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Kennewick Man to be studied in Seattle This story was published Monday, June 20th, 2005 By Anna King, Herald staff writer Scientists say they are wrapping up final arrangements to study Kennewick Man's remains in early July at University of Washington's Burke Museum in Seattle. The 9,400-year-old skeleton found along the banks of the Columbia River in 1996 has been the focus of a bitter nine-year court battle between the federal government, Mid-Columbia Native American tribes that claim the bones as their ancestor and the scientists who want to study the remains. Scientists from around the country plan to convene...

County supervisors are at odds with their pension board over a closed-door decision to give former employees who are rehired credit for previous service – a move that would substantially boost the workers' benefits. Details are sketchy because all but one of the discussions to let former employees count their past years of county employment have been in separate closed meetings by the retirement board and the Board of Supervisors. Both cited threatened litigation as the reason for meeting privately, which is allowed under the state open-meeting law. The retirement board's decision in January to improve benefits for rehired employees...

Myths Studied for Tsunami CluesUniversity of Washington Scientist Probes Indian Myth for Tsunami Clues S E A T T L E, Aug. 12 — When scientists figured out that sea water drowned groves of tall trees up and down the coast of Washington state the same year a tsunami hit Japan, they theorized that a massive earthquake in the Pacific most likely triggered both events. Based on Japanese records, scientists were able to pinpoint a date Jan. 26, 1700 and estimate that the rupture of a long stretch of sea floor had caused a magnitude 9 quake, which would be...