Klickitat County News Archives

But the gifts being shipped to our state, will come at a smelly price. Garbage from Honolulu will be taken to the Roosevelt landfill in Klickitat County.

Some of Hawaii's trash is headed to a landfill in Eastern Washington. Oahu starts shipping trash Monday under a contract signed in August with Seattle-based Hawaiian Waste Systems.

The head of Eastern State Hospital has resigned amid widespread outrage over the escape last week of a schizophrenic killer during a hospital-sanctioned outing to a Spokane fair.

The Spokane County Sheriff's Office will submit a $37,000 bill to the state for the cost of hunting down escaped Eastern State Hospital patient Phillip A. Paul.

The criminally insane killer who escaped from a Spokane County fair last week explains why he escaped.

Criminally insane killer Phillip Paul has a long history both in and out of Eastern State Hospital.

A schizophrenic killer who slipped away from the staff of a mental institution during a trip to a county fair has been recaptured after three days on the loose.

GOLDENDALE, Wash. - Spokane County Sheriff's Office Sergeant Dave Reagan says the FBI and Spokane County Sheriff's Office deputies with U.S. Marshalls are searching for escapee Phillip Arnold Paul in Goldendale, Wash., according to KREM.com. Paul, a patient from Eastern State Hospital, judged criminally insane, has been missing since Thursday.

A Benton County man in his 40s is among three more cases of West Nile virus confirmed in Washington, bringing to 13 the number of people infected in the state this year, the state Department of Health reported today.

Four cases of West Nile virus have been confirmed in Yakima County residents, the Yakima Health District announced Friday.

The Spokane Regional Health District is warning of West Nile Virus in Spokane County, after a dead magpie was found and tested for the virus.

A dead crow found in Seattle's Laurelhurst neighborhood tested positive for the West Nile virus, the first found in King County this year.