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  • Culp's police department disbanded

    Brock Hires, Omak-Okanogan County Chronicle|Updated Nov 7, 2020

    REPUBLIC – Republican gubernatorial candidate Loren Culp said he lost his job as police chief and sole officer in the city after the council voted to disband the Police Department. Culp made the announcement the day after he was presumably defeated by gubernatorial incumbent Democrat Jay Inslee in the Nov. 3 general election. Inslee leads statewide with 57.73 percent of the vote as of Friday. In a Facebook Live video Wednesday, Culp said the City Council had a special m...

  • Lawsuit against Gov. Inslee delayed

    Brock Hires, The Omak-Okanogan County Chronicle|Updated May 27, 2020

    OKANOGAN — A lawsuit filed Friday in Douglas County against Gov. Jay Inslee’s stay-at-home order was continued to 10:30 a.m. Friday, May 29, in Okanogan County Superior Court this morning. The case was moved to Okanogan County because Douglas County commissioners are among the plaintiffs in the suit. Assistant Attorney General Zachary Jones contended Inslee’s stay-at-home order was issued in Thurston County and therefore should be heard in a Thurston County courtroom. Jones...