A gang related fight broke out last night at the Coyote Ridge Correctional Center in Connell. Prison spokeswoman Ruth Perkins said it happened around 8:20 pm among 13 inmates. Perkins says they were able to get the situation under control before there were any injuries. The inmates were segregated, but Perkins says no lock down was necessary. Coyote Ridge’s inmate population has jumped in size after the state decided to transfer inmates from older prisons to save money.
Playground fire
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A fire that destroyed a playground at a Kennewick church is under investigation. Kennewick fire crews were called to the “Word of Faith” center around 8:45 pm to a report of smoke in the area. They found the playground structure in flames. The blaze did about $70 thousand dollars in damage. The fire is being labeled suspicious.
Body id of Boise cascade
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The Walla walla county coroner’s office has been able to identify the badly decomposed body of a male found along the Columbia river August 23rd. The body of 21 year old Peter Sullivan of Pasco was discovered north of Wallula Junction near the Boise Cascade paper plant. The cause of death is still under investigation. Investigators believe the body had been washed to shore, and had been in the area for some time before the discovery.
Pre treat plant
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Crews at the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant have finished installing the Pretreatment Facility’s fourth elevation of concrete walls. Completing the fourth elevation, which reaches 77 feet, signals near completion of that portion of the project. The contractor hopes to finish the entire work by 2015. The plant will be operational by 2019.
Currently, the Facility is more than 30 percent complete. The pre treatment plant spans approximately one and one-half football fields in length and more than one field in width. When complete, it will contain more than 113,000 cubic yards of concrete, nearly 17,000 tons of structural steel and 102 miles of piping.
Walla walla students hit
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Two Pioneer Middle School students were hit by a car today in a crosswalk near Tausick Way and Alder Street in Walla walla. It happened around 7:20 am while they were walking to meet their school bus. The students were transported to Providence St. Mary Medical Center where they were treated and released. Superintendent Mick Miller accompanied the students to the hospital and met with family members as the students were being treated. Miller said the students had minor bumps and bruises but no serious injuries. Miller says we can all learn from this accident which could have been much more serious. The driver indicated to police that he was blinded by sunlight. Walla Walla police spokesman Tim Bennett says the driver was cited for failure to yield to pedestrians and having no insurance.
