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A 29-year-old Pasco man is in jail facing likely DUI charges after he slammed into another vehicle on I-182, killing the driver. Around 7am Saturday morning, Gregorio J. Chayrez was driving East in the Westbound lanes of the interstate near the Richland city limits, when he hit a car driven by 55-year-old Norman D...

Highway 12 is no picnic and can be dangerous, especially between Wallula and Touchet. But alcohol was the cause for this incident. Sunday evening about 7:30pm, 29-year-old Caleb Rude was Eastbound on the road near the Cameo Heights area, when his Nissan Sentra crossed over the centerline, hitting a pickup towing a camp trailer head on...

The investigation continues, but Benton County Sheriff's deputies say the pickup driver was trying to pass another vehicle on a two-lane road when they collided head on with the old school bus.