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ARLINGTON — Kris Johnson has been looking for regular work for months and says he was going to have to juggle money around to buy a Thanksgiving turkey for his family.
The arraignment of the man charged with killing Seattle police Officer Timothy Brenton on Halloween has been postponed until he is released from a hospital.
A pair of astronauts zipped through the third and final spacewalk of their mission Monday, helping to install a 1,200-pound oxygen tank at the International Space Station and accomplishing everything else on their list.
The Puyallup City Council have approved the first half of a plan to eliminate taxes that once funded the city’s fire department, which the city no longer runs.
Washington State coach Paul Wulff said Monday he has the support of the administration and will be back in 2010 despite just three victories in his first two seasons.
Joe Mauer sat behind a table on a podium in a conference room at the Metrodome when Justin Morneau shouted out the last question of the day. "Are you finally going to buy dinner now?" Morneau said to his teammate from the audience, one MVP to another.
A Bellevue woman accused of raping a 13-year-old boy has pleaded not guilty to child rape charges.
The Goodwill opens a new store in Bonney Lake on Thursday, Dec. 3. There will be a grand opening sale held that weekend.
In an email sent late Sunday to her fellow council members and The News Tribune, Tacoma City Councilwoman Connie Ladenburg withdrew her name from consideration for appointment to two soon-to-be vacant council seats.
At the newly opened Cannabis Cafe, people sit around taking tokes from a "vaporizer" - a contraption with a big plastic bag that captures the potent vapors of heated marijuana. Glass jars hold donations of dried, milky-green weed, and the cafe serves up meals and snacks for the hungry.
The flags on all state agency buildings will be lowered today in honor of a state Department of Transportation worker who was killed Thursday when he was hit by a falling tree limb while cleaning up storm debris east of Port Angeles.
Three families were displaced Sunday night when a fire damaged an apartment unit in Kent.
FAIRBANKS -- Ravens have feelings, too, at least judging from an eerie scene Tuesday morning on Minnie Street in east Fairbanks.
BARROW -- Charles Maasak Brower was heading out to do some seal and caribou hunting with his four sons when they stumbled upon a beach find -- a fish -- that has nearly everyone stumped.
Nearly three years after a chorus of complaints from local soldiers went public, a program designed to reduce the waiting time for veterans' disability claims will expand to Fort Lewis and five other military installations.
If state lawmakers want to raise taxes to plug a growing shortfall, they always have options – provided they have the votes.
TUMWATER – The city of Tumwater is the first jurisdiction in South Sound to adopt an ordinance aimed at reducing light pollution from outdoor lighting.
The following projects are expected to affect traffic this week in South Sound, according to the Washington State Department of Transportation.
A stack of letters written more than a century ago forms the core of a new book about early Fairhaven.
KENNEWICK -- Nicole Ray isn't your run-of-the-mill pageant queen.
Rockaroke with live band, college night, Jazzbones, 2803 Sixth Ave., Tacoma; 253-396-9169.
Washington's largest winery made the world's greatest wine this year, according to Wine Spectator.
Parents who thought their preschoolers were spending time in home-based day cares, taking naps, eating healthy snacks and learning to play nicely with others may be surprised to discover they are sitting as many as two hours a day in front of a TV, according to a study published Monday.
All hell broke loose in the Rialto Theater Sunday afternoon, in the best possible way, as the Tacoma Symphony tackled two of Beethoven’s greatest works with the ferocity, mood-swings and triumph worthy of the infamously moody composer. Under their usual conductor Harvey Felder and guest conductor Christophe Chagnard of the Northwest Sinfonietta, the orchestra played a mostly excellent concert to complete a two-orchestra festival of Mozart and Beethoven.
The King of Pop is still winning awards and setting records doing it.
Computer hackers have broken into a server at a well-respected climate change research center in Britain and posted hundreds of private e-mails and documents online - stoking debate over whether some scientists have overstated the case for man-made climate change.
The vampire romance "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" sucked up $140.7 million in its first three days and pulled in a total of $258.8 million worldwide, according to studio estimates Sunday.
A weekend getaway to the City of Roses - or, shall we say, the City of Beer - is a great way to erase the mid-November blahs.
Iran on Sunday began large-scale air defense war games aimed at protecting its nuclear facilities from attack, state TV reported, as an air force commander boasted the country could deter any military strike by Israel.
The Olympia Police Department received three reports of a man identifying himself as a Thurston County Deputy Sheriff by the name of Jerry Porter. Thurston County does not have a deputy by this name.
Federal prosecutors say more than 80 people have been arrested in a sweep targeting gangs in central Washington.
The suspect who authorities say fatally wounded a bystander and led police on a car chase before being shot dead by officers was a 28-year-old suburban Portland resident, police said.
