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Authorities said a man wearing a yellow dress who had just been released from Western State Hospital first stole a school bus and later drove a piece of heavy equipment through the home of his estranged wife. Employees of Osprey Rafting on Saturday said they saw a man wearing a yellow dress drive away in the company’s yellow school bus from an area east of Leavenworth on SR 2 around 7:40 p.m. Chelan County sheriff’s deputies responded and found the bus heading eastbound. Deputies said the driver ran a red light near Monitor and they tried to pull the driver...

Back at school | Pandemic continues, but life goes on at Wenatchee and Eastmont highsAs students have returned to high school, they have had to adapt to changes to continue their activities. Wenatchee High School sophomore Alison Chamberlain and the rest of the band practice in small COVID-19 enclosures around the school's auditorium on Tuesday. Half of the band practices at a time. Juan Cruz fits into a small enclosure with his sousaphone during band practice at Wenatchee High School Tuesday.

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As a result of China’s flooding the world market with cheap, state-subsidized aluminum and our president’s irrational aversion to fossil fuels, a 127-year-old American industry is in danger of disappearing. This week, the two largest primary aluminum producers in the United States announced curtailment of aluminum production at key smelters across the country. Alcoa announced that it was halting smelting operations at its Intalco Works (583 employees) and Wenatchee plants (428 employees) in Washington state, its Massena West plant in New York (500 employees) and that it was curtailing alumina refining capacity at its Point Comfort facility in Texas. Century...

Judge Allows New GOP Allegations of Fraud in Washington Governor's RaceBy Rebecca Cook Associated Press Writer Published: May 24, 2005 WENATCHEE, Wash. (AP) - A top King County elections official on Tuesday denied knowing about an absentee ballot report allegedly falsified by county workers while counting ballots in the 2004 governor's election. Elections Superintendent Bill Huennekens, testifying in a challenge to Washington state's 2004 gubernatorial election, said the Democratic-leaning county that includes Seattle had absentee ballots but added: "I don't know that we have an exact number." He also acknowledged the report did not include 96 unopened, uncounted ballots that...

Tangipahoa sheriff alleges devil worship in child rape, animal sex case Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff Daniel Edwards said Friday that members of a Ponchatoula church cult accused of sexually abusing children and animals told detectives they carried out the practices for years as part of a devil-worshipping ritual involving cat blood. "This is hard to talk about and harder to believe, but some of the suspects have told us their intention in all of this was devil worshipping," Edwards said. Investigators arrested four more people on Thursday who are allegedly implicated in the child and animal sex ring, one of them...

Suit against Wenatchee in sex cases reinstatedJudge's shock ruling says key files were withheld By MIKE BARBER SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER In a stunning and strongly worded decision, a Spokane County judge yesterday reinstated a key civil lawsuit against the city of Wenatchee in the infamous child sex ring investigations of 1994-95. Superior Court Judge Michael Donohue agreed that key files concerning Bob Perez, the former Wenatchee police lead detective in the case, were never turned over to lawyers for the plaintiffs. They include East Wenatchee pastor Roby Roberson and others acquitted in 1995 of bizarre accusations of child molestation that...