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Law enforcement officers investigate a shooting at the Cascade Park Safeway store on Dec. 5. Vancouver police shot and killed a man the night before after he physically attacked a police officer, according to a statement from the agency.

Vancouver man, 45, identified in fatal police shooting

Law enforcement officers investigate a shooting at the Cascade Park Safeway store on Dec. 5. Vancouver police shot and killed a man the night before after he physically attacked a police officer, according to a statement from the agency.

December 10, 2024, 5:18pm Clark County News

Officials on Tuesday identified a 45-year-old Vancouver man as the person fatally shot Dec. 4 by a Vancouver police officer outside of an east Vancouver Safeway. Read story

State independent investigations office seeks tips in Vancouver police shooting

December 10, 2024, 2:26pm Clark County News

Anyone with information about the Dec. 4 fatal Vancouver police shooting outside an east Vancouver Safeway is asked to call a tip line established by the Office of Independent Investigations. Read story

Biotech company CytoDyn is developing a drug, leronlimab, from its headquarters in downtown Vancouver.

Former CytoDyn chief executive guilty in plot to defraud investors

Biotech company CytoDyn is developing a drug, leronlimab, from its headquarters in downtown Vancouver.

December 10, 2024, 1:55pm Business

A federal jury Monday convicted the former chief executive for local biotechnology company CytoDyn, along with the head of the company’s regulatory agent to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, for a scheme to defraud investors. Read story

Chief Troy Price, second from left, is sworn in as Vancouver’s next police chief Monday afternoon at Vancouver City Hall. Price has been with the Vancouver Police Department since 1997 and worked his way up the ranks from patrol officer.

‘There’s a lot of work to be done, but this is a great place to serve’: Vancouver Police Chief Troy Price sworn in

Chief Troy Price, second from left, is sworn in as Vancouver’s next police chief Monday afternoon at Vancouver City Hall. Price has been with the Vancouver Police Department since 1997 and worked his way up the ranks from patrol officer.

December 9, 2024, 5:24pm Clark County News

Twenty-seven years after he started as a Vancouver patrol officer, Troy Price took his oath of office as the city’s newest police chief Monday. Read story

Christie Deford of Vancouver waits for the light to change so that she can cross the intersection at Fourth Plain Boulevard and 117th Avenue, a journey she makes at least twice a day going to and from work. The area has been a hot spot for cars striking pedestrians and officials warn to practice good road safety.

Vancouver police remind drivers to keep close eye on road for pedestrians during dark winter months; record 15 traffic deaths investigated in 2024

Christie Deford of Vancouver waits for the light to change so that she can cross the intersection at Fourth Plain Boulevard and 117th Avenue, a journey she makes at least twice a day going to and from work. The area has been a hot spot for cars striking pedestrians and officials warn to practice good road safety.

December 9, 2024, 1:00pm Clark County News

Following a rash of recent fatal crashes involving pedestrians in Vancouver, officials are reminding people to pay close attention to the road in the dark winter months. Read story

Law enforcement officers respond to the scene of a shooting in Camas on Nov. 14.

‘There’s power in information’: Camas police chief holds forum after shooting suspect’s release on bond stokes fear

Law enforcement officers respond to the scene of a shooting in Camas on Nov. 14.

December 5, 2024, 6:10am Clark County News

When a Camas man was released from jail after posting bail, his former neighborhood was still reeling from the police standoff and gunfire that erupted there two weeks prior. Neighbors feared for their safety. Parents kept their kids home from nearby schools. And many sought answers from the police department. Read story

Guadalupe V. Munoz, 44, appears in May in Clark County Superior Court on suspicion of vehicular homicide, vehicular assault and driving under the influence. He struck a fire truck that had responded to a prior crash and then struck two pedestrians who had stopped to help, killing one and injuring the other. He was sentenced Tuesday to about 12 years in prison.

Woodland man who killed woman when he crashed into first responders, good Samaritans on I-5 gets 12½ years

Guadalupe V. Munoz, 44, appears in May in Clark County Superior Court on suspicion of vehicular homicide, vehicular assault and driving under the influence. He struck a fire truck that had responded to a prior crash and then struck two pedestrians who had stopped to help, killing one and injuring the other. He was sentenced Tuesday to about 12 years in prison.

December 3, 2024, 3:50pm Clark County News

A Woodland man was sentenced Tuesday to 12½ years in prison for a May drunken-driving crash that killed one person and injured another who had stopped to help another driver on Interstate 5. Read story

Luanne Conner speaks to court participants in American Sign Language following a hearing Nov. 21 at Clark County’s Family Law Annex. This year, the court has provided interpreters in more than 40 languages, with the most common being Spanish, Chuukese and Russian.

100 interpreters and 40 languages: Clark County courts program makes sure everyone understands the proceedings

Luanne Conner speaks to court participants in American Sign Language following a hearing Nov. 21 at Clark County’s Family Law Annex. This year, the court has provided interpreters in more than 40 languages, with the most common being Spanish, Chuukese and Russian.

December 2, 2024, 6:10am Clark County News

When a teenage girl sought a domestic violence protection order, she marked on the form she needed an American Sign Language interpreter. From then on, Luanne Conner appeared at each hearing to interpret the judge’s orders into ASL, ensuring the girl and the person she sought protection from understood. Read story

Dash camera footage from a Clark County Sheriff’s Office armored vehicle, left, and body-worn camera footage from Deputy Forrest Gonzalez show the Nov. 13 police shooting in Camas. Deputies can be heard saying Wetzel was pointing a gun at their armored SWAT vehicle moments before Gonzalez announces he’s going to shoot Wetzel.

Video: Camas man shot by deputy had threatened to die by police

Dash camera footage from a Clark County Sheriff’s Office armored vehicle, left, and body-worn camera footage from Deputy Forrest Gonzalez show the Nov. 13 police shooting in Camas. Deputies can be heard saying Wetzel was pointing a gun at their armored SWAT vehicle moments before Gonzalez announces he’s going to shoot Wetzel.

November 27, 2024, 5:31pm Clark County News

Law enforcement officers responding Nov. 13 to a house in Camas, where a Clark County deputy later shot a man, were notified of a safety bulletin that the man had previously threatened to die by police, according to a video summary released Wednesday by the sheriff’s office. Read story

The Vancouver Police Department Traffic Unit is investigating a Nov. 21 fatal collision involving a pedestrian near Fourth Plain in Vancouver.

Vancouver man ID’d as person struck and killed on Fourth Plain, says medical examiner

The Vancouver Police Department Traffic Unit is investigating a Nov. 21 fatal collision involving a pedestrian near Fourth Plain in Vancouver.

November 27, 2024, 1:30pm Clark County News

The Clark County Medical Examiner’s Office on Wednesday identified a 40-year-old Vancouver man as the pedestrian fatally struck by a car Nov. 21 in east Vancouver. Read story