Joe English

Sports Some regret Vancouver missed out on baseball (Video)

By Joe English KATU News Published: Jun 17, 2013 at 5:33 PM PDT Last Updated: Jun 17, 2013 at 5:34 PM PDT

Vancouver passed on the Yakima Bears. In the end, politics won out over baseball.

Local & Regional Ethanol overload? It's bad for your mower and other small engines (Video)

By Joe English KATU News and KATU.com Staff Published: Jun 12, 2013 at 10:35 PM PDT Last Updated: Jun 12, 2013 at 10:35 PM PDT

The Environmental Protection Agency has OK'd fuel with up to 15 percent ethanol, but it's not meant to go into small engines. But that's where it's ending up and doing damage that can be prevented.

Local & Regional Ambulance response time not delayed by construction, official says (Video)

By Joe English and Bob Heye, KATU News Published: Jun 11, 2013 at 12:12 AM PDT Last Updated: Jun 11, 2013 at 4:56 PM PDT

The Wormer family has made the difficult decision to take their 13-month-old girl, Delylah, off life support on Tuesday. She is currently at Randall Children's Hospital.

Local & Regional $1,000 reward offered leading to arrest of tree cutter

By Joe English KATU News Published: May 6, 2013 at 10:15 PM PDT Last Updated: May 6, 2013 at 10:15 PM PDT

The property already had a row of six poplar trees – some nearly 150 feet tall. But somebody did a hatchet job on them.

Local & Regional Climber with broken leg rescued from Mount Hood after fall (Video)

By Joe English KATU News, KATU.com Staff and Associated Press Published: May 1, 2013 at 12:10 PM PDT Last Updated: May 1, 2013 at 7:06 PM PDT

Robert Finke of Gladstone, fell approximately 100 to 200 feet and broke one of his legs.

Local & Regional 'A lot of people that needed their medicine today couldn't get it' (Photo Gallery) (Video)

By Joe English KATU News and KATU.com Staff Published: Apr 30, 2013 at 6:15 PM PDT Last Updated: Apr 30, 2013 at 6:32 PM PDT

The business that got hit the hardest was the Tualatin Pharmacy and many customers were left without their medications Tuesday. The thieves got in the pharmacy by starting six stores down at an empty office space.

Local & Regional Grieving over deaths, family then deals with fake donation site (Video)

By Joe English KATU News and KATU.com Staff Published: Apr 23, 2013 at 1:13 AM PDT Last Updated: Apr 26, 2013 at 1:36 PM PDT

Noah Waite-Brown's aunt was still too upset Monday to talk and was still very emotional about what her family is going through. But to add to their distress, a fake donation site was set up.

Local & Regional Feud over noise has some Washougal folks barking mad (Video)

By Joe English KATU News and KATU.com Staff Published: Apr 9, 2013 at 10:19 PM PDT Last Updated: Apr 26, 2013 at 12:36 PM PDT

It started last summer when a new company moved in next to the West Columbia Gorge Humane Society.

Local & Regional Vancouver considers shared lane for bikes, cars on MacArthur (Video)

By Joe English KATU News Published: Apr 8, 2013 at 10:38 PM PDT Last Updated: Apr 26, 2013 at 1:11 PM PDT

City engineers are still looking at options but the four-lane road may have a different look when the city repaves and restripes it this summer.

Local & Regional Up and Away! Endangered deer get ride out of threatened refuge (Photo Gallery) (Video)

By Joe English KATU News Published: Mar 19, 2013 at 9:28 PM PDT Last Updated: Mar 20, 2013 at 9:27 AM PDT

Deer were captured at the Julia Butler-Hansen Refuge near Cathlamet and moved to another reserve near Ridgefield.

Home Stolen swingset: 'She just cries and cries - she still cries over it' (Video)

By Joe English KATU News Published: Mar 12, 2013 at 7:49 AM PDT Last Updated: Mar 12, 2013 at 7:49 AM PDT

Three generations can't forget the crime that broke their hearts.

Local & Regional Marriage may separate same-sex couple after visa not recognized (Video)

By Joe English KATU News Published: Mar 6, 2013 at 11:41 PM PDT Last Updated: Apr 26, 2013 at 2:05 PM PDT

In the 17 years Shawn Sanders and Jocelyn Guzman have been together they've spent a lot of time apart. Sanders lives in Alaska and Guzman in Mexico.

Local & Regional Sinkhole science: How prone is the Northwest? (Video)

By Joe English KATU News and KATU.com Staff Published: Mar 1, 2013 at 7:07 PM PDT Last Updated: Apr 26, 2013 at 1:54 PM PDT

A sinkhole swallowed a Florida man right from his bedroom and you have to wonder whether something like that could happen here in the Northwest.

