• It’s back to school today and Maria Gonzalez has some traffic reminders plus the latest WASL test scores
• The project using Penitentiary inmates to help index old area newspapers is being extended thanks to the Sherwood Trust extending it’s funding for another three years
• Demencio Venecia entered guilty pleas to three home break-ins in June and is suspected of committing about a dozen more
• Richard Travis Berglund, who escaped from a jail work crew assignment at the county fairgrounds a year ago, pleaded guilty to a reduced charge last week
• Alfred Laggner, a health-care provider accused of causing two patients to have sexual contact with him, is scheduled to go to trial starting Jan. 20
• Read Sheila Hagar’s column where writes about a weekend she spent in Seattle where she spent nearly all her money at a fancy makeup store

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• Calzaretta family has biked 2,800 miles and are now in Ontario, Canada
• 17-year-old Kayla Kelly of Milton-Freewater will saddle up for the American Quarter Horse Youth Association World Championships
• Alexandro Serrano pleaded innocent to three charges related to a November shooting at Walla Walla Farm Labor Homes
• Health-care provider Alfred Laggner pleaded innocent to two counts of indecent liberties
• 13-year-old Jamie Martinez pleaded innocent of making a bomb threat at Garrison Middle School in May
• Providence Fine Living will now carry knives from the Shun Classic line
• Northstar Benefit Golf Tournament will be held at the Country Club on Thursday

• Summer day camp available for foster kids in the Tri-Cities
• Walla Walla health-care provider arrested last month for allegedly causing patient to have sexual contact with him has been charged with indecent liberties
• The Walla Walla community is invited to participate in the Whitman summer reading assignment, “The Complete Persepolis”
• Rick Eskil reviews “Wanted.” Says it’s a high-octane ride from start to finish
• The Calzeretta family, traveling cross-country on tandem bikes, will spend 4th of July in North Dakota
• Kevin Lustig reports on three Muslim students who visited from Turkey, Thailand and Indonesia

• Sales of existing homes in Walla Walla County are dropping
• Umatilla County commissioners consider ideas on how to keep the Milton-Freewater Health Dept. clinic open
• Local hypnotherapist/acupuncturist, Alfred Laggner, has been arrested on investigation of indecent liberties
• Charley Lozano to plead guilty to participating in a November shooting spree in Walla Walla
• The tales of Ryan Gary’s travels around the world as he hones his pottery making skills
• Rick Eskil reviews “The Incredible Hulk”