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If you get a check in the mail from the Washington Attorney General’s Office, don’t throw it away. It’s not a scam, as feared by several who called The Columbian after the unexpected checks arrived.
The attorney general sent $50 and $120 checks to 400,000 consumers across the state after settling a series of price-fixing lawsuits with poultry and tuna producers.
KENNEWICK – The LIGO Hanford Observatory near Richland is expected to experience 60 percent more catastrophic cosmic events, such as collisions of neutron stars and black holes, thanks to a breakthrough in quantum limits.
Since the observatory returned to operation in May after three years of upgrades, adding new quantum compression technology, it can explore a greater volume of the universe.
A Battle Ground man and a Vancouver woman were identified by the Clark County Medical Examiner’s Office as the other people who died in a crash Dec. 20 near Five Corners.
Motorcyclist Conner Alan Springer, 21, of Battle Ground, died from blunt force trauma to the head, neck and torso after crashing into a car, according to a news release issued Wednesday. He was wearing a helmet. The driver of the car, Brenda Velasquez, 37, of Vancouver, died from blunt force trauma to the head and torso.
The opening of Battle Ground’s newest food cart pod, Battle Ground Station, has been delayed again, and a new opening date has not been set.
The location at 106 E. Main St. , next to the Margarita Factory restaurant, was originally scheduled to open in November, but the date was pushed back to Monday. This date came and went without opening.
When The Columbian recently published an article about the former Totem Pole eating spot at Hazel Dell, we asked readers what else they’d like to know, the Clark Asks portal on our website.