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Former Battle Ground High School teacher Kevin Weeks was sentenced Wednesday to 18 months in an Oregon prison for first-degree online sexual corruption of a child.

Former Battle Ground teacher sentenced on child sexual corruption charges in Oregon

Former Battle Ground High School teacher Kevin Weeks was sentenced Wednesday to 18 months in an Oregon prison for first-degree online sexual corruption of a child.

October 17, 2024, 1:36pm Clark County News

A former Battle Ground High School teacher was sentenced Wednesday to 18 months in prison for trying to meet with a person he believed to be a 14-year-old girl for a sexual encounter in Albany, Ore. Read story

FILE - American flags, left, hang from the New York Stock Exchange on Oct. 16, 2024, in New York.

Stock market today: Wall Street ends mixed even as the Dow ekes out another record

FILE - American flags, left, hang from the New York Stock Exchange on Oct. 16, 2024, in New York.

October 17, 2024, 1:21pm Business

U.S. stocks ended on a mixed note following the latest signals that the U.S. economy continues to hum. Read story

FILE - Mount Rainier is pictured Sept. 21, 2023, at Mount Rainier National Park, from Sunrise, Wash.

Navy Growler wreckage found near Mount Rainier; 2 crew members missing

FILE - Mount Rainier is pictured Sept. 21, 2023, at Mount Rainier National Park, from Sunrise, Wash.

October 17, 2024, 1:20pm Latest News

Authorities located the wreckage of a crashed U.S. Navy EA-18G Growler on Wednesday afternoon near Mount Rainier, but two aviators remained missing, according to Whidbey Island Naval Air Station. Read story

FILE - President Donald Trump brings Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., on stage during a campaign rally in Lexington, Ky., Nov. 4, 2019.

McConnell called Trump ‘stupid” and ‘despicable’ in private after the 2020 election, a new book says

FILE - President Donald Trump brings Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., on stage during a campaign rally in Lexington, Ky., Nov. 4, 2019.

October 17, 2024, 1:18pm Latest News

Mitch McConnell said after the 2020 election that then-President Donald Trump was “stupid as well as being ill-tempered,” a “despicable human being” and a “narcissist,” according to excerpts from a new biography of the Senate Republican leader that will be released this month. Read story

(The Columbian files)

70% of Washington public school students now have access to free meals

(The Columbian files)

October 17, 2024, 11:34am Latest News

Nearly 800,000 kids are eating free meals in school after the Legislature expanded access — but the state will need to come up with more money if it wants to continue the program. Read story

FILE - Yahya Sinwar, head of Hamas in Gaza, chairs a meeting with leaders of Palestinian factions at his office in Gaza City, on April 13, 2022.

Israel confirms that Hamas’ top leader Yahya Sinwar was killed in Gaza

FILE - Yahya Sinwar, head of Hamas in Gaza, chairs a meeting with leaders of Palestinian factions at his office in Gaza City, on April 13, 2022.

October 17, 2024, 10:19am Latest News

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli forces in Gaza killed Hamas’ top leader Yahya Sinwar, a chief architect of last year's attack on Israel that sparked the war, the military said Thursday. Troops appeared to have run across him in a battle, only to discover afterwards that a body… Read story

Former Republican U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert, left, and Democratic Attorney General Bob Ferguson are running for Washington governor in 2024.

Latest poll shows one Washington governor’s race candidate handily in lead

Former Republican U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert, left, and Democratic Attorney General Bob Ferguson are running for Washington governor in 2024.

October 17, 2024, 8:23am Election

Democrat Bob Ferguson holds a commanding lead over Republican Dave Reichert in the race for Washington governor, according to a new statewide poll. Read story

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks about student loan debt, April 8, 2024, in Madison, Wis.

The Biden administration has now canceled loans for more than 1 million public workers

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks about student loan debt, April 8, 2024, in Madison, Wis.

October 17, 2024, 8:18am Business

A student loan cancellation program for public workers has granted relief to more than 1 million Americans — up from just 7,000 who were approved before it was updated by the Biden administration two years ago. Read story

Clark County Public Health warns against rising cases of whooping cough as kids return to school.

How bad is WA’s whooping cough outbreak? Clark County has the most cases at 318

Clark County Public Health warns against rising cases of whooping cough as kids return to school.

October 17, 2024, 7:38am Clark County Health

The U.S. is seeing a spike in cases of pertussis, better known as whooping cough, this year, as case numbers rebound from their lowest levels in decades during the pandemic. In Washington, cases haven’t just returned to their pre-pandemic levels, they’ve exceeded them. Read story

Skyview head football coach Steve Kizer, center, laughs on Sept. 13, 2024, after Skyview&Ccedil;&fnof;&Ugrave;s win against Graham-Kapowsin at Kiggins Bowl.

Steve Kizer reflects on his long career of coaching Skyview football

Skyview head football coach Steve Kizer, center, laughs on Sept. 13, 2024, after Skyview&Ccedil;&fnof;&Ugrave;s win against Graham-Kapowsin at Kiggins Bowl.

October 17, 2024, 7:06am Latest News

In 1981, a young Steve Kizer got his start coaching football by overseeing defensive backs at Western Washington University for $1,000. Read story