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Update: The crash was cleared around 6 p.m., but the right lane remains blocked.

Mallory Meyer scored 21 points and Brianna Adams had 13 as Battle Ground beat Nathan Hale 62-51 on Monday at the Martin Luther King Jr. Tribute event at Lower Columbia College in Longview.
Nathan Hale had a 34-29 lead at halftime, but Battle Ground came out of the break and outscored the Raiders 16-6 in the third quarter to surge ahead.
Nathan Hale’s Hemani Kalia led all scorers with 29 points. She made seven 3-pointers.
MLK TRIBUTE
At Lower Columbia College
BATTLE GROUND 62, NATHAN HALE 51

BOWLING
LOCAL LEAGUES
At Allen’s Crosley Lanes
Jan. 11
Merry Mixers — Men: Rob Bowman 226-214-180 620. Women: Tanya McCreary 164-185-169 518.
At Bailey’s Tiger Bowl
Jan. 15
Battle Ground School Employees — Men: Tom Hasart 181-124-212 517, Tod Garred 150-200-167 517. Women: Sue Zutz 149-126-112 387.

The Clark College Athletic Hall of Fame class of 2019 will be honored on Saturday, Feb. 2, at halftime of the Clark men’s basketball game as well as at a banquet that same evening.
The men’s basketball game against Linn-Benton tips off at 4 p.m. at the O’Connell Sports Complex. The women’s basketball team opens the doubleheader at 2 p.m.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani on Monday clarified comments he made about discussions between Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen and then-candidate Trump about a real estate project in Moscow.
Cohen has pleaded guilty to lying to Congress in 2017 by saying he had abandoned the Trump Tower project in January 2016 even though prosecutors say he actually pursued it into June.

Days after the White House announced plans for a second nuclear summit between the United States and North Korea, a new think tank report has identified a secret North Korean ballistic missile base about 160 miles northwest of Seoul that is reportedly the headquarters of the country’s strategic missile force.

BEIJING — Births in China dropped to the lowest level in almost 60 years in 2018, signaling the country’s looser two-child policy has done little to reverse its slowing birthrate, and worsening the outlook for growth in the world’s second-largest economy.
The number of babies born last year fell by some 2 million from 2017, to 15.23 million, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed on Monday. Demographer He Yafu said it was the least since 1961 and the third-lowest since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949.