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Democrat Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez has won a second term in the U.S. House of Representatives in the closely watched 3rd Congressional District race.
Her lead over Republican challenger Joe Kent continues to grow fractionally with each new batch of election results released.
The owners of two Clark County automotive businesses were sentenced Monday to home confinement for violations of the federal Clean Air Act for tampering with emission monitoring systems in more than 350 diesel trucks.
Tracy Coiteux, 46, and Sean Coiteux, 50, of La Center, co-owners of Racing Performance Maintenance Northwest, were both sentenced to four months of home confinement, four years of probation and 60 hours of community service, and each must pay a $10,000 fine, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. The two also co-owned a sales company, RPM Motors and Sales NW.
The suspect in a Halloween shooting at Vancouver Mall followed the victim for a short time before shooting him in the back of the head at point-blank range, according to court records.
Court records do not indicate a motive for the shooting or whether the suspect and victim knew each other. But court records state Travis L. Ward, 32, donned a “Joker”-type mask shortly after entering the mall, which was hosting a trick-or-treat event.
Members of the grassroots group Save Vancouver Streets said they delivered a petition with 6,517 signatures to Vancouver City Hall on Monday seeking a ballot initiative that would require voter approval to remove traffic lanes.
If the signatures are certified, the initiative will appear on the November 2025 ballot.
It was just after midnight when the support boat’s rack of lights cut out, leaving Gary Kristensen in near-darkness as he paddled down the Columbia River in a roughly thousand-pound hollowed-out pumpkin.
“We had jerry-rigged lights on the pontoon boat, some Harbor Freight lights that we had bought, and we had wires running across the seats and the wires caught on fire,” He said. “We didn’t have those lights after that point.”
