BODY FOUND ON NISQUALLY RIVER IDENTIFIED AS MISSING BOATER
The Thurston County coroner's office has identified a body that was recovered from the Nisqually River on Friday as that of 32-year-old Bryan L. Pierce. The coroner's office says the cause of Pierce's death was drowning. Pierce was missing since a boat that was carrying him and four other people capsized in the river on June 12. Nine-year-old Cameron McCartney still is missing. The body of a third boater, McCartney's 5-year-old brother, Sean, was recovered on the riverbank the night of June 12. The boys' mother, Erin, and boat operator Vincent Farler made it ashore after the boat capsized on a logjam. The 42-year-old Farler was arrested on suspicion of three counts of homicide by watercraft. He registered a blood-alcohol level more than twice the legal limit.
    
WESTERN GOVERNORS SEEK PROTECITON FOR ENERGY RESERVES AND WILDLIFE
Western governors are meeting to discuss strategies for protecting the iconic wildlife that roams their states while also capitalizing on the region's immense energy resources. The Western Governors' Association convened for its annual conference Sunday in Jackson Hole in northwest Wyoming. Governors from Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming voted to form the Western Wildlife Habitat Council. The council will identify and protect key wildlife corridors and habitats in the face of ever-increasing demand for domestic energy development and the infrastructure needs presented by population growth. Addressing the governors and a handful of top Canadian provincial officials, U.S. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said there's no reason that "world-class habitat" and "world-class energy reserves" should be mutually exclusive.
    
VICTIMS OF FATAL CRASH IN VANCOUVER IDENTIFIED
A man and a woman who died in what is being investigated as an alcohol-related accident on Friday night have been identified. They were 27-year-old Richard L. Broderick and 23-year-old Emily F. Dewey, both of Vancouver. They were passengers in the back seat of an automobile that left a road near Ridgefield. The driver, 28-year-old Travis B. Gee, of Vancouver, was in critical condition at Southwest Washington Medical Center in Vancouver. A front-seat passenger, 25-year-old Amber A. Clement, of Vancouver, was also injured. The accident occurred about 10 p.m. as the quartet's 1998 Honda Accord was southbound. The car left the roadway and flipped several times, coming to rest on an embankment.

MICROSOFT TO STOP SELLING XP TODAY
Microsoft is scheduled to stop selling its Windows XP operating system to retailers and major computer makers today, despite protests from some personal computer users who don't want to be forced into using XP's successor, Vista. Once computers loaded with XP have been cleared from the inventory of PC makers such as Dell and Hewlett-Packard, consumers who can't live without the old operating system on their new machines will have to buy Vista Ultimate or Vista Business and then legally "downgrade" to XP. Microsoft will still allow smaller mom-and-pop PC builder shops to buy XP for resale through the end of January. A version of XP will also remain available for ultra-low-cost PCs such as the Asus Eee PC. Last week, Microsoft said it would provide full technical support for six-year-old Windows XP through 2009, and limited support through 2014.
    
SEATTLE PRIDE PARADE DRAWS THOUSANDS OF SPECTATORS
Thousands of participants and spectators turned out yesterday for the 34th annual Seattle Pride Parade, a three-hour event that marched from the south end of downtown Seattle to the Seattle Center. Organizers of Seattle's largest gay and lesbian event almost canceled it last year after being more than $100,000 in debt after
they moved the parade and an accompanying festival from Capitol Hill to downtown in 2006. Seattle Out and Proud, the nonprofit that runs the parade, says it expects to turn a profit from this year's event.
    
FATAL FIRE IN BURIEN
A fast-moving fire killed three people in Burien yesterday as it gutted an apartment complex in the suburb south of Seattle. At least five others were injured and dozens of residents were displaced. The victims were not immediately identified officially. But neighbors identified two of the victims as an 8-year-old boy and his grandfather, who reportedly lived in an apartment with two the boy's siblings and his parents. The third dead person was reportedly a middle-aged man. The fire started after midnight and left the two-story Tara Apartments building gutted and the identical Jenny Marie Apartments heavily damaged. Investigators are treating the fire as suspicious, because no accidental cause was immediately pinpointed. The injured, suffering from cuts and smoke inhalation, included a teenage girl who jumped from a second-story window. They were taken to hospitals. A dollar estimate of damage was not immediately available.
    
WOMAN'S BODY FOUND IN PARK; MAN ARRESTED
A man has been arrested in Kennewick after the body of a woman was found in a park and a newborn baby was hospitalized. The 28-year-old woman, from Pasco, apparently was the baby's mother. The baby's condition and sex were not immediately available. Kennewick police say 23-year-old Phiengchai Sisouvanh Synhavong, of Kennewick, was booked into the Benton County Jail for investigation of first-degree murder. Investigators say they believe no one else was involved in the case. Police say the body of the woman was discovered in Kennewick's Columbia Park early Saturday.     Police would not to discuss any details of the discovery of the baby. Police say more information should be available today.
    
LION KILLS EAGLE IN VANCOUVER ZOO
A lion pounced on and killed a trained golden eagle in front of spectators at the Greater Vancouver Zoo in British Columbia. A zoo visitor who saw the incident, Pablo Su, says crows were harassing the eagle on Friday as it sat on a log. That attracted the attention of two approaching lions. The eagle, part of the zoo's raptor show, managed to fly away. But Su says a third lioness was waiting, and chased down the eagle and pounced on it. One of the eagle's trainers screamed at the lion, but despite her best efforts, the bird died. Gary Worley, master falconer at the zoo, says he is mourning the bird's death, but accepts that animals have natural instincts. He notes that lions are big cats and, in his words, --quote-- "we all know what cats do with birds."
    
FOUR INJURED IN SHOOTING NEAR SEATTLE'S PIKE PLACE MARKET
A fight at a park near Seattle's historic Pike Place Market led to a shooting that wounded four men. The men are expected to survive after the shooting about 6 p.m. yesterday at Victor Steinbrueck Park. Police did not immediately make any arrests, but were searching for a suspect seen running toward the waterfront. Police and witnesses said the shooting occurred after two groups of men began arguing for unknown reasons. Clint Caneen, who was in the park at the time, told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer the men displayed knives, and described the scene as "chaotic." Police say the four men were shot in their legs or feet. Steinbrueck Park has been part of Seattle's most crime-ridden census tract since 1985. The City Council earlier this month approved $850,000 for security cameras in Steinbrueck and three other parks.