Excessive Heat Warning
issued for the Palouse
Pullman Radio News
An Excessive Heat Warning
has been issued for the Palouse. The National Weather Service warning is from
11:00 this morning until 8:00 Tuesday night. Temperatures are predicted to run
about 10 to 15 degrees above normal with highs in the upper 90's to triple
digits.
WSU COUG CHANELLE MOLINA
TAKES HOME WOMEN'S BASKETBALL GOLD IN BRAZIL
~Junior point guard from
Kailua Kona, Hawaii, helps lead Team USA to victory at the FISU America Games~
News from WSU Sports Info 7/30/2018
SAO PAULO, Brazil – Playing
for her country for the first time, Washington State rising junior Chanelle
Molina helped guide Team USA to a gold medal over the week at the inaugural
FISU America Games in Brazil. Molina and the Americans went a perfect 4-0 at
the games, defeating Mexico, Uruguay, Chile, and Brazil of the week long event
to secure the top of the podium.
Molina joins a handful of
Cougar athletes to earn gold for Team USA over the summer, as WSU volleyball
stars, Alexis Dirige, Molina's cousin, and Taylor Mims won gold at the 2018
Global Challenge in Croatia.
Throughout the four-game
tournament the Americans were dominant, defeating their opponents by an average
of nearly 44 points per game. Team USA' s largest win came in game two against
Uruguay as the Americans cruised to a 116-33 win. In the last and what would be
the default championship game, Team USA won a hard-fought battle with the host
country Brazil, taking the gold with a 59-42 victory.
Molina enters her junior
season as the Cougars' third-leading scorer from a season ago. In two seasons,
Molina has averaged 9.5 points and 3.2 assists per game while shooting 44.2%
from the field. She begins her third season at WSU under new head coach Kamie
Ethridge on November 2 when WSU hosts Warner Pacific in exhibition play at
Beasley Coliseum.
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Colton residents can use
water again while boil order remains in place
By Pullman Radio News
People in Colton can use
water again while the boil order remains in place. A city well went down over
the weekend prompting officials to issue the boil order and call for water
conservation. The pump has been fixed allowing Colton residents to water their
lawn, shower, wash clothes and dishes and flush the toilet. The boil order
remains in effect until tests of the water from the new pump confirm that it's
safe to drink.
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Go to this URL …
https://news.wsu.edu/2018/07/30/yellow-butterfly-boom/?utm_source=WSUNews-enewsletter&utm_campaign=wsunewsenewsletter&utm_medium=email
… to read WSU News’
story, “‘Very active’ yellow butterfly boom in Washington state.’ But, beware
there is a photo accompanying the story featuring goldish yellow and purple
colors.
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Expect roadwork, delays
and detours on way to Pullman for fall semester
July 26, 2018 WSU Insider
A portion of State Route
26 runs above railroad tracks east of Othello and that bridge deck needs to be
replaced after years of patching.
PULLMAN, Wash. – The
drive to and from Pullman for most students will take a bit longer starting
next month.
Needed bridge repairs
along State Route 26 will shut down a portion of one of the most popular routes
to Pullman for students, faculty and staff traveling from western Washington. A
detour will be available but state transportation officials advise travelers
should plan on extra time when making the trip.
In a new blog post
https://wsdotblog.blogspot.com/2018/07/heads-up-wsu-travelers-repairs-on-sr-26.html
from the Washington State
Department of Transportation, the agency said the work should start mid-August,
but an exact date will be released in the coming weeks due to final access
permits being sought. The project is expected to last six weeks.
The blog post suggests
official state detours will only add about 15 minutes to the total drive, but
because of the detour and possible delays, adding extra time to your travel
isn’t a bad idea.
WSDOT said the repairs
were originally going to take place in 2019, but re-evaluation meant the
project needed to be completed before Winter 2018.
Read the WSDOT blog post
for additional maps and photos of the affected area.
