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Here are some of the stories that grabbed our readers’ attention this week.
Three of four people allegedly involved in the robbery and killing of a man and kidnapping of his girlfriend over a debt were arraigned Thursday in Clark County Superior Court.
Neil Allen Alway, 39, Ashley Lorraine Barry, 31, and Ashley L. Wideman, 23, all transients, entered not-guilty pleas to the filed charges. A fourth co-defendant, John Michael West, 43, also a transient, was not in court because his attorney was unavailable.
The two couples are accused in the fatal shooting of 34-year-old Raymond C. Brandon, whose body was discovered April 27 — about a week after he had gone missing — in a Hockinson shed.
LA CENTER — Even before La Center Police Officer Andrew Marvitz stood next to the woman stumbling down Northwest Spencer Road, he could smell the alcohol on her as he walked in her direction.
As he spoke to her, it was clear she had been drinking. Maybe taking something else, too, he said. Her words weren’t coherent, she had a glazed look in her eye, and at one point, she reached out and tried to fix his hair. During their talk, she pulled a crumpled-up beer can out of her purse.
Marvitz continued to talk to her on the side of the winding, two-lane road with no sidewalks, partly trying to assess if she needed medical assistance or if he should bring her in. He was also doing something else: stalling while waiting for backup. It’s something Marvitz, and the rest of the La Center Police Department, are used to.
“Sometimes we can’t do anything until our cover arrives, and our cover is 10 minutes away,” he said. “It makes it hard.”
LA CENTER — School districts and mental health experts are warning parents to be vigilant about the risks of their children watching the popular new Netflix series “13 Reasons Why.”
The series follows the aftermath of the suicide of 17-year-old Hannah Baker. The high school girl leaves behind a series of tapes, each one recounting a painful encounter with one of 13 people, blaming them for her suicide — the 13 reasons from which the show and the 2007 Jay Asher novel on which the show is based takes its name. The show was recently renewed for a second season.
Two Oregon drivers were arrested after a reported road rage incident involved two vehicles “ramming” each other along Vancouver highways.
The incident began near Interstate 205 and state Highway 14 just after 9 a.m. Thursday when the Washington State Patrol fielded multiple 911 calls regarding a 1991 white Geo Metro and a black 1999 black Nissan Frontier pickup “ramming” each other, Trooper Will Finn said.
With the diligence and attention of a team of midwives, Clark Regional Wastewater District employees helped a sewage pump birth a 100-pound wad of adult flushable wipes, which the district named Reggie.
Reggie was brought to a landfill almost as soon as it was pulled to the surface in May 2014, but its spirit lives on as cartoon character named Reggie the Rag Ball that teaches schoolchildren not to flush wet wipes and other junk down the toilet.
The wet wipes that constituted Reggie, and so many other blockages like it, have been a popular alternative to toilet paper for Clark County residents in recent years. While they may leave their users feeling fresh and clean after every flush, they’re an expensive and time-consuming problem for the people who manage the sewers.
