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8-year-old injured while skiing at Mt. Bachelor dies Updated Jan 19, 2021; Posted Jan 19, 2021 An 8-year-old boy from Tacoma was injured Saturday, Jan. 16, while skiing on Mt. Bachelor near Bend. (The Associated Press)AP Facebook Share The child injured skiing Saturday at Mt. Bachelor has died, according to two fundraisingwebsites created to help his family and a Facebook post by the school he attended in Tacoma, Washington. Brecken Boice, 8, was airlifted from the summit sometime after 2:20 p.m. after being injured in an accident. Few details of the accident have been released, but Mt. Bac...

by Michael Schein Michael Schein is the author (among other books) of Bones Beneath Our Feet: A Historical Novel of Puget Sound (Bennett & Hastings 2011) that includes a dramatization of these events. He is an attorney and a former Professor of American Legal History. Isaac Stevens served as the Territorial Governor of Washington from 1853 to 1857     Our disgraced President, knowing that his days in office are numbered and that he has committed serious crimes, has floated the idea of pardoning himself. Reports in the media suggest that no president has ever done this, and no court has...

Terry Keegans Beith, North Ayrshire EMILY Jamison’s excellent article “Major incident called over virus surge in London” (January 9) highlights the outcome of what I would suggest is the result of a laissez-faire attitude towards the coronavirus by the Westminster Government which has been ably assisted by the BBC’s reporting. Every day in Scotland the the First Minister Nicola Sturgeon publishes the facts regarding the number of deaths and the numbers in hospital with Covid-19, which is then reported by the BBC. I find it nearly impossible to find the similar facts for England ...

Man admits setting fire to blinds at Aberdeen flat Updated: 18/12/2020, 6:30 pm © Darrell Benns/DCT Media Aberdeen Sheriff Court. A man has admitted culpably and recklessly setting fire to a blind at an Aberdeen flat. Bruce Ross was not personally present when the case called against him at Aberdeen Sheriff Court, but entered a plea of guilty through his solicitor John McLeod. Ross, aged 59, admitted culpably and recklessly setting fire to vertical blinds at an address on Powis Place in Aberdeen on August 31 last year. The charge against Ross states the fire took effect and destroyed the bli...

THUNDER BAY – Local swimmer Hannah Johnsen is heading west to the land of the Dinos. The 17-year-old nationally ranked freestyle swimmer on Thursday announced she’s decided to join the University of Calgary after her time at Westgate Collegiate and Vocational Institute is done next June. “I am grateful to have the opportunity to swim and study at the University of Calgary,” Johnsen said in a release issued by the ThunderBolts swim club. “Their kinesiology program is ranked number one in North America, and their swim team is also ranked very high in Canada. This combination is an ide...