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Distinguished Young Women
of Washington participants arrive in Pullman Tuesday for annual scholarship
program
From Pullman Radio News
Eleven young ladies from
around the state will arrive in Pullman Tuesday for the annual Distinguished
Young Women of Washington Program. The high school seniors will compete for
thousands of dollars in scholarships during the program Saturday night.
The local teens taking
part are Tayma Vanek of Colfax, Emily Schultheis who won the Colton/Uniontown
program and Daphne Felsted of Pullman. The judging panel includes one local
resident, Babs Pfaff of Oakesdale who won the Washington title in 1973. The
Pullman and Washington winner from 3 years ago, Rose Jao, will emcee the
program with Colton/Uniontown's 2017 Distinguished Young Woman Kendyl Druffel
who also won state.
The winner will advance
to the national program to be held next Summer in Mobile Alabama. The
Distinguished Young Women of Washington Program starts at 7:00 Saturday night
at the Pullman High School Theater. Tickets are available at the door.
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A pet out of its element:
WSU vet school officials create a temporary home for alligator confiscated in
Asotin County
Mon., July 30, 2018,
11:45 a.m.
By Eric Barker Lewiston
Tribune
News flash: you can’t
keep “potentially dangerous animals” in Washington without a permit from the
director of the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.
That law, adopted more
than 10 years ago, led to a 3-foot long, 8-pound alligator being confiscated
from an Asotin County man earlier this month.
Officers from the
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife took possession of the reptile after
its owner was unable to provide such a permit. The alligator is now being
housed at the Washington State University Veterinary Hospital, where officials
there are looking to find it a permanent home in a proper facility.
Officer Grant Silver said
the owner claimed the animal was in Washington for only one day and that he had
legal possession of it in Idaho. However, Silver said he worked with the Idaho
Department of Agriculture to verify that claim and was unable to do so. Idaho
also requires a permit for alligators.
The man has not been
cited, and the case remains under investigation. Silver said the law calls for
fines of as much as $200 for every day the animal is possessed in the state.
At WSU, the alligator is
being kept in a small enclosure, about the size of a closet, and is being fed
dead mice. That’s a nutritional upgrade from its prior diet, which consisted
largely of chicken nuggets, Silver said.
“These guys are designed
to eat a whole-prey diet,” said veterinarian Macia Logsdon as she held the
alligator, which was placid but occasionally hissed at her and other humans.
“In order for them to get
complete nutrition, they need everything,” said Charlie Powell, public
information officer for the vet school. “They need the intestinal contents, the
liver, the spleen, the muscle, et cetera, and feeding them steak is going to
malnourish them – or chicken nuggets.”
They are not sure exactly
how old it is or whether it’s a male or female. Logsdon said after consulting
with a number of experts they estimate it is between 5 and 9 years old. The
various markers used to determine age are highly dependent on quality and
quantity of diet.
“Without having known
what has gone on in this little guy’s life for the last five to nine years, we
can’t really get much more specific,” she said.
But it has the potential
to get much larger.
“Even if he was a little
stunted to begin with, he’s got a lot of growing to do,” she said, estimating
it could easily reach 10 to 14 feet in length on a proper diet.
Alligators of course are
not native to the Northwest, and any illegally released in even the relatively
warm climate of the Lewiston-Clarkston Valley would have zero chance of
surviving, Logsdon said. The winters are far too cold, and they require
swamplike habitat instead of rivers or lakes.
In its temporary home,
the alligator does have access to water.
“We have a little
enclosure for him that has a kiddy pool so he can get in and out of the water,”
Logsdon said. “We also have some supplemental heat back there for him as well
and a UV light so he can get some artificial sunlight.”
As officials seek a
facility that can take the animal, it is winning fans at the school.
“I like your eyes buddy,”
said Logsdon while holding the animal. “They are awfully beautiful.”
