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A 17-year-old girl is dead and an 18-year-old boy with her is in critical condition after being shot while in an SUV in Richmond Beach in Shoreline early this morning. We’ll keep you posted on developments.

Swimming in dangerous water: The search for a 16-year-old teen missing in the Chehalis River has been unsuccessful. The teen was with friends when he went under and didn’t surface. Authorities are expected to decide what to do this morning. We’ve said it before: The water this time of year is fast, cold and unforgiving. And why is it that teens appear unable to resist swimming across lakes and rivers?

Viaduct closed this weekend: The Alaskan Way Viaduct will be closed in both directions from 11 p.m. Friday until 5 a.m. Monday so construction crews can shore up a two-block section above what will become the new tunnel. The portion to be closed runs from the north end of the Battery Street Tunnel to the West Seattle Bridge, according to the state Transportation Department. Expect congestion on the roads elsewhere.

The historic Fire Station No. 37 recently sold for $613,000. The station is located at 7300 35th Ave. S.W. in West Seattle. (Photo / City of Seattle)

Historic fire station sold: The old No. 37 Fire Station in West Seattle has sold for $613,000. The city put the property on the market back in September and set the minimum bid at $250,000. The city will net almost $580,000, which will go to into a levy fund. Some of that money is used to upgrade, renovate or replace existing fire stations. Have you ever slid down a firehouse pole? We have …

Malnourished boy: You might remember we told you about the 2-year-old boy in Moses Lake who was found so malnourished that he weighed just ten pounds. Authorities now have more details in the case: the youngster had no hair or muscle tone, and his body temperature was only 89 degrees.

Red Sox sock it to the M’s: As in the Mariners were shut out by in Boston. A bit of offense wouldn’t hurt, hey guys?

Most-read stories this morning on seattletimes.com:

1. Broad new layoffs at T-Mobile USA, 900 jobs cut | Brier Dudley’s Blog
2. Catholic bishops’ newest target: Girl Scouts of America | Nicole Brodeur
3. Drivers fill up with pain as state gas prices soar
4. Hard-edged manager Eric Wedge walks a fine line with fledgling Mariners | Jerry Brewer
5. Wash. man bitten by rattlesnake at Washington Wal-Mart

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Two teens were shot early Wednesday in Shoreline in the Richmond Beach area.

The notices mean the employees may lose their job next school year, but they could also be rehired. State law requires school districts to tell employees of layoffs by May 15.

The combined number, 45, is slightly smaller than the past couple years and much smaller than in 2009, when more than 200 employees were laid off.

The areas hit hardest were counselors, physical education teachers, music instructors and family support workers. In addition, the district announced it has eliminated 11 positions in its central office this year.

“Although this is a limited Reduction in Force compared to previous years, it is not easy and has a tremendous impact on those employees who will lose their position,” Interim Superintendent Susan Enfield wrote in an email to staff today. “I want to thank those staff members for their service to Seattle Public Schools and our students.”

The Seattle School Board approved the cuts at a meeting earlier this year.

“I feel bad that we have to lay off anyone,” School Board President Michael DeBell said. “If our budget wasn’t so tight, we would certainly want to hold onto all of our teachers and our classified teachers. But we were left with very little choice.”

SPOKANE — The city of Spokane will pay $1.67 million to the family of Otto Zehm, who was beaten to death at the hands of police in 2006.

An out-of-court settlement reached today also called for the city to formally apologize for the death of Zehm, and to implement better training for police officers.

The settlement follows two days of mediation efforts by U.S. District Court Judge Michael Hogan of Oregon.

The civil lawsuit was filed by attorneys Jeffry Finer and Breean Beggs on behalf of the mother and estate of Zehm, a mentally ill janitor who died two days after the beating.

The civil case is separate from a criminal case filed in federal court over the death of Zehm.

A jury in Tacoma needs more time to deliberate in the voyeurism case against the father-in-law of a missing Utah mother.

Jurors broke for the day this afternoon after considering Steve Powell’s fate for several hours. They planned to return at 9 a.m. Wednesday.

Powell faces 14 counts of voyeurism stemming from what prosecutors say are images found on a disc in his bedroom of young girls who lived next door.

Jurors questioned that evidence during deliberations, asking if the disc was found in boxes containing only Steve Powell’s belongings.

Steve Powell is the father-in-law of Susan Powell, a Utah mother who disappeared in 2009. Her husband, Josh, killed himself and the couple’s two young children in a house fire earlier this year.

The closure, effective immediately, is the result of tests that showed contamination as the diesel fuel reached mussel beds.

Also today, divers plugged a leak in the sunken Deep Sea that was spewing one or two gallons of diesel a minute into Penn Cove.

