| Port Angeles man accused of Craigslist scam
Police have arrested a Port Angeles man for stealing thousands from users of the Web site Craigslist.org. Investigators said the man used bad checks to buy diamond rings on the site, scamming a number of victims from Seattle to Everett. It all began with one engagement ring. A Snoqualmie man posted an ad on Craigslist, asking for $5,400 for the ring. Police say the Port Angeles man saw the posting as an opportunity to cash in. "He portrayed himself as a jewelry broker from Elegance Jewelry Design and so the victim met with him (and) they looked at the ring through a jewelry glass," said Rebecca Munson with the Snoqualmie Police Department. The two struck a deal at $5,200 and the suspect wrote the seller a business check.
Nuclear energy safe and cleaner
Regarding letter writer Paul Burton's thoughts on the nuclear waste storage problem (Nov. 26): The alleged nuclear waste problem was solved long ago. Nuclear “waste" can be encased in glass, and the glass encased in titanium — iron or steel rust and can leak — and stored in Yucca Mountain. Opponents say it may leak in time. It won't leak for approximately 500 years; after 500 years, any possible leaked radiation will be at a nonharmful level. Anyone worried about the unlikely scenario of nuclear waste leaking into the water supply need only buy a $200 water filter for their home; because the plutonium molecule is too big to get through the filters, and that's what is radioactive. Plutonium, which has a long half-life and emits alpha radiation, is relatively safe to handle, unlike other more lethal radioactive elements.
Gervais property owner gets one-year sentence
A Gervais man on whose property were found thousands of stolen items was sentenced Monday to a year in prison on federal charges. Ivan Cam, 42, will serve a year in prison after he pleaded guilty Aug. 16 to violating the Clean Water Act, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Scott Kerin, who prosecuted the case. Cam appeared in federal court in Portland and was sentenced to a year in prison and one year of supervised release by U.S. District Court Judge Garr M. King, Kerin said. He also was fined nearly $40,000. Cam was convicted of illegally excavating in the wetlands near his home on Mount Angel-Gervais Road. Cam was the first to be prosecuted for a wetlands violation case in Oregon, Kerin said. In the federal case, Cam repeatedly violated the Clean Water Act by digging ditches, trenches and drains in the land around his 10-acre property, federal court records showed.
Uranium boom hits home for small Colo. town
NUNN, Colo. -- Jean Hediger can stand at the edge of her organic wheat farm and look west to the Rockies, east toward this speck-in-the-road town and straight ahead into what she sees as her worst nightmare.A Canadian company's plans to establish a uranium mine just across the two-lane county road from Hediger's farm has triggered a bitter tug-of-war with residents of this fast-growing region about 70 miles north of Denver who fear the risk of contaminated water and other health problems. "How do you farm organically next to a uranium mine?" Hediger asks. "It's pretty darned scary, isn't it?"Powertech Uranium Corp. Chief Executive Officer Richard Clement insists the firm's closed-system mining process, in which a solution of oxygen and sodium bicarbonate is injected to recover the uranium, is safe."There's a lot of misinformation out there about nuclear, about uranium, about radiation, about the effects of mining," he said.
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