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Law enforcement officers investigate a shooting at the Cascade Park Safeway store on Thursday morning. Vancouver police shot and killed a man Wednesday night after he physically attacked a police officer, according to a statement from the agency.

State agency recovers firearm from scene of fatal Vancouver police shooting

Law enforcement officers investigate a shooting at the Cascade Park Safeway store on Thursday morning. Vancouver police shot and killed a man Wednesday night after he physically attacked a police officer, according to a statement from the agency.

December 6, 2024, 6:06pm Clark County News

The Washington State Office of Independent Investigations recovered a firearm and other evidence from the scene of a fatal Vancouver police shooting Wednesday night in east Vancouver. Read story

Law enforcement officers investigate a shooting at the Cascade Park Safeway store on Thursday morning, Dec. 5, 2024. Vancouver police shot and killed a man Wednesday night after he physically attacked a police officer, according to a statement from the agency.

Vancouver police fatally shoot a man who authorities say had gun, physically attacked an officer

Law enforcement officers investigate a shooting at the Cascade Park Safeway store on Thursday morning, Dec. 5, 2024. Vancouver police shot and killed a man Wednesday night after he physically attacked a police officer, according to a statement from the agency.

December 5, 2024, 2:30pm Clark County News

Vancouver police shot and killed a man Wednesday night in east Vancouver after he physically attacked an officer, according to a statement from the agency. Read story

Vancouver’s new police chief to be sworn in Monday

December 5, 2024, 2:24pm Clark County News

Vancouver’s incoming police chief, Troy Price, will be sworn into his new position at 3 p.m. Monday in the council chambers at Vancouver City Hall, 415 W. Sixth St. The community is invited to attend the ceremony and a reception afterward in the Aspen Conference Room. Read story

A Vancouver man was shot and killed in the parking lot of a hotel in Portland on Nov. 20.

Vancouver man fatally shot in Portland

A Vancouver man was shot and killed in the parking lot of a hotel in Portland on Nov. 20.

December 5, 2024, 11:48am Clark County News

A Vancouver man was shot and killed Nov. 20 at a northeast Portland hotel. Read story

Law enforcement officers respond to the scene of a shooting in Camas on Nov. 14.

‘There’s power in information’: Camas police chief holds forum after shooting suspect’s release on bond stokes fear

Law enforcement officers respond to the scene of a shooting in Camas on Nov. 14.

December 5, 2024, 6:10am Clark County News

When a Camas man was released from jail after posting bail, his former neighborhood was still reeling from the police standoff and gunfire that erupted there two weeks prior. Neighbors feared for their safety. Parents kept their kids home from nearby schools. And many sought answers from the police department. Read story

Braille proofreader Adrienne Libby checks over a novel Wednesday at the Ogden Resource Center.

Incarcerated women work with Washington School for the Blind in Vancouver to transcribe Braille

Braille proofreader Adrienne Libby checks over a novel Wednesday at the Ogden Resource Center.

December 4, 2024, 6:10am Clark County News

For almost 30 years, incarcerated women in Washington have been part of a program that transcribes documents, pamphlets, business cards, textbooks, novels, music, signs and menus — even the Oregon Voter Guide — into Braille. Read story

Guadalupe V. Munoz, 44, appears in May in Clark County Superior Court on suspicion of vehicular homicide, vehicular assault and driving under the influence. He struck a fire truck that had responded to a prior crash and then struck two pedestrians who had stopped to help, killing one and injuring the other. He was sentenced Tuesday to about 12 years in prison.

Woodland man who killed woman when he crashed into first responders, good Samaritans on I-5 gets 12½ years

Guadalupe V. Munoz, 44, appears in May in Clark County Superior Court on suspicion of vehicular homicide, vehicular assault and driving under the influence. He struck a fire truck that had responded to a prior crash and then struck two pedestrians who had stopped to help, killing one and injuring the other. He was sentenced Tuesday to about 12 years in prison.

December 3, 2024, 3:50pm Clark County News

A Woodland man was sentenced Tuesday to 12½ years in prison for a May drunken-driving crash that killed one person and injured another who had stopped to help another driver on Interstate 5. Read story

The state Capitol building in Olympia.

State coalition defends police pursuit restrictions after Thurston County sheriff calls them out

The state Capitol building in Olympia.

December 3, 2024, 7:54am Courts & Crime

Proponents of police pursuit restrictions defended their stance after Thurston County Sheriff Derek Sanders called them out in a social media post. Read story

Luanne Conner speaks to court participants in American Sign Language following a hearing Nov. 21 at Clark County’s Family Law Annex. This year, the court has provided interpreters in more than 40 languages, with the most common being Spanish, Chuukese and Russian.

100 interpreters and 40 languages: Clark County courts program makes sure everyone understands the proceedings

Luanne Conner speaks to court participants in American Sign Language following a hearing Nov. 21 at Clark County’s Family Law Annex. This year, the court has provided interpreters in more than 40 languages, with the most common being Spanish, Chuukese and Russian.

December 2, 2024, 6:10am Clark County News

When a teenage girl sought a domestic violence protection order, she marked on the form she needed an American Sign Language interpreter. From then on, Luanne Conner appeared at each hearing to interpret the judge’s orders into ASL, ensuring the girl and the person she sought protection from understood. Read story

Dash camera footage from a Clark County Sheriff’s Office armored vehicle, left, and body-worn camera footage from Deputy Forrest Gonzalez show the Nov. 13 police shooting in Camas. Deputies can be heard saying Wetzel was pointing a gun at their armored SWAT vehicle moments before Gonzalez announces he’s going to shoot Wetzel.

Video: Camas man shot by deputy had threatened to die by police

Dash camera footage from a Clark County Sheriff’s Office armored vehicle, left, and body-worn camera footage from Deputy Forrest Gonzalez show the Nov. 13 police shooting in Camas. Deputies can be heard saying Wetzel was pointing a gun at their armored SWAT vehicle moments before Gonzalez announces he’s going to shoot Wetzel.

November 27, 2024, 5:31pm Clark County News

Law enforcement officers responding Nov. 13 to a house in Camas, where a Clark County deputy later shot a man, were notified of a safety bulletin that the man had previously threatened to die by police, according to a video summary released Wednesday by the sheriff’s office. Read story