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A California professor, who was recently charged with felony domestic violence, was reported missing after he went hiking in Washington and never returned. Hunter Fraser, a Professor of Biology at Stanford University, was scheduled to appear in a California court on June 9 for a preliminary hearing in a criminal case where he is facing a felony domestic violence charge, KRON4 reported. On July 4, 2022, Fraser allegedly threw his girlfriend to the floor and slammed a door on her chest while he played with their daughter, the outlet reported. An officer observed a “large swath of redness with the...

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Researchers will look for PCBs, DDT in samples from Mt. Rainier, Olympic, others in region TACOMA _ Scientists are packing blocks of snow from national parks into freezers for testing to determine whether airborne pollutants have fouled the areas that many people believe are unspoiled. The results should help determine whether long-term monitoring is necessary, said Tamara Blett, a Denver-based National Park Service ecologist who coordinates the project. The study focuses on national parks in the West because earlier research focused on parks in the Midwest and East. "We really know nothing about the West. It's just a blank slate,...