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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The family of a Washington man killed when a tree fell on his car in the Columbia River Gorge seeks $2.2 million in a lawsuit against the state of Oregon. The suit filed Wednesday in Portland asserts the Oregon Department of Transportation has a duty to maintain trees along Highway 30, and the tree that crushed 27-year-old Jorge Figueroa showed obvious signs of decay... Read

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The man killed by Spokane police on Sunday has been identified as 33-year-old Dexter Martin Dumarce. The Spokane County Medical Examiner released the man's name on Wednesday. A Spokane police officer stopped Dumarce near downtown early Sunday morning, then reported that Dumarce had pulled a knife on him and was fleeing on foot...