TURNER, COOPER TO FACE OFF FOR SHERIFF

WALLA WALLA - Incumbent Sheriff John Turner received less than half of the votes cast in Tuesday's primary election, but easily outpolled his two challengers. Tom Cooper appears to have bested fellow deputy Barry Blackman, by less than five percentage points, and will move on to face Turner in the general election in November. All three candidates were running as Republicans.

Preliminary results Tuesday show that Turner received 4,874 votes, which was 45.5% of the votes cast. Cooper received 3,177 votes, or 29.6%, and Blackman got 2,672, for 24.9%.

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