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CHENEY – Eastern Washington University’s Board of Trustees have approved using more cash reserves and an allocation of reduction targets in order to close a $22.54 million operating budget shortfall. At a special meeting today (July 24) held via Zoom, the board voted 8-0 in approving expense reduction targets of 13.5 percent for all university areas except Diversity and Inclusion and Academic Affairs. The latter will look for ways to come up with a 22.3 percent reductions in expenses while the former will be exempt from red...
PASCO — The buyer of an Xbox was taken for a ride when the seller stole his cash and dragged him down the street on the outside of a minivan. The buyer said he would meet the seller after agreeing to an online purchase. They met Tuesday morning in the parking lot of the 7-11 convenience store on Road 44 in Pasco to trade cash for the video game system, according to the Pasco police. "After he had seen and touched the (Xbox), he passed the cash to the seller and reached in thro...
KENNEWICK — A Pasco man is facing possible charges after leading a Benton County Sheriff's Office deputy on a chase on U.S. Highway 397 and then crashing. Eric Perezbernal, 22, was arrested following the 12:45 a.m. Saturday, July 25, crash, according to the Washington State Patrol. He was not injured, the patrol reported. But his passenger, Jonathan Gomez Magana, 19, also of Pasco, was taken by ambulance to a Pasco hospital. The patrol car was driven by Daniel Korten, 50, of West Richland, the patrol reported. He was not i...