Rachel La Corte

(AP Photo/The News Tribune, Lui Kit Wong, Pool) The family escorts the casket of Charlies and Braden Powell after a funeral Saturday in Tacoma, Wash. The boys died Feb. 5, 2012, when their father, Josh Powell, set fire to the home he was living in while they visited. Powell had been a person of interest in the 2009 disappearance of his wife Susan.

Family, teachers remember Powell boys at Washington funeral

Last updated Saturday, February 11, 2012 - 6:47pm

TACOMA, Wash. — The family of missing Utah woman Susan Powell thanked police, social workers, teachers and everyone who cared about her two sons at a funeral Saturday for the boys who were killed by their father in a gas-fueled blaze.

The boys’ grandfather Chuck Cox also thanked people of all faiths who had prayed for 7-year-old Charlie and 5-year-old Braden after they died.

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Fed judges: Wash. felony inmates should get vote

Rachel La Corte   The Associated Press
Last updated Wednesday, January 6, 2010 - 12:57pm

OLYMPIA, Wash. -- In a decision that could give momentum to other efforts to expand voting to inmates, a federal appeals court ruled that incarcerated felons should be allowed to vote in Washington state.

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