Authorities are searching for a 45-year-old man accused of violent crimes who escaped from Western State Hospital in Lakewood. Law enforcement is actively searching for Joshua Dylan Rice, who escaped from Western State Hospital around 8 p.m. on Tuesday, March 31, according to Clark County officials. Rice was being held at the facility while facing…
“I said yes.” Those were the words Cassandra Weaver shared after the family of Coast Guard rescue swimmer Tyler Jaggers fulfilled his plan to propose — placing the ring on her hand at his bedside as he lay dying from injuries suffered during a high-risk offshore rescue. Jaggers, 31, an aviation survival technician assigned to…
Former NASCAR driver and Washington native Greg Biffle was killed alongside his wife, two kids, and three others, when a private jet crashed at a North Carolina airport Thursday, Dec. 18, authorities said. The crash occurred around 10:15 a.m. at the city-owned Statesville Regional Airport in North Carolina, when a Cessna C550 went down while…
A motorcyclist died Saturday night, Nov. 15, after crashing off NE Heisson Road in Battle Ground, according to the Clark County Sheriff’s Office. A witness called 911 around 8 p.m. to report a wreck in the 23300 block of NE Heisson Road. First responders from the Sheriff’s Office and Battle Ground Police arrived and found…
A 17-year-old girl is accused of strangling a woman to death during a disturbance at a Vancouver home. Deputies responded to a 911 call around 12:30 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 5, reporting a disturbance at a residence in the 4200 block of NE 54th Avenue in Vancouver’s Minnehaha neighborhood. When deputies arrived, they found an adult…
Deputies are searching for a 30-year-old man accused of stabbing his mother at a Woodland mobile home park. Deputies responded to the Oaks Mobile & RV Park on Northwest Lakeshore Drive at around 5 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 11, after a woman reported her adult son had stabbed her, according to the Clark County Sheriff’s Office….
A 17-year-old boy is in custody after deputies say he fired multiple gunshots during an attempted vehicle prowl near Heritage High School in Vancouver. Deputies were dispatched to the campus NE 130th Avenue just after midnight on Friday, Sept. 5, following reports of gunfire and a female screaming for help, according to the Clark County…
A 22-year-old Vancouver man accused of robbing a U.S. Bank branch and fleeing on a bicycle has been arrested, the Clark County Sheriff’s Office announced. Elijah Evans was taken into custody on Thursday, Aug. 21, three days after the robbery at the branch on NE 117th Avenue, as Puget Press reported. Investigators credited a public…
Deputies are searching for a man who implied he had a gun and robbed a Vancouver bank before fleeing the scene on a bicycle, according to the Clark County Sheriff’s Office. The robbery happened around 11:35 a.m. Monday, Aug. 18, at the U.S. Bank branch at 6704 NE 117th Avenue, the sheriff’s office said. Investigators…
A Longview man is wanted for murder and attempted murder following a fatal stabbing on Terumi Lane earlier this week. Detectives identified Alexander Lee Rogers, 51, as the suspect in the Aug. 5 attack that left Dawn Peters, 64, dead and Andrew Peters, 73, critically injured, according to Longview Police. Rogers is described as white,…
