LAKE STEVENS – A motorcycle driver was injured Tuesday night following a chase, Washington State Patrol troopers said.
The man was taken by helicopter to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. His condition was not known late Tuesday.
The chase ended on N. Lake Shore Drive about 8:30 p.m. No other details were available.
Edmonds
Accident victim identified: A man who died after his truck slammed into a utility pole Friday has been identified as Mark H. Kraft, 22, of Everett.
Kraft struck the pole after losing control of his pickup in the 22900 block of Highway 99, Edmonds police said.
The wooden pole broke and fell on top of Kraft’s GMC pickup, crushing the cab. He died at the scene from head injuries, according to the Snohomish County Medical Examiner’s Office.
Stanwood
Phone line vandalized again: A phone line was damaged Tuesday morning in the same area of Stanwood where phone lines were cut last month.
The outage occurred at 2:30 a.m. Tuesday and affected several businesses in the area, Qwest spokesman Michael Dunne said. Service was restored by 10 a.m. Residences and 911 service weren’t affected, he said.
The company does not know what caused the damage, Dunne said.
On Sept. 4, someone cut a fiber optic cable in Stanwood, causing more than 60,000 customers to lose phone service in Whatcom County for about five hours.
Dunn said the company has since increased security at the site and added video surveillance cameras.
Crop insurance deadline: Washington farmers who produce winter wheat, canola, alfalfa seed and mint have until Sept. 30 to sign up for federally subsidized crop insurance.
Washington farmers were paid more than $23 million in crop insurance indemnities for last year’s crop losses.
Wheat, canola, mint and alfalfa seed can all be insured with the traditional Multiple Peril Crop Insurance. Not all crops, or all types of policies, are available in every county. To learn more and to sign up for crop insurance, or to make any changes to existing policies, producers must contact a private crop insurance agent before the Sept. 30 deadline.
From Herald staff reports
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