State officials says a tugboat sank at its Seattle waterfront pier and a crew member was taken to the hospital Saturday night.
A West Point cadet from Washington state has been named a 2010 Rhodes scholar.
Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin has banned Rep. Patrick Kennedy from receiving Communion, the central sacrament of the church, in Rhode Island because of the congressman's support for abortion rights, Kennedy said in a newspaper interview published Sunday.
CENTRALIA - A second re-trial is scheduled to be set in January for Kenneth Slert, who is accused of first-degree murder for shooting and killing a man in 2000 at a campground in Packwood.
Depending on the weather, an overnight eastbound Highway 16 closure at Nalley Valley is scheduled from 10 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 22 until 5 a.m. Monday, Nov. 23 so crews can re-stripe the roadway.
A South Sound boy has a "starring role" in an episode of a cable television program that airs today.
A Yelm teen was injured Thursday evening when he was struck by a pickup while riding his bicycle, according to the Washington State Patrol.
SPOKANE – A pair of big plays gave second-ranked Lakes an early advantage, and the Lancers' defense made sure that lead held up in a 24-0 victory over No. 5 Mount Spokane in a Class 3A state quarterfinal Saturday at Joe Albi Stadium.
The provost at the University of Washington has taken on a second job as a director on the corporate board at Nike.
RICHLAND -- Sarah Palin is planning a book signing in Richland when she visits relatives in the Tri-Cities for Thanksgiving.
An Olympia man with a history that a prosecutor called "horrendous" was sentenced to more than 50 years in prison this week for his leadership of a cocaine ring and for arranging the murder of a police informant.
The following recalls have been announced:
A "very, very successful gang sweep" took nearly 80 fugitives off the streets -- 57 in the Tri-Cities alone -- along with eight firearms, hundreds of rounds of ammunition, a variety of drugs and about $14,000 cash, authorities said Friday.
Prosecutors have requested a life sentence for an American student and her former Italian boyfriend accused of killing a young British woman in Italy.
A man was shot and critically injured in a Friday night shooting on Seattle's Capitol Hill.
A Gold Bar-area couple have pleaded guilty to six counts each of felony animal cruelty in the wake of a January raid that rescued more than 150 dogs.
North Pole elves have good reason to celebrate again, thanks to a decision by the U.S. Postal Service to resume a Santa Claus letter program that's thrilled children from around the world for decades.
Gov. Chris Gregoire says the state of Washington is going to wait until the second round to compete for money from a new federal fund for education reform.
A former Pierce County sheriff's deputy who was suspected of having sex while on duty last year was found not guilty of first-degree criminal trespass with sexual motivation by a jury this week.
A California man was sentenced to federal prison Friday in connection with four bank robberies – including three in the Puyallup area – during fall 2007.
Lakewood police have announced that David W. Hegseth has been found at a bus stop in Federal Way.
Boeing broke ground this morning in North Charleston, S.C., for a second assembly line for its 787 jetliner. The assembly line will be the first outside the Puget Sound area for Boeing's commercial jets.
The parents of Amanda Knox are so hopeful she'll be freed after her murder trial in Italy they have bought an airplane ticket home to Seattle for their daughter.
A man who stabbed his girlfriend to death as they rode in a car on Interstate 5 in Seattle has been sentenced to 31 years in prison.
An American student accused of murdering her British roommate in Italy had a growing hatred for the victim and killed her in retaliation during a drug-fueled sex game, a prosecutor said Friday in closing arguments at her murder trial.
The King County medical examiner's office says the death of a man at a Boeing facility in Kent was a suicide.
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The Lakewood Police Department is asking for the public's help in locating 40-year old David Wesley Hegseth.
The foreclosure crisis likely will persist well into next year as high unemployment pushes more people out of homes, pulls down housing prices and raises concerns about the broader economic recovery.
For the second straight year, San Francisco Giants right-hander Tim Lincecum has been named National League's Cy Young Award winner by members of the Baseball Writers' Association of America.
The Seattle Fire Department says a safety rope helped save the life a window-washer who fell eight stories from a downtown building.
For more than two decades, Oprah Winfrey has been the inspirational, change-your-life champion who reigned over daytime television much like Johnny Carson once ruled late night.
Puyallup police are searching for a man suspected of robbing a South Hill bank branch this morning.
Deportations of illegal immigrants with criminal records from Alaska, Oregon, and Washington this past year spiked by nearly 40 percent, while overall removals dropped for the first time in five years, according to new data released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
San Francisco Giants ace Tim Lincecum won the NL Cy Young Award on Thursday for the second straight year, emerging from one of the tightest votes in the history of the honor to become the first repeat winner since Randy Johnson.
Today we’ll learn the fate of Pierce County Superior Court Judge Michael Hecht. He’s scheduled to be sentenced for felony harassment and patronizing a prostitute. But the fate of Hecht’s seat on the bench is less certain.
