Woman dies in I-90 rollover

A woman was killed Saturday morning when the car she was in rolled off Interstate 90 west of Spokane, the Washington State Patrol reported.

Kennewick resident Anna E. Boots, 73, died at the scene. She was a passenger in a Mazda 626 driven by Olga S. Boots, 39.

Olga Boots and a second passenger, Semion A. Boots, 88, were taken to Sacred Heart Medical Center. Olga was treated and released. Semion was listed in satisfactory condition Saturday night. Both are also from Kennewick.

The car was eastbound on I-90 about 10:50 a.m. four miles west of Salnave Road when it left the road and rolled several times, the WSP said.

Anna Boots was ejected from the Mazda. She was not wearing a seat belt. Semion and Olga Boots were wearing seat belts.

The crash remains under investigation, the WSP said.

Power restored to most customers

A day after a storm leveled trees and sparked fires in and around Spokane County, about 50 Avista customers in the Spokane area remained without power Saturday night, said Avista spokeswoman Laurine Jue.

After the winds came through, about 10,000 customers were without electricity, Jue said. The remaining outages should be fixed by 6 a.m. today.

Fatal plane crash sparks Idaho wildfire

Boise Three people were reported dead in a plane crash in the central Idaho mountains that sparked a fast-growing fire that expanded to about 18 acres as an overnight wind fanned the flames, U.S. Forest Service officials said.

The agency was hoping to have at least 100 firefighters, including a crew from New Mexico, on the Sheep Peak Fire, burning about 5 miles west of the town of Cascade. A white plume of smoke from burning subalpine fir trees was visible in Cascade, and helicopters had ferried most of the crews to the fire site.

Valley County Sheriff Patti Bolen on Saturday declined to release the names of the people aboard the plane or where the flight originated, pending notification of family members of those who died in the crash Friday. A dispatcher said it was an in-state flight.

Following the crew transports that included four people who rappelled from helicopters on ropes and eight smoke jumpers who leaped from planes, helicopters with buckets and tanks were taking advantage of small alpine lakes to drop thousands of gallons of water on the fires.

Idaho man diagnosed with West Nile

Ada County, Idaho A 58-year-old truck driver has been diagnosed with West Nile virus, the first Idaho resident this year to be infected with the potentially fatal disease transmitted by mosquitos.

The man, who was diagnosed Aug. 9, is not hospitalized and is recovering from the illness, officials said. His truck driving route takes him to California and Nevada, and he may also have been infected with the virus elsewhere.

West Nile virus was first discovered Uganda in 1937, and has recently spread beyond its traditional boundaries to Europe and the United States.

So far this year, Idaho has reported nine cases in which horses were infected with the virus, in Canyon, Gooding, Owyhee and Gem counties.

Birds testing positive for the disease were found in Canyon and Gem counties, and positive mosquito tests were found in Canyon and Payette counties.