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OLYMPIA – Three years after getting drunk, blowing through a stop sign and triggering a wreck that left her passenger critically injured, a former Idaho resident has filed a $1.5 million claim against Washington's Pend Oreille County for not detaining her before she caused the crash. In her claim, Ashlen Lee says that on June 12, 2002, a county sheriff's deputy stopped her truck around 3:30 a.m. and could see that she had been drinking. But after quizzing her, the deputy let the 17-year-old drive away. The officer said he'd give them a warning," said Lee's attorney, W. Russell Van...

WINFIELD, W.Va. (AP) -- A Putnam County sheriff's deputy's house has become a crime scene. But the deputy's not to blame. Authorities are looking for a man they say constructed a methamphetamine lab at the deputy's West Virginia house while the officer was on vacation. The declined to identify the deputy. Chief Deputy John Dailey said Wednesday that officers learned that the deputy's relative staying in the house was producing the drug. The deputy, vacationing out of state, allowed authorities to search the house. "I guess the relative thought `What better place than this to have a meth lab?'" Dailey...