The Columbian

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Air-monitoring canisters will be placed in four buildings, including Fort Vancouver High School, to check whether vapor is wafting into enclosed places from a plume of tainted groundwater. State environmental and health authorities announced Friday they will conduct the monitoring after soil samples in the area revealed a dry-cleaning chemical had been detected in soil five feet below the ... Full Story »

I was having lunch with an attorney this week, and she had done her homework on me. All good attorneys do their homework and I suspect she’s a very good one. Full Story »

State auditor’s office unable to determine what happened to revenue from city-sponsored events By Marissa Harshman Full Story »

Passing over the recommendation of C-Tran’s board of directors, Gov. Chris Gregoire has appointed Vancouver city Councilor Jeanne Harris to a high-level advisory committee on the Columbia River Crossing. In doing so, the governor rejected the C-Tran board’s recommendation of fellow Vancouver city Councilor Jeanne Stewart. Full Story »

When you start down the road of psychoanalysis, Linda Glover chuckled, it doesn’t take long to get to your mother. When Glover learned she’d been named a 2010 Woman of Achievement, she considered what she’d accomplished — as a businesswoman, civic booster and champion of nonprofits and the needy — and arrived back at her mother. Full Story »

A Battle Ground man was no longer in the Clark County Jail on Friday night, a day after being arrested on suspicion of communicating with a minor for immoral purposes. David P. Harlen, 41, was arrested Thursday. On Wednesday, police officers and detectives had executed a search warrant at his home at 1105 S.E. Sixth St., according to a bulletin from the Battle Ground Police Department. Full Story »

Visitors bureau: The Vancouver USA Regional Tourism Office is the new name of the Southwest Washington Convention and Visitors Bureau. The new name was incorrect in a story that appeared on Page E1 of Friday’s Columbian. Full Story »

A man who was seen in a Vancouver supermarket with a handgun visible in a holster — prompting a call to 911 on Friday — was ticketed and released with a court date, police said. Shortly after 4 p.m., officers were sent to the Albertsons store at 5000 E. Fourth Plain Blvd., said Sgt. Greg Raquer with the Vancouver Police Department. Full Story »

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Vancouver police are asking the public to help find a missing father and son, an 11-year-old boy who may be in danger. Travis R. Mason, 30, picked his son, Corey, up at school on Thursday and drove away in a gray 2004 Chevrolet pickup with an extended cab and California license 7G48912, police say. Full Story »

The Washington State Auditor’s Office was unable to determine what happened to unaccounted-for revenue from community events in Washougal, the city announced this afternoon. As a result, Mayor Sean Guard asked the Clark County Sheriff’s Office to launch a criminal investigation, which has already begun. Full Story »

A 48-year-old Vancouver man was arrested Thursday for an alleged assault in which he threw a weighty candle holder at one of his female parents’ head and choked her while the other woman ran for help. The women are in a domestic partnership, Vancouver Police Sgt. Wayne Reynolds said. Full Story »

A man who kidnapped a 15-year-old girl last year and held her hostage to be his prostitute has pleaded guilty in Clark County Superior Court to the promotion of commercial sexual abuse of a minor. Full Story »

Fire investigators are combing through the rubble of a destroyed home, still searching for the cause of the blaze at 3605 Thompson Ave., in Vancouver’s Fruit Valley area. Full Story »

A large trampoline was stolen over the weekend from a resident who was moving from a home in the 25000 block of Northeast Fern Drive. Full Story »

Wrong address: U.S. Rep. Brian Baird’s Washington, D.C., office is in the Rayburn House Office Building, Independence Avenue and South Capitol Street, Washington, D.C., 20003. A story in The Columbian on Thursday misstated the office’s location. Full Story »

A sex offender who recently was homeless has moved to 10307 N.E. 119th St., west of Prairie High School. Vernon Karl Isgrigg, 51, is classified as Level 3 sex offender, the group considered most likely to commit new sex crimes, according to a bulletin from the Sex Offender Registration Unit of the Clark County Sheriff’s Office. Full Story »

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The Center for Social and Environmental Justice at Washington State University Vancouver will host a spring conference from 8:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. March 27 in room 110 of the administration building. Full Story »

During eight years in the Legislature, Rep. Deb Wallace has confronted a few moments of truth. One came Feb. 23, when the fate of a hotly contested bill to allow the state’s major universities to set their own undergraduate tuition rates landed on her plate. Full Story »

The Legislature’s top health care officials urged U.S. Rep. Brian Baird Thursday to support the health care reform proposal before the U.S. House of Representatives. Sen. Karen Keiser, chairwoman of the Senate Health and Long Term Care Committee, and Rep. Eileen Cody, who heads the House Health and Wellness Committee, told Baird he should seize the opportunity to help Washington state control ... Full Story »

Vancouver Public Schools will offer day camps for students age 6 to 13 during spring break week, March 29 through April 2. Full Story »

Seven schools in Clark County were among 174 public schools named Washington Achievement Award winners on Wednesday, under a new accountability matrix employed by the State Board of Education. Full Story »