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Woman dies from car accident injuries

A woman died Sunday evening after the Model T she was riding in rolled on U.S. Highway 195 just north of Spangle, the Washington State Patrol said.

Reann Murray, 58, of Camano Island, Wash., was a passenger in a northbound 1920 Ford Model T, the WSP said. The car left the road at 4:09 p.m. Sunday and rolled into the grassy center median of the four-lane, divided highway, a dispatcher said.

Both occupants of the open two-seater were ejected. The driver, Wayne E. Murray, 49, also of Camano Island, was thrown about 30 feet.

Traffic in both directions was halted for 20 minutes so a medical helicopter could land on the highway and pick up Murray, who was taken to Deaconess Medical Center, the WSP said.

Murray was also taken to Deaconess. His condition and the cause of the accident were unavailable late Sunday.

The antique car lacked seat belts, the WSP said in a press release.

Military museum fund-raising drive continues

Rockford A fund-raising drive for a military museum in a historic log cabin in this southeast Spokane County farming community continues today with the museum open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Lorri Moulton, chair of the building resources committee for the Rockford Area Museum and Historical Society, said the funds are needed to build display cases for military uniforms. The society intends to install cabinets that match the hand-hewn look of the building itself, built with logs from trees felled on nearby Mica Peak in 1923.

The building was originally the area’s Edward Leehan Legion Post No. 165, named in honor of Edward Leehan, a Rockford man who died in World War I.

Man faces charges of assault, false imprisonment

Spokane Police arrested a man Friday night after a woman reported she was being held against her will in a downtown motel room.

Officers were called to the Downtowner Motel, 165 S. Washington, at 10:15 p.m. Friday, where they interviewed a woman with a swollen eye. The woman told police her boyfriend had hit her several times in the face several days before, and now was preventing her from leaving the motel.

The woman told police she is a prostitute and the boyfriend is her “protection.” She said he became jealous of her seeing another man and that he hit her, and also refused to let her leave the room, according to a police press release.

Officers interviewed 36-year-old Christopher Randolph Tate, who gave his address as 2702 W. Wellesley. Tate was booked into jail on charges of fourth degree assault and unlawful imprisonment, police said.

Convoy to bring food donations to Second Harvest

An 18-vehicle convoy will wind along U.S. Highway 2 eastbound to Interstate 90 eastbound and arrive at Second Harvest Food Bank Thursday morning in recognition of National Hunger Awareness Day.

The vehicles, some loaded with food donations, will begin at Flint Road and Highway 2 in Airway Heights at 9:15 a.m. and arrive at Second Harvest Food Bank, 1234 E. Front Ave., at approximately 9:30 a.m. The convoy will be accompanied by a Spokane County Sheriff’s Office escort.

Promoting the theme One Big Table, the convoy will represent a variety of Second Harvest’s most frequent food donors. Other activities will focus attention on childhood hunger in the Spokane area.

A proclamation from Spokane Mayor Jim West will kick off activities at Second Harvest, followed by the announcement of donations from several food industry donors. A musical presentation by students from Pratt Elementary School will complete the formal program. Activities will conclude with an open house and tours of the Second Harvest warehouse.

For more information about National Hunger Awareness Day and childhood hunger, visit www.hungerday.org or contact the Second Harvest Food Bank of the Inland Northwest at 534-6678 or www.shfoodbank.org.

Search continues for missing college student

Corvallis, Ore. Hundreds of volunteers continued the search Sunday for Brigham Young University student Brooke Wilberger.

Wilberger vanished May 24 from an apartment complex where her sister lives, leaving behind a pair of flip-flops in a parking lot. Police said they believe she was abducted.

On Saturday, police arrested a “person of interest” in the case on unrelated burglary charges. Sung Koo Kim, 30, of Tigard was released later Saturday on $250,000 bail, according to jailers at the Benton County Jail.

On Sunday, Corvallis police Lt. Ron Noble said detectives still considered Kim a “person of interest” in the case.

“We’re still investigating Mr. Kim and a few others. We’re hesitating to call them suspects … but we’re definitely not ruling them out,” Noble said.

Kim was arrested for burglary at George Fox University by Newberg police May 13 on a search warrant that found more than 1,000 items, including large quantities of women’s underwear.

He also is charged with an April burglary at Oregon State University’s Sacket Hall, which is very near the site where Wilberger was last seen. He was released on the 17th.

Noble earlier cited the underwear theft and the proximity of Sacket Hall to the place where Wilberger, 19, was last seen as factors that raised their interest.

Searchers focused on Benton, Linn, Lincoln, Lane and Polk counties, paying particular attention to routes from Corvallis to the home of Wilberger’s parents in Veneta, outside Eugene, said Peggy Peirson, emergency services coordinator with the Benton County Sheriff’s Office.