WENATCHEE — Openness, transparency and accountability were the themes of a public forum about Washington state's public records and open meetings laws Wednesday night.

EAST WENATCHEE — East Wenatchee police, with guns drawn, ordered three teenage boys out of a stolen car about 2 a.m. today and arrested one of the boys, said Sgt. Bruce Nash.

SPOKANE — A man caught at a campsite next to a marijuana-growing operation on the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest last summer was sentenced in federal court Tuesday to six years and three months in prison.

WENATCHEE — Firefighters with the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest kept six new wildfires to 2 acres or less after a brief storm swept through northern Chelan County early Wednesday morning, authorities said.

LEAVENWORTH — A Leavenworth woman who left her 2-year-old daughter in a car while she was drinking at a bar was sentenced Wednesday to a month in jail.

WENATCHEE — A three-vehicle collision on Cherry Street about noon Wednesday sent a 52-year-old Wenatchee man to the hospital.