HIT AND RUN
• Centralia police took a report about 3:10 p.m. yesterday at the 1000 block of Kresky Avenue regarding a car backing into a building and then leaving. It was described as a small green Honda Accord, according to the Centralia Police Department.
OVEN FIRES
• Chehalis firefighters were called about 4:30 pm. yesterday to an oven fire at a home on the 700 block of 18th Street and because a crew from Lewis County Fire District 6 beat them to the scene, Chehalis firefighters answered a call that came out moments later for a commercial oven fire in District 6’s area. Chehalis Firefighter Casey Beck said there was a lot of smoke at the 1700 block of Bishop Road but they filled the oven with foam and extinguished it. The small operation uses the oven to extract metal from rubber, Beck said.
DEPUTY RATES MAY INCREASE FOR VADER
• The (Longview) Daily News reports that although Vader’s city council voted down Lewis County Sheriff Rob Snaza’s proposal to raise the rate Vader pays for sheriff’s office services from $55 to $65 per hour, the mayor is hopeful a replacement contract can be approved during the next council meeting.
VICTIM OF DECEMBER WRECK DIES
• The Washington State Patrol indicated today an investigation into a serious two-car collision involving a Rochester resident is now being investigated for vehicular homicide. Both drivers were injured the morning of Dec. 11 on state Route 507 about three miles south of Yelm but Kenneth T. Brackett, 51, of Rainer, died on Dec. 26, according to the state patrol. Corey R. Tribble, 40, from Rochester, was arrested at the time for vehicular assault.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, harassment, driving with suspended license, third-degree malicious mischief; responses for misdemeanor theft, suspicious circumstances, collisions on city street, parking lot … and more.