Island County’s Animal Control officer was injured Monday afternoon when her van was sandwiched between a dump truck and a car.
A 30-year-old man who committed a series of burglaries in Whidbey Island years ago is trying to get his right to possess firearms reinstated so that he can fight pirates in the Indian Ocean.
Francis Miller was just 19 years old when he pleaded guilty to burglarizing four homes on North Whidbey. He was sentenced to a year in a boot-camp-style work ethics compound.
They haven’t gone viral, at least not yet, but the Island County commissioners are now on the Internet.
The county commissioners are video recording their regular Monday meetings and have made the videos simple for the public to watch on their website at www.islandcounty.net/commissioners/video.
Voters didn’t approve the renewal of the maintenance and operations levy for the North Whidbey Park and Recreation District, according to the first count of ballots in Tuesday’s primary election.
A 44-year-old Oak Harbor man is accused of threatening to kill his girlfriend and her children, court documents state.
Prosecutors charged John Coleman in Island County Superior Court Aug. 3 with two counts of harassment (threats to kill) and one count of assault in the fourth degree. The charges were all filed as domestic violence-related.
Island County public works officials are going to clarify policies regarding solid waste handling after an employee found a human cranium in the trash and stuck it on a pole, upsetting a member of the public.
Island County Coroner Robert Bishop verified that the cranium — a skull without the mandible — is indeed human. He said it has a serial number and marks that indicate it was a “teaching model” once used in schools or medical offices. He said it doesn’t appear to be ancient or Native American.
Island County native Colton Harris-Moore, the infamous “Barefoot Bandit,” agreed to sell his story to a movie company, but he won’t get to keep a cent of the $1.3 million payment.
Instead, the money will go to the victims of his cross-country crime spree. And that means Island County will likely get a share, since it is counted among the numerous alleged victims.
The Whidbey Environmental Action Network, commonly known as WEAN, is well known for bringing litigation against Island County over land-use policy and other environmental issues, having scored major victories on a number of occasions.
The Island County Prosecutor’s Office charged a 64-year-old Camano Island woman with a felony for signing her dead husband’s name to a ballot in the 2010 general election, court documents indicate.
Mary Jean Cumero is facing a single count of unqualified person voting, a charge that carries a standard sentence of up to a year in jail.
A 19-year-old Oak Harbor man is facing a felony charge for allegedly having sex with an underage girl, court documents indicate.
Prosecutors charged Robert Andres in Island County Superior Court July 25 with rape of a child in the third degree. Under the definition of the charge, an adult is guilty of the third-degree rape of a child if he has sex with a child who is at least 14 but less than 16 years old.
Whidbey General Hospital officials are scrambling to find a dermatologist to serve the island after Dr. Donald Russell Johnson abruptly closed the doors to his Coupeville office without warning two weeks ago.
Johnson also shuttered his swanky Island Medical Spa businesses in both Coupeville and Anacortes, as well as his Anacortes practice.
Island County Commissioner Kelly Emerson used a new wetland report as an opportunity to write scathing letters to her fellow commissioners and her former political opponent over their roles in the events surrounding her unsuccessful lawsuit against the county.
A benign proposal turned into a test of wills during an Island County commissioners meeting Monday, but ended in compromise.
The proposal in question would have set a public hearing at 10:20 a.m. on Aug. 15 for a change in the county’s code that would decriminalize certain animal control violations.
But Commissioner Kelly Emerson said the public hearing should be delayed until 6 p.m. on the fourth Monday of the month in order to comply with county code. The code she referred to states that “when possible, public hearings will be held on the fourth Monday meeting, beginning at 6 p.m.”
