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BATTLE GROUND -- Shannon Walker looked at Kevin Williams' damaged spirit and his yellow Labrador retriever's undisciplined demeanor and saw her chance. Her father had raised her to have reverence for veterans. In Williams and his dog, Sam, the dog trainer saw a way to thank a veteran for his service in a palpable way.

Appropriately enough, the main reason the Los Angeles Kings could not finish off the Phoenix Coyotes on their first try was because they could not finish off, much less sniff out, nearly enough second hacks at opposing goaltender Mike Smith. On some occasions, they didn’t even pick up on a radiant invitation to take a first shot. Outscored solely by visiting captain Shane Doan, 2-0, the Kings ...

NEW CITY — Gus Vahaviolos and his wife, Vicky, leaned forward to lay a white rose at the base of the granite memorial that now bears the name of their son, Marine Cpl. Steve Vahaviolos, who was killed in Iraq’s Anbar province in 2006.