Oregon Police Seek Suspect in Connection with Disappearance of FL Woman
2010-08/3056/37404/Tent.jpg A nationwide Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution arrest warrant for auto theft has been issued for 26-year old Joseph Dean Roberts. Roberts is also a person of interest in...
View ArticleTeen sues officer who held him at gunpoint near bus stop
JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — A Wyoming teenager is suing an off-duty officer from Colorado who pulled a gun on him as he ran to a bus stop in Jackson. The Jackson Hole News & Guide reports 18-year-old...
View ArticleWet spring delays California crops, snow elsewhere in West
LOS ANGELES (AP) — California growers are frustrated by an unusually wet spring that has delayed the planting of some crops like rice and damaged others including strawberries and wine grapes. The...
View ArticleGrizzly bears push into lowland areas as legal fight drags
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Grizzly bears are spreading into new areas of the U.S. Northern Rockies, expanding from remote wildernesses and into low-level farmland amid a legal fight over proposed hunting....
View Article137-year-old Winchester rifle found in Nevada has new home
BAKER, Nev. (AP) — A 137-year-old rifle found five years ago leaning against a juniper tree in Great Basin National Park in Nevada is now part of an exhibit dedicated to the “Forgotten Winchester” at...
View ArticleState Wades into Coal Terminal Controversy
LONGVIEW, Wash. - The State of Washington wants to weigh in on the environmental review process for a coal export terminal that has been proposed for Longview.Several conservation groups banded...
View ArticleGeorgia still has no hate crimes law despite many tries
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s prosecutors cannot charge anyone with a hate crime, even if they want to, because the state is one of only four without an official hate crimes law. Repeated attempts by the...
View ArticleConnecticut lawmakers move to ban ‘gay panic defense’
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Criminal defendants in Connecticut would be barred from claiming as their sole legal defense that they panicked after learning about their victim’s sexual orientation. The state...
View ArticleRepairs being made to tracks, roadway in Aberdeen after train derails early...
Crews delivered lights and generators this evening to the site of a train derailment in Aberdeen, Puget Sound and Pacific plans to have the line open again by tomorrow. The cars have been up righted,...
View Article$1.6B pipeline proposed to move North Dakota crude oil
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Two companies are proposing a $1.6 billion pipeline to move North Dakota crude oil, making it the biggest such project in the state since the Dakota Access pipeline that sparked...
View ArticleCommissioners Approve Coal Export Facility in Washington State
Kelso, WA — The Cowlitz County Commission put its rubber stamp on a plan today that allows an Australia-based company to establish a coal export terminal in Longview, WA.The commissioners, by a 3-0...
View ArticleState Wades into Coal Terminal Controversy
LONGVIEW, Wash. - The State of Washington wants to weigh in on the environmental review process for a coal export terminal that has been proposed for Longview.Several conservation groups banded...
View ArticleMaine moves toward presidential primaries with ranked voting
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine’s Legislature sent a proposal to the governor Wednesday to ditch the state’s presidential caucuses for a primary system that would be the nation’s first to allow voters to...
View ArticleCommissioners Approve Coal Export Facility in Washington State
Kelso, WA — The Cowlitz County Commission put its rubber stamp on a plan today that allows an Australia-based company to establish a coal export terminal in Longview, WA.The commissioners, by a 3-0...
View ArticleCoast Guard Auxiliary to be honored for 70 years service Tuesday
PORTLAND, Ore. – Coast Guard Sector Portland will honor the Coast Guard Auxiliary for 70 years of service Tuesday, June 23. The Auxiliary is a civil organization that Congress authorized to support all...
View ArticleWashington Target of “Dirty Little Secret” Tour
SEATTLE - Using electricity in Washington has impacts as far away as Montana and Wyoming. That's the message from a Wyoming rancher, LJ Turner, who is in the Northwest this week to tell people about...
View ArticleOregon Police Seek Suspect in Connection with Disappearance of FL Woman
2010-08/3056/37404/Tent.jpg A nationwide Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution arrest warrant for auto theft has been issued for 26-year old Joseph Dean Roberts. Roberts is also a person of interest in...
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