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In case you missed them, here are some of the top stories of the weekend:
When 12-year-old Mazzeo Sanchez woke up early Friday morning to a door closing, he thought it was his mom leaving for work.
He went back to sleep, but then he heard pacing and hard breathing, which is something his father is known to do.
“I stood up, because if it was my dad I was going to go talk to him,” he said.
But Mazzeo quickly saw that the pacing man wasn’t his dad — he was a suspected auto thief that local law enforcement had been chasing that morning.
The man, whom police later identified as 25-year-old Justin A. Burton of Vancouver, had barged into the Springfield Meadows apartment where Mazzeo, his three younger siblings and his mom’s friend and roommate Roger Duffey were all sleeping.
The suspect in a triple homicide attempted to escape the Clark County Jail on Sunday night but was interrupted by a corrections deputy, Clark County Undersheriff Mike Cooke said.
A corrections deputy was doing a routine perimeter check of the jail just before 9 p.m. Sunday and discovered a broken exterior window of a cell, the sheriff’s office reported.
Deputies placed the jail on lockdown because of the possibility that weapons or contraband might have been introduced into the jail, the sheriff’s office said.
The investigation revealed that the broken window was linked to an escape attempt by Brent Luyster, Cooke said.
A rain-soaked hillside north of Woodland gave way Thursday afternoon, sending a mudslide across northbound Interstate 5 that blocked freeway traffic for five hours before road crews cleared two lanes at about 9 p.m.
The slurry of mud cascaded across the highway, sweeping up a pickup in the process. No injuries were reported.
Much has changed in the more than three years since Justin Carey lost his lower right leg after being struck by a suspected intoxicated driver. He can no longer ride his bike, run or swim at the river. He has a prosthetic leg, but it only allows him to walk.
“I can’t usually keep up with friends if they want to go do something,” Carey said.
The then-16-year-old had planned to join the United States Army, and he was a member of the ROTC and the air rifle team. That dream ended when his right leg had to be amputated at the knee.
Carey, now 19, found himself on the stand again Wednesday afternoon to testify during the vehicular assault retrial for Shaun C. Johnson. The Amboy woman is accused of driving under the influence of methamphetamine and striking the Battle Ground teenager with her car June 10, 2013, while he waited for a school bus.
The wage gap between men and women in Washington appears to be wider than the national average.
A new report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics says the state’s full-time workers who are women earn, on average, 77.8 percent of the earnings of men. Women reported earning $797 per week, while men earned $1,025.
The gap in Washington is the 36th-largest among the United States, according to the data, which is based on earnings in 2015.
Both sexes in Washington earn more than their national counterparts, the report said, but the gap is narrower nationally. Women working in the United States earned $726 per week, 81.1 percent of the $895 made by men.
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