Serving Franklin County, WA
Serving Franklin County, WA
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PASCO -- Dr. Amy Person, the health officer for Benton and Franklin counties, may have just upended local students' return to the classroom this fall. At 5:48 p.m. today, Tuesday, July 28, School District officials received her "recommendation" not to reopen campuses this fall, citing coronavirus. The letter arrived as the School Board was discussing the issue during a digital workshop. Since the county remains in "modified Phase 1" of Gov. Jay Inslee's quarantine orders, Person will have to approve of the board's plan for...
PASCO - A local woman who had an arm amputated following an ATV crash over the weekend in McCall, Idaho, will undergo a skin graft on Wednesday morning. Mirza Michel is "struggling to keep her pain under control," friend Tierney Becho said today, Tuesday, July 28. A time for the graft has yet to be announced. Becho has started a GoFundMe.com account for the Michel family to help with costs related to medical care. As of this afternoon, the fund had received $27,519 from 264...
OLYMPIA — The state Fish and Wildlife Commission will discuss $30.8 million in proposed state Department of Fish and Wildlife budget cuts and agency legislative requests for the 2021 state legislative session during its July 30 to Aug. 1 online meeting. The commission will begin with wildlife and fish committee meetings at 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. Thursday, July 30, to discuss target shooting rules and coronavirus-related fisheries assistance, as well as hatchery policy language, non-native gamefish and fisheries policy, and a...
PASCO - Two teenagers led police on a pursuit through the city early this morning after being caught with a stolen vehicle. Officer Andy Taylor spotted a white Chevrolet Blazer being driven erratically shortly after midnight this morning, Tuesday, July 28, a report shows. When he attempted to stop the SUV, the teenage driver and his passenger sped off. The 15-year-old driver, whose name has not yet been released, led police through the streets of the city, driving on 14th,...
PASCO - Police arrested a local man early this morning, Tuesday, July 28, in connection with a burglary. Dean Russell Shelton, 50, is being held on an expected charge of second-degree burglary, police said. He was arrested inside Ninja Clothing Store, 3315 W Court St., shortly after 5:30 a.m. after the owner responded to a burglary alarm. Police found Shelton inside and wearing store merchandise, a report said. Shelton apparently parked his bicycle inside the business, made...