Search Is On For Deception Pass Bridge Jumper

LOWELL -- The video isn't clear enough to show police prisoner Stephen Tatarouns allegedly spitting in the face of a civilian detention attendant, but it does clearly show the right hook that attendant landed on Tatarouns' head.

The Argus Leader and KSFY News are hosted a live debate with mayoral candidates Jolene Loetscher and Paul TenHaken. The Sioux Falls Area Chamber of Commerce is co-sponsoring the debate.        

Davenport aldermen has given city staff seven days to prove that a study on the uses and changes in the Rockingham Road corridor can be completed in the next 90 days before approving a proposed moratorium on business licenses.

The opioid epidemic cost the state of Washington more than $9 billion in 2016, according to an analysis by the U. S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. Of that total economic cost, more than $7 billion comes from opioid-related deaths. The remaining $2 billion is attributed to health care costs, addiction treatment, criminal justice and lost productivity. “This new analysis shows just how much our communities are losing economically as they work to face the many challenges of the opioid epidemic,” said Sen.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — A self-taught Danish engineer was convicted of murder Wednesday for luring a Swedish journalist on to his homemade submarine, then torturing and killing her before dismembering her body and dumping it at sea in a sensational case that has gripped Scandinavia. Peter Madsen, 47, was sentenced in Copenhagen City Court to life in prison for killing Kim Wall, a 30-year-old freelance reporter, after bringing her aboard his submarine with the promise of an interview last summer. “We are talking about a cynical and planned sexual assault and brutal murder of a random woman, who in connection with her journalistic work had accepted an offer to go sailing in the defendant’s submarine,” presiding Judge Anette Burkoe told the court. Life sentences in Denmark usually mean 16 years in prison, but convicts are reassessed during their incarceration to determine whether they would pose a danger to society if released and can be kept longer. Prosecutor Jakob Buch-Jepsen said he was satisfied that Madsen got “the heaviest penalty in Danish law, namely prison for life.” Wall was at a waterfront party with her Danish boyfriend on Aug.