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In brief: Arrest made after two bodies found

From Wire Reports

SEATTLE – Seattle police said they’ve arrested a man after two bodies were discovered Saturday near the Duwamish River.

Police said the bodies of a man and woman had similar injuries. The man had “severe head trauma.”

The first body was discovered by a man walking his dog. The woman’s body was discovered later that day. Investigators think the man was assaulted somewhere else and brought to the spot where he was discovered.

Police say witnesses were able to describe a suspicious car. Officers served a warrant on Saturday and arrested a man.

Custody fight sparks parents’ car chase

GRANTS PASS, Ore. – A custody dispute sparked a high-speed chase between a mother and father in Oregon.

Police said a mother attempted to ram her children’s father off the road during the chase in Grants Pass on Saturday, but missed and ended up crashing into a power pole.

The woman, Brandy M. Thomas, 21, of Washington, was booked into Josephine County jail.

The 23-year-old man crashed into a median with the couple’s children. No one was seriously hurt.