Delays likely on Valley Chapel
Road work on Valley Chapel Road on Thursday could cause delays of up to 30 minutes.
Spokane County crews will be working between Spangle Creek Road and Dunn Road to replace girders on the Valley Chapel Road Bridge.
Spokane
Man jumps onto Interstate 90
A 31-year-old man jumped onto Interstate 90 from an overpass Tuesday evening and was hospitalized with broken bones.
Spokane police Officer Shawn Pegram said the incident occurred about 7:30 p.m. at the Sherman Street overpass just east of the Division Street exit. The man, whose name was not released, landed on the paved shoulder at the north edge of the westbound lanes.
Witnesses told police they saw the man intentionally jump some 20 feet to the freeway, but his motivation wasn’t known. The incident remained under investigation, Pegram said.
He said the jumper was expected to recover from injuries that included a broken leg, a broken ankle, a broken hip and a broken elbow.
PORT ORCHARD, Wash.
Ex-police officer put on probation
The Kitsap County prosecutor has dropped felony domestic violence charges against a former Bremerton police officer who’d been accused of beating his wife.
Instead, prosecutors gave William Boswell Cook IV, 42, a diversion agreement for misdemeanor charges of fourth-degree assault and third-degree malicious mischief.
Cook’s pre-trial diversion agreement with prosecutors means he will face no jail time, but will be on a supervised probation program for two years, said Kristie Barham, the deputy prosecuting attorney who handled the case.
He will also have to pay court fees, go to court-mandated mental-health counseling, and complete 184 hours of community service, Barham said.
Barham said “evidentiary issues,” were the reason for dropping the second-degree assault charges and that prosecutors did not believe they had a case they could prove beyond a reasonable doubt.
PORTLAND
Schools receive violence threats
Threats apparently linked to Tuesday’s date shuttered one Oregon high school and forced two others to bring in extra security.
Authorities believe the incidents may have been sparked by an abbreviation of the date, 6/6/6, a biblical reference, or to the Tuesday opening of a horror film, “The Omen,” about a child believed to be the son of the devil.
Administrators closed North Eugene High School after Principal Peter Tromba received a phone message warning of a school shooting. Officials said they later determined the caller was a student who overheard the threat in a conversation between another high school student and a student at a nearby middle school.
At Southridge High School in Beaverton, a feud between students that started on the Web site Myspace.com ended with threats of violence as administrators beefed up police patrols.
Sprague High School administrators in Salem called out higher levels of security in response to notes that implied there’s a threat to the school.