11/21/2008

Associated Press

The state Supreme Court says a convicted child molester can be permanently banned from contacting his wife, even though she was not a direct victim of his crimes. The court's ruling today keeps Richard Warren away from his wife for life.

SEATTLE — The new third runway at Sea-Tac Airport is open. The first plane to take off was an Alaska Airlines flight and the first to land was a United jet.

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Religious groups say they're watching for protests by radical gay activists who targeted churches in Washington and Michigan this month. An extremist group says it may stage more disruptions. One of its affiliate claims to have vandalized a Mormon church building near Olympia last weekend.

WALLA WALLA, Wash. (AP) — Prison officials at the Washington state Penitentiary are preparing for the state's first execution since 2001. Darold Ray Stenson is scheduled to die of lethal injection Dec. 3 in a small execution chamber.