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In brief: Two men shot in Moses Lake; suspect arrested

From Staff And Wire Reports

Two men were shot in Moses Lake on Sunday afternoon, and police arrested a suspect a short time later.

One of the victims, a 30-year-old Moses Lake man, received life-threatening injuries, the Moses Lake Police Department said in a news release. The other, a 17-year-old Moses Lake resident, has a non-life-threatening injury, police said.

They were shot about 2:28 p.m. on or near the sidewalk on the north side of the Alder Street fill, near Knolls Vista Drive, police said.

A passing citizen followed the alleged shooter, helping officers locate and take him into custody. They arrested a 21-year-old Moses Lake man a short distance from the crime scene.

Detectives are still investigating the incident, including a possible motive for the violence.

Police have not released the identities of the victims or the suspect.

Presidents Day closes some services, not all

Today is Presidents Day. The holiday will affect these services:

•Federal, state and most local government offices are closed. City of Spokane offices are open, but metered parking in the city is free.

•All courts and post offices and most banks are closed.

•All Spokane County Library District facilities are closed, as are those in Coeur d’Alene and Kootenai County. Spokane Public Library branches are on their normal schedule.

•Liquor stores are open in Washington and Idaho.

•Spokane Transit Authority bus routes are on the holiday-Sunday schedule.

•Garbage and recycling service is not affected in Spokane and Kootenai counties.

Driver of SUV dies in rollover on Route 231

A Stevens County woman died early Sunday when her SUV rolled on a curve on state Route 231 seven miles south of Springdale, the Washington State Patrol said.

Adrian L. Crowshoe, 24, of Springdale, was driving a 2008 Chevrolet Tahoe southbound about 2 a.m. when she failed to negotiate a curve, traveled off the roadway and rolled. She was not wearing a seat belt and was thrown from the vehicle, police said.

School team bus crashes, injures 10 on I-5 exit

MOUNTLAKE TERRACE, Wash. – The Washington State Patrol says a bus carrying members of a private Christian high school basketball team crashed Saturday night, injuring 10.

Trooper Mark Francis said the 53-year-old female bus driver and nine basketball players were taken to local hospitals with lacerations and other minor injuries.

The bus left Mount Vernon and was heading southbound on Interstate 5 after 10 p.m. Saturday. The driver was exiting near Mountlake Terrace when her brakes didn’t work, she said. The bus drifted into the shoulder and eventually rolled onto its left side.

Francis said the bus was carrying 16 people, including 12 teen basketball players and three coaches from King’s Schools in Shoreline. They were able to get out of the bus on their own.

Tunnel project to restart in downtown Seattle

SEATTLE — State transportation officials say they are getting ready to restart the tunnel-boring project in downtown Seattle.

The Washington Department of Transportation said the machine digging the tunnel will be ready to restart sometime in the next week.

The giant rotary drill, known as Bertha, will have to be stopped periodically to allow it to cool off, since the machine has a tendency to overheat, they said.

Transportation officials didn’t have an estimate of how long it will take the machine to cut through 20 feet of concrete.

The machine first overheated more than a year ago and has moved only a few feet since then.