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Longtime Vancouver attorney MarCine Miller Miles has resigned from the Washington State Bar Association after the association recommended that she be disbarred for allegedly taking advantage of an elderly, incapacitated client.
The association found that Miles, 74, altered the woman’s will and bequeathed $10,000 to herself. Miles denied wrongdoing.
Miles — who had practiced law in Washington since May 1979 — filed the resignation in lieu of discipline on April 12, according to official records. The resignation is permanent, and she must notify all other states in which she practices law of her changed status. The resignation could be treated as a disbarment by other jurisdictions, according to her resignation form.
Vancouver Public Schools on Tuesday announced administrative changes at schools and district offices for the 2017-2018 school year.
At Chinook Elementary School, Principal Joe Lapidus will retire at the end of this school year. Patrick Conners, the principal at Washington Elementary School, will take over as principal at Chinook in August.
At Washington Elementary School, Kirsten Copeland will take Conners’ place as principal. Copeland is the current associate principal at Hazel Dell and Minnehaha elementary schools.
took Ole Warndahl about three months to feel comfortable in his ninth-grade language arts class.
For Michael Dunn, it took roughly the entire first semester.
What threw the two of them off wasn’t transitioning to high school or the complexities of “The Odyssey.” What made them uncomfortable was that their teacher, Jason Cowley, decided to go gradeless this year.
“It felt weird,” Warndahl, 14, said. “I’ve never done it before. It’s something new. After Mr. Cowley explained it for three months, I got it.”
The state Attorney General’s Office will not pursue criminal charges against former Clark County Detective Kevin Harper, the state agency wrote in a letter Tuesday.
Harper, a longtime major crimes detective for the sheriff’s office, became the subject of an investigation in September when authorities learned that he had been having an affair with Tracy Wasserman, a known heroin user.
Harper was placed on leave and detectives with the Washington State Patrol investigated the criminality of the affair. He resigned amid the investigation on Feb. 20.
A U.S. District Court judge has blocked, for now, the release of an upcoming EP of previously unheard music from Prince, which was to be released by a Vancouver-based record label, after the late pop superstar’s estate and studio sued the producer who mixed the tracks.
George Ian Boxill, a collaborator and sound engineer who worked with Prince, announced Tuesday he intended to release several songs the two worked on together.
He had been refining the music since Prince’s death, and the EP was to be released through Vancouver-based RMA, or Rogue Music Alliance.
