Moses Lake

Prototype electric airplane takes first flight

September 27, 2022 GMT

MOSES LAKE, Wash. (AP) — A prototype, all-electric airplane took its first flight Tuesday morning in central Washington state.

Moses Lake woman drowns while trying to rescue dog

July 26, 2022 GMT

ROYAL CITY, Wash. (AP) — A Moses Lake woman drowned Sunday trying to rescue a dog in a canal, according to the Grant County Sheriff’s Office.

Deputies and medics responded at about 12:45 p.m. to a report of a woman who fell into a canal off Dodson Road Southwest, near Road 12 Southwest, about three miles east of Royal City, the Longview Daily News reported.

Ex-Washington state employee pleads guilty to pandemic fraud

June 24, 2022 GMT

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A former employee of Washington state’s Employment Security Department pleaded guilty to three federal felonies for exploiting his employment for personal enrichment and fraudulently distributing at least $360,000 in pandemic-related unemployment benefits, prosecutors said.

Missing woman’s body found in southeast Washington

May 18, 2022 GMT

RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — An autopsy has confirmed that a body found in southeastern Washington belongs to a Washington mother of three who had been reported missing.

Yanira Cedillos was celebrating her 30th birthday before she disappeared in early March.

New factory in Moses Lake to bring hundreds of new jobs

May 4, 2022 GMT

MOSES LAKE, Wash. (AP) — A battery materials company has purchased a 600,000-square foot facility in Moses Lake, Washington, to be used to manufacture lithium-ion anode battery materials for the automotive and cell phone industries.

Man arrested, charged with murder in woman’s disappearance

March 11, 2022 GMT

MOSES LAKE, Wash. (AP) — Police in Hermiston, Oregon, have arrested a former Moses Lake, Washington, resident in the disappearance last week of 30-year-old Yanira Cedillos.

At a news conference Thursday, Moses Lake Police Department Capt.

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Teen to be tried as adult in murder of man in Moses Lake

November 9, 2021 GMT

MOSES LAKE, Wash. (AP) — A Moses Lake teenager will be tried as an adult in the September murder of a 21-year-old man.

According to information from the Grant County Superior Court Clerk’s Office, 17-year-old Dominick Kultgen was charged Oct.

Former WA employee charged with stealing unemployment funds

September 24, 2021 GMT

SEATTLE (AP) — Authorities say a former employee with the state Employment Security Department was arrested Friday and charged with defrauding the government of at least $360,000 in jobless benefits.

Bail set at $3M in killings of 2 men near Moses Lake

August 4, 2021 GMT

MOSES LAKE, Wash. (AP) — A Moses Lake man has had bail set at $3 million in connection with the shooting deaths of two Moses Lake men on Saturday.

Noe Pena had his first appearance in Grant County Superior Court this week on investigation of two counts of second-degree murder, The Columbia Basin Herald reported.

Fertilizer manufacturer fined $25K over clean air violations

June 25, 2021 GMT

PASCO, Wash. (AP) — A fertilizer manufacturing company in Washington state has been fined $25,500 for making large quantities of ammonium phosphate liquid fertilizer with a mobile reactor without an air quality permit.

Fire crews attempt to contain 300 gallon oil spill in Moses Lake

Nina CulverApril 6, 2017 GMT

An estimated 300 gallons of used motor oil spilled on an overpass spanning Interstate 90 in Moses Lake Wednesday afternoon.

A driver was hauling a trailer filled with two oil-filled plastic totes contained in steel cages when he took a corner too fast, said Moses Lake Fire Department Capt.