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FOOTBALL Pac-12 preview:
Washington State Cougars
By Ryan Thorburn, Eugene
R-G
Posted Jul 29, 2018
Mike Leach’s program
enters the 2018 season mourning the death of quarterback Tyler Hilinski
Editor’s note: The fourth
in a series of articles previewing the Pac-12 football teams in reverse order
of their predicted finish in the preseason media poll. Today, No. 9 Washington
State.
Pac-12 media day is
mostly a jubilant event as the assembled coaches and players look forward to
the coming season with hope and optimism.
The start of fall camp
will be bittersweet at Washington State, a program still mourning the death of
Tyler Hilinski.
Hilinski, the team’s
projected starting quarterback, committed suicide on Jan. 16. An autopsy
revealed the 21-year-old suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a
degenerative brain disease cause by repetitive brain trauma.
“We all have very fond
memories of Tyler. We’re proud that we had the opportunity to know him,” coach
Mike Leach said. “We believe, anyway, or I do, that he’d want us to move on and
have productive lives and elevate what we can do.”
The Cougars went through
grief counseling after Hilinski’s death. The athletic department provided a
second formal mental health screening to its athletes to help identify those
who might be at risk for mental health issues and has hired a full-time
clinical psychologist.
“It affected me a lot.
Tyler was my best friend,” safety Jalen Thompson said. “But at the same time, I
had to get my players back into it, get their minds right and get going, you
know. The season is almost coming up. ...
“Anybody we needed to
talk to, they had somebody that was there for us. Now it’s just about creating
a new normal. Going out there, this is our new team now moving forward.”
Hilinski delivered a
memorable performance last season, coming off the bench to throw the winning
touchdown in the Cougars’ 47-44 triple-overtime win over Boise State. He was
carried off the field after the game.
“We all had a deep
connection with Tyler because that’s what kind of person he was,” wide
receiver/punter Kyle Sweet said. “He was just an incredible guy to be around.
It didn’t really hit me harder than anyone else. i think it affected us all
greatly in its own way because everyone had their own relationship with Tyler.
It was just a difficult thing for everybody.”
As difficult as it may be
to move on, the Cougars are shifting the focus to the 2018 season. Washington
State is picked to finish fifth in the North Division of the Pac-12 media poll.
Four-year starting
quarterback Luke Falk passed for 3,593 yards and 30 touchdowns as a senior. The
Tennessee Titans rookie also broke the Pac-12 career record for total offense
previously held by new teammate Marcus Mariota.
Redshirt juniors Trey
Tinsley and Anthony Gordon began the competition to replace Falk and Hilinski
during spring practice. East Carolina graduate transfer Gardner Minsheew and
true freshman Cammon Cooper joined the fray over the summer.
“The challenge for us is
going to be to select the right guy,” Leach said. “I think we’d probably have
three or four choices, all of which would do a really good job.”
The offense loses leading
rusher Jamal Morrow and standout offensive lineman Cody “The Continent”
O’Connell to graduation. Wide receiver Tay Martin, who led the team with 831
yards receiving and nine touchdowns, is back, along with running back James
Williams, who had 420 yards rushing and 482 yards receiving with four total
touchdowns last season.
Leach, who serves as his
own offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, has a proven track record of successfully
replacing key players and continuing to rack up impressive statistics every
year in the Air Raid offense.
“So run the quarterback
meetings, then install the offense, then of course putting the game plan in,”
Leach said of his weekly in-season duties. “That’s a long, long Sunday night, a
real long Monday night. Then you go through debates. The debates honestly
aren’t as much on what to run, it’s limiting what you run. Because we think all
of our ideas are very clever.”
Leach lost six assistants,
including defensive coordinator Alex Grinch, after last year’s 9-4 finish.
Standout defensive lineman Hercules Mata’afa also left early for the NFL.
The defensive staff,
which had to replace defensive line coach Joe Salave’a in 2017 when he left for
Oregon, has three new coaches — defensive coordinator Tracy Claeys, safeties
coach Kendrick Shaver and cornerbacks coach Darcel McBath.
“For the most part it’s
pretty much the same thing. We’re still a speed D,” said Thompson, who led the
team with 73 tackles and four interceptions last season. “We still run to the
ball and we still try to make plays out there.”
