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Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez maintained her narrow lead over Republican Joe Kent in the race to represent Washington’s 3rd Congressional District.
Wednesday’s results showed Perez had 158,689 votes, or 50.21 percent, and Kent had 155,610 votes, or 49.23 percent. She leads Kent by 3,079 votes. There are 2,006 remaining votes to count across six of the district’s seven counties, with an undetermined amount coming from its portion of Thurston County.
A judge set bail Wednesday at $2.5 million for an Ocean Park man accused in a fatal Vancouver shooting that prosecutors are calling a targeted attack.
Yana N. Cook, 24, appeared in Clark County Superior Court on suspicion of first-degree murder and drive-by shooting. He is scheduled to be arraigned Nov. 30.
A townhome-style apartment development is in the works on Northeast 117th Avenue in east Vancouver.
The development, located at 420 N.E. 117th Ave., will have 26 apartments, according to planning documents sent to the City of Vancouver.
Nearly six years after Ron Fryer made plans to build Veterans Village, a development for homeless female veterans, the project is back on track.
Fryer, founder of the Vancouver-based America for Veterans Foundation, had helped raise money and get a grant for the project a few years ago, but funding expired during the COVID-19 pandemic, he said. Veterans Village never broke ground.
An investigation led by the state Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction earlier this year found that special services staff in Evergreen Public Schools had violated several state protocols regarding the use and reporting of physical restraints on students at Sunset Elementary School.
As a result of the findings, Evergreen was required to provide training on what constitutes a restraint, when a physical intervention becomes a restraint, appropriate alternatives to physical interventions and how to properly report and follow up on incidents with students, families and staff.
