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EVERETT -- It's a fad that's picking up steam in Snoho­mish County's hyper-competitive coffee market. Espresso drive-through stands with bikini- and lingerie-sporting baristas are popping up from Monroe to Edmonds. In the past year, at least six of these java joints employing provocatively dressed young women have opened in the county. A few owners of these roadside stands say business is so brisk, they're hiring more employees and have plans to open new locations. "I brought a touch of Vegas back to Washington," said Bill Wheeler, who opened Grab 'N' Go Espresso on Highway 99 just south of Everett last...

Kevin Everett voluntarily moved his arms and legs on Tuesday when partially awakened, prompting a neurosurgeon to say the Buffalo Bills' tight end would walk again contrary to the grim prognosis given a day before. "Based on our experience, the fact that he's moving so well, so early after such a catastrophic injury means he will walk again," said Dr. Barth Green, chairman of the department of neurological surgery at the University of Miami school of medicine. "It's totally spectacular, totally unexpected," Green told The Associated Press by telephone from Miami. Green said he's been consulting with doctors in Buffalo...

It was eagerly anticipated news when the Bills provided an update on Kevin Everett Monday afternoon, following his game halting spine injury on the second half kickoff of Sunday's loss to Denver. But the update only gave a clearer picture as to the severity of what is still a potentially lethal injury, and the steps that were taken to give him the greatest chance for recovery. Everett suffered a fracture dislocation between the third and fourth cervical vertebrae. So there was an injury to the cervical spine and cervical spinal cord. But the spinal cord was intact. There was disc...

"Nazis." Lord, can we just give this one a rest? So help me, if there's a term that's been overworked and overused in public debate of late, that's it. Worn out is what it is. The most recent example was a July 15 guest commentary in this newspaper written by Mr. Marc Brenman. Mr. Brenman is the executive director of the Washington State Human Rights Commission and he held forth for 700 or so words on how truly bad he thinks a group called The Minutemen are. Fine. That's an opinion. He's entitled to it and, most certainly, is entitled...

Tour the Abe on July 4thAlong with the USS Abraham Lincoln, at least one other Everett-based ship is scheduled to be open to the public.By Jim HaleyHerald Writer EVERETT - The public will be able to get a close-up view of the huge aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln over the Fourth of July holiday. It's likely one or more of the other ships at Naval Station Everett also will be open to public tours, station spokesman Rick Huling said. The Lincoln was last open to the public during the Independence Day holiday in 2005. Huling said the base is...

The Boeing Company is celebrating 40 years of remarkable activity at its Everett site during 2007. Since the first employees reported for work in January 1967, the site has designed, tested and manufactured nearly 3,000 wide-body jetliners, most of which are still in use around the world. The Everett site began producing the 747 jumbo jet in the late 1960s, followed by the 767 in the 1980s and the 777 in the 1990s. Soon, it will be the home of the world’s most advanced commercial airplane – the 787 Dreamliner™. We are proud of our role in the Everett community,...

An Everett woman who posed as a teenage boy was arrested Sunday for allegedly molesting a 14-year-old girl who believed the older woman was her boyfriend. Lorelei Josephine Corpuz, 30, lived for more than a year as a 17-year-old boy named "Mark," according to papers filed in Everett District Court. As "Mark," Corpuz persuaded the girl's family to let "Mark" live in their home as the girl's boyfriend. Corpuz claimed to be an orphan, police alleged. It wasn't until police arrested Corpuz on Sunday on an unrelated matter that the girl and her family learned that "Mark" was a woman...

A Pakistani immigrant accused of burning down his grocery store in Everett and trying to make it look like a hate crime has been convicted of arson. Mizra Akram, 40, could face as much as five years in prison for the crime. U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman convicted him Wednesday. Akram owned Continental Spices, a Pakistani and Middle Eastern grocery. Prosecutors said he recruited an acquaintance, Naveed Khan, to help set the July 2004 fire after the store's finances worsened. The government alleged that the two tried to remove attention from themselves by spray-painting anti-Muslim graffiti around the store. Khan...

EVERETT – A tense standoff with a man who sent bullets flying inside and out of a convenience store Monday ended when the man shot and killed himself. No one else was injured in the shooting that began around 11 a.m. when the man reportedly arrived at the store and began shooting inside. The man then came out, reloaded his gun and began shooting at a red car outside the store before going back inside where more shots could be heard. The incident at the ARCO AM PM at 4030 Rucker Avenue ending around 12:20 p.m. There were also reports...

NAVAL STATION EVERETT, Wash. (NNS) -- The guided-missile frigate USS Ingraham (FFG 61) returned to its homeport of Everett, Wash., after a six-month deployment to the Western Pacific and U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations Jan. 16. Ingraham, commanded by Cmdr. Ricks Polk, departed Everett in July as part of Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG) 1. “Our ‘Warriors’ had a great deployment,” Polk said. “Whether it was training with our coalition partners on maritime security operations (MSO) during Exercise Bright Star, or being a force multiplier in the 5th Fleet area of operations, our ship demonstrated the agility that ESG 1...

