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In case you missed it, here are some of the top stories of the week:
The death of the man whose body was found in a field north of Vancouver last summer was a torturous retribution killing, according to one of the investigators in the case.
Investigators believe that Robert Lee Huggins, 56, was kidnapped in Portland but was brutally beaten and tortured in Woodland, Portland Police Bureau Detective Jim Lawrence said.
For sale: hardware store, locally owned.
“I’m trying to pull a needle out of the wood stack — a local buyer is going to be best suited for this,” said Jeff Strong, who is looking for a new owner for Amboy’s North County Hardware.
Strong has owned the store since 1999, but due to health challenges and other demands he needs to pass the business to a worthy heir.
A determined Tessa DeLay, 8, was walking around Esther Short Park with her mother Tuesday afternoon, and not even the familiar jingley sounds from an ice cream truck could break her from her goal.
“Mommy, I wanna find an Oddish,” Tessa said, using her mother’s phone to scour every direction possible while looking for the plump, blue Pokemon with tall, green leaves for hair.
Tessa and her mother, Katie Cutright, 32, of Vancouver were spending the day hunting for Pokemon on “Pokemon Go,” the mobile game that has become a cultural phenomenon since it was released in America on July 6.
Stephanie Lynn threw a mismatched disco skirt over her padded bike shorts when she rode to photograph a client’s house for a listing. It was 2009. The Vancouver woman was working as a real estate agent, and she wanted to squeeze a little fun and exercise into her day without looking completely unprofessional on the job.
She discovered that the skirt somehow compensated for hair squished by her bike helmet and a jersey soaked with sweat. She decided she could make an even better skirt than the one she grabbed from her closet. She traced her design, cut a pattern from newspaper and hired a local seamstress. After some trial and error, she created her first Sweet Spot Skirt: a short reversible skirt with rows of snaps so it can adjust to fit women as they gain or lose weight.
A Vancouver driver who struck and killed a pedestrian on Interstate 5 late Wednesday night was also behind the wheel in a crash in 2014 that killed a pedestrian.
Marion Thomas, 49, was driving a 2014 Jeep Wrangler north on I-5 at about 11:30 p.m. when he struck a man who was jogging in the right lane of the highway, according to the Washington State Patrol.
When troopers arrived on scene, just south of Mill Plain Boulevard, they found a dead man in the roadway and Thomas outside of his vehicle, Trooper Will Finn said.
