Serving Franklin County, WA
Serving Franklin County, WA
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COLFAX – Fifteen people are charged with furnishing liquor to minors after a Washington State University (WSU) student died of alcohol poisoning in 2019. Samuel H. Martinez, 19, of Bellevue, was a pledge to the fraternity Alpha Tau Omega on Linden Street in Pullman. He died on Nov. 12, 2019, during a fraternity event. The Wittman County coroner ruled his death as accidental acute alcohol poisoning. Martinez was last seen to be alive at 2 a.m. on Nov. 11 while sleeping on h...
LIND - A tanker truck and trailer carrying hydraulic oil overturned on U.S. Highway 395 at Milepost 75, 19 miles south of Ritzville, shortly before 1:30 p.m. Thursday, June 17, spilling oil into the median and onto the southbound lanes. Both lanes were blocked until shortly after 4 p.m. The driver was headed northbound on U.S. Highway 395 when he allegedly looked up at something on the hillside, crossed the median, and overturned on the southbound lanes. Both the driver and...
PASCO — A Richland woman was taken to a Kennewick hospital after allegedly causing a crash on U.S. Highway 395 at the Lewis Street exit. Rebecca Acevedo, 39, was southbound in a 2005 Chrysler 300 when traffic slowed in front of her at about 4:43 p.m. Thursday, June 17, the Washington State Patrol reported. Acevedo failed to slow and rear-ended a 2015 Chevrolet Traverse driven by Jamie D. Sampson, 42, of Montpelier, Idaho, the patrol said. Both women were wearing seatbelts and neither drugs nor alcohol was a factor, the p...
STARBUCK — A Waitsburg girl was injured on Little Goose Dam Road when she crashed about 8:21 p.m. Thursday, June 17. Aubriahna L. Araya, 16, was transported to a hospital in Dayton for crash-related injuries, the Washington State Patrol reported. Araya was northbound approaching state Highway 261 when she failed to negotiate a curve, lost control of her 2013 Honda Civic and crashed into a ditch, the patrol said. The cause of the crash was excessive speed, the patrol said. Neither drugs nor alcohol were factors, the patrol s...