Local & Regional Parents say their dance team kids are being bullied by coaches (Video)

By Joe English KATU News and KATU.com Staff Published: Feb 28, 2013 at 1:17 AM PDT Last Updated: Apr 26, 2013 at 2:00 PM PDT

Some high school dance team members are wanting to quit, others are getting suspended and parents say the girls are being bullied.

Politics Testimony heard over vaccination exemptions for children (Video)

By Joe English KATU News Published: Feb 19, 2013 at 11:28 PM PDT Last Updated: Feb 21, 2013 at 6:15 PM PDT

Lawmakers listened to public testimony Tuesday on a change to the way people get vaccination exemptions for their children.

Politics Man voted against school levy after district paid for armed guards (Video)

By Joe English KATU News Published: Feb 12, 2013 at 6:51 PM PDT Last Updated: Apr 26, 2013 at 1:11 PM PDT

Several Clark County school districts are asking for money to run and keep their schools in shape, but recent decisions by one district has some longtime supporters rethinking their votes.

Local & Regional Man turns his health around but ends up in unexplainable coma (Video)

By Joe English KATU News Published: Jan 22, 2013 at 7:52 PM PDT Last Updated: Apr 26, 2013 at 1:11 PM PDT

Luke Ashe had turned his life around with a healthier lifestyle. Then his family found the 27-year-old in bed in a coma and his doctors can’t figure out why.

Local & Regional Sob story moves man to help - only he gets conned (Video)

By Joe English KATU News and KATU.com Published: Jan 16, 2013 at 10:22 PM PDT Last Updated: Jan 17, 2013 at 12:47 AM PDT

At least four people who cashed checks for a 19-year-old man, trying to do him a favor, say they got stuck with a worthless piece of paper and are out hundreds of dollars in cash.

Local & Regional 'We literally had water dripping from the ceiling' (Video)

By Joe English KATU News and KATU.com Staff Published: Jan 15, 2013 at 5:17 PM PDT Last Updated: Jan 15, 2013 at 5:20 PM PDT

Water and hot steam have ruined $250,000 worth of books inside a school's library - and the damage did not stop there.

Local & Regional Vandalism at Vancouver businesses takes a bite out of profits (Video)

By Joe English KATU News and KATU.com Staff Published: Jan 9, 2013 at 10:12 PM PDT Last Updated: Apr 26, 2013 at 1:11 PM PDT

Vandals, apparently a couple of kids, smashed windows and broke lights recently at several small businesses, zapping money from an already small profit margin.

Local & Regional After luggage theft, will PDX change security measures? (Video)

By Joe English KATU News and KATU.com Staff Published: Jan 7, 2013 at 9:28 PM PDT Last Updated: Jan 7, 2013 at 9:28 PM PDT

Portland International Airport is likely to keep the luggage security measures it has even after six people, including two children, were caught stealing luggage from the airport over the weekend.

Local & Regional Man uses social media hoping to track down stolen car (Video)

By Joe English KATU News and KATU.com Staff Published: Dec 26, 2012 at 10:32 PM PDT Last Updated: Dec 26, 2012 at 10:32 PM PDT

The last time Michael Rooney saw his 2001 four-door Honda Accord was Christmas Eve. But when he walked out of the house Christmas morning to get a cup of coffee, it was gone.

Local & Regional These CPR classes have gone to the dogs (Video)

By Joe English KATU News and KATU.com Staff Published: Nov 14, 2012 at 11:49 PM PDT Last Updated: Nov 15, 2012 at 12:28 PM PDT

From putting on bandages to finding a pulse and giving CPR, first responders are now getting classroom lessons on saving animals, especially since they take plenty of them to the emergency room.

Local & Regional New pot law may make small difference in percentage charged

By Joe English KATU News and KATU.com Staff Published: Nov 13, 2012 at 11:51 PM PDT Last Updated: Nov 14, 2012 at 3:49 PM PDT

Clark County prosecutors plan on dismissing more than 40 misdemeanor marijuana cases that aren't through the court system by Dec. 6. That's when a new law passed by voters earlier this month takes effect.

Local & Regional Kelso school buses vandalized; sign of a bad economy? (Video)

By Joe English KATU News Published: Nov 12, 2012 at 7:30 PM PDT Last Updated: Nov 12, 2012 at 7:33 PM PDT

Earlier this year vandals slashed the buses' tires, but on Saturday someone took the air valves out of a Head Start bus and took off with the lug nuts.