In brief: Teenager killed in highway crash

A 16-year-old girl died Saturday morning of injuries from a traffic accident that occurred Friday on state Route 195.

Lorissa Lynette Green was a sophomore at Cheney High School.

Green was driving a 1999 Plymouth Breeze, heading eastbound on Cheney-Spokane Road, according to police reports. She headed into the intersection, where she was struck by David L. Blyton, 59, of Spangle. Blyton was headed southbound on Route 195, driving a 2004 GMC pickup and pulling a utility trailer.

The accident was reported at 5:26 p.m. Friday. Both vehicles were totaled.

Green was taken to Sacred Heart Medical Center, where she died. Blyton was treated and released at Deaconess Medical Center.

Region

Holiday affects offices, services

The following offices and services will be affected by the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday on Monday:

•All city, county, state and federal offices will be closed.

•Post offices will be closed.

•State-run liquor stores will be closed in Washington and open in Idaho. Stores operated by contractors may be open; contact them directly for their holiday schedules.

•Most banks will be closed.

•Most garbage pickup will continue on schedule.

Portland

Police chief better, ‘humbled’

Woodburn Police Chief Scott Russell is improving after he was critically injured in a bomb blast at a Woodburn bank last month.

Russell, 46, lost his right leg in the Dec. 12 blast, which killed 51-year-old William “Bill” Hakim, an Oregon State Police bomb technician, and 51-year-old Tom Tennant, a captain in the Woodburn Police Department.

Russell has undergone 17 surgeries since the explosion. Two Marion County men, a father and son, have pleaded not guilty to various charges in the bombing.

In a statement released Friday, Russell said he is “humbled by the support shown to him, continues to lean on his faith, and looks forward to the day when he can return to serving his community.”

Russell remains at Oregon Health & Science University Hospital in Portland.

Man, 92, charged in shootings

A 92-year-old man described as suffering from dementia has been charged with shooting and critically wounding his daughter and his son.

John W. Myers was charged with attempted aggravated murder in the Friday shootings of his 43-year-old daughter, Kim Mackintosh, and his 49-year-old son, Mark Myers.

Police led Myers away in his bathrobe after they found Mark Myers in the driveway with a gunshot wound to his chest and his sister on a couch inside the home with a gunshot wound to her head.

Mackintosh’s 12-year-old son, who was not injured, was hiding in a room in the house.

Sgt. Brian Schmautz, a police spokesman, said it was rare for anybody in their 90s to face attempted murder charges.

From staff

and wire reports