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This image provided by Bellevue, Wash. Police Department shows a an inert rocket in the garage of a home in Bellevue, Wash, on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. Bellevue police responded Thursday to a report of a military-grade rocket in the garage of a home of a deceased resident in the city across Lake Washington from Seattle.(Bellevue, Wash. Police Department via AP)

Inert Cold War-era missile found in garage of Washington state home: Police

Bomb squad members inspected the rusting object and found it was a Douglas AIR-2 Genie

FILE - A U.S. Coast Guard boat and Kitsap, Wash., County Sheriff boat search an area, Monday, Sept. 5, 2022, near Freeland, Wash., on Whidbey Island north of Seattle where a chartered floatplane crashed the day before, killing 10 people. On Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023, the National Transportation Safety Board confirmed that a mechanical issue caused the seaplane to crash. (AP Photo/Stephen Brashear, File)

Failure of single component caused fatal Washington seaplane crash: NTSB

Lawsuits have been filed in King County Superior Court by the family members of the victims

FILE - In this photo provided by the Washington State Department of Natural Resources, a crane and boats are anchored next to a collapsed “net pen” used by Cooke Aquaculture Pacific to farm Atlantic Salmon near Cypress Island in Washington state on Aug. 28, 2017, after a failure of the nets allowed tens of thousands of the nonnative fish to escape. A Washington state jury on Wednesday, June 22, 2022, awarded the Lummi Indian tribe $595,000 over the 2017 collapse of the net pen where Atlantic salmon were being raised, an event that elicited fears of damage to wild salmon runs and prompted the Legislature to ban the farming of the nonnative fish. (David Bergvall/Washington State Department of Natural Resources via AP, File)

Washington bans fish-farming net pens, citing salmon threat

California, Oregon and Alaska have already outlawed net-pen aquaculture

FILE - In this photo provided by the Washington State Department of Natural Resources, a crane and boats are anchored next to a collapsed “net pen” used by Cooke Aquaculture Pacific to farm Atlantic Salmon near Cypress Island in Washington state on Aug. 28, 2017, after a failure of the nets allowed tens of thousands of the nonnative fish to escape. A Washington state jury on Wednesday, June 22, 2022, awarded the Lummi Indian tribe $595,000 over the 2017 collapse of the net pen where Atlantic salmon were being raised, an event that elicited fears of damage to wild salmon runs and prompted the Legislature to ban the farming of the nonnative fish. (David Bergvall/Washington State Department of Natural Resources via AP, File)

The home base for Northwest Seaplanes and Friday Harbor Seaplanes at the Renton Municipal Airport is seen Monday, Sept. 5, 2022. Aviation regulators in Canada and the United States are being urged to order the immediate inspection of a type of Canadian-built floatplane operated by Friday Harbor Seaplanes that was involved in a deadly crash in Washington state. The aircraft in this photo is a different model.THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Martha Bellisle

Urgent recommendation calls for inspection of Canadian-made De Havilland Otter planes

Seaplane involved in fatal September crash used by numerous charter airlines on the B.C. coast

The home base for Northwest Seaplanes and Friday Harbor Seaplanes at the Renton Municipal Airport is seen Monday, Sept. 5, 2022. Aviation regulators in Canada and the United States are being urged to order the immediate inspection of a type of Canadian-built floatplane operated by Friday Harbor Seaplanes that was involved in a deadly crash in Washington state. The aircraft in this photo is a different model.THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Martha Bellisle

A U.S. Coast Guard vessel searches the area Monday, Sept. 5, 2022, near Freeland, Wash., on Whidbey Island north of Seattle where a chartered floatplane crashed the day before. The plane was carrying 10 people and was en route from Friday Harbor, Wash., to Renton, Wash. (AP Photo/Stephen Brashear)

1 dead, 9 missing after floatplane crashes in Puget Sound

Plane was headed to Renton Municipal Airport

A U.S. Coast Guard vessel searches the area Monday, Sept. 5, 2022, near Freeland, Wash., on Whidbey Island north of Seattle where a chartered floatplane crashed the day before. The plane was carrying 10 people and was en route from Friday Harbor, Wash., to Renton, Wash. (AP Photo/Stephen Brashear)