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SCHOOL FIGHT AND THREATS OF RETALIATION LEADS TO DAY OFF FOR ALL TOLEDO STUDENTS

• Three Toledo High School students are on emergency expulsion after they allegedly went to the middle school yesterday and assaulted a student there. The arrest of the boys and ensuing rumor mill through texting and Facebook prompted authorities to cancel classes today district wide. Toledo School District Superintendent Sharon Bower said as police and the schools are sorting through the incident, she closed down the high school, middle school, elementary school and alternative school for the day. “The kids are saying a lot of things we don’t think are true, so we wanted to squelch that,” Bower said this morning. “I just didn’t think it was a good place for kids to be today.” Later today, Police Chief John Brockmueller reported the rumors included ambiguous threats of possible retaliation at the middle school. Brockmueller said police were called yesterday morning to the middle school on Fifth Street. Brockmueller said he arrested the three boys for misdemeanor assault. The victim was a middle school boy, he said. The suspects were released to their parents and the case was being referred for possible charges, he said this morning. Later today, the police chief said in a news release the trio was booked into the Lewis County Juvenile Detention Center. They included a 14-year-old for misdemeanor assault, and a 14-year-old and a 15-year-old for criminal conspiracy. Bower said it happened inside the school but “they really didn’t get to carry through” as staff intervened right away. Bower said they really don’t have fights at their schools. The closure follows several days last week when students were off at the middle and elementary schools because a water main break left them without water.

ROLLOVER CRASH SENDS TWO TO HOSPITALS

• A woman was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle after a rollover accident last night on Interstate 5 at the exit 68 interchange. Firefighters and medics called about 10:45 p.m. to the northbound lanes at Avery Road and U.S. Highway 12 found the car in a ditch, according to Lewis County Fire District 5. Both airbags deployed and the car, with Oregon license plates, appeared destroyed, according to Firefighter Brad Bozarth. An adult male was taken to Providence Centralia Hospital for possible internal injuries, Bozarth said.

ALLEGED DISPLAY OF KNIFE LEADS TO ARREST

• Chehalis police arrested an individual for second-degree assault domestic violence after being called about 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday to an apartment on the 900 block of South Market Boulevard. Deputy Police Chief Randy Kaut said a 19-year-old woman had reportedly picked up a knife during a dispute with a 30-year-old man who also lives there. Nobody was injured and she did not have a knife when officers arrived, he said. The woman has not been charged, pending further investigation.

THEFT, THEFT, MORE THEFT

• Centralia police say a witness got a license plate number after a female stole purses totaling more than $1,000 from the 1300 block of Lum Road and fled in a white mini van yesterday evening. Police were called about the theft about 6:40 p.m. and continue to investigate.

• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reported yesterday they investigated a residential burglary on the 1500 block of South Schueber Road in which an estimated $100,000 of jewelry was stolen. Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said a deputy was called about the incident on Oct. 7. Taken from the male victim was a large quantity of necklaces, ear rings, bracelets and watches, according to Brown.

• Centralia police took a report of a burglary to an office building on the 500 block of West Main Street at about 7:40 a.m. on Wednesday.

• Deputies responding to a burglary alarm about 1:40 p.m. Wednesday at the 100 block of Stearns Road outside Chehalis found a back door pried open but nothing missing. The sheriff’s office speculated the intruder must have been scared off by the alarm.

• An X-Box game and controller were missing after a burglary on the 1600 block of Windsor Avenue in Centralia reported on Tuesday afternoon to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. it happened sometime between 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. that morning, according to the sheriff’s office.

• Centralia police were called about 3:45 p.m. yesterday about the theft of a purse from a car at the 200 block of North Tower Avenue in Centralia. A summary of the incident from the police department notes a suspect was seen going through the purse at the train station but fled on foot before an officer arrived.

• Somebody stole the front-end cover off a vehicle on the 1700 block of Military Road in Centralia, according to a report made to police about 11:15 a.m. on Wednesday.

• Centralia police took a report of a vehicle prowl with damage done to the vehicle on the 300 block of West Pine Street at about 11 a.m. on Wednesday.

• The sheriff’s office is reminding the public not to leave valuables in plain sight inside parked vehicles after yet another car prowl at the rails to trails parking area outside Chehalis at the 200 block of Highway 603. A Chehalis man returned to his truck Monday afternoon to find somebody had broken a window and removed two hunting knives, according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown.

SMOKED UP FEED PLANT

• Firefighters from Chehalis and Centralia were called to a possible fire at the chicken feed plant on the 500 block of West Main Street in Chehalis at about 12:50 p.m. on Wednesday. They found a ball bearing had overheated and filled the plant with smoke, according to Chehalis Capt. Casey Beck.

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Sharyn’s Sirens was updated at 6:23 p.m.