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PT man Bird rescuers combine convicted efforts for flight pen on sex charges Molestation, rape case next in Jefferson PENINSULA DAILY NEWS AND THE (EVERETT) DAILY HERALD

EVERETT — A Port Townsend man acquitted of child sex crimes in Clallam County has been convicted in Snohomish County of molesting a 3-year-old girl and will be transferred to the custody of the state Department of Corrections before returning to Port Townsend to face similar charges. Joshua David Larson, 41, was convicted Wednesday of one count of child molestation in the third degree and faces up to 5½ years in prison when he’s sentenced March 30. He will be required to register as a sex offender. The Snohomish jury found Larson guilty of molesting a 3-year-old girl during a 2013 Thanksgiving dinner in Stanwood. It reached its verdict in 90 minutes after a weeklong trial that included testimony from the girl, now 6. Snohomish County Deputy Prosecutor Laura Twitchell retried the case following a mistrial in November. Those jurors couldn’t reach a verdict after a couple of days of deliberations. Twitchell said Larson will be processed into the state prison system after his sentencing and then taken to Jefferson County, where he will stand trial on charges of two counts of firstdegree rape of a child and first-degree child molestation. Larson plans to appeal his conviction, his lawyer said. In the Jefferson County case, a 7-year-old girl reported Larson molested her in 2012, saying he assaulted her while she visited his then5-year-old son at the family’s Port Townsend home. TURN

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Without a larger flight pen, all eagles brought back to health at the Northwest Raptor & Wildlife Center in Sequim or Discovery Bay Wild Bird Rescue in Port Townsend must be transported off the Olympic Peninsula to undergo their final stage of rehabilitation. Jaye Moore, director of the Northwest Raptor & Wildlife Center in Sequim, and Cynthia Daily, director of Discovery Bay Wild Bird Rescue in Port Townsend, have combined forces to move the pen from Yakima to Port Townsend. Flight pens are large enclosures used to rebuild and strengthen injured or young birds’ abilities to fly before release back into the wild. “It’s like physical therapy for birds,” Moore said. “It can take a couple of months.” After regulations changed, the flight pen Moore had — the only one on the Peninsula — no longer met the size

Leaders work on moving donated facility BY ALANA LINDEROTH OLYMPIC PENINSULA NEWS GROUP

Directors of two wildlife rescue centers are working together to bring a flight pen to the North Olympic Peninsula to help rehabilitate eagles and other large birds.

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Storms bring more snow, rain to Peninsula More wet winter floods, mudslides BY ARWYN RICE PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

A day of heavy rain caused two already swollen Clallam County rivers to top their banks Thursday morning, and continued stormy weather is expected to drop at least a foot of snow in the Olympic Mountains this weekend. “[The coming storm] will provide a lot more snow,” said Art Gaebel, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Seattle. The storm, expected to arrive early this morning, is going to be colder than recent storms, and the snow level could drop to about

3,500 feet elevation, he said. The Olympic National Park information hotline at 360-5653131 reported 1.94 feet of new snow with 68 inches — more than 5 feet — at the snow stake. The weather service issued an alert for heavy rain and mudslides in Clallam and Jefferson counties Thursday.

Jefferson County There has been no notable flooding or other damage in Jefferson County, said Keppie Keplinger, spokeswoman for the Jefferson County Department of Emergency Management.

ALSO . . . ■ Rains spur three separate slides in Clallam/A4

At 2 p.m. Thursday, Jefferson County was getting heavy rains, and the emergency management department was on alert for mudslides caused by the downpour, said Tanda McMillan, community operations officer at the agency. Thursday morning’s storm dropped 1.68 inches of rain at William R. Fairchild International Airport in Port Angeles, 2.66 inches at Quillayute Airport near Forks and 1.62 inches in Quilcene, according to the National Weather Service website. TURN

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The Elwha River runs at near flood stage beneath the U.S.

STORM/A5 Highway 101 bridge west of Port Angeles on Thursday.

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