Washington's chief economist is making a new prediction about how much state tax money will be collected in the next year-and-a-half.
Tacoma firefighters rescued the driver of a pickup truck that went over an embankment at Heron Ridge Drive Northeast and Marine View Drive on Thursday morning.
Opponents of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Pasco say they may appeal the city council's decision approving a special permit.
Police say three passing drivers stopped and grabbed a woman before she could jump off the Tacoma Narrows bridge.
The Navy says it has decided to use teams of security officers and specially trained bottlenose dolphins and California sea lions to help protect Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor.
Guards aboard the Maersk Alabama used guns and a sound blaster Wednesday to repel the second pirate attack in seven months on the U.S. vessel at a time when ships are increasingly hiring armed security teams to thwart hijackings.
Of all the adjectives one might use to describe Newsweek's current Sarah Palin cover, "unflattering" probably isn't one of them.
An appeals court says Seattle biotechnology firm Cell Theraputics Inc. can pursue claims for nearly $23 million against a former consultant.
Pacific Northwest states are getting more than $1.1 million from the U.S. Department of Labor to encourage green jobs.
Spokane County sheriff's deputies used a stun gun on an attacking pit bull dog. It didn't stop, so they shot it with a .45-caliber handgun, and it still kept coming. They finally killed it with a blast from a 12-gauge shotgun.
One of the mini-controversies swirling around Pierce County’s 2010 budget is the fate of the county communications department.
PORTLAND, Ore. – A southwest Oregon man shot his wife in the back after hiding in her car while she met with a divorce attorney, authorities said Wednesday.
Three separate mudslides Tuesday night caused Amtrak to suspend train service between Seattle and Vancouver, B.C. on Wednesday.
The Federal Way City Council put off deciding when voters will elect a mayor until Dec. 1.
Sarah Palin will reportedly spend Thanksgiving Day in Richland at the home of her aunt Katie Johnson.
Arborists say a historic black walnut tree planted from a nut 152 years ago to mark the birthplace of Washington Territory is full of decay, and a Longview historic preservationist fears plans to build a railroad spur nearby will crush the ailing tree's roots and hasten its demise.
Olympia police have found the silver-colored 1993 Jeep Cherokee that they had sought in connection with the shooting death of an Olympia man Monday morning on Capitol Way.
A fatal accident blocked multiple lanes on southbound Interstate 5 just north of Highway 518 near Tukwila causing traffic back-ups Wednesday morning. The accident happened at about 6 a.m. and it took three hours to finally open up all the lanes.
Puyallup’s rosy financial picture has darkened in 2009, and city officials are looking at ways to save.
Members of the Puyallup City Council tentatively approved three map amendments to the city’s comprehensive plan last week, but one of the proposed changes has significant debate surrounding it.
DuPont - A decades-long land-use battle involving the historic Sequalitchew Creek Canyon in DuPont has entered a new phase of studies, fact-finding and public review.
OLYMPIA – The Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission staff filed a recommendation Tuesday to reject most of a rate increase proposed by Puget Sound Energy.
As utilities completed repairs Thursday to the latest wind-caused power outages in Western Washington, forecasters said the breezy wet weather would continue with snow in the mountains and parts of Eastern Washington.
Pierce County prosecutors have charged two men with robbery after a heist at a downtown Tacoma bank branch Friday.
Tacoma Water officials have refined the cost estimates for new drinking water treatment equipment, and they’re about $10 million to $20 million higher than rough initial numbers.
A homeless man with a long history of arson was charged Tuesday in a string of deliberately set fires that terrorized a Seattle neighborhood in recent months.
Fallout continues from the summer controversy over the University of Notre Dame awarding an honorary degree to President Barack Obama, who supports abortion rights.
A man wearing a Spiderman ski mask robbed a pizza restaurant at gunpoint Monday night.
A man who killed two teens and an elderly couple in the south Seattle suburb of Des Moines eight years ago has been sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty.
The WSDOT reported that a medical emergency blocked the left lane of southbound Interstate 5 at 56th Street in Tacoma. Backup was reported to be one mile to 38th Street.
MOUNT VERNON — A man who killed six people, including a sheriff’s deputy, in a Skagit County shooting rampage last year has pleaded guilty and will spend the rest of his life in a mental hospital or prison.
NEW YORK — Zack Greinke won the American League Cy Young Award on Tuesday, beating out Felix Hernandez after a spectacular season short on wins but long on domination.
ANACORTES -- A 41-year-old Kennewick man was charged with first-degree premeditated murder for the homicide of an elite Anacortes-area dog trainer, though the victim's body still hasn't been found more than a week after he disappeared.
Washington's unemployment rate increased slightly to 9.3 percent in October from the revised September rate of 9.1 percent, state officials said Tuesday.
