SpaceX flying ex-football players, flight controller, Scout

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX’s second crew has two military officers who played college football, a former space shuttle flight controller, and the first person in decades to launch aboard three kinds of rocketships.

Festival of Trees is Saturday

MOSES LAKE — Habitat for Humanity of Greater Moses Lake will sponsor its annual Festival of Trees fundraiser beginning at 5:30 p.m. Saturday at the 4-H building at the Grant County Fairgrounds.

Local businesses bone up on new sick leave rules

MOSES LAKE — The critical message coming out of this week’s business seminar on implementing the upcoming changes to paid sick leave requirements under Initiative 1433 - document everything.

Paradise in the desert

Family farm boasts 97 years of existence

COULEE CITY — While he may not know the reason behind his family swapping land in 1926 with a man called Badger, Dan Bolyard still lives off the land that has been in his family ever since. “Everyone in the family just calls it ‘the ranch’ but the original homesteader called it Paradise Farms,” said Boylard. The story behind the property begins nearly 100 years ago when Bolyard’s great-grandfather, Doliver Bolyard, swapped land with Albion Wilson, a man whom locals called Badger, Dan said.

Big Bend opens league play with 20-point win

MOSES LAKE - Good shooting can be contagious.

Blossom time

Alabama receiver Jaylen Waddle warms up for CFP title game

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Alabama star receiver Jaylen Waddle was warming up before the College Football Playoff national championship game against No. 3 Ohio State and could to try to play Monday night.

Eugene Clarence Darrow

June 7, 1935 – March 4, 2016

June 7, 1935 – March 4, 2016

Oliver Morales receives UW scholarship

OTHELLO — Oliver Morales said Othello High School was kind of scary at first, so scary he wanted to try homeschooling instead.

Lady Vikings go 1-3 on weekend home stand

MOSES LAKE - It may have not been the kind of results from a homestand the Big Bend Lady Vikings wanted to produce but at least it ended on a positive note.

No decorations this holiday, time to improvise

You wouldn't think so, but gift-wrapping ribbon and spent shotgun shells make excellent Christmas decorations.

Lady Vikings test conference leaders, fall short

Big Bend needs strong finish to reach NWAACC postseason

Naomi Irene Chadwell

Sept. 20, 1928 — Nov. 26, 2025

Naomi Irene (Powell) Chadwell, of Moses Lake, Washington, passed away on Nov. 26, 2025, at the age of 97. Born on Sept. 20, 1928, in Baker, Oregon, to Fred and Eathel Powell, Naomi grew up in Baker City, where she attended local schools and graduated from Baker High School. She continued her education with a two-year college program in business. Naomi married Wallace “Dick” Chadwell, and together they began their family in 1948 in a small cabin on East Eagle Creek in northeast Oregon. In 1951, they moved to Moses Lake, Washington, where they raised their six children.

AP Lifestyles Digest

Here is the AP Lifestyles digest for the week of Nov. 30.

Second half struggles doom Lady Vikings

Columbia Basin College 63Big Bend CC 48

MOSES LAKE —  Teams that tend to challenge for championships in any sport usually believe that the defense never rests.

Othello hands out trees

OTHELLO — “How are you guys? You want a tree?”

Trees handed out on Arbor Day in Othello Saturday

“How are you guys? You want a tree?”

Early signs of spring

Cuteness alert: Zoo Miami shows off clouded leopard kittens

MIAMI (AP) — Providing exactly what's needed in these trying times, Zoo Miami has shared images of two clouded leopard cubs.

Suspect barricades himself in RV outside Ephrata Walmart

EPHRATA - A man is in custody after a several-hour-long standoff at the Ephrata Walmart parking lot Monday night. Grant County Sheriff’s Office Spokesman Kyle Foreman said Ephrata Police Officers responded to a call of a disturbance at the Dollar Tree, 1551 Nat Washington Way Ste A in Ephrata at about 6:30 p.m. When officers responded, Foreman said, the suspect, identified as Paul Cardwell, 62, of Bremerton, pulled a knife on officers and then proceeded to barricade himself inside his RV parked in the Walmart parking lot, neighboring the Dollar Tree. Over the course of about three to four hours, law enforcement requested the Moses Lake Regional Tactical Response Team and tried to negotiate with Cardwell to comply and surrender, according to a GCSO statement. Officers detonated a flash bang at about 10 p.m. in an effort to get him to leave the RV. Later, tear gas was deployed in the RV. When that failed to work, GCSO K-9 Edo, whose handler is Deputy Tyson Voss, entered the RV and took Cardwell into custody at about 11:10 p.m. Cardwell was transported to Columbia Basin Hospital for treatment and was lodged in the Grant County Jail upon release from medical care. Cardwell has been booked on suspicion of intimidating a public servant, harassment (threats to kill), criminal trespassing and unlawful carrying of a weapon. He is being held without bail. Rebecca Pettingill may be reached at [email protected].