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Former Camas tax preparer gets prison for filing false returns

July 6, 2018, 4:29pm Clark County News

Federal prosecutors say a former Camas tax preparer was sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to a month in prison for filing false tax documents. Read story

Woman gets 16 months in Yacolt fires

July 6, 2018, 4:26pm Clark County News

A 47-year-old woman pleaded guilty and was sentenced Friday to nearly 16 months in prison for starting fires in a metal shop and home west of Yacolt. Read story

Cory M. Escott, 60, appeared before Clark County Superior Court Judge Bernard Veljacic and pleaded guilty to two charges: third-degree theft and first-degree criminal trespass.

Vancouver real estate agent gets one month for theft

Cory M. Escott, 60, appeared before Clark County Superior Court Judge Bernard Veljacic and pleaded guilty to two charges: third-degree theft and first-degree criminal trespass.

July 6, 2018, 10:19am Clark County News

A Vancouver real estate agent who was caught on camera stealing oxycodone tablets from a home that he was supposed to be showing to an interested client was sentenced Thursday to a month on a work crew. Read story

Clark Public Utilities linemen Cliff Campbell, left, and Kurt Simonson work in the switch yard at the River Road Generating Plant in Vancouver. Clark is unique among public utilities in that only 60 percent of its energy comes from the federal hydroelectric system. Many other utilities get all or most of their power from federal dams and are thus more sensitive to rate changes by the Bonneville Power Administration.

Downed tree causes large outage in Image area

Clark Public Utilities linemen Cliff Campbell, left, and Kurt Simonson work in the switch yard at the River Road Generating Plant in Vancouver. Clark is unique among public utilities in that only 60 percent of its energy comes from the federal hydroelectric system. Many other utilities get all or most of their power from federal dams and are thus more sensitive to rate changes by the Bonneville Power Administration.

July 6, 2018, 9:40am Clark County News

A downed wire caused a significant power outage overnight Friday in the area around the substation near SEH America west of Interstate 205 in Vancouver. Read story

Michael J. Brotherton, a teacher placed on leave from Laurin Middle School after being charged with assaulting his wife, appears Thursday in Clark County Superior Court, following allegations that he stalked the woman in Seattle.

Suspect’s bail raised in domestic stalking case

Michael J. Brotherton, a teacher placed on leave from Laurin Middle School after being charged with assaulting his wife, appears Thursday in Clark County Superior Court, following allegations that he stalked the woman in Seattle.

July 5, 2018, 6:47pm Clark County News

A Clark County Superior Court judge raised bail in the case against a Battle Ground middle school teacher accused of assaulting his wife, after he was allegedly caught stalking the woman and one of their children in Seattle. Read story

Andrew Javier Juarez-Hunt, 19, was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of first-degree rendering criminal assistance. Court records show an arrest warrant was issued for Juarez-Hunt in mid-June.

Police: Son, 19, of suspect in Camas slaying lied to investigators

Andrew Javier Juarez-Hunt, 19, was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of first-degree rendering criminal assistance. Court records show an arrest warrant was issued for Juarez-Hunt in mid-June.

July 5, 2018, 5:27pm Clark County News

The teenage son of a man wanted in the death of a Camas woman appeared in Clark County Superior Court on Thursday morning to face allegations that he lied to police about helping his father after the slaying. Read story

Police are seeking Justin Schell is connection with the fatal shooting in June.

Investigators locate man sought in connection to June 9 shooting death on Highway 503

Police are seeking Justin Schell is connection with the fatal shooting in June.

July 2, 2018, 1:38pm Clark County News

The Washington State Patrol, with help from the U.S. Marshals Service, brought into custody Monday a man sought in connection to a fatal shooting on June 9 in Brush Prairie that investigators now say was a drug deal gone bad. Read story

Deputy: Drugs, alcohol not factors in La Center crash

July 2, 2018, 11:59am Clark County News

A Clark County Sheriff's Office collision investigator said Monday a 58-year-old Vancouver resident who was sitting in the back seat of an older model Honda Accord when it crashed north of La Center on Saturday night was identified. Read story

Workers from NW Natural respond after an excavator damaged a natural gas line on Northeast 78th Street in Hazel Dell causing a road closure Monday morning, July 2, 2018. No injuries were reported in the incident and traffic was routed around the scene.

Gas leak closes 78th Street in Hazel Dell

Workers from NW Natural respond after an excavator damaged a natural gas line on Northeast 78th Street in Hazel Dell causing a road closure Monday morning, July 2, 2018. No injuries were reported in the incident and traffic was routed around the scene.

July 2, 2018, 11:50am Clark County News

A natural gas leak prompted a roughly four-hour road closure on a section of Northeast 78th Street in Hazel Dell on Monday morning. Read story

Raul Flores makes a first appearance Friday morning, June 29, 2018, in Clark County Superior Court in Vancouver.

Suspect, 44, in court in fatal shooting on Highway 503

Raul Flores makes a first appearance Friday morning, June 29, 2018, in Clark County Superior Court in Vancouver.

June 29, 2018, 9:58am Clark County News

Raul Flores, 44, appeared in Clark County Superior Court on Friday morning after being arrested on suspicion of first-degree murder for his alleged involvement in a June 9 shooting on state Highway 503. Read story