In brief: Fire damages apartment complex
A fire displaced 15 residents of a north Spokane apartment complex early Saturday.
Reports of the one-alarm fire came in around 1:30 a.m. Flames heavily damaged the north side of the two-story building in the 6700 block of North Atlantic Street, Spokane fire officials said. The response was quick, though, and firefighters managed to keep the blaze from spreading beyond that section.
Several apartment units were severely damaged. The Red Cross provided food for the residents. Some received free clothes.
But with so many hotels booked for Hoopfest attendees, the Red Cross struggled to find places for the residents to spend the night, fire officials said.
Funeral service set for slain soldier
A funeral service for Army Spc. Jarrod Lallier will be held Monday at 1 p.m. at Life Center Church, 1202 N. Government Way.
Lallier, 20, was deployed to Afghanistan with the 82nd Airborne Division when men dressed as Afghan police opened fire on his unit last month.
Following the service, there will be military honors graveside at Fairmount Memorial Park, 5200 W. Wellesley Ave.
A reception is to follow at Life Center. In lieu of flowers, donations can be sent to woundedwarrior project.org or Wounded Warrior Project, PO Box 758517, Topeka, KS 66675.
Byway dedication ceremony held
SANDPOINT – The Sand Creek Byway around downtown Sandpoint has been officially dedicated.
A ceremony Friday marked the substantial completion of the $100 million project that Republican state Rep. George Eskridge, of Dover, says he first heard plans for in 1953.
Other state and local officials as well as the lead contractor took part in the ceremony. Idaho Transportation Board Vice Chair Jim Coleman said the U.S. 95 project is the most complex and most expensive ever done in Idaho.
The project has taken four years, and officials say they expect to have it open by mid-July.
Honeybees blamed for horse’s death
KALISPELL – Wild honeybees are to blame in the death of a 14-year-old horse named Fury in northwestern Montana, insect experts say.
Fury, a half Tennessee walker, half Appaloosa, likely was hypersensitive to their stings, said Cam Lay of the Montana Department of Agriculture.
Ruth O’Neill, a research associate with the Wanner Crop Entomology Lab at Montana State University in Bozeman, also identified the insects as honeybees.
Fury died within 15 hours of the June 16 attack.
A veterinarian who treated Fury said the horse went into anaphylactic shock and died quickly.
Officials ID bones found in forest
SEATTLE – Human bones found by a hiker in a remote forest in Skagit County have been identified as an Anacortes, Wash., man who went missing more than two years ago.
The King County medical examiner’s office identified the man as Keith A. Anderson, who is the father of Jake Anderson, a crew member of the Seattle-based fishing vessel featured in the Discovery Channel’s “Deadliest Catch” series.
The bones were found about a mile from where Keith Anderson’s truck had been found, KOMO News reported.
When he went missing in 2010, search and rescue teams were dispatched but couldn’t locate the retired high school counselor.