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In case you missed them, here are some of the top stories from the week:
PORTLAND — A car fell from the Glenn L. Jackson Memorial Bridge and into the Columbia River on Sunday night, prompting a search effort by the Multnomah County, Ore., Sheriff’s Office Marine Patrol Unit.
The vehicle had not been located, and investigators had no vehicle or passenger details to release, the Portland Police Bureau said in a news release Monday morning.
Pulled over for a defective taillight in the area of a suspected drug house, the driver of the Mercedes Benz showed a Clark County sheriff’s deputy his Washington ID card but had no proof of registration or insurance, investigators said.
Once the driver told deputies that his license was suspended, the traffic infraction turned into an alleged misdemeanor, giving officers the authority to get him out of the car and arrest him.
Warmer temperatures are helping Clark County thaw out Monday, but emergency responders and county departments have their hands full in the aftermath of last week’s winter weather and subsequent ice storm.
Freezing rain Sunday night and Monday caused a significant number of outages countywide. The majority and the most severe outages have been in the north and west portions of the county, Clark Public Utilities spokesman Dameon Pesanti said.
OLYMPIA — A capital gains tax on the sale of high-profit stocks and bonds has been approved by a Senate fiscal committee.
The Ways and Means Committee passed the measure Tuesday night over Republican objections. The measure approved was a different version than what the committee was presented during a public hearing last month. The bill now heads to the Rules Committee, the last stop before a potential vote by the full Senate.
While Clark County, and the rest of the U.S., has been administering the COVID-19 vaccine for almost two months, vaccine is still not easily accessible.
In the past few weeks, The Columbian and local health care providers have been inundated with questions about vaccination. We’ve rounded up the most frequently asked questions about vaccination, and we have done our best to answer them.
