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Americans are past the days of Lipinski and Kwan and no longer dominate the sport of ice skating. Flatt and Nagasu hope to change this in 2010.

Mirai Nagasu performs during the exhibition gala at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Spokane, Sunday, Jan. 24. (Photo by Elaine Thompson/AP)

By Nancy Armour
The Associated Press

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — With her Olympic dreams being over, Sasha Cohen stuck around to watch Mirai Nagasu and Rachael Flatt.

“They’re great,” Cohen said. “They’re cute. They’re excited.”

Flatt and Nagasu earned trips to the Olympics with their 1–2 finish at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships on the night of Jan. 23.

“I’m just excited about all the free stuff we’re going to get,” the delightfully filterless Nagasu said. “I hope a medal will come, too.”

Despite all the wailing about the sad state of the U.S. women these last few years, don’t count them out. Flatt entered Kim Yu-na and Mao Asada territory with her final score of 200.11 points, and the high school senior is one of the few people who’s beaten Kim in the last two years.

Nagasu has that beautiful performance style that made skaters millionaires in the sport’s heyday, and she backs it up with the tough tricks. Read the full story

Wedding photo of Jerome Dumlao and his wife, Marie Linavat

By Jacklyn Tran
Northwest Asian Weekly

More than a month after a hit-and-run incident that killed 30-year-old Jerome Dumlao, officers are still investigating and a family is still in mourning.

According to court documents, around 2:20 a.m. on Dec. 6, Dumlao was walking in a marked crosswalk in downtown Seattle at Western Avenue and Bell Street when accused suspect Eric Murillo, 24, came to a stop in his vehicle. He knocked the pedestrian down and ran him over before leaving the scene. Shortly after, he was apprehended after driving the wrong way down a one-way street while under the influence of alcohol.

This incident, although occurring over just a few brief minutes, turned the lives of many upside down. Investigators are continuing to ask questions about what happened that fateful morning. Read the full story

By Jason Cruz
Northwest Asian Weekly

The Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) is seeking to preserve a part of American history that lies in a remote part of Idaho. The proposed construction of part of a 500-mile transmission line near a former Japanese internment camp in Minidoka would provide renewable energy to Idaho, Nevada, and California. However, the project poses an obstruction to the historical site, according to JACL. Read the full story

Judge Fumiko Saiga

By James Tabafunda
Northwest Asian Weekly

When International Criminal Court (ICC) Judge Fumiko Saiga, who was based in Seattle as consul general of Japan from September 2000 to July 2002, died of heart failure at age 65 last April, no one was sure who would take her place.

That was until Kuniko Ozaki took on the job. She was elected two months ago.

On Jan. 20, Ozaki was sworn in as an ICC judge and became the second Japanese woman on the ICC, based in The Hague, Netherlands. Judge Silvia Fernández de Gurmendi of Argentina was also sworn in. Read the full story

By Mike Robinson
The Associated Press

CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago businessman accused of leading a double life as an international terrorist pleaded not guilty Monday, Jan. 25 to making plans for an attack on a Danish newspaper and helping to arrange the rampage in 2008 that killed 166 people in the Indian city of Mumbai. Read the full story

By Lisa Leff
The Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Lawyers for two couples challenging California’s ban on same-sex marriage plan to wrap up their case Friday following the incendiary testimony of a proponent who said he thinks gays are more likely to be pedophiles and that allowing them to wed would lead to the legalization of polygamy and incest. Read the full story

By Gillian Wong
The Associated Press

BEIJING (AP) — China sharply rebuked the United States on Monday, Jan. 25, denying involvement in any Internet attacks and defending its online restrictions as lawful after Washington urged Beijing to investigate an attack against Google. Read the full story

By Malcolm Foster
The Associated Press

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s prime minister pledged Monday, Jan. 25, to “start from scratch” in re-examining a key military deal with Washington on relocating American troops, risking the ire of its key ally after a local election in Okinawa showed that residents oppose any new Marine bases in their region. Read the full story

Asian and Pacific Islander Americans (APIA) worked on the Reform Immigration FOR America Campaign in January. During the National Asian American Pacific Islander week of action, which began on Jan. 12, The Campaign is a collaborative effort urging local, state, and national APIA organizations to take part in the immigration reform debate. Read the full story

On Dec. 28, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke announced a $1.6 million Economic Development Administration (EDA) grant to the Lummi Nation of Bellingham, Wash., to help build the Gateway Center business incubator facility in Ferndale, Wash. The project is expected to create 200 jobs and generate $4 million in private investment, according to estimates. Read the full story

President Barack Obama designated Jan. 21 as National Angel Island Day through a presidential proclamation. Read the full story