Firehouse News--Police have arrested a man suspected of setting five fires in northwest Spokane early one morning last winter.
The man admitted setting two of the fires in the early morning hours
of Feb. 22 but said he doesn't remember setting the others, according to
court documents.
Nathan T. Doering, 23, was arrested early Friday on a felony warrant
for first-degree arson. A Spokane firefighter found an illuminated
cellphone next to a fire hose at the scene of one of the fires at 2404
N. Columbus St. and turned it over to police. Investigators determined
the phone belonged to Doering, according to court records.
The five fires were strung out over a mile and a half and all were
reported between 2 and 2:30 a.m. Feb. 22. One was a vegetation fire in a
yard that spread to a house, another consumed an outbuilding, a third
was set in a couch next to a detached garage, the fourth involved
garbage cans and the fifth was set in a bush.
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Fresh Water Otter by Rick Price
California drought could end with storms known as atmospheric rivers
"These atmospheric rivers — their absence or their presence — really
determine whether California is in drought or not and whether floods are
going to occur," said F. Martin Ralph, a research meteorologist who
directs the Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes at the Scripps
Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.
The storms, which
flow like massive rivers in the sky, can carry 15 times as much water as
the Mississippi and deliver up to half of the state's annual
precipitation between December and February, scientists say. Though
atmospheric rivers are unlikely to end California's drought this year,
if they bring enough rain to erase the state's huge precipitation
deficit, they could wreak havoc by unleashing floods and landslides.
Ron Rattray
Leadership in the state House has decided to join the Senate in not
allowing people to openly carry firearms in the public viewing area
located over the floor where lawmakers sit.
The decision was made Monday morning after a meeting between leaders from both sides of the aisle.
On Friday, Lt. Gov. Brad Owen, a Democrat who serves as president of the Senate, announced that he considered openly carried guns the same as any prop used for a demonstration, which is not allowed under each chamber's rules.
The decision was made Monday morning after a meeting between leaders from both sides of the aisle.
On Friday, Lt. Gov. Brad Owen, a Democrat who serves as president of the Senate, announced that he considered openly carried guns the same as any prop used for a demonstration, which is not allowed under each chamber's rules.
BobShannon
USFWS-
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is starting a review of Canada lynx at a time when the largest population of the cats in the Lower 48 is poised for a decline.
Federal biologist Jim Zelenak says the end of
clear-cutting in Maine is allowing forests to fill in, taking away
habitat preferred by snowshoe hares upon which lynx feed.The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is starting a review of Canada lynx at a time when the largest population of the cats in the Lower 48 is poised for a decline.
The latest estimates from federal scientists put the number of Canada lynx in Maine at about 500; that's fewer than a state estimate five years ago of 750 to 1,000. There are smaller numbers of lynx in New Hampshire, and a handful in in Vermont.
The review is the first since Canada lynx were declared threatened in 2000. Critical habitat has been designated in parts of Maine, Wyoming, Washington, Montana, Idaho and Minnesota.
bobshannon
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