EAST WENATCHEE — Brad Hitzel credits a 1995 Wenatchee World article with getting him hooked on astronomy. The article about an annual astronomy club gathering on Table Mountain near Blewett Pass offered him the names of local stargazers, some of whom talked philosophically in the article about how man's existence and destiny is tied to the cosmos.

ORONDO — Chelan County PUD biologists conducting a bird survey on the Columbia River discovered the body of a missing Edmonds boater in the Columbia River near Chelan Falls this morning.

KELOWNA, B.C. — Sometimes baseball teams get the good fortune of having a few guys find their stroke at the plate at once.

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.