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Authorities are continuing to investigate the death of eight Clark County residents — a couple and six children — who died Monday when their vehicle plunged off a cliff along the Pacific Coast Highway in Northern California. The investigation includes input from Clark County deputies who recently conducted a welfare check at their home near Woodland.
California Highway Patrol identified the two women as married couple Jennifer Jean Hart and Sarah Margaret Hart, both 39.
Their children were identified as Markis,19; Hannah, 16; Devonte, 15; Jeremiah 14; Abigail, 14; and Sierra, 12. All were adopted.
RIDGEFIELD — Dusty Anchors was not looking forward to delivering the news.
Yet before he adjourned a team meeting on an early January evening in the Ridgefield High School student commons, he knew he had to break the hearts of another group of people he loved, just like he had to do to his closest family and friends over the previous month.
Clark County sheriff’s deputies arrested an athletic trainer at Hockinson High School on suspicion of sexual misconduct with a minor enrolled at the school.
The sheriff’s office said Jason Meharry, 26, was booked on suspicion of three counts of first-degree sexual misconduct with a minor on Thursday. He is expected to make a first appearance on the allegations Friday morning in Clark County Superior Court.
Police say they believe a man found dead in Vancouver’s Image neighborhood was involved in the beating and robbery of an older man. Vincent R. Trevino, 23, was found dead a couple of miles away from the victim’s home, just hours after the assault.
A probable cause affidavit filed in Clark County Superior Court identifies four suspects, including Trevino, in the Dec. 29 beating of 63-year-old Douglas Hodgson.
Let’s be real — almost any pizza, hot out of the oven, reduces even the choosiest foodie to a drooling Homer Simpson. This combo of carbs and melted cheese is something we feed ourselves to feel better — to lull ourselves into a carb-induced coma. It’s the food equivalent of a hot bubble bath.
Self-medication is close at hand. Clark County has a TON of pizza places that serve various styles of pizza. To prepare for this story, I did a Yelp search and a Google search for pizza in Vancouver. I went through all the pages of the search and made a list of the places that were truly in Vancouver (Yelp and Google seem to think when I search for Vancouver, I want Portland).
A local attorney who was arrested last month for allegedly firing shots at a Beaverton, Ore., lawyer’s office in late December is now accused of operating a methamphetamine laboratory in the basement of his Vancouver home.
Erik John Graeff, 43, appeared Monday in Clark County Superior Court on suspicion of possessing methamphetamine with the intent to manufacture and manufacturing methamphetamine and MDMA, commonly known as ecstasy or Molly.
Graeff is licensed to practice law in Washington and Oregon; his office is located in Portland.
