Custer News

When Whatcom County residents look back on 2009, the economy likely will be the main topic.

A house in the 3200 block of Loomis Trail Road was destroyed in a fire Sunday evening, Nov.

Spc. Aaron Aamot was a son and a brother, a friend and a soldier, and Saturday, Nov.

When Army Spc. Aaron S. Aamot was a teenager, he was profoundly affected by the effects of Sept.

Governor Chris Gregoire has directed that flags at all Washington State agency facilities be lowered to half-staff Thursday, in memory of U.S. Army Specialist Aaron S. Aamot, 22, of Custer, Wash.

The Bellingham Herald reports the Defense Department has told a Custer family their son was killed Thursday in Afghanistan when the Stryker vehicle he was driving went over a buried explosive.

A 2006 Ferndale High School graduate was killed in Afghanistan Thursday, Nov. 5, when the Stryker vehicle he was driving went over a buried explosive, according to his family.

Growing up, Marcus Brotherton's exposure to the military was pretty much limited to watching "M*A*S*H" on TV and to renting a room in college from a veteran who slept with a loaded pistol under his pillow and who told coarse, repetitive and sometimes riveting stories about World War II.

Maybe it's just Mother Nature getting in the Halloween spirit. A new video making the rounds on the Internet shows a spooky looking cloud over Romania: It comes just a couple weeks after a similar cloud was spotted over Russia .

These Whatcom County students were named to the summer-quarter dean's list at the University of Washington: Bellingham: Alethea Alexander, Kirsten Alfredsen, Faaiza Alibhai, Jacob Barker, Gabrielle Beaudin, Eli Berman, Chloe Binderup, Scott Bissell, Elliot Bradshaw, Krista Brock, Damian Cade, Chun Chou, Richard Clough Jr., Lauren Cole, Kevin Crow, ...

A man was found hanging from a tree outside a burning house in the 2400 block of Zell Road Wednesday morning, Oct.

Heather Christensen always felt her animals were safe on her Custer property. She never even felt the need to put locks on her barn doors.

Washington State University listed these local students on its 2009 summer honor roll: Bellingham: Nick Bruschetto, Jonathan Edwards, Lana Frazier, Alexander Grummel, Mary Kinser, Cameron Pardon, Sarah Presley and Sandra Thomas.

A vigil for a slain baby boy will be held outside the Whatcom County Courthouse Friday morning, Sept.

The Northwest Washington Fair, held August 17-22 in Lynden, was a blue-ribbon experience for some Whatcom County youth.

Whatcom County Sheriff's deputies arrested a man after responding to a report of shots fired in the 1100 block of Willey's Lake Road Tuesday morning, Sept.

A Custer man was ordered held on $1 million bail Monday for investigation of second-degree murder and felony assault as a probe continues into the death of his infant son.

Police in Whatcom County, Wash., say the body of an infant was found near the site where a 2-month-old child recently disappeared.

BELLINGHAM - Officers searching for a 10-month-old boy say they've found the body of an infant in a wooded area and opened a homicide case.The Whatcom County Sheriff's Office said Sunday it is awaiting positive identification of the body, and the father of Jon "Cecil" Anthony Frazier is in custody.

A prosecutor said a Custer man's accounts of his infant son's death did not match what an autopsy found.