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4 killed in bridge wreck Ride the Ducks vehicle collides with charter bus in Seattle

Everett man eyed by FBI By Scott North and Chris Winters Herald Writers

on the Aurora Bridge when it collided with the charter bus, which was going south, according to the Seattle Police Department. Two passenger vehicles were also involved in the crash. Witnesses told investigators that the duck vehicle might have been dealing with a mechanical issue shortly before the crash, according to a Seattle Police Department news release. But it is too early to draw any conclusions about what caused the wreck, Police Chief Kathleen O’Toole said Thursday evening. It remains unclear which vehicle was at fault in the crash, but police said there was no evidence that drivers were intoxicated or otherwise impaired.

SEATTLE — The FBI is working with federal civil authorities to investigate an Everett developer accused of defrauding foreign investors by diverting millions of dollars for his own use, court papers show. FBI agents on Aug. 24 served a search warrant at Lobsang Dargey’s business offices, according to documents filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Seattle. The FBI’s visit came the same day the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed a federal civil lawsuit, alleging Dargey misused $17.6 million of investor money to buy a new house in Bellevue and bankroll two apartment buildings. The new court pleadings say the FBI has since supplied securities regulators with business documents seized from Dargey. Among other things, the paperwork shows him taking a $15.8 million loan from money put up by investors. Investor funds also paid “for such extravagances as the $212,237.29 purchase of a Bentley” luxury automobile, government attorneys allege. The record is clear that Dargey and his companies have engaged in “rampant misuse and misappropriation of investor funds,” wrote Bernard B. Smyth, the SEC’s senior counsel at its regional office in San Francisco. The court documents referencing the FBI’s involvement in the case are the first public acknowledgement that Dargey, 41, also is getting attention from federal criminal investigators. He’s the CEO of Path America and the force behind several projects around Everett, notably a

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Emergency personnel work at the scene of a fatal collision involving a charter bus (center left) and a “Ride the Ducks” amphibious tour bus on the Aurora Bridge on Thursday in Seattle.

Herald News Services SEATTLE — The four people killed in Seattle on Thursday in a wreck that involved a Ride the Ducks amphibious tour vehicle and a charter bus were international students, officials said. The crash also injured dozens of people, several of them critically. The deceased were students with North Seattle College’s international program, according to the college. They had been aboard the charter bus, traveling to Safeco Field as part of a newstudent orientation program. “We’ve had a terrible tragedy,” Seattle Mayor Ed Murray told reporters. “There’s been a terrible loss of life.” North Seattle College spokeswoman Melissa Mixon said

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counselors were on hand. About 11:15 a.m.,

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amphibious vehicle, known as a duck, was carrying tourists north

Boeing confirms it will do 737 work in China EVERETT — The Boeing Co. will indeed construct a 737 completion center in China, in cooperation with that country’s jetliner manufacturer, Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, or COMAC, Boeing confirmed Wednesday.

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“Boeing, COMAC and Chinese government officials are working toward a final business agreement and will announce the facility’s location and timing of first deliveries at a later date,” Boeing said in a statement quietly posted on its website. COMAC is a potential Boeing rival. Though entry into service is several years away, it is developing

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a 737 competitor, the C919. When Chinese President Xi Jinping visited the Boeing factory here Wednesday, he and company executives spoke at length of the Chicago-based aerospace giant’s long relationship with the world’s most populous state. And behind the scenes, Boeing confirmed in some detail a 300-jet sale to airlines and

Set up a sting? We don’t take kindly to rustlers around these parts: With almonds selling for record prices, growers in Australia are fighting a shortage of bees to pollinate their almond trees, and some have fallen prey to bee rustlers stealing hives (Page A7). Farmers are looking for Dear Abby. . . .D5 Horoscope . . . B5

lessors there. But nothing was said about the completion center, which had been reported by some media outlets. The plant will handle “interiors completion, paint and delivery of Boeing 737 aircraft to Chinese customers,” Boeing said later in the website statement. “The joint venture facility will significantly

ways to combat the thefts, but it’s tough to find branding irons small enough for the bees. OK, but where do I put my magnetic hide-a-key, now: Ford took a risk by increasing the amount of aluminum in its 2017 FSeries Super Duty pickups, switching from a steel body

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to one made of the lightweight metal (Page A7). Ford wasn’t concerned about the truck’s durability, only that some owners might be tempted to try and crush the pickups against their foreheads like a beer can. Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1690, one of the earliest Sports . . . . . . . C1 Stocks . . . . . . .A8

expand Boeing’s collaboration with China’s aviation industry while also enabling future production rate increases at Boeing’s 737 final assembly factory in Renton, Wash. This China-based facility will not reduce 737 Program employment in Washington State.” See BOEING, Page A8

American’s newspapers, Publick Occurrences, published its first — and only — edition in Boston (Today in History, Page D6). The paper’s one-day run meant that it was unable to print its first letter to the editor: “Sirs, Do you not know how to spell ‘public’? Cancel my subscription.”

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