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In case you missed it, here are some of the top stories of the weekend:
It’s been nearly a year since the Washington Supreme Court accepted the state’s new school funding plan, which injected billions of dollars into public education.
It was a momentous occasion for Washington, bringing to an end the McCleary case, a decadelong court battle over how to fully fund schools.
Now districts across the state are seeing red.
Why: Mr. Maple Donuts just debuted in Hazel Dell. The shop, which is family owned and operated, is in the strip mall on the corner of Northeast 78th Street and Highway 99. It opens early and closes late every day, featuring regular and fancy doughnuts with a kid-themed special doughnut every day.
What I tried: I selected a dozen, including a few fancies. Among my picks were a chocolate cream-filled, powdered sugar-raised, a chocolate old-fashioned and a regular old-fashioned, a caramel-topped latte, a cheesecake, a toasted coconut, a Bavarian cream-filled, a cinnamon roll and a bear claw made with raised dough, an apple fritter, a strawberry-frosted, a chocolate-frosted-glazed and a coconut cream.
A woman was detained early Saturday morning and is being investigated in a potential kidnapping after she allegedly led a Clark County sheriff’s deputy on a car chase that went into Portland.
At about 3:15 a.m. a deputy attempted to stop a black Nissan Altima for an equipment violation near Northeast Meadows Drive and Northeast 66th Street. The car failed to stop, however, and drove off in a reckless manner, according to a sheriff’s office news release.
The owner of a Vancouver coin shop who defrauded customers out of $1.4 million was sentenced in federal court Friday to four years in prison.
Blue Moon Coins owner Aaron Michael Scott, 40, of Portland was indicted in October by a grand jury on 11 counts of wire fraud and five counts of mail fraud, according to a statement released by U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran.
The Clark County Fire Marshal’s Office has determined an under-construction house in La Center destroyed by fire was likely arson — one in a series of suspected arsons in the area targeting unfinished buildings, officials say.
Assistant Clark County Fire Marshal Curtis Eavenson said Thursday the fire at a house being built on West 13th Street, near La Center city limits, was determined to likely be arson “mainly because there is no other (ignition) source available. There was no electricity hooked up to the building.”