With the Boeing Co.'s 787 Dreamliner on a record order pace for a new airplane, executives should know within a few months how much they can boost production rates to meet "overwhelming" demand, and how many workers will assemble the jet at the Everett plant. Mike Bair, vice president and general manager of the 787 program, said Wednesday that Boeing still projects about 1,000 people will be needed, with more than half of those on final assembly. That number includes Boeing engineering and manufacturing support people, he said. The total 787 work force has yet to be determined, he said....

Sees sights after G.I. helped him get lifesaving surgery An Afghan boy brought to the U.S. last month for a heart operation after a soldier took up his cause came to New York yesterday to sightsee and show off the boundless energy of a typical 12-year-old. "Before, I cannot walk so much," Assadullah Khan said during the whirlwind trip with his father and interpreter to meet the "nice people" who helped save his life. "Now, I walk everywhere. I can walk and run." Until last month's operation to patch a hole in his heart, Assadullah could barely walk across a...

While public officials, schools, and the ACLU worked overtime this year to ban every vestige of Christmas from the public square, the recently invented holiday known as Kwanzaa is gaining in popularity among black Americans. These occurrences are not unrelated. In an earlier time, blacks held a strong faith in God. But over the past 40 years, the black community has largely let God slip away. Sure the community has maintained the outer trappings of religion, but the solid morality at its core is nearly gone. Enter a God-hating black racist named Ron Karenga. Born Ron Everett on a poultry farm...

DETROIT — Detroit City Councilwoman Kay Everett accepted more than $150,000 in bribes from a major city contractor in exchange for supporting his efforts to get more money for city contracts, according to a federal indictment unsealed Thursday. Everett demanded regular payments in exchange for helping Detroit businessman Frank Vallecorsa, the owner of American International Inc., as far back as 1997, the indictment said. She received $139,000 in payments and also received free meals and vacations. She even demanded and received 17 pounds of sausage worth $125 in May 2001, the government said. She referred to the money as loans,...

An Antiwar Activist Known for Being Committed Yet ErraticBy JAMES DAO Published: March 12, 2004 TAKOMA PARK, Md., March 11 — Susan P. Lindauer wore her liberal politics on her sleeve, as well as on her aging Mazda, where bumper stickers proclaimed her unabashed opposition to the Iraq conflict. "Peace in Iraq through change at home," one said. "War is not the answer," another said. To her neighbors — who described her as gentle if somewhat lonely — Ms. Lindauer was typical of this left-leaning enclave on the northern doorstep of Washington, a place fondly known by its residents as...

Lunchtime (Noon - 1PM) rally every Friday on Hewitt & Colby. This site has been dominated by the so-called "Peace" activists. We hope to reverse that unfortunate scenerio. Bring your lunch if you want, and bring a flag or sign to support our troops!

A national group that has spent the past decade battling to have a 6-foot-tall granite monument bearing the Ten Commandments removed from Everett city property yesterday filed a lawsuit against Mayor Frank Anderson and the city. Americans United for Separation of Church and State filed the lawsuit on behalf of Everett resident Jesse Card. Card, 20, is "offended by the Ten Commandments display in front of the old City Hall," according to the suit filed in U.S. District Court in Seattle. "Everett's display of the Ten Commandments on public property is a blatant endorsement of religion," the Rev. Barry Lynn,...

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii -- With five of six carrier battle groups deployed during Operation Iraqi Freedom, the Pacific Fleet was nearly tested to its limits. The ability to deploy the fleet's assets -- ships, subs and personnel -- quickly has given Navy leaders a great sense of pride. "That's a phenomenal undertaking," Pacific Fleet commander Adm. Walter Doran said in his historic Pearl Harbor office. "That underlines the commitment we have made over the last couple of years in short-term readiness and maintenance. And it talks very, very highly about training and the readiness capability of the sailors." However, it...

<p>President Bush will travel to San Diego next week and spend the night on an aircraft carrier as it returns from the war in Iraq, the White House announced Friday.</p> <p>Bush will make a speech Thursday aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, which has been at sea for nearly nine months, longer than any U.S. carrier group now on duty.</p>

Families Await American Troops' Return Sun Apr 20, 1:36 PM ET By CHELSEA J. CARTER, Associated Press WriterSAN DIEGO - Audrey Trevino has played it over in her mind a thousand times: Her Navy husband steps off the ship after months at sea supporting the war in Iraq (news - web sites), grabs her in his arms and kisses her. Latest news: · Opposition Leader: Saddam Remains in Iraq AP - 8 minutes ago · U.S. Postwar Administrator Visits Baghdad AP - 10 minutes ago · Garner Surveys Bombed Baghdad, Iraqi Commander SeizedReuters - 32 minutes ago Special Coverage  ...