A 35-year-old North Whidbey man is accused of choking his girlfriend during an argument that turned physical Jan. 9, court documents state.
Prosecutors charged James Randall in Island County Superior Court Jan. 13 with second-degree assault, domestic violence. He pleaded not guilty Feb. 1.
The “Barefoot Burglar” has struck again. Maybe.
The Islands Sounder reported Thursday that Camano Island native Colton Harris-Moore, 18, is a suspect in a Feb. 11 airplane theft in Skagit County and a burglary at a market on Orcas Island.
A 31-year-old former Oak Harbor resident who admitted to molesting a child and turned himself in to police has also pleaded guilty.
Joshua Lawrence, currently a Marysville resident, agreed to a plea bargain that potentially could have saved him from years in prison. He pleaded guilty in Island County Superior Court Feb. 8 to three counts of child molestation in the first degree.
Living on a Whidbey Island beach can have its challenges. There’s the trespassers, the duck hunters, the wind and the large, rotting carcasses in the backyard.
A resident of Madrona Way near Coupeville called 911 last Friday to report a dead cow on the beach. The call was passed on to Erica Martell, an environmental health specialist with the Island County Health Department.
Again this year, the majority of the funds collected through Island County’s lodging tax were disbursed to the six chambers of commerce in the county.
But that distribution could change in the future.
A couple of recent announcements spell good news for land conservation efforts in Ebey’s National Historical Reserve, the nation’s first and arguably most scenic national historical reserve.
Last week, The Nature Conservancy announced that the National Park Service had purchased a scenic easement from the Conservancy to protect 35 acres surround the 150-year-old Ferry House, one of the oldest and most significant buildings in the state.
A 41-year-old Oak Harbor woman’s wedding night ended badly last November.
According to court records, she was arrested on suspicion of possessing methamphetamine and driving under the influence on the way home from a night in a bridal suite. Her new husband was arrested on a felony warrant from another state.
Whidbey News-Times Publisher Marcia Van Dyke announced this week that the newspaper is moving its office from Oak Harbor to Coupeville because the current, aging building on SE Barrington Drive is too large for the staff and too expensive to maintain.
Faced with the dilemma of finding new office space, Van Dyke decided to consolidate space with its sister newspaper, the South Whidbey Record.
In an opinion published last week, the Washington State Supreme Court upheld the conviction of a former Oak Harbor man who beat his 21-month old son to death in 1991.
Many Island County residents are probably not aware that they are supposed to purchase licenses for their dogs, and for Oak Harbor residents, even their cats.
Not doing so means that runaway pets may be harder to return to their owners. And it means that the money isn’t being collected by local government.
The Whidbey Island Naval Air Station will receive an additional 26 EA-18G Growler aircraft under President Obama’s 2011 defense budget.
Under the proposal, the Department of Defense plans to purchase the additional 26 electronic attack aircraft over the next two years.
U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen made the announcement late Monday.
A former Oak Harbor swim coach who was accused of sexually molesting at least a dozen young swimmers, including one Whidbey Island girl, was sentenced to 40 years in prison in a California courtroom Jan. 29.
Andrew “Andy” King, 61, pleaded no contest to 20 child molestation charges last year in the San Jose court.
Kevin Porter came home extremely drunk to a travel trailer parked in a Greenbank woods and started beating his sleeping girlfriend last Saturday night.
The 38-year-old man didn’t stop until the woman’s body was covered with bruises, her vertebra was cracked and she suffered life-threatening hemorrhaging in the space between her brain and the tissue that surrounds it.
