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This undated photo provided by Mount Rainier National Park shows park Ranger Margaret Anderson. Anderson, 34, was fatally shot Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012, at Mount Rainier National Park in Washington state, according to the National Park Service. Officials closed the park after the shooting Sunday, and asked people to stay out of the area while they search for a man carrying a long rifle. (AP Photo/Mount Rainier National Park)

Slain park ranger met husband while working at Bryce Canyon

Last updated Tuesday, January 3, 2012 - 1:46pm

Margaret Anderson and her husband, Eric, were living their dream, finally working as U.S. park rangers in the same national park while raising a young family, their relatives said.

"They had been looking for that for a long time, to be in the same park," Margaret Anderson's father, the Rev. Paul Kritsch, said in a telephone interview.

Kritsch, a Lutheran minister in Scotch Plains, N.J., recalled his 34-year-old daughter's life, after she was fatally shot while working at her law-enforcement job in Mount Rainier National Park.

"As you can well imagine, it doesn't seem real," he said of her death.

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Woman says her uncle is D.B. Cooper

Mike Carter, Steve Miletich The Seattle Times

Last updated Wednesday, August 3, 2011 - 1:22pm

SEATTLE -- The "credible suspect" the FBI is investigating in the D.B. Cooper skyjacking case is a man named Lynn Doyle Cooper, who reportedly died in 1999.

ABC News first revealed the name Wednesday in an interview with Cooper's niece, Marla Cooper, who said she is cooperating with the FBI.

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FILE--A 1971 artist's sketch released by the FBI shows the skyjacker known as 'Dan Cooper' and 'D.B. Cooper', was made from the recollections of passengers and crew of a Northwest Orient Airlines jet he hijacked between Portland and Seattle, Nov. 24, 1971, Thanksgiving eve. FBI spokeswoman Ayn Sandalo Dietrich tells The Seattle Times that a law enforcement member directed investigators to a person who might have helpful information on Cooper. (AP Photo/FBI/file)

Promising lead in D.B. Cooper case?

Steve Miletich The Seattle Times

Last updated Monday, August 1, 2011 - 9:06am

SEATTLE — The FBI is investigating a “credible” lead in the D.B. Cooper skyjacking case, nearly 40 years after a tall, dark-complexioned man hijacked a Seattle-bound Boeing 727 on Thanksgiving Eve 1971 and parachuted into history from the rear of the plane with $200,000 in cash.

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Return of daughter's remains 40 years later provides closure for mother

Steve Miletich, The Seattle Times

Last updated Friday, June 10, 2011 - 9:23am

SEATTLE -- Eighty-year-old Sheila Olson thought she would never find out what happened to the daughter who disappeared in Seattle nearly 40 years ago.

Then last week, a detective came to Olson's Ballard home with the news that human remains found in a shallow grave last year on the golf course at the Suncadia Resort in Kittitas County had been matched through DNA to Olson's daughter, Kerry May, who was 22 when she vanished in 1972.

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Seattle police investigating allegations of misconduct by DUI officers

Mike Carter, Steve Miletich, The Seattle Times

Last updated Monday, March 21, 2011 - 3:12pm

SEATTLE -- The Seattle Police Department has opened an internal investigation into allegations that some officers have mishandled drunken-driving arrests, possibly compromising dozens of current and past cases.

The investigation has forced the department to pull all but one member of its squad that enforces driving-under-the-influence (DUI) laws from their duties, according to Seattle police.

The investigation is focused on accusations that arrest reports weren't properly screened and approved by a sergeant in the department's DUI squad, sources familiar with the matter told The Seattle Times. Seattle police confirmed the internal investigation Monday, saying it involves violations of a department policy requiring that all arrests be screened in person by a supervisor.

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Officers won't face assault charges in stomping incident

Steve Miletich, The Seattle Times

Last updated Tuesday, December 14, 2010 - 6:22pm

SEATTLE -- No assault charges will be brought against two Seattle police officers who stomped on a prone Latino man in April, including a detective who used ethnically inflammatory language during the videotaped incident, the City Attorney's Office said Tuesday.

The announcement that misdemeanor charges won't be filed against Detective Shandy Cobane and patrol Officer Mary Lynne Woollum comes after the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office decided in September not to charge Cobane with malicious harassment, a felony, under the state's so-called "hate crime" law.

"Though

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