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In case you missed them, here are some of the top stories from the week:
A plot of land in the Fircrest neighborhood will soon be home to 111 single-family residences making up a housing development dubbed Four Seasons South.
Patrick Ginn of Ginn Development is purchasing the 9.47 acres of land from two owners just east of Interstate 205, including 4.79 acres from urban agriculture fixture Joe’s Place Farms and 4.68 acres from the Nuttman family.
Collectively, the land is assessed at $1.65 million.
Police in Washington and Colorado appear to be closing more cases since the legalization of marijuana in both states, according to an analysis of FBI crime clearance data by researchers at Washington State University.
To do the study, the researchers examined monthly FBI crime data from 2010 to 2015. They performed a statistical analysis looking at the trends in clearances for different crimes before and after marijuana was legalized. Similar data isn’t available at the local level.
RIDGEFIELD — Guests filed through the entrance at Vintage Gardens into the reception area Monday night.
They made sure to greet Akhil Jhaveri, 52, and his wife, Laura. He was in a tuxedo with a corsage. She was in a blue dress. The guests brought chips, guacamole, hummus, olives, cheese, salad and shrimp, and set them on a table. Akhil’s three daughters took photos near a barn behind the reception. Then the Rev. Craig Brown’s voice boomed over the microphone.
“Welcome,” Brown, the wedding’s officiator, said.
The Washington State Department of Transportation has a proposed solution to make two crash-prone intersections on state Highway 500 safer and more efficient for drivers — possibly within a few months — but once the work is over, some pedestrians will likely have to wait for years before they can walk across the highway again.
The agency is proposing turning the intersections of Highway 500 and Northeast 42nd Avenue/Falk Road and Northeast 54th Avenue/Stapleton Road into right in/right out interchanges. The traffic lights would be removed and the highway reconfigured. A median barrier would be built through the intersections, and the merge lanes would be reconfigured to give drivers more time to enter the highway and enforce the right-off turn.
A 15-year-old Vancouver girl was sentenced Tuesday to 15 to 36 weeks in a juvenile facility for her role in a Camas home-invasion robbery this spring.
Raelyn G. Domingo pleaded guilty in Clark County Juvenile Court to attempted accomplice to first-degree robbery stemming from the May 12 incident. Domingo is also accused of shooting a 56-year-old Beaverton, Ore., man whom she met on a “sugar daddy” dating site. She’s facing first-degree robbery and first-degree assault, both Measure 11 crimes in Oregon that carry mandatory minimum sentences of 7½ years in prison.
