In brief: Inspectors found faulty bolts on bridge
DOVER, Idaho – The Idaho Transportation Department says scores of anchor bolts on a $22 million bridge being built on U.S. Highway 2 near Dover, Idaho, have been improperly installed and need to be fixed.
Department spokeswoman Barbara Babic told the Bonner County Daily Bee that between 75 and 100 faulty bolts were detected during an inspection last spring.
The agency made the announcement Friday.
Officials say the Federal Highway Administration and the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Office of Inspector General are investigating because the new bridge is being paid for with money from the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act.
The project’s lead contractor, Sletten Construction Co., installed the bolts. The company could face penalties if inspectors find malfeasance.
Go-cart crash injures man, daughter, 8
A father and daughter were flown by helicopter to a Spokane hospital on Sunday afternoon after the go-cart they were riding in crashed on an off-road vehicle track in Diamond Lake, Wash.
The Hammerhead Go Kart driven by Peter T. Johnston, 40, of Mountlake Terrace, Wash., vaulted off a jump at the Jorgens Road track and rolled over, ejecting Alexis D. Johnston, 8, and partially ejecting Peter Johnston, according to the Washington State Patrol. The vehicle came to rest on the girl.
The two were taken by MedStar to Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center. The girl was listed in satisfactory condition Sunday night, and her father had been discharged. Neither of them was wearing a helmet. No charges were filed in the accident.
Passenger dies in car crash near Kellogg
A 19-year-old Idaho man was killed Saturday when the car he was riding in ran off the Coeur d’Alene River Road near Kellogg, hit a rock embankment and overturned.
Anthony M. Legard was a passenger in a Mitsubishi Lancer driven by Chad Ward, 21, of Kellogg, who failed to negotiate a curve at milepost 5 at about 4:19 p.m., according to a report by the Idaho State Police.
Legard was pronounced dead at the scene.
Ward was injured. He was listed in good condition Sunday evening at Kootenai Medical Center.
Neither man was wearing a seat belt, according to police.
Pair say pot invite turned into robbery
A Spokane man was arrested after a Spokane police SWAT team responded to a report that two people were robbed at gunpoint at the suspect’s apartment Saturday.
The alleged victims said they were invited to smoke marijuana at an acquaintance’s apartment about 5 p.m. near Augusta and Madison. They said that’s where Aziem L. Richardson, 19, pulled out a shotgun and robbed them.
Later, the suspect did not respond to police attempts to contact him, so the SWAT team and a police negotiator were dispatched while detectives obtained a search warrant. Richardson then surrendered and was arrested on two counts of first-degree robbery and unlawful possession of a firearm.
Renton police find buried remains
RENTON, Wash. – Remains suspected to be those of missing teen Kathy Chou were found buried in Renton Sunday.
Police said the discovery is the same general area that detectives have been searching for the past few days, based on information from the suspect.
Chou, 19, disappeared April 18, 2010. Renton police last week arrested an alleged former boyfriend, Ezekiel James Watkins, 22, who, they said, had confessed to killing Chou.