$1 Midweek Edition Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013 Reaching 110,000 Readers in Print and Online — www.chronline.com Climbing Mount St. Helens Chronicle Journalists Attempt to Summit Volcano Highway Washout U.S. Highway 12 Near White Pass Remains Closed / Main 4 in Remnants of Pacific Typhoon / Sports 2 Federal Government Shutdown Mount Rainier Closed Shutdown Saddens Visitors, Employees; Angers Local Businesses Corey R. Morgan Randle Man Gets 23 Years in Prison for Fiancee’s Murder BEHIND BARS: Corey R. Morgan Admitted Last Month to Beating and Pete Caster /
[email protected] Strangling to Death His Visitors leave a recently closed Mount Rainier National Park on Tuesday. outside of Ashford. The national park was forced to scale down its operation to a skel- eton crew for potential rescues and basic maintenance after Tuesday’s government shutdown. Fiancee Brenda Bail- Burnside Last Summer By Lisa Broadt On Tuesday afternoon, By Stephanie Schendel
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[email protected] its to park headquarters, most After traveling 3,100 miles leaving with furlough notifica- The former Randle man who from St. Petersburg, Fla., the tions in hand. admitted to beating and strangling Wisniewski family arrived in About 190 of the park’s his fiancee to death last July was Ashford to find the gates of 224 employees have been fur- sentenced to nearly 24 years in pris- Mount Rainier National Park loughed, and the temporary on Wednesday morning in Lewis chained and padlocked. cuts affect employees from County Superior Court. Though the family knew seasonal manual laborers to Corey R.