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Linda Taylor picks up an envelope marked "evidence" from the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office. Taylor says she never imagined her son would be shot by police. “Then it happens to your own family,” she said. “Then you’re really asking, in shock, ‘what happened?’” Kristyna Wentz-Graff Originally published on February 4, 2021 9:29 am The person on the other side of Treva Smith’s cellphone one Wednesday evening last April asked a simple question: “Did you hear about Bill?” The call came a day after Vancouver police shot and killed her nephew, William Abbe. A bystande...

Top 10 stories of 2020: Pandemic, shootings, wildfires hit Clark County by The Columbian The SARS-COV-2 virus is incredibly small, but the reverberations of its impact on humanity dominated the events of 2020 and will linger for years. There was never any question that the novel coronavirus pandemic is The Columbian’s — and the world’s — top story of 2020. Clark County’s first case of COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, was reported on March 7. Since then, it has sickened more than 12,000 people and taken the lives of more than 135 people. It has shuttered businesses, rein...

Homeless people who died in 2020 in Clark County remembered at service Published: December 22, 2020, 12:42pm Share: Laura Ellsworth, right, writes a message on a memorial board set up Friday at St. PaulÌs Lutheran Church in Vancouver. Ellsworth is with the Council for the Homeless, which helped set up the board with the names of the homeless from the community who died in 2020. On Monday night, the council held a virtual ceremony to remember the members of the community who died in 2020. (Jeff Klein/The Columbian files) Like many things affected by COVID-19, Clark County’s homeless p...