As of Tuesday evening, roughly 58 percent of Blaine voters said yes to the Blaine school district's $32 million capital projects bond, just about 2 percent short of the necessary super majority.

Jurors heard the first testimony on Monday in the federal trial of Wayne Groen, a Lynden man who is accused of interfering with a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) helicopter by shining a high-powered flashlight at it during a nighttime flight.