RICHLAND – A woman apparently dissatisfied with her haircut robbed a salon at gunpoint, shot at her stylist’s car, then used part of the money to pay for a trim at another shop, police said.
Julie A. Anderson, 48, was booked into the Benton County Jail for investigation of first-degree robbery and second-degree malicious mischief.
Employees told police the woman showed up Wednesday morning at Stage 1, a salon she had patronized for years, and asked to speak with her regular stylist, who was not in, police Capt. Mike Cobb said.
The woman waited in the parking lot and pulled a gun on the stylist when she arrived. She then walked back into the salon and demanded $100.
Employees gave her the money, then locked the door after she left and called police.
The woman got into her car and started to drive away but stopped, got out and fired at least one round into the back window of the stylist’s car, threw the gun through the shattered glass and fled, Cobb said.
She was arrested about 45 minutes later as she left another hair salon nearby. She told stylists there she had received a bad hair cut some time ago.
Associated Press
Seattle: School officials propose closing schools
Ten schools would be closed, an alternative program would be eliminated and two middle schools would be added in a cost-cutting plan proposed by the city’s school administrators. More than 3,500 students would be displaced by the moves announced Wednesday, which feature increased emphasis on busing in favor of tying school enrollment closer to neighborhoods in the 46,000-student school system. For middle and high school students who attend classes outside their neighborhoods, school bus service would be eliminated and the students would instead be given transit bus passes.
Associated Press
Prosser: Pastor and son die in car wreck
Members of Friendship Baptist Church were in mourning after their pastor and his son died and the pastor’s wife and four other children were injured in a traffic accident in Arkansas. Church members and Arkansas State Police said the Rev. Jeff Jupp, 46, and his son David, 10, died after being thrown from the family’s van and travel trailer when the rig veered off Interstate 40 Tuesday and flipped into a ditch in Franklin County, Ark. Jupp’s wife, Beth, 44, the driver, and three other children were released after being treated for minor injuries. Another son, 12-year-old Robert Jupp, remained in the hosptial.
Associated Press
Bellevue: Teen arrested in car insurance scam
Bellevue police Tuesday arrested a 17-year-old Sammamish resident they suspect of trying to work an insurance scam aimed at junking his 2002 BMW M3 so he could upgrade to a new Bentley. Police spokesman Michael Chiu said the teenager reported his BMW stolen sometime Monday evening while working at his job at a restaurant in downtown Bellevue. But early Tuesday morning, police in Snoqualmie found the car at an unspecified location and arrested four young men, both adults and juveniles, who were in the process of stripping the car. Chiu said that after being arrested they implicated the Sammamish resident, who they said wanted his BMW stolen and stripped so he could collect insurance money and buy a Bentley. A 2005 BMW M3 sells for a suggested price of about $47,000, according to an online search of new car prices. A 2005 Bentley Continental GT coupe runs about $159,000.
King County Journal
Bellingham: Students protest WASLs
About 25 Kulshan Middle School students demonstrated Wednesday morning, before heading into school to take the Washington Assessment of Student Learning exams being given across the state this week. The protesters gathered on the sidewalk of Lakeway Drive, about two blocks from Kulshan. They chose the location because the previous morning their protest along the driveway between the school and Kenoyer Street was stopped by the principal. One of the organizers, seventh-grader Marcus Moran, said WASL tests are a waste of time and money. “We spend the whole year taking WASL practice tests,” Marcus said. “The community should be concerned, whether they have kids in public schools or not. They’re funding it.”
Bellingham Herald
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