Police look for man seen in video of riot

King County prosecutors have charged a man with throwing a cinder block through the windshield of a police car and torching another car during a riot near the University of Washington.

Bail was set at $75,000 Wednesday as Jerry Mancillas Jr., 24, also known as Gary and believed to be a fugitive, was charged with second-degree arson and first- and second-degree malicious mischief.

Police said Mancillas has a criminal record in California.

In documents filed in court, police Detective Stephen O'Leary wrote that officers identified him from videotapes of the Sept. 28 events near Fraternity Row.

During the alcohol-fueled fracas, a crowd of hundreds hurled objects at police, burned a mattress and damaged three police cars and at least one civilian vehicle.

Seattle Times, P-I form appeal agreement

The Seattle Times Co. and The Hearst Corp., which owns the rival Seattle Post-Intelligencer, have agreed to make compromises that could speed The Times' appeal in a legal dispute over their joint operating agreement.

Hearst agreed Tuesday that it would not oppose The Times' request for an expedited appeal of a judge's ruling last month that said The Times could not claim it lost money in 2000.

In exchange, The Times said that if it loses the appeal, it will not try to claim in court that it lost money in 2001.

Under the JOA, The Times handles non-news functions for both papers and receives 60 percent of their joint profits in return. But The Times claims the agreement is no longer financially viable, and has sought to invoke a provision under which either paper can end the agreement if it loses money for three straight years.

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Schools locked down, reopened after threat

ROGUE RIVER -- Rogue River's four schools reopened under "code red" lockdown Thursday after a threat of school violence closed them on Wednesday.

The threat, the fifth in recent weeks, was left on a home answering machine. Parents, teachers and administrators say they are determined to stop the threats, even if they are pranks.

Last of alleged terror cell enter guilty pleas

PORTLAND -- The final two defendants arrested in an alleged Portland terrorist cell pleaded guilty Thursday and agreed to serve 18 years in federal prison.

Patrice Ford and Jeffrey Battle pleaded guilty weeks after four other defendants had agreed to testify against them.

Also on Thursday, officials in Washington, D.C., said the only suspect in the case still free may have died in a police raid in Pakistan.

The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said they are waiting for a final indentification confirming their belief that Jordan native Habis Abdu al Saoub was among eight al-Qaida suspects killed in an Oct. 2 shootout in a border region with Afghanistan.