In brief: Sex offender living on East Euclid
Spokane police want to inform residents in the 2300 block of East Euclid Avenue that a level 3 sex offender has moved into the area.
David W. McKibben, 35, was convicted of solicitation to commit second-degree rape five years ago in Spokane County, said Officer Jennifer DeRuwe, Spokane police spokeswoman. His victim was a woman.
McKibben is described as 5-foot-11 and 156 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes.
He is being supervised by state Community Corrections Officer Bob Bromps, DeRuwe said.
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C.
Killer can’t get parole for 25 years
The 15-year-old daughter of a woman murdered by a Canadian pig farmer said her slaying was “like ripping out my heart,” in gripping testimony Tuesday before a judge who decided Robert “Willie” Pickton won’t be eligible for parole for a minimum of 25 years.
Pickton was convicted Sunday of second-degree murder in the killings of six women and received an automatic life sentence. He could have been eligible for parole in as little as 10 years. Authorities said he butchered the women’s remains and fed them to his pigs.
Pickton still faces 20 more murder charges for the deaths of women, most of them prostitutes and drug addicts from a seedy Vancouver neighborhood. If convicted on all those charges, he would become Canada’s worst serial killer. Police are also investigating the cases of almost 40 other missing women.
Baker city, Ore.
Tracks indicate wolves formed pair
For the first time, state fish and wildlife trackers have physical evidence that two wolves have paired up after moving into northeastern Oregon from Idaho.
Tracks found by a rancher in snow near the southern edge of the Eagle Cap Wilderness about 20 miles north of Baker City appear to be from two wolves walking side by side. One set of tracks was larger than the other, which could mean one is male and one female.
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife wolf coordinator Russ Morgan stressed that they don’t know whether Oregon has its first pair of breeding wolves since wolves were wiped out a century ago.
Biologists followed the tracks for three-eighths of a mile before the snow ran out. Since they were reported in late October, other sets of single tracks have been found in the area, Morgan said.
TACOMA
Diesel oil spilled into waterway
About 435 gallons of diesel oil was released into the Hylebos Waterway during an unattended transfer of fuel between tanks on a fishing vessel, state and federal officials said.
An oil skimmer was dispatched, additional oil booms were deployed, and crews from National Response Corp., a cleanup contractor, worked Tuesday to recover oil that spilled at Pier 25 from the 166-foot Bowfin, a tender built in 1944 and owned by Trident Seafoods Corp. of Seattle, Coast Guard Petty Officer Shannon Rubio said.
Oil booms had been placed on three sides of the boat before the spill Monday night as a precaution, but there were no booms on the dock side because of construction on the pier, Rubio said.
About 123 gallons had been recovered by Tuesday night, said a news release from the Coast Guard and the state Ecology Department.
There were no immediate reports of damage or contaminated marine life.