A woman was injured after she and a friend jumped from the second story window of a Pullman apartment complex that caught fire early Tuesday morning.

According to the Pullman Fire Department, crews were called to the Clarke Terrace complex on Terre View Drive just before 7 a.m. Firefighters found the 8-unit structure fully involved, but managed to keep the blaze contained to four of the units. The fire was under control about an hour later. The fire is believed to have been caused by a discarded cigarette. The damage is estimated at $450,000.

The woman in her mid-20s jumped about 10-12 feet to the ground, and was taken to the hospital with a fractured pelvis. A male friend of hers also jumped, but did not get hurt.

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An arrest has been made for an alleged rape that occurred four years ago in Pullman. Detectives from Pullman traveled to Kent, Washington to arrest Bert Mageo, 24, in connection with an alleged 2004 rape of a then 26-year old woman.

The woman reported she was asleep in her bed when an unknown man entered her apartment on the 1400 block of N.E. Wheatland Drive in Pullman and proceeded to rape her. The suspect left behind fingerprints, which at the time were checked against the electronic fingerprint database with no matches.

In February a confirmed match was made by the state crime lab to Mageo, who was convicted on harassment and assault charges in King County. After detectives contacted the victim in Philadelphia, where she now lives, they were able to obtain a no-bail arrest warrant late last week in Whitman County Superior Court.

Mageo was transported to Whitman County Tuesday and was booked on the charge of first-degree rape in the case. He is scheduled to appear in court sometime Wednesday.

A Washington state Democratic superdelegate is supporting Sen. Hillary Clinton for the party’s presidential nomination.

State party Vice Chairwoman Eileen Macoll of Pullman says Clinton has the best chance of successfully ending the Iraq war.

Macoll’s announcement Thursday bucks a recent trend of Washington superdelegate endorsements for Sen. Barack Obama.

Macoll is the sixth Washington superdelegate to endorse Clinton. Seven of the state’s 17 superdelegates have endorsed Obama, while the other four are officially uncommitted.

Superdelegates make their own choice about their vote for the nomination - other delegates to the Democratic national convention are pledged based the state’s caucuses, which Obama won.

(AP)

Horizon Air has announced it’s eliminating one of its two daily round-trip flights between Lewiston and Boise.

The company says the flight will be eliminated in August, and that the remaining flight will begin and end in Pullman.

Horizon is cutting some other flights in the Pacific Northwest, including stopping all service to Butte and dropping some Seattle-to-Portland flights, as it struggles with high fuel costs. The changes in service come as airlines nationwide battle soaring fuel prices by reducing flights and packing planes fuller.

The airline also will reduce daily flights between many other cities, though in some cases it will also be switching to larger planes. Horizon said earlier this year it is phasing out its less efficient, 37-seat Q200 planes and eventually will fly only the bigger and more fuel-efficient Q400s turboprops, which seat 76 passengers.

Wallis Beasley, a former one-time acting president of Washington State University, died Tuesday in Pullman, Washington at the age of 92. A sociologist, Beasley served as acting WSU president in 1966-1967, between the administrations of C. Clement French and Glenn Terrell.

Over his WSU career Beasley chaired or was a member of many university committees, and for several years he was faculty athletic representative to the Pacific Athletic Conference – now Pac-10. After Terrell’s arrival, Beasley served as executive vice president until his retirement in 1981. Wazzu’s Beasley Performing Arts Coliseum is named in his honor.