Big-rig crashes avoiding deer
Wallace
A tractor-trailer hauling 41,000 pounds of apples flipped on its side early Saturday morning, after the driver swerved to avoid a deer on Interstate 90.
Neither the truck driver, Fredrick W. Boham, 23, of Great Falls, Mont., nor the passenger, Kerry A. Kellar, 21, of Bemidji, Minn., was injured.
The accident occurred around 2:22 a.m. between Wallace and Lookout Pass.
According to Washington State Patrol reports, Boham overcorrected after he swerved to avoid the deer, and hit the center divider. The tractor-trailer came to rest on its side on the barrier.
Chum salmon will be in town for celebration
Roy, Wash. The recent rainy weather is helping spawning chum salmon make it up Muck Creek all the way to this Pierce County town for the first time in two years.
And the fish are arriving in time for next weekend’s annual Roy Salmon Homecoming, celebrated by the town and the Nisqually Indian Tribe. Often they’re late or – when water is low – don’t quite make it to town.
Once the salmon reach their home waters, the females lay eggs and the males fertilize them, and then they die. Muck Creek supports about 30,000 fish in the Nisqually River chum run.
A sign near a bridge across the creek declares: “The Fish Are Back.”
Roy Nixon, 92, who lives across the street, put the sign there on New Year’s Day – replacing one that read, “No Fish.”
“They were late,” Nixon said. “We didn’t think we’d have fish this year.”
For decades, there were no chum salmon in Muck Creek. They came back in 1999, after volunteers cleared the creek and planted trees along its banks. Now the waterway supports about a third of the Nisqually chum run.
State won’t prosecute sheriff with DUI
Salmon, Idaho The state won’t prosecute the Lemhi County sheriff for alleged drunken driving in December, saying it doesn’t have enough information about the case.
Sheriff Slam Slavin pleaded guilty to drunken driving in April, and he was sentenced to a 30-day suspension of his license and a year of unsupervised probation. He had been arrested in March after Boise police saw him driving the wrong way down a one-way street.
New allegations surfaced after a Dec. 28 search-and-rescue operation led by the sheriff.
Law enforcement officials who were helping out filed statements that day saying Slavin was drinking on the job. Witnesses said he had two or three light beers in five to 15 minutes, stashed the empty containers in an officer’s vehicle, and then drove away in his patrol truck.
The state chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving says it will ask Idaho State Police in Boise to look into the matter.
Furtive 911 call leads to woman’s rescue
Bremerton A 43-year-old woman who survived an all-night assault in her home was rescued when a sheriff’s deputy responded to a 911 hang-up call, the Kitsap County sheriff’s office says.
Deputies found the man accused of attacking her, a 49-year-old she had previously dated, unresponsive and bleeding from self-inflicted knife wounds, Deputy Scott Wilson said.
The Central Kitsap man was transported to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, where he was under police guard. A warrant has been issued for his arrest with bail set at $500,000, Wilson said Friday night.
When the man is released from the hospital, he will be booked into jail for investigation of rape, burglary, unlawful imprisonment and assault, Wilson said. He declined to identify the man pending an initial court appearance.
The East Bremerton woman was treated at Harrison Medical Center.