Skimmers and absorbent booms were deployed by the clean-up contractor. Divers also have pumped 1,900 gallons of fuel out of the vessel and continue working today

Petty Officer Nathan Bradshaw says the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund is paying for the cleanup, and the Coast Guard will seek to recoup the money.

The 128-foot derelict fishing boat caught fire Saturday and sank Sunday in 50 feet of water.

A jury in Tacoma has reinstated the death penalty for a man convicted of raping, robbing and stabbing a neighbor to death.

The Pierce County prosecutor’s office says the jury reached its decision Tuesday and Allen Eugene Gregory will be sentenced again on June 13 to die.

Now 39 years old, Gregory was convicted of aggravated murder in 2001 for the 1996 killing of Geneine Harshfield who was attacked after she returned home from her bartending job. The killing went unsolved until Gregory’s arrest in a rape case two years later produced a DNA match.

In 2006 the state Supreme Court upheld the murder conviction but overturned the death sentence. Pierce County prosecutors decided to re-try the penalty phase. It began two months ago and went to the jury Monday.

The King County Prosecutor’s Office today dismissed the charge against Joshua Garland. He was accused of  “grabbing a police officer’s hand and twisting his arm,” Dan Donohoe, spokesman for the county prosecutor’s office, wrote in a news release. 

“After reviewing video provided by Garland’s defense attorney showing the alleged incident, prosecutors no longer believe they could prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt,” Donohoe wrote. 

Garland has been out of jail since May 2. His lawyer, Andrea Robertson, said he has documented numerous social-activism events since 2010 through his photography.

After Garland’s arrest, Robertson said that her client was at the protest ”taking pictures.”

“His hand was on the camera and the other was at his side when the officer approached him,” Robertson said, adding that she believes the officer pushed her client in the chest and that her client’s hand went up. She insisted her client did not lay a hand on the officer.

Robertson said that to show her client’s innocence, she pieced together video segments posted on YouTube by witnesses and other footage shot by a local television station. She brought the video segments to prosecutors. The segments, she said, made it clear “there was absolutely no way that the officer’s account of events is what actually happened.”

“I don’t think there is any way you could intrepret the way he [the officer] described it,” Robertson said.

Donohoe said that three other people are still charged with allegedly assaulting police officers during the May 1 protests:

Paul Campiche, 23, is charged with two counts of third-degree assault for allegedly throwing a bottle at an officer and then kicking a second officer who was attempting to arrest him;

Robert Ditrani, 23, is charged with one count of fourth-degree assault for allegedly spitting on an officer;

Maria Morales, 30, is charged with fourth degree assault for allegedly hitting an officer in the chest, according to Donohoe.

About 3,000 scholarships of $1,000 each were awarded. Recipients included 821 students majoring in science fields, 333 in technology, 709 in engineering, 158 in math and 988 in health care, according to statistics compiled by the College Success Foundation, which is administering the award.

More than half of the students are attending four-year public universities, and 768 of the award-winners — about one-quarter — will be entering college as freshmen this fall. The scholarship is renewable for up to five years for entering college freshmen.

Last year, Boeing and Microsoft pledged a total of $50 million to the program, and the state contributed $5 million. The state’s goal is to match private-sector pledges to bring the endowment’s total to $100 million, once the economy improves. The Washington Opportunity Scholarship Board has set a goal of raising $1 billion from public and private contributions by 2020.

Amina Kocer-Bowman, 9, was wounded when the .45-caliber handgun discharged in the boy’s backpack Feb. 22 at Armin Jahr Elementary School. She underwent five surgeries for a shattered elbow and damage to her  internal organs.

The Kitsap County prosecutor had charged the boy’s mother, Jamie Chaffin, and her boyfriend, Douglas Bauer, with unlawful possession of a firearm and felony third-degree assault for negligently allowing the boy access to the gun.  The boy reportedly obtained the handgun during a visit to his mother’s home days before the shooting.

In Kitsap County Superior Court this morning, Chaffin pleaded guilty to the two counts and in exchange the prosecution dropped the assault charge. Chaffin, who faces just over a year in prison when sentenced, also agreed to testify against Bauer.

Bauer’s defense lawyer asked a judge to dismiss his criminal case against his client. The judge, instead, dismissed an unlawful posession of a firearm charge against Bauer. The assault charge still stands and Bauer will stand trial in July, said Deputy Prosecutor Jeremy Morris.

In cases in which a child obtains a weapon through an adult’s alleged negligence, prosecutors generally file a gross-misdemeanor charge of reckless endangerment. But when he filed the assault charges in March, Kitsap County Prosecutor Russ Hauge said the case called for tougher penalties.

“The adults have the responsibility for the firearm,” Hauge said at the time. “It was no different from if they said to him: ‘Here, put this [gun] in your backpack.’ “