Pilot Of Crop-Duster Stable After Crash

The pilot of a crop-duster was listed in stable condition Friday after his plane crashed near Moses Lake on Thursday.

Sam Winzler, 40, Moses Lake, the pilot of the crop-duster, was taken to Samaritan Hospital from the scene of the 2:40 p.m. accident.

Winzler underwent surgery Thursday, a nursing supervisor said.

The Moses Lake Air Service plane was totaled. The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the crash.

Theft charges for teen who rang up sex calls Coeur d’Alene

A 17-year-old boy was charged Friday with grand theft for allegedly making over 100 calls to a telephone sex line and then charging them to other people.

The youth charged $15,000 worth of 900 phone line calls to about 50 Hayden-area residents, GTE officials believe.

The teen’s foster mother caught him making one of those calls and reported him to authorities.

Kootenai County deputy prosecutor Barry Black said the youth is currently being held in the juvenile detention center on an unrelated matter.

Black said the citizens originally billed for the phone calls will not have to pay those bills. Several phone and billing companies will instead have to absorb the costs.

Feds award $6.7 million to repair highway

Seattle

The state has been awarded $6.7 million by the federal government to repair portions of Washington 12 damaged by a November landslide near the Lewis County town of Randle.

The funds from the U.S. Transportation Department’s Federal Highway Administration were requested by state officials to complete repairs on the highway.