Medical Lake News

Parents with children in the Yakima Valley School for the developmentally disabled see a bad omen in a consultant's recom-mendation that the school be downsized and ultimately converted to a community center with a limited number of beds.

The Central Valley School District was celebrating a critical victory on the ballot back in 1998.

Thursday morning was dangerous for drivers on area roads as thick and freezing fog coupled with high speeds led to a number of collisions.

This cross-post from AFSCME highlights the protest by members of AFSCME Local 573 in Washington State against Gov.

A dense fog advisory is in effect for the Spokane area until 11 a.m. Friday, but otherwise the forecast calls for dry weather around the Inland Northwest for Friday with a high of 53.

Eastern Washington phone line and DSL provider CenturyTel is renaming itself CenturyLink.

Tyler R. Lust, of Spokane, and Rose M. Lenier-Rieck, of Medical Lake. Kevin S. Pennington and Amy L. Byrd, both of Great Falls.

Phillip A. Paul in 1987 was declared criminally insane for killing an elderly woman after voices in his head told him she was a witch.

Lakeland Village, the residential facility for the developmentally disabled at Medical Lake, would be phased out in eight years for all but the most acute-care patients under a cost-cutting plan to close state institutions.

Barbara Fisher poses with the quilt sewn by the American Legion Auxiliary Unit 196 in Medical Lake.

In Tuesdaya s 6-0 win over Medical Lake, she splits the defense of Jenny Smith, left, and Whitney Wren.

You've got to wonder who was running the asylum By Larry Simoneaux There's this image in my head.

Jennifer Tiegs of Spokane, 1st place, 2009 Spokane Interstate Fair Honey Buttermilk Bread 1-1/4 cups water 1-1/4 cup cold buttermilk 1/4 cup honey 5-1/2 cups whole wheat flour 2 teaspoons salt 1/4 cup vegetable or canola oil 2 tablespoons butter Add water, cold buttermilk and honey together in a medium saucepan.

They say that art imitates life, and, if you pay attention, it sometimes works the other way.

West Valleya s Diondre Ross stiff-arms Clarkstona s Ethan Fox while fighting for a first down.

What's wrong with this headline: "Insane killer recaptured after escape during field trip" ? What's wrong is that an "insane killer" was on a "field trip" in the first place, visiting the Spokane County Interstate Fair no less.

The head of Eastern State Hospital has resigned in the wake of last week's escape by a criminally insane man who stayed on the run for three days.Hospital chief executive officer Harold Wilson sent his resignation to the Department of Social and Health Services, effective Oct.

Following the escape of schizophrenic killer Phillip Paul from the Spokane County Fair while under care of Eastern State Hospital employees, the Medical Lake police department reports that unauthorized absences by patients are not a rare occurrence.

Officers from the Spokane County Sheriff's Department confer in the parking lot outside the Spokane County Fairgrounds and Expo Center where a killer committed to a mental institution has escaped.

A helicopter clattered over transient camps and rail yards in the expanding search for an insane killer as investigators tried to determine whether he planned his getaway from a field trip organized by a mental hospital.