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Serving Whitman County since 1877
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OLYMPIA — In a 2020 report published by the NFPA, clothes dryers caused four percent of home structure fires in 2014 through 2018. Last year in Washington State, there were a reported 352 fires caused by appliances which included clothes dryers. More home clothes dryer fires occur in the fall and winter months and peak in the month for January. The Washington State Fire Marshal’s Office reminds residents of clothes dryer fire safety by practicing the following steps, do not use the dryer without a lint filter, clean the lint filter before and...
MOSCOW — In a press release from Sunday, Nov. 20 the Moscow Police Department released new information in the investigation of four University of Idaho Students who were murdered, Sunday Nov. 13 in an apartment near the UofI campus. Reports say that on the morning of Nov. 13, the surviving roommates summoned friends to the residence, believing one of the second floor victims had passed out and was not waking up. Reports state that a 911 call was placed from the residence on a roommate’s cell phone at 11:58 a.m. for aid of an unconscious per...
COLFAX — During the weekend detectives of the Quad Cities Drug Task Force (QCDTF) observed suspects they believed to regularly trafficking fentanyl pills into the Lewiston/Clarkston area, a media release from Monday, Nov. 21 reports. Detectives with the Quad Cities Drug Task Force obtained information regarding Lewiston natives Kimberlee A. Perrigo, 39, and Joshua E. Hescock, 33 who were believed to be trafficking fentanyl pills into the Lewiston/Clarkston (LC) area regularly, keeping the narcotics in an undisclosed storage unit in C...
COLFAX — Colfax Downtown Association received $2,259,820 from The Washington State Department of Commerce Small Business Innovation Fund (SBIF) grants, which ranged from $500,000 to $5 million, coming out to a total of $32.5 million grants awarded to 22 different projects out of over 120 proposals. The SBIF funds awarded funded a variety of activities, which included small business incubators and accelerators, support for local procurement initiatives, improvements to physical workspaces in response to public health requirements or acts of v...
PULLMAN — The Washington State Patrol has been conducting emphasis patrols as of Thursday, Nov. 17, through Saturday Nov. 26 as WSU students head for Thanksgiving holiday break. The WSP will also be partnering with allied agencies across the state to reduce serious injury and fatality collisions “High Visibility Enforcement” (HiVE) patrols through the months of November and December. The first of four HiVE patrols is scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 19, reports say. The patrols will occur in areas across the state during the upcoming holiday seaso...
