The Washington Department of Ecology announced Thursday that it is fining B&G Farms and owner Mike Brown $20,000 for not stopping “extreme erosion” on his Grant County farm.

The grievance originated when a storm of varying severity – depending on who you ask – hit the Smyrna Bench area on July 20, 2012. Due to the storm, a “large amount of soil” was sent “down the hill and into Lower Crab Creek, covering the road, smothering fish habitat, and polluting the creek with mud,” a news release from Ecology read.

But, B&G contends that the storm was more powerful than what Ecology contends, a written statement from the farm said the storm “destroyed fields and crops and flooded everything in its path … This article implies that the soil going down the hill was the sole cause of smothering fish and polluting the creek with mud. We do not think it even contributed to the situation.”

Connell police are searching for a man who they say shot and killed his ex-wife's boyfriend Thursday night.

Around 8:30 p.m., police responded to a shooting on the 400 block of East Elm Street.

They found a 30-year-old man dead. Police said he was shot multiple times.

Police said the shooter is Julio Cesar Hernandez, 40. Police were able to track his cellphone to the area of Electric City, Wash., which is about 100 miles north of Connell.

Hernandez was last seen driving a 1988 black Ford Mustang with Washington license plate number 011UZQ.

Police said he is considered armed and dangerous.

Anyone who knows where Hernandez is is asked to call Connell police at 509-234-4141.

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