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Daily News Digest

Saturday, December 22, 2007

Port study reveals cost, idea for cleanup
It will cost as much as $2.3 million to clean up lead, arsenic, dioxin and petroleum products on 13.6 acres that the Port of Olympia wants to redevelop into major public buildings, port officials said in a cleanup plan released Friday.

Body of snowslide victim discovered
Searchers in Mount Rainier National Park have found the body of a 22-year-old man who was swept up in a snowslide.

What happens to toys after the lead warnings
Wondering what happened to all of the lead-tainted products that have been recalled recently?

Goodbye wet fall; hello wet winter
Love it or hate it, it's here.

Gregoire sets stage for '08 priorities
Gov. Chris Gregoire complimented federal disaster officials on their response to Chehalis River basin flood damage Thursday, but she also called for greater federal participation on major highway projects and more cooperation on climate-change issues.

South Sound

Lawmakers tout local funds
South Sound's two congressmen brought home the bacon for local projects in the large federal spending authorization that Congress sent to President Bush this week.

Flood victims' recovery hopes take flight
What could have been the worst holiday season for Harvey and Heather Loose is turning for the better.

State expects federal grant for disaster workers
More counselors are on the way to help residents hard hit by the recent flooding.

Sports

Re-energized Sonics outhustle Raptors
SEATTLE - Evidence of Nick Collison's hard work showed with the redness of his elbows and knees.

Sentinels fall in OT thriller
STEILACOOM - The holiday season presents plenty of high-school basketball tournaments.

Struggling Ravens will be shorthanded against Hawks
KIRKLAND - Head coach Mike Holmgren has spent a good part of the past week reminding his Seattle Seahawks about the dangers of looking past an opponent.

Business

Cellular network shutdown will affect alarms, OnStar
NEW YORK - When Adele Rothman bought her 16-year-old son a car in 2003, she made sure to pick one that had OnStar, the onboard communications and safety system.

Living

Peek inside the Executive Mansion
The Executive Mansion guest books include signatures from former President Harry Truman and thousands of visitors from nearly a century, but not those who poured through the place this month.

Outdoors

Gary Loomis looms large in coastal conservation
EUGENE, Ore. - He's hobnobbed with presidents. His likeness hangs alongside those of Ernest Hemingway and Zane Gray in the Sportfishing Hall of Fame. He's been "up to his armpits" in mud working to improve salmon habitat, and now he's up to his eyebrows in politics, having concluded that therein lies the only hope of saving his beloved salmon and steelhead.

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