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Here are some of the top stories on columbian.com this week:
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of a former Evergreen Public Schools teacher, concluding that his action to wear a “Make America Great Again” hat to school was protected speech under the First Amendment.
Court documents showed that Eric Dodge, a longtime science teacher in Vancouver, brought the baseball cap with him to school on two occasions just before the start of the 2019-2020 school year. The first occasion was to a staff-only cultural sensitivity and racial bias training hosted by a professor from Washington State University.
A Hazel Dell couple were one of several in the area to have their home damaged by a fallen tree after wind gusts peaked Wednesday evening in Vancouver at 43 mph.
Bill Drummond said he and his wife, Susan Wilson, were watching the evening news and enjoying a cocktail when, at around 5:45 p.m., they heard a crashing sound. It turns out, that sound was a Douglas fir, which he estimated to be 120-feet tall, crashing through the second story of their house.
One of the most horrific criminal cases in Clark County history ended 30 years ago today with the hanging of serial child killer Westley Allan Dodd.
Roger Bennett — who prosecuted Dodd alongside Clark County’s then-elected prosecutor, Art Curtis — remembers the case as clear as day. But he rarely thinks about it.
The Interstate Bridge Replacement Program will not be receiving money from the Federal Highway Administration’s Bridge Investment Program this time around, although it will be eligible to reapply later this year.
The program applied for the $750 million grant in early August, and the announcement Wednesday marks the first opportunity the program had to receive significant money from the federal government.
A former Battle Ground chiropractor pleaded guilty Wednesday to rape and indecent liberties charges for having sexual contact with patients.
Mark S. LaRue, 70, pleaded guilty in Clark County Superior Court to third-degree rape and indecent liberties without forcible compulsion, under the health care provider prong. The indecent liberties charge listed seven victims who were assaulted between 2014 and 2017.
