WA Patrol: Man Throws Wife From Car on Highway
ELLENSBURG, Wash. (AP) — The Washington State Patrol says a man shoved his wife from a moving car on a highway, and later fought with a state trooper who stopped him down the road. The car was on the...
View ArticleRecent Waste Management Strike Being Investigated
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — State regