The Washington State Patrol is investigating the death of a Tacoma man, 50, who was killed while walking across a southbound lane of Interstate 5 in Seattle.<p/>A 2006 Dodge Charger struck the pedestrian Saturday night just north of Interstate 90.

CARSON, Calif., Aug. 16 (UPI) — A 2-0 win over the Los Angeles Galaxy Saturday night moved Seattle Sounders FC into second place in Major League Soccer’s Western Conference table.

SAN DIEGO, Aug. 16 (UPI) — Seattle quarterbacks Seneca Wallace and Mike Teel each threw a touchdown pass Saturday as the Seahawks defeated the San Diego Charges 20-14.

SEATTLE, Aug. 16 (UPI) — Derek Jeter and Nick Swisher each hit a home run and had two RBI Saturday in the New York Yankees’ fifth straight win, a 5-2 decision over Seattle.

Another series, another win. Such is life these days for the Yankees. Sergio Mitre had his best outing of the year, giving up one earned run over 5-1/3 innings to help pitch the Bombers to a 5-2 win over the Mariners Saturday night.

SAN DIEGO — LaDainian Tomlinson got his wish - a handful of carries in August.

CARSON - Perhaps someone should have mentioned to referee Ricardo Salazar that Major League Soccer officials were in attendance Saturday at the Home Depot Center.

A Special Report | Part 1: Few girls get high-school educations in Pakistan, where poorly run government schools and Taliban intimidation keep them from attending. But Pakistanis in Seattle have given one community the gift of a school to change that.

EDITOR’S NOTE: We don’t normally run other news organization’s stories about The Seattle Times in our pages. We try to report fairly and accurately on ourselves. But a piece in Monday’s New York Times got a lot of national attention and sparked dialogue in the continuing conversation about the future of newspapers and journalism. We decided to share it with you here, just as it ran in The New York Times.

Instruments are detecting an inch or two of movement as the Juan de Fuca plate grinds and sinks beneath the North American plate. When the plates snap, scientists say, it could produce a massive 9.0 or greater earthquake and a tsunami.