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In case you missed them, here are some of the top stories of the week:
The body of a 66-year-old man who went missing after being separated from his son during a cycling trip in August was located last month in a field in Ridgefield.
Clark County sheriff’s deputies found the remains of Robert “Bobby” Robinson, which were sent to the Clark County Medical Examiner’s Office for identification, Vancouver Police Department spokesman Kim Kapp said in an email.
The Vancouver City Council is dropping its push for a grocery store at Block 10, the city-owned undeveloped acre in the heart of downtown, and will instead work with an investment property firm to erect a corporate headquarters building on the site.
At a workshop Monday afternoon, the council heard a formal recommendation from Chad Eiken, director of community and economic development: enter direct negotiations with Holland Partner Group to build the 11-story office building at Block 10, as well as a seven-story workforce housing and retail space.
A con artist with convictions in Washington and Oregon tricked a Vancouver couple into lending him nearly $60,000 for a car and condo, according to a search warrant affidavit filed in Clark County Superior Court.
Prosecutors have not filed charges against Michele Bocci for the allegations outlined in the search warrant filed Tuesday. Bocci is currently an inmate at the Washington County Jail in Oregon for a parole violation, according to online records.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee signed a group of bills Tuesday tightening rules on guns in some circumstances, part of a national shift toward more narrowly focused gun legislation.
Included in the bills were provisions allowing temporary gun bans on people being released from short-term psychiatric holds and people found incompetent to stand trial, and a prohibition on so-called “ghost guns” that lack serial numbers or are made from plastic and might be invisible to airport scanners.
A teenager and her infant were taken to the hospital Tuesday afternoon following a hit-and-run crash near Clark College.
Police were dispatched at 2:20 p.m. to 1933 Fort Vancouver Way. A 17-year-old girl was carrying her 18-month-old child when she was struck by a car turning onto Fort Vancouver Way from McLoughlin Boulevard, Vancouver Police Department spokeswoman Kim Kapp said.
