In brief: Suspect arrested after I-90 chase
A drug suspect was arrested early Saturday after trying to flee Spokane police by driving the wrong way down Interstate 90, police said.
Nathan T. Mitchell, 37, was in possession of heroin and tried to discard stolen credit cards when he was taken into custody, police said.
Mitchell allegedly tried to elude Cpl. Kurt Vigessa, who was responding to a call about drug activity outside the Zip Trip at Perry Street and Illinois Avenue at 12:27 a.m.
The driver fled south through the Garry Park neighborhood. When he entered the westbound lanes of I-90 headed eastbound from near Helena Street, police said, Vigessa stopped pursuing him in the interest of safety. But the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office helicopter spotted the vehicle a short time later, and its driver attempted to flee south on foot across I-90, police said. Mitchell was arrested in the backyard of a residence near Third Avenue and Crestline Street.
Stimulus bonds could aid cobalt mining
BOISE – A Canadian-based mining company hopes to take advantage of the 2009 federal stimulus act to help it start digging cobalt in central Idaho by 2012.
Formation Metals Inc. aims to benefit from $46.7 million in tax-exempt bonds from two county industrial development corporations.
The bonds, authorized by the state of Idaho, were part of the 2009 federal stimulus bill.
The bonds’ tax-exempt provisions make them more attractive to investors, who won’t have to pay tax on interest they earn for investing in the mine.
LAKE MILLS, Wash. – Excavators have started ripping out a 37-acre grove of alder trees on the Olympic Peninsula’s Elwha River in the first stage of what’s being billed as the largest dam removal project in the nation’s history.
The $350 million project begins in earnest in September 2011, when workers will begin dismantling the 108-foot high Elwha Dam and the 210-foot high Glines Canyon Dam.
Workers with Cherokee Construction Services of Vancouver, Wash., last week began clearing the grove where the river meets Lake Mills – a task expected to be completed this week. Then, workers can begin digging a channel to make sure the river heads in the right direction when the dams come down.