Serving Franklin County, WA
Serving Franklin County, WA
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PASCO – Edgar Ortiz Hernandez was allegedly interrupted stealing from a Pasco home by the victim and then cut the victim with a knife. Ortiz Hernandez, 32, was booked into the Franklin County Jail for robbery in the first degree, assault in the second degree, burglary in the first degree, and theft in the second degree, according to Pasco police. At about 8:30 a.m. on April 9, a 56-year-old man returned home to the 600 block of South Beech Street from a laundromat to find a st...
PASCO – She ordered a 6-inch sandwich at Subway in Pasco on April 9 and stole the employee tips as "thanks." She took $30 from the tip jar on the counter but left $1 at the Subway on West Court Street at 9:20 p.m., according to Pasco police. The employee saw her take it and went to get the manager, but when they returned she was gone along with her stolen sandwich. "This meant that the store lost a sandwich and gained an unhappy sandwich artist who lost his tips, stated P...
MESA — Franklin County commissioners unanimously approved a conditional-use permit allowing nearly triple the number of cattle on a rearing facility near Columbia Flats Dairy this morning, April 13. The permit will allow the 634-acre rearing lot – often referred to as a feed lot – at 1170 Pepiot Road to expand from 3,500 to 10,000 cows. The lot is located more than two miles from the dairy. Zoning regulations generally allow up to 1,000 cattle on feed lots in the county, unless commissioners approve a conditional-use permi...
PASCO — Franklin County Administrator Keith Johnson will keep his job. County commissioners today, April 13, decided not to resume discussion on terminating the county’s top manager after the issue was tabled last week. The motion to fire Johnson last week was the second the administrator had faced in two months. After commissioners declined to resume the debate, Commissioner Rocky Mullen made a brief statement on his decision not to pursue his motion to fire Johnson last week. Mullen said he had met with Johnson last Wed...
PASCO – A plan to build 74 new homes on lots averaging more than an acre was approved by Franklin County commissioners unanimously this morning, April 13. The Rivercrest development is planned for 180 acres east of Columbia River Road and south of Sagemoor Road, west of active farmland. Commissioners discussed the matter in a closed-hearing, meaning no new information was allowed during the meeting. Commissioners voiced concern about the development's proximity to a nearby irrigation canal....
PASCO – The Franklin County Sheriff's Office assisted Franklin County Fire District 3 as they were attending to a haystack fire near Kruse Road on Monday, April 12, around 11 p.m....