Coming up on your local news, an 18 year old Yakima girl is found dead.
Now police are looking for her boyfriend, the latest in the homicide case.
And Yakima Valley communities come together in the name of tough times, how they plan
to get more out of city services.
Rain over the Pacific is coming our way.
We'll show you whether that rain will make it over the mountains though, coming up next.
Plus, it's the best place to live in the state of Washington for your pocketbook, Why the
Tri-Cities Takes the Honors.
Live from Yakima and the Tri-Cities, CapCave Local News at 11 starts now.
Good evening, I'm Stacey Vasco.
Thank you for staying up with us tonight.
An 18 year old Yakima woman is shot and killed last night.
Tonight police are searching for her boyfriend, who's wanted for murder.
Isenia Carl had just started her senior year at Davis High School.
Last night, her mom, sister and little brother found her dead in her apartment.
She had a single gunshot wound to her head.
Police believe she had been dead for about a day.
Haro lived with her boyfriend in the 400 block of 8th Street.
Police are now searching for 19 year old Jose Antonio Aiella.
Haro's family says they knew he was bad news.
He said that he didn't like us and he would always like get mad at her for no reason.
I know he was on that to them.
Officers at the apartment complex say they often heard yelling from the couple's apartment.
Police believe their relationship was abusive.
Police need your help finding the suspect.
Aiella is 5'8 and about 150 pounds.
If you have any information, either call police or crime stoppers.
A Pasco man is behind bars tonight after Oregon State Police find 115 pounds of pot in his
car.
The man was stopped on Interstate 5 south of Ashland at about 8 this morning.
Officers identified him as 53 year old Jesus Lopez Ramos.
They say the pot is worth more than $300,000.
On Wall Street today, the Dow closes up 172 points.
Buying started in spurts this morning and then quickly evaporated as investors worry
that the economy is either in a recession or headed toward one.
This week, banks also set a new record for daily borrowing.
The Federal Reserve reports the average commercial bank's loan is almost $106 billion.
In Northwest News tonight, the faltering economy appears to be boosting liquor sales.
An official with the Idaho State Liquor Dispensary says people are avoiding the bar and heading
to state-run liquor stores instead.
He says sales have increased 6.5% this year as compared to the same time last year.
Microsoft says it expects weaker results even more weak than Wall Street had predicted.
The Redmond-based software company says for this quarter earnings will be about 52 cents
per share with sales expecting to reach a little more than $17 billion.
Wall Street predicted more than $18 billion worth of sales with shares earning a 55 cent
profit.
And Alaska Air also reports a big quarterly drop.
The airline is down nearly $87 million.
Now this time last year, earnings were up 82 million.
The airline says oil prices and a weak economy are making it extremely difficult to turn
a profit.
While leaders across Yakima County put their heads together tonight, the plan was to share
ideas on how to handle these tough economic times.
Our Lindsay France joins us live from Yakima tonight to tell us how the group looked at
the plan ahead.
Lindsay?
Stacey City Mayor's up and down the valley along with county commissioners broke bread
and broke down their budget situations.
It's an optional meeting so those who could gather around.
It's budget season and everyone there is feeling it in a different way.
Apto's Mayor Jesse Farias and his council are putting together a budget they say will
probably be balanced.
But he still wants ideas to improve it.
Main object is to share experiences and things we're doing in our community.
Share experiences.
Sometimes somebody in county has a problem, another mayor may have already gone through
that and so share all kinds of good stuff.
Yakima County Commissioner Mike Lata's problem includes major cuts of county employees.
So he's all ears in the ideas department.
Often times we find common struggles.
One of those struggles now upon us are the budgets.
The group called in Paige Scott from Yakima Valley Conference of Governments to explain
ways services can still be met without ringing up a large bill.
When times are tough and budget is not in our hands, accountability and scrutiny just
gets that much more focused.
This is an informal way for us to really understand each other's needs and also just plain talk
that we don't have to talk and code.
Lata says at a meeting like this, the leaders who are there can relax, joke around, deal
with issues and dispense with parliamentary procedure.
Now some of these governments already share their responsibilities.
For instance, the City of Yakima already combines purchasing with Yakima County.
It's a way to team up and cut down on costs to taxpayers.
Stacey?
Thank you, Lindsay.
Now the consolidation goes even farther than that.
Three lower valley towns, Prosper Grandview and Sunnyside are already in talks about teaming
up city services.
No word yet on whether the City of Yakima will get the support it needs to put the Aquatic
Center to a public vote.
The Yakima City Council voted to move forward with putting a sales tax increase on the ballot.
It would pay for the $34 million water park.
Mayor Dave Edler is sending letters to city leaders of both SELA and Union Gap.
He wants to see if their councils would also support the increase.
The Yakima City Council only approved putting the sales tax measure to a vote.
Leaders didn't say which ballot it would appear on.
A national report ranks the Tri-Cities as the least expensive place to live in Washington.
The report compares 315 metro areas across the country.
It's gathered from 70 to 80 criteria like the cost of housing and how much a gallon
of gas costs.
The cost of living information is used by businesses and the Chamber of Commerce to
market our area.
Well, another national report shows high school graduation rates in Washington are below national
average.