TACOMA — A woman fired a shot and scared off an intruder in her home in Tacoma.
Police say the woman heard a noise at her back door about 12:30 a.m. Monday, armed herself and went to investigate. She found a man standing in her kitchen wearing a dark sweat shirt with the hood over his head.
She yelled and fired the shot. The intruder fled. No one was hurt.
The bullet hit her dishwasher.
Spokane: Transit Authority eyes trolleys
The Spokane Transit Authority is using $360,000 in federal and state grant money for a study of a possible trolley or streetcar system in downtown Spokane.
Chief Executive Susan Meyer told The Spokesman-Review the city could win federal transit grants for the system.
The transit authority is talking with city officials about options for the consultant’s study.
Meyer said there’s a need for better transit connections in the downtown area, including Gonzaga University, hospitals, government buildings, the convention center and inner-city neighborhoods.
Mead man held on bond in wife’s stabbing death
Newly filed court documents say a Mead man accused of killing his wife told their 11-year-old son he was stabbing the woman because she wanted a divorce.
Held on $2.5 million bail is 46-year-old Jeffrey Canino. He made a District Court appearance via video Monday. He was released from a hospital Saturday after treatment for what authorities say were self-inflicted knife wounds. He’s been booked into Spokane County Jail for investigation of first-degree murder in the death of 43-year-old Michelle Canino.
According to court records, the woman was stabbed three times in the neck with a kitchen knife on Dec. 2 and her husband then told their son “it’s my turn” and began stabbing himself.
Spokane County sheriff’s detectives say the boy suffered knife wounds on his hands when he tried to intervene.
Eltopia: Man, 75, dies in accidental torch fire on farm
A man was killed in an accident on a farm near Eltopia.
The Franklin County Sheriff’s Office said 75-year-old Everett D. Monk was cutting scrap metal in a field with a torch Saturday when his clothes caught fire. The Tri-City Herald reports he apparently died of burns. A friend found the body.
Montana: Two Clark County firefighters die in crash on brige
Two firefighters from Ridgefield in Washington’s Clark County were killed when a pickup truck pulling a trailer jackknifed and fell off a bridge near Butte.
The Montana Highway Patrol also said a 14-year-old boy was critically injured in the Saturday morning crash.
Trooper Tammy Perkins said weather was a contributing factor when the truck hit the guardrail. She said the trailer pushed the truck off the bridge.
Officials said the driver, Douglas Ray Jacobsen, 49, and his brother-in-law, Richard Daniel Streissguth, 45, were on their way from Clark County to Bozeman to pick up an antique fire engine.
Oregon: Soldier who grew up in Ore. dies in Afghanistan
The family of a soldier who grew up in the Portland area says Army Spc. Elijah Rao has been killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan.
His mother, Sharon Hauerken of Vancouver, Wash., told The Oregonian her son was killed Saturday. She says he served two tours in Iraq, then deployed to Afghanistan in June.
Rao is a former Lake Oswego resident and a 2001 graduate of West Linn High School.
The 26-year-old leaves a wife and 21-month-old daughter who live in Lawton, Okla., where he had been based at nearby Fort Sill.
Burial is planned at Willamette National Cemetery.
Six more female prisoners file sex abuse lawsuits
Six more current or former inmates at Oregon’s prison for women have sued the state claiming they were sexually abused and harassed by male prison employees.
That makes a total of 11 such suits alleging sexual abuse at the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in Wilsonville. It houses about 1,100 inmates.
The Salem Statesman Journal reported that among the allegations in the latest lawsuits is that a corrections officer forced inmates to perform sex acts, and that he demanded sex in exchange for letting women out of their cells or letting them off the hook for violating rules. The paper said the officer resigned in September.
State’s logging law in jeopardy, Department of Forestry says
The state Department of Forestry says Oregon’s landmark laws protecting water and wildlife habitat on private forests may have to become voluntary guidelines if its enforcement staff is cut further.
The dean of Oregon State’s College of Forestry says that would be as radical a change as it was in 1971 when the state adopted the Forest Practices Act.
Many states modeled their forest laws after Oregon’s.
The Legislature has asked agencies what they’d do if their budgets are cut next year after a vote on taxes on corporations and high-income Oregonians.
The Forestry Department says it would have to fire more than half the foresters now enforcing the law and ask that the rules be made voluntary.
Council assesses Portland Harbor restoration
Just cleaning up the pollutants that turned Portland Harbor into a federal Superfund site won’t finish the job.
A group of state and federal agencies and Indian tribes on Monday issued its road map for figuring out what else needs to be done to the industrialized mouth of the Willamette River to restore fish and wildlife.
The Portland Harbor Natural Resource Trustee Council is taking public comment on the 110-page assessment plan until Jan. 10.
Besides figuring out how natural resources have been damaged by the pollution, the council will be getting compensation from the polluters, and restoring fish and wildlife.
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