Tagged: college basketball

Gonzaga continued its late season win streak, roaring through its first game in the NCAA men's basketball tournament with a solid win over St. John's last night, 86-71. The Zags dominated in rebounding, and just about every other category, against their favored Big East conference opponent, writes The Seattle Times' Bud Withers:

Making headlines around the Northwest this morning:

• Pirates in Fatal Yacht Hijacking Indicted
• Arrest in Spokane MLK Day Bomb Plot
• State Details Patient Escape from Western State
• UW-WSU Meet Tonight in Pac-10 Championships

Indictments in High Seas Hijacking, Murders

Fourteen men are charged today with the hijacking of a yacht on which four Americans - including a Seattle couple - were shot to death.

The US Justice Department is holding the 13 Somalis and a man from Yemen in Norfolk, Virginia. They are expected to make a court appearance today, according to The Associated Press.

Making headlines around the Northwest this morning:

• Accused Monroe Killer Was Known Threat
• Northwest Gas Prices Spike
• Union Claims Seattle School Board Knew About Troubles
• Pac 10 Tourney Pits UW vs. WSU
   

Scherf Was Long Considered Risk to Prison Staff

Byron Scherf, who confessed to murdering Monroe prison guard Jaime Biendl, was known to corrections officials as a possible threat to staff for years, according to The Herald of Everett:

"Staff are concerned that his next victim could be a staff person," one corrections worker wrote June 1, 2001, in the running log state prison officials have kept on Scherf's behavior since the mid-1990s. 

Other observations made about the same time point out that Scherf: