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EVERETT — A police pursuit ended in a collision after a driver refused to stop for deputies Tuesday in Lynnwood. Around 10 p.m. Tuesday, deputies attempted to stop a vehicle on suspicion of DUI.

A District Court judge handed down a lengthy prison sentence Thursday for a Billings man who, while driving drunk, killed a pedestrian in what one veteran police investigator described as ...

For the DUI, he was sentenced to six months in jail with all but one day suspended, fined $650 and required to complete three months of probation and court-ordered substance abuse classes.

The vehicle he was driving struck a utility pole and sideswiped a parked car in the 700 block of West Main Street. The June 14 crash left about 800 PP&L customers without power for more than an hour.