter school decision puts Running Start in jeopardy BY ALLISON DEANGELIS BELLEVUE REPORTER

The state attorney general has asked the Washington Supreme Court to reconsider its Sept. 4 ruling on charter school legislation that would bring the constitutionality of popular programs like Running Start into question. The 6-3 decision overturned I-1240 and ruled that privately operated, publicly funded charter schools created under the initiative do not qualify as common schools SEE RUNNING START, 11


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