The votes have been tallied, and now two 9-week-old Sumatran tiger cubs at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium have their names.<p/> The male will be called Bima, an Indonesian name meaning brave, and the female will be Mali, an Indonesian name meaning flower, the zoo announced this morning.

The memorial for Lisa Marie Melancon began Wednesday evening on the street in front of her South Tacoma home where she was killed last week by a recklessly fired bullet. <p/>More than 75 vehicles, half of them motorcycles, formed a procession there to accompany her family to the Tacoma Dome Exhibition Hall, where more than 1,000 people gathered to remember a woman who loved her community and worked hard to make it a better place.</p>

The execution of death row inmate Cal Coburn Brown can proceed after the state Supreme Court rejected claims Thursday that Washington's lethal injection procedures were unconstitutional.<p/>The lawsuit originally challenged the state's prior method of lethal injection, which used a three-drug cocktail. The court said the legal challenge was now moot because the state has switched to a one-drug system.

A second U.S. Navy sailor who went missing in a dangerous part of eastern Afghanistan was found dead and his body recovered, a senior U.S. military official and Afghan officials said Thursday.<p/>The family of Petty Officer 3rd Class Jarod Newlove, a 25-year-old from the Seattle area, had been notified of his death, the U.S. military official said on condition of anonymity, because he was not authorized to disclose the information.

HEPPNER, Ore. — A former Oregon teacher has been sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to having sex with two of her students.<p/>Wendy Cannin pleaded guilty to rape, sodomy and sexual abuse charges after admitting she had sex with two teenage boys, ages 15 and 17, while she was a teacher at Heppner High School.

King County sheriff's deputies are searching for a 10-week-old female Scottish Terrier puppy and the burglar who stole her from a Burien pet store early today.<p/>The break-in at A Place for Pets, 431 S.W. 152nd St., occurred shortly after 4 a.m., the Sheriff's Office reported. The puppy was removed from her kennel. Nothing else appears to have been stolen, deputies reported.

The Baltimore Orioles have hired Buck Showalter to be their manager. Showalter's first game will be Tuesday night at Camden Yards against the Los Angeles Angels.<p/>Orioles president of baseball operations Andy MacPhail confirmed the hiring on Thursday.

Banking titan Citigroup Inc. is paying $75 million to settle civil charges that it misled investors about its potential losses from subprime mortgages as the housing bust hit in 2007.<p/>The Securities and Exchange Commission announced the settlement with Citigroup on Thursday. It said the company repeatedly made misleading statements in calls with analysts and regulatory filings about the extent of its holdings tied to high-risk mortgages.

Check out the chat transcript of fans' two-hour Seahawks pre-training camp question-and-answer session with Eric D. Williams, John McGrath, Dave Boling and Ryan Divish on <a href="http://blog.thenewstribune.com/seahawks/"><b>Seahawks Insider</b></a> blog.

SAMMAMISH - Talk to Northwest native Peter Jacobsen and he’ll tell you – the winner of this year’s U.S. Senior Open at Sahalee Country Club will have mastered the art of tree avoidance, with towering firs lining every fairway. <p/>“Every hole is intimidating off the tee,” said Jacobsen, who won the U.S. Senior Open his first year on the Champions Tour in 2004. “Every hole makes you think about how tight it is. There isn’t one hole that doesn’t look tight.</p>