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 NEWS.com.au | Oceanographer tells Washington state beachcombers to expect shoes with bones Washington Post A basketball that landed on Prince of Wales Island was traced to a Japanese middle school. Ebbesmeyer is retired from a career that included tracking icebergs, the 1989 Exxon Valdes oil spill, and Puget Sound currents that affect sewage outflows. Coastal communities must plan for tsunami debris |
Mercer Island High School Ranks 6th in Washington State in Newsweek Patch.com Mercer Island High School achieved high marks in the Washington Post and Newsweek Magazine's high school rankings this year. USNews and World Report released their rankings earlier this month By Patch Staff Mercer Island High School scored well on |
 Purdue Boilermakers | Entering the Hall: William 'Lone Star' Dietz ESPN (blog) By Kevin Gemmell | ESPN.com Former Washington State football coach William "Lone Star" Dietz will be posthumously inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame with the 2012 Divisional Class. Dietz had many coaching stops -- including Washington Former Cougars football coach Dietz going to Hall of Fame Former Wyoming coach inducted into college hall |
Washington State tribe's bid to reopen whale hunt stymied by Canadian science Vancouver Sun The US government's long-running review of a Washington-based tribe's contentious bid to hunt grey whales off the Pacific Coast has been halted after a team of Canadian scientists discovered that a genetically distinct group of just 200 whales living |
 The Associated Press | 4 Western US states shielding part of executions The Associated Press A decade later, four of the states have kept part of each execution away from public view, according to an Associated Press review and death penalty experts. Idaho, Arizona, Washington and Montana have conducted 14 lethal injections since the ruling, 5 Western states, including Wash., shielding part of executions |