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Anne Heche gets back into TV on NBC’s ‘Save Me’

Updated: May 24, 2013 10:30am

FRESNO, Calif. — Anne Heche is a firm believer in second chances. That’s why she connects so well with the role she’s playing in the new NBC series “Save Me.”

Heche plays Beth Harper, a...

<p>Rick Lund | Seattle Times</p><p>The collapsed bridge where I-5 crosses the Skagit River at Mount Vernon.</p>

I-5 bridge collapse

Updated: May 24, 2013 10:30am

A chunk of Interstate 5 collapsed into the Skagit River near Mount Vernon on Thursday evening, dumping two vehicles into the icy waters and creating a gaping hole in Washington state’s major north...

<p>Ken Lambert | Seattle Times</p><p>Former Marine Dale Clark sits in his Seattle office last week holding a picture of himself from 1974. On the wall is a high-school photo of Marine Pfc. Dan Benedett of Auburn, who was killed in Cambodia during a rescue operation that both men were part of in 1975.</p>

38 years later, closure for a Marine

Updated: May 24, 2013 10:30am

SEATTLE — The two had known each other less than three weeks when they found themselves inside helicopters about to land off a Cambodian island, and were easy targets for a firestorm of Khmer...

Happenings 5/24

Updated: May 24, 2013 2:00pm

Aberdeen

Harbor Rescue will host a garage sale from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Sunday and Monday at 2206 Cherry to benefit the organization that assists with lost/found animals.

WSU Master...

Span wasn’t built to take critical hit

Updated: May 24, 2013 10:30am

The Skagit River Bridge wasn’t particularly worrisome to state engineers. Structural inspections showed its condition to be average. But bridges of its generation, circa 1955, often were designed...

George Will — The NLRB’s school-door stand

Updated: May 24, 2013 10:30am

Early in an opinion issued recently by a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Judge A. Raymond Randolph says: “Although the parties have...

Bridge collapse will cause holiday travel headaches

Updated: May 24, 2013 10:30am

It had to happen heading into a holiday weekend.

The collapse of the Interstate 5 bridge across the Skagit River is certain to clog traffic, upset travel plans and disrupt commerce this...

Inside the First Amendment — Freedom to report news needs freedom to gather it

Updated: May 24, 2013 10:30am

Freedom to report the news requires the freedom to gather it.

In the months ahead, that basic concept – so central to the First Amendment’s protection of a free press – will also be at the...

Drug czar highlights link between marijuana, crime

Updated: May 24, 2013 10:30am

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Marijuana is the drug most often linked to crime in the United States, the U.S. drug czar said Thursday, dismissing calls for legalization as a “bumper-sticker approach” that...

NASCAR Hall of Fame class of 2014 spans decades

Updated: May 24, 2013 7:58am

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Dale Jarrett had no idea he and his family would have a double reason to celebrate.

Dressed in a blue checkered shirt, white pants and white sneakers, Jarrett’s primary...