In brief: Police name pedestrian struck, killed on Maple
A woman who died in a pedestrian traffic accident on North Maple Street on Monday night has been identified by police as Darleen R. Ridgway, 38.
Police said she was walking north in a travel lane near Knox Avenue, wearing dark clothing, when she was struck by a vehicle. The driver did not see her in time to stop. She died at a local hospital a short time after the 9 p.m. accident.
Witnesses said she appeared intoxicated and was refused service at a nearby bar just before the collision.
Holiday affects government services
Schools and many government offices across the Inland Northwest will be closed Friday in observance of Veterans Day.
All federal, state and county and many municipal offices and courts will be closed. Post offices will be closed with express mail delivery services only.
City of Spokane offices and libraries, however, will be open as usual Friday.
Riverfront Park’s Imax Theater and Ice Palace will be open on Veterans Day. Parking meters in Spokane do not have to be plugged that day.
County, city and rural garbage and recycling pickup will proceed on a normal schedule in both Spokane and Kootenai counties. The Spokane Regional Solid Waste System transfer stations and recycling centers will be open during their regular hours as well.
Spokane Transit Authority bus service will be unaffected.
Because the Spokane County courthouse will be closed, Municipal Court will not be open to walk-in traffic. Employees will be available by phone.
The Spokane County Sheriff’s Office will remain open Friday, and calls still can be made to Crime Check at (509) 456-2233. The Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office will be closed.
County libraries also will be closed, as will Spokane Valley, Coeur d’Alene and Post Falls offices.
State liquor stores will be open in Washington and Idaho.
Most banks will be closed.
Montana OKs shipments of refinery equipment
HELENA – Montana has started issuing permits to an Exxon Mobil subsidiary to ship about 300 loads of oversized oil refinery equipment over interstates 90 and 15 to the northern border, a state transportation official said Wednesday.
The Montana Department of Transportation has so far issued permits for six loads to travel from the Idaho-Montana line to Alberta, Duane Williams of the agency’s motor carrier services division said.
“There very well could have been some of them entering today,” he said.
The modules are smaller versions of the so-called megaloads that Imperial Oil had proposed shipping across scenic two-lane highways in Idaho and Montana, but which a judge has temporarily blocked while he considers a legal challenge against the shipments.
Trooper’s husband to speak about death
Ron Reynolds today will publicly break his 13 years of silence on the death of his wife, Ronda Reynolds, at a press conference to be held at his defense attorney’s office in Olympia.
At 11 a.m., Reynolds will appear with his current wife, Linda, and four of his five sons – including Jonathan, who, with his father, was named as a suspect in Ronda Reynolds’ death by an inquest jury on Oct. 19.
Ron Reynolds will refute witness testimony that came forth in Lewis County Coroner Warren McLeod’s seven-day inquest in mid-October into Ronda Reynolds’ death, attorney Rick Cordes said.
Ronda Reynolds was a State Patrol trooper and a 1983 graduate of Cheney High School.