Nickelsville to stay another day

Seattle

The homeless encampment Nickelsville will stay put in Discovery Park until Wednesday while the group seeks a restraining order against the city.

Northwest Justice Project, which represents the unauthorized tent city that first sprung up in Southwest Seattle two weeks ago, is pursuing an injunction through King County Superior Court, said a spokeswoman for the Real Change Organizing Project, an advocacy group that helped plan the homeless camp.

Crews from the city's parks department had posted 72-hour eviction notices Thursday, but the city pushed the date to Monday, then to Wednesday pending court hearings and more discussion.

Seattle

Officer injured when car hits pole

A Seattle police officer was treated and released from Harborview Medical Center on Monday after a 3 a.m. accident in Ballard left him pinned in his patrol car until fire-rescue workers freed him.

A Seattle Police Department spokesman said the officer, whose name wasn't released, was responding to a burglary when he struck a light pole at Northwest 65th Street and 15th Avenue Northwest.

Police spokesman Mark Jamieson said the roads were reported to be slick at the time of the accident.

The officer, who has been assigned to patrol operations since he was hired in August 2007, was reported to be conscious and alert when transported to the hospital. No other cars were involved.

Kirkland

Police seek man in assault on woman

Police say they are looking for a man who bound, cut and assaulted a 63-year-old woman in her Kirkland condo Monday morning.

The woman was taken to Evergreen Hospital Medical Center, where she was treated and released, officials said.

According to Kirkland police Lt. Mike Ursino, the woman woke in her residence on Northeast 122nd Street in the Juanita neighborhood around 4 a.m. to find a man she did not know straddling her.

She struggled and was cut with a knife, but the wound was minor and did not require stitches, Ursino said.

The man then assaulted her, he said. Ursino would not describe the assault more specifically except to say that she was "not beaten and she was not raped."

Police asked that anyone with information call Kirkland police at 425-587-3400.

Everett

Man is injured in trailer fire

A South Everett man was injured when his 22-foot-long travel trailer was destroyed by fire Monday.

Snohomish County fire marshals are investigating the blaze, which broke out about 6:25 a.m. at the Starlite RV Park in the 13500 block of Highway 99.

Neighbors said the injured man was awakened by his barking dog. The man, whose name was not available, was taken to Stevens Hospital in Edmonds with non-life-threatening injuries, according to officials with Snohomish County Fire District 1.

Federal Way

Abandoned baby now with her father

A baby girl who was abandoned at a Federal Way church is now with her father.

Clark Stevens was training with his National Guard unit in Wisconsin last week when he was called home to Auburn because he had a daughter.

Stevens says he didn't even know his ex-girlfriend was pregnant. Now he has bonded with his daughter, Mariah Verle Stevens.

Nurses at a Tacoma hospital called her Autumn Doe after she was found Sept. 28 at a church in Federal Way.

Stevens has custody of Mariah, who will be cared for by his mother. He will be deployed the next 10 months in Iraq.

Tacoma

Witnesses sought in dragging death

Police are looking for the drivers and passengers of a gray Jeep and a red pickup who may have witnessed a man being dragged to his death along Pacific Avenue in Tacoma early Sunday.

Ronald McKellar, a 53-year-old transient, was found dead around 12:25 a.m., after motorists reported seeing "clothes in the road," according to Tacoma Police Department spokesman Mark Fulghum.

Fulghum said police believe McKellar was struck on Pacific Avenue near the intersection of South 72nd Street and dragged north about eight blocks to where his body was discovered near South 64th Street.

Witnesses told police that two vehicles — a full-sized red pickup and a gray Jeep Cherokee — were in the area at the time of the accident and might have further information.

Fulghum said police hope drivers of those vehicles, and any other people who were in that part of Tacoma between midnight and 12:30 a.m., will call CrimeStoppers at 253-591-5959.

Olympia

Comments sought on science standards

The Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction is holding three meetings to explain the first draft of new state learning standards for science, and to gather the public's views about them.

The first meeting will be today from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Seattle Public Schools headquarters, 2445 Third Ave. S. The second is scheduled Thursday at Kennewick High School, and the third will be Oct. 15 in Vancouver, at the offices of Educational Service District 112.

The public also can submit comments and view the standards at www.k12.wa.us/CurriculumInstruct/Science/standardsrevision.aspx.

The final version is to be presented to the State Board of Education and the Legislature in December.

Seattle Times staff and news services