Cheri Schumann would like Kennewick High School's class of 1971 to know she is very much alive.
A story in the Tri-City Herald about Kennewick High's reunion focused on seven classmates who were slain out of 80 who had died. Schumann -now Cheri Taylor -was included.
But Taylor lives in Mill Creek, north of Seattle, with her husband and four children. She says she's happy, healthy and not ready to be buried.
Reunion co-chairwoman Debra Blum told the newspaper the report of Taylor's premature demise came by email, apparently from another classmate. Blum says she used other sources to verify it.
Blum says another classmate listed in the story -Leo Marcel -also wasn't murdered. He died in 2004 after a lengthy illness.
Washington Man Lights Beehive on Fire After Sting
A Washington state fire chief says a man dumped gasoline on a beehive in a tree in retaliation for a bee sting, then ignited the hive, causing an explosion heard throughout his suburban neighborhood just a few miles south of the Canadian border.
Lynden chief Gary Baar tells the Bellingham Herald that the accidental night fire caused a large "whoosh," singed the tree and killed the bees, but no people were hurt.
Baar says the man's friend had been stung earlier in the day.
The fire chief says, "The correct way to do that is to call a beekeeper."
Firefighters explained that to the homeowner, and the newspaper says it doesn't appear that the man will be cited for his extreme hive control methods.
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