In brief: Race for the Cure raises $350,000

The second Eastern Washington Race for the Cure raised about $350,000 for breast cancer research and treatment, race organizers announced Tuesday.

More than 4,200 people took part in Sunday’s race, said Tom McArthur, a board member of the Eastern Washington chapter of the Susan G. Komen Foundation, the nonprofit that sponsors Race for a Cure. Last year’s inaugural event in Spokane drew about 200 participants, McArthur said.

The first-ever Race for the Cure was held in 1983 in Dallas. Next year, on the race’s 25th anniversary, the Komen Foundation expects more than 1 million people will take part in races nationwide and internationally.

Colfax

Man goes into coma, crashes

Two people suffered injuries Tuesday after a driver went into a diabetic coma and drove off the road, the Washington State Patrol said.

Douglas A. Cox, 36, of Pullman, was headed west on State Route 194 when he went into a coma and crossed the centerline of the highway, moving into the eastbound ditch before striking a culvert and a hillside, according to the state patrol. The crash occurred at 10:45 a.m. about 25 miles south of Colfax.

Neither Cox nor a passenger was wearing seat belts, and both were airlifted to Deaconess Medical Center.

A condition was not available for Cox, but authorities said the passenger was critical late Tuesday evening.

Officers did not write any citations, and no charges are pending.

Spokane Valley

Valley man wins $3 million jackpot

A Spokane Valley man won $3 million in a recent Lotto drawing.

Tom Walker, a real estate agent, was a millionaire for nearly a month without realizing it.

He’d bought his ticket at Casey’s Red Apple store in Langley, Wash., during the first week of April while spending spring break with his family on Whidbey Island. Weeks went by, and Walker never got around to checking his numbers.

Then on April 22 he was out eating Chinese food with his wife, Traci. They broke fortune cookies and Walker’s said he was in store for an especially important Monday.

“The next day was Monday morning. I got on the computer to check my ticket and it was an important day,” Walker said.

Walker showed up at Washington Lottery headquarters in Spokane Valley on Tuesday to collect his prize. The man who plays the lottery only four or five times a year chose a 25-year payout of $90,000 a year after taxes.

Walker, who plans to keep selling real estate for Tomlinson Black, said he’ll spend part of the money putting his four children through college and maybe become a pilot. He said he had no plans for the remainder of the cash.

Casey’s Red Apple received a $30,000 check for selling the winning ticket.

LAPWAI, Idaho

Idaho, Nez Perce sign water deal

A landmark $193 million water rights settlement to resolve claims by the Nez Perce Tribe in North Idaho has been signed nearly three years after it was negotiated.

Federal, state and tribal officials signed the complex consent decree that was issued by Idaho’s 5th District Court over the weekend, and it will be implemented after the terms are published in the Federal Register, probably in about three weeks, the Lewiston Tribune reported Tuesday.

The Nez Perce agreed to drop most of their claims to water in the Snake River basin in exchange for about $83 million, 11,000 acres of land now managed by the Bureau of Land Management and salmon conservation measures, including requirements for water releases from dams to aid migrating fish.