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  • Pasco police release May 17 shooting video

    Bill Stevenson|Updated Aug 4, 2020

    PASCO — Pasco police released a video with body camera footage of a police shooting on May 17 that left one suspect dead and another injured. The suspects were believed to have been involved with a homicide in Pasco last April. The investigation led police to a house on North 12th Avenue where the suspects exited into an ally and allegedly fired pistols at officers. The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) continues investigating the shooting. Chief Ken Roske and our Public I...

  • Train hauling corn derails

    Franklin Connection|Updated Aug 3, 2020

    RICHLAND -- Eight train cars derailed July 31 just west of the Columbia Park Trail-state Highway 240 interchange. As of this morning, Monday, Aug. 1, they had yet to be removed. They train was carrying corn and does not pose any contamination risk, officials said. Nobody was injured in the derailment. Records show the BNSF cars derailed about 4 p.m. Friday near the interchange east of the Yakima River. The derailment is under investigation....