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Mount Rainier park remains closed after shooting

Updated at 11:54 p.m. ET: A Mount Rainier National Park ranger was fatally shot following a New Year's Day traffic stop, and the 368-square-mile park in Washington state was closed as dozens of officers searched for the Rescuers jumped into icy river to save three kids from a car that was sinking. Updated at 11:54 [...]

Suspect in ranger shooting is found dead

By ROBERT KOCH Hour Staff Writer NORWALK — The park ranger killed at Mount Rainier National Park on New Year's Day once lived in Wilton and her father was a pastor at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Westport, according to the current pastor of the church. Benjamin Colton Barnes, shown in an undated photo, was [...]

Mount Rainier body confirmed as suspected gunman

Government page about this volcano, environmental information and statistics. (CBS/KIRO) MOUNT RANIER, Wash. – Police in Washington have launched a massive manhunt for a gunman who shot and killed a female park ranger in Mount Rainier National Park on Sunday. According to CBS affiliate KIRO, police believe that mother-of-two Updated at 11:54 p.m. ET: A [...]

Ranger fatally shot in Mt. Rainier National Park

By mid-August, snow was still 44 inches deep at Paradise on Mount Rainier. When it's cold, it's weather. When it's warm, it's climate. (January 1, 2012, by Gou Wei II) Read more Enjoy it! It's going to be chilly and wet for one half of the year then By MIKE BAKER AP MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL [...]