Franklin Connection

• Mesa fire doused April 15, 2021
  MESA - Franklin County fire crews responded to a small brush fire Wednesday evening, April 14, getting it under control in minutes. Thick, billowing smoke and flames could be seen from U.S. Highway 395 as crews responded and quickly doused the flames. Details of the fire were not immediately...
• Moses Lake Gun Show set for this weekend April 15, 2021
  MOSES LAKE - Firearms enthusiasts will gather this weekend for the Moses Lake Gun Show. The event runs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Grant County Fairgrounds, 3953 Airway Drive N.E. Organizer Ron Warren said it is the first of two Northwest Gun Shows events coming […]
• Smiley to challenge Sen. Murray April 14, 2021
  PASCO - A local veterans advocate has announced her candidacy for U.S. Senate. Republican Tiffany Smiley, 38, of Pasco, will challenge incumbent Sen. Patty Murray, R-Shoreline, in the 2022 election. Smiley is a nurse and has been active advocating for wounded veterans since her husband, Scotty Smiley, was wounded and blinded by a suicide bomber […]
• Gov. Inslee to sign bill to replace Whitman statues today April 14, 2021
  OLYMPIA — Gov. Jay Inslee is expected to sign a bill today that would begin the process of removing statues of perhaps the state's most prominent figure from the Capitol building and the National Statuary in Washington, D.C. The governor has called an 11:30 a.m. signing ceremony, where he will sign House Bill 1372 into […]
• Pasco police catch knife-wielding robber April 13, 2021
  PASCO – Edgar Ortiz Hernandez was allegedly interrupted stealing from a Pasco home by the victim and then cut the victim with a knife. Ortiz Hernandez, 32, was booked into the Franklin County Jail for robbery in the first degree, assault in the second degree, burglary in the first degree, and theft in the second […]