A second of twin teenaged girls involved in a Halloween night traffic accident on Highway 20 near Gibralter Rd. died Monday in Seattle.

Members of OARS, the Old Anacortes Rowing Society, Monday helped pay tribute to the nation's veterans during the Veteran's Day ceremony at the Port of Anacortes as a Foss tug passed along the Guemes Channel.

CenturyLink said its crews have located both ends of a severed cable causing a network outage impacting the San Juan Islands and said the break may have been caused by an earthquake.

The Swinomish Indian Tribal Community and Washington State Parks have found funding to build a small parking lot and develop trails to allow anyone to the treasure called Kukutali Preserve on Kiket Island.

Telephone and Internet service is slowly coming back on line in the San Juan Islands as a barge team works to identify and pull the severed cable to shallower water, according to CenturyLink, which provides the phone and Internet service.

More scams were reported this week, including one in which a woman lost about $2,000 while thinking she was purchasing a car listed for sale on craigslist.com. A business owner lost $800 in a so-called 'Green Dot' scam.