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Alexandro Bolon Manrero, 19, appears Friday, Dec. 3, 2021, in Clark County Superior Court on suspicion of second-degree murder. Bolton Manrero was arrested Thursday in connection with the Nov. 19 shooting death of Josue Isac Lopez Padilla.

Vancouver man sentenced to 3 years in prison for fatal shooting

November 7, 2023, 5:13pm Clark County News

A Vancouver man was sentenced Tuesday to nearly three years in prison for the November 2021 fatal shooting of a 20-year-old man in east Vancouver. Read story

Mickleen Daniel, 20, of Portland, appears Tuesday in Clark County Superior Court on suspicion of two counts of vehicular homicide. She is accused of drunken driving when she crashed an SUV Sunday morning on state Highway 500, killing her two passengers.

Portland woman faces vehicular homicide charges in Highway 500 crash that killed two passengers

November 7, 2023, 4:24pm Clark County News

A judge Tuesday set a Portland woman’s bail at $75,000 in connection with an alleged drunken-driving crash early Sunday morning on state Highway 500 that killed her two passengers. Read story

Kirkland C. Warren, 28, appears Oct. 20 in Clark County Superior Court on suspicion of domestic violence charges involving his former girlfriend. He is accused of killing the Vancouver mother and her 7-year-old daughter in March. He pleaded not guilty Tuesday to a new charge of first-degree rape of a child involving the woman’s daughter.

Kirkland Warren, already facing murder charges, pleads not guilty to rape of a child

November 7, 2023, 10:36am Clark County News

The man accused of killing Vancouver mother and daughter, Meshay Melendez and Layla Stewart, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to a charge of first-degree rape of a child involving the 7-year-old. Read story

Police respond to shooting at Vancouver Clinic administration office parking lot in east Vancouver

November 7, 2023, 8:31am Clark County News Free

Police are investigating after a man was shot Tuesday morning in the parking lot of the Vancouver Clinic offices in east Vancouver’s Parkside neighborhood. Read story

Cowlitz County man gets 25 years in Vancouver resident’s death

November 6, 2023, 5:14pm Clark County News

A Cowlitz County man was sentenced Wednesday to 25 years in prison for the February 2022 shooting of a Vancouver man in Portland’s Lloyd District neighborhood. Read story

Two Portland residents killed in Highway 500 crash; speed, impairment likely the cause, says WSP

November 6, 2023, 7:57am Clark County News

Speed and drugs or alcohol were the cause of a crash on state Highway 500 that killed two people early Sunday morning, according to the Washington State Patrol. Read story

2 former Vancouver men each get 11 years for drug trafficking while in federal custody

November 3, 2023, 4:05pm Clark County News

Two former Vancouver men were each sentenced Friday to 11 years in federal prison for organizing the trafficking of large quantities of methamphetamine while they were in federal custody in Oklahoma. Read story

U.S. Magistrate Judge Youlee Yim You, left, talks to a group of students Thursday during the Color of Justice program at the Clark County Courthouse. The program, which started this year, invited middle school students to listen to a diverse panel of attorneys and judges speak about their legal careers.

Vancouver students see Color of Justice during event with trailblazing lawyers, judges

November 2, 2023, 7:03pm Clark County News Subscriber Exclusive

Panelists at Clark County’s first Color of Justice event told a gallery of middle school students Thursday about being a series of firsts: the county’s first Black Superior Court judge, the first Asian American on the federal bench in Oregon and the first enrolled member of a Native American tribe… Read story

Vancouver man accused of stealing from dead man’s Woodland home

November 2, 2023, 1:25pm Clark County News

A Vancouver man is facing multiple charges for allegedly breaking into a dead man's Woodland home and threatening to ram witnesses with a Hummer. Read story

Vancouver police are asking for the public’s help identifying a man and woman involved in a physical disturbance Sunday afternoon in the Ellsworth Springs neighborhood of Vancouver. Anyone with information about the incident or who can help identify the people involved or the vehicle are asked to call 911.

Vancouver police ask for public’s help finding man and woman involved in fight

October 30, 2023, 7:40am Clark County News Free

Vancouver police are asking for the public’s help identifying a man and woman involved in a physical disturbance Sunday afternoon in the Ellsworth Springs neighborhood of Vancouver. Read story