The Island County coroner has identified the body of a woman who may have jumped off Deception Pass Bridge Friday night.
Coroner Robert Bishop said Saturday night that the woman was 40-year-old Jessica Van Pelt of Burlington.
Police say that a 24-year-old Oak Harbor man killed his wife’s toy poodle by throwing it against a wall, court documents indicate.
A 24-year-old Oak Harbor woman was seriously injured in a one-car accident on North Whidbey early Wednesday morning.
“The bridge, completed, flaunts itself arrogantly across the sky line, it looks far down into the swirling pools and eddies of the pass’ treacherous waters, it looks out on either side upon a view of surpassing beauty and grandeur.”
Thus, the Island County Farm Bureau News, the predecessor of the Whidbey News-Times, announced the completion of the Deception Pass Bridge on July 25, 1935. The flowery language and sheer volumes of newspaper stories about the building of Deception Pass Bridge, during the midst of the Great Depression, underscores how important and impressive the project was for people in the region.
A 24-year-old Oak Harbor woman was seriously injured in a one-car accident on North Whidbey early Wednesday morning.
The Washington State Patrol reported that Fancy Lawson was driving a 1998 Lincoln Navigator northbound on Highway 20 just south of Monkeyhill Road. Lawson attempted to pass another vehicle on the right, but left the road to the right. The car rolled end over end. Lawson was partially ejected.
A small group of officials in Island County’s law and justice community recently got together to discuss how to handle a possible onslaught of media if and when Colton Harris-Moore arrives in Coupeville.
A 47-year-old Langley resident is accused of choking his girlfriend, court documents state.
Prosecutors charged Frederick VanBenschoten III in Island County Superior Court June 23 with assault in the second degree by strangulation.
Now that summer has finally made it to Whidbey Island, it’s time for road construction to begin.
A 37-year-old Oak Harbor man was recently sent to prison for assaulting his wife while there was a court order barring him from contacting her.
A $1.2 million hole in Island County’s current expense fund, which will likely swell to $2 million in a few years, has sparked debate over how the county spends money.
A handful of residents have argued that at a time of 9 percent unemployment in the county, local government should cut spending instead of raising taxes. Some want to target the salaries and so-called “gold-plated benefits” of county employees for cuts.
A 40-year-old Oak Harbor bookkeeper is accused of stealing more than $60,000 from the American Legion and another $15,000 from a small business over the last couple of years, court documents indicate.
An Oak Harbor man who took part in a brutal assault that was caught on video outside a downtown bar three months ago was finally arrested following a brief standoff with police last month, court documents indicate.
The “barefoot burglar” famously got his start on Camano Island before moving on to bigger and badder things.
Now Camano has another burglar who may be worthy of a catchy monicker, like perhaps “the bacon burglar.”