A Spanaway man wanted on child sex crime charges has been arrested at the California-Mexico border.
A 25-year-old Spokane Valley woman was pistol whipped and shoved in a closet by two masked men who entered her apartment with guns.
SEATTLE – A man who killed two teens and an elderly couple in the south Seattle suburb of Des Moines eight years ago has been sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty.
One man grabbed her phone before she could call 911, breaking her hand in front of her husband and grandchildren as he screamed at the family for driving too slowly.
Pierce County prosecutors have charged two men with robbery after a heist at a downtown Tacoma bank branch Friday afternoon.
A magnitude 6.6 earthquake occurred at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday off the Queen Charlotte Islands off the west coast of British Columbia.
Microsoft Corp. co-founder and billionaire investor Paul Allen has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and is undergoing chemotherapy.
UMATILLA -- Investigators are trying to figure out who drove a large farm tractor through a Umatilla Chemical Depot fence and why.
The NFL Players Association is trying to set up a meeting with Cleveland Browns players this week to talk about coach Eric Mangini's practices, a person at the union told The Associated Press on Monday.
OLYMPIA – A 40-year-old Olympia man was found shot to death on Capitol Way early Monday a few blocks from the state Capitol; police are investigating it as a homicide.
The National Weather Service says the winds and rain splashing Western Washington eased Tuesday as a storm system moved inland.
Due to mechanical issues, northbound Sounder train 1508 departing the Tacoma Dome Station at 6:50 a.m. will be canceled on Tuesday, Nov. 17.
Nov. 16 - A Rochester man was called a hero after he found a young girl sitting in a ditch on U.S. Highway 12 near Rochester Saturday night.
Gov. Chris Gregoire rejected new Republican calls for a special legislative session in early December to deal with the growing budget shortfall, despite her prediction it might hit $2.5 billion after Thursday’s revenue forecast.
Family Story Time 10:30 a.m. Nov. 17, Summit Pierce County Library, 5107 112th St., Tacoma; Steilacoom Pierce County Library, 2950 Steilacoom Blvd., Steilacoom; 1 p.m. Nov. 17, Milton Pierce County Library, 1000 Laurel, Milton; 7 p.m. Nov. 17, South Hill Pierce County Library, 15420 Meridian E., Puyallup; Free; www.piercecountylibrary.org.
Microsoft Corp. co-founder and billionaire investor Paul Allen has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and is undergoing chemotherapy.
It will get plenty wet and windy today, but the Tacoma area should be spared from the worst of the blustery weather in the Puget Sound region.
MONTESANO – The Grays Harbor County health officer, Dr. John Bausher, says the death of an Aberdeen 12-year-old is the first in the county linked to swine flu.
Federal Way Municipal Court Judge Michael Morgan signed an agreement stipulating that he violated state election laws Oct. 14, then withdrew it two days later.
Police say they have no motive and only a vague description of a suspect in a shooting that wounded three people early Monday outside a nightclub in downtown Seattle.
The National Weather Service is warning of possible damaging 40 mph winds with gusts to 60 on Monday night and Tuesday morning from the Washington coast, through the Strait of Juan de Fuca (FEW'-kuh) and into Whatcom and Skagit counties.
A study by NOAA and the University of Washington says a yearlong closure of recreational razor clam digging could result in as much as $22 million in lost revenue to counties on the Washington coast.
The University of Washington and Seattle Children’s Hospital researchers are looking for 110 6-month-old infants in the Puget Sound area to participate in a new study.
The Grays Harbor County health officer, Dr. John Bausher, says the death of an Aberdeen 12-year-old is the first in the county linked to swine flu.
PORTLAND, Ore. – A Mormon youth leader in Oregon has been accused of sexually abusing a boy in the mid-1970s in a lawsuit filed Monday in Portland.
Prosecutors have filed charges against a King County laser eye surgeon accused of trying to have two colleagues killed.
Tacoma police arrested three men late Sunday on suspicion of getting into a fenced Tacoma Public Utilities lot and trying to steal expensive pieces of metal.
An overnight slide sent mud into the driveway and against a home and garage in Gig Harbor. The homeowners were reportedly not injured and are staying somewhere else.
Many of the women hadn't seen each other for years, and certainly hadn't seen their beloved leader, "Casey," for ages.
Plant Walk - Learn about and identify the many native plants of the Adriana Hess Wetland Park, noon-1 p.m. Nov. 16, Tahoma Audubon Society, 2917 Morrison Road, University Place; Free; www.TahomaAudubon.org.
The Department of Transportation is reporting a collision that blocked the left lane of southbound Interstate 5 in Pierce County Monday morning is now clear.
Quincy Pondexter scored 20 of his career-high 29 in the first half, and No. 14 Washington overwhelmed Portland State 111-55 on Sunday night.
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