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In case you missed them, here are some of the top stories from the week:
The Clark County Sheriff’s Office Major Crimes Unit has completed its investigation into the Moulton Falls bridge incidentand is forwarding the case to the prosecutor’s office for consideration of charges.
The sheriff’s office said the suspect, identified as 18-year-old Taylor Smith, is cooperating with investigators, according to a sheriff’s office press release.
Smith is suspected of pushing Jordan Holgerson, 16, of Kalama off the bridge at Moulton Falls Regional Park on Aug. 7 after Holgerson planned to voluntarily jump off but hesitated.
The Clark-Vancouver Regional Drug Task Force confiscated nearly 37 pounds of methamphetamine, two firearms and $35,500 in cash from a vehicle driven by a Vancouver resident.
According to the Clark County Sheriff’s Office, the task force worked alongside Clackamas, County, Ore., law enforcement last week to arrest the driver, identified as Adan Mendez-Pulido, 39.
The Washington State Department of Transportation is moving forward with a plan to remove the traffic signals from Highway 500, replacing the intersections on Northeast 42nd Avenue/Falk Road and Northeast 54th Avenue/Stapleton Road with right in/right out interchanges.
WSDOT broached the topic earlier this month, but formally announced the plan on Monday, said Regional Planning Director Carley Francis.
Hundreds of Evergreen Public Schools union members and their supporters turned the district office’s parking lot into a sea of red Tuesday evening as they demonstrated in favor of increasing teachers’ wages.
Those in the crowd at the school board meeting protested what they called an “insulting” offer by the school district, and described feeling “disrespected” by and “disgusted” with district leadership.
An Arizona man says he can positively identify one of the original suspects in the 1971 NORJACK hijacking, a 92-year-old man living in California, as the real D.B. Cooper, and even has evidence to place him on the plane.
“The real D.B. Cooper has basically been on the FBI’s radar since the very beginning,” said Phoenix’s Eric Ulis, who works in events planning and studies Cooper lore as a hobby.