Washington State plays
two Mountain West teams (Wyoming, San Jose State) and FCS Eastern Washington
before opening Pac-12 play on Sept. 21 at USC.
The Cougars have a
three-game winning streak against Oregon, which visits Pullman on Oct. 20.
Hilinski’s parents will
attend the home opener on Sept. 8, and the players are wearing bracelets to
support the Hilinski Hope Foundation, a non-profit set up by the family with
the goal of keeping his memory alive and generating the funding necessary to
support programs that will help de-stigmatize mental illness.
“I see these wristbands
every day, I think about him every day,” said Sweet, who was wearing a
wristband at the Pac-12 media day event. “I just try to model myself and carry
myself the way that he did every day. I do that by looking at these.”
WASHINGTON STATE COUGARS
Coach: Mike Leach,
seventh year (38-38 at WSU, 122-81 overall)
Key players: LT Andre
Dillard, RB James Williams, WR Tay Martin, DE Nnamdi Oguayo, LB Peyton Pelluer,
S Jalen Thompson
2017 record: 9-4 overall,
6-3 coJerry Thompson
2018 projection: The
Cougars are picked to finish fifth in the North Division in the Pac-12
preseason media poll
Nonconference opponents:
Wyoming, San Jose State, Eastern Washington
Plays Oregon: Oct. 20 in
Pullman
Full schedule: Sept. 1 at
Wyoming, Sept. 8 vs. San Jose State, Sept. 15 vs. Eastern Washington, Sept. 21
at USC, Sept. 29 vs. Utah, Oct. 6 at Oregon State, Oct. 20 vs. Oregon, Oct. 27
at Stanford, Nov. 3 vs. California, Nov. 10 at Colorado, Nov. 17 vs. Arizona,
Nov. 3 vs. Washington
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WSU Police said of
7/23/2018, “We are saddened by the line-of-duty death of former Cougar and Kent
Police Officer Diego Moreno. Our heartfelt sympathies go out to his family,
friends, and Kent PD. He will always be a Coug.’
Memorial for Kent police
officer killed in high-speed chase to be held Tuesday
Originally published July
30, 2018 at 9:27 am Updated July 30, 2018 at 1:17 pm
Kent Police Officer Diego
Moreno, a decorated eight-year veteran, was killed when struck by another Kent
police officer who was chasing a pickup truck.
By Christine Clarridge
Seattle Times staff reporter
A memorial service will
be held Tuesday for Diego Moreno, the Kent police officer who was killed this
month during his involvement in a high-speed chase.
The service is set for 1
p.m. to 3 p.m. at the ShoWare Center in Kent, according to a statement from the
Kent Police Department.
The 35-year-old officer,
who was originally from Venezuela, was married and had two children. He had
been a member of the Kent police force for eight years. On July 22, while
laying a strip of spikes to slow a fleeing truck, Moreno was struck and killed by
another officer involved in the chase. Shortly after driving over the spikes,
the truck flipped over on Highway 516, police said.
Emiliano Garcia, 16, who
was driving the truck, was arrested last week and charged as an adult with
second-degree felony murder. That’s when a defendant commits a felony and, as a
result of that crime, or fleeing from that crime, causes the death of another
person. Prosecutors said in charging documents that Moreno’s death was a direct
result of Garcia’s actions.
Before Tuesday’s memorial
service, there will be a procession of police vehicles through Kent, starting
around 11:15 a.m.
Public viewing areas will
be located along the procession route on Fourth Ave between Willis and James
streets.
“This is a sad time for
Officer Moreno’s family, the Kent Police Department, the City of Kent family
and the community,” said Kent Police Chief Rafael Padilla. “We hope everyone
will join us as we remember Diego and pay our respects to his family.”
James Street between Lincoln and Fourth
Avenue will be closed between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Fourth Avenue between Willis
and James will be closed between 10:45 a.m. and 1 p.m.
