Walla Walla / Milton-Freewater

Six World Vision employees die in Pakistan attack

six employees of washingotn state based world vision died today in pakistan. islamist militants set of an explosive and then stormed the offices in gun fire about 40 miles outside if Islamabad. all of the dead were from pakistan, two of the dead were woman.

Nealey gets 1st bill on Governor desk

state reprsenative terry nealey of dayton has put his first bill on the governers desk. in his first term in olympia nealey’s bill allows 3 contiguous cities with a population over 160-thousand people to create a combined regional public facilities district. the tri-cities will be one of the first areas to benefit as it will allow the individual municipalities to combined funds to create larger regional projects like an aquatic center or multi-city public facilities.

Budget issues will cost taxpayers $18,000 a day

today is the final day of the 60-day session in the LEGISLATURE, BUT LAWMAKERS aren’t done working yet. it appears that a special session will be in order to get budget details worked out between the house and the senate. Each additional day of the special session will cost taxpayers 18-thousand dollars.

Search suspended for missing hiker

the search for the missing hiker from portland has been suspended. skamania county under sheriff dave cox said that the search for 24-year-old kathrine Heuther was stopped after ground searcher, 2 dog teams, 2 horse teams and us coast guard helicopters had searched throughly for another day.

More gang arrest made by police

walla walla police have made another arrest this week related to gang activities. 19-year-old ricardo morales and an unidentified 17-year-old male were taken in to custody and a loaded semi-automatic handgun was recovered after a short pursuit tuesday afternoon. public information officer tim bennett said this continues a recent increase in gang related crimes.

bennett said that officers are being redirected from other duties right now in the evening to provide more patrol covergae during targeted times.

bennett also said citizens need to assist police and their neighbors by being aware of what is going on. if a citizens does see something of concern they should call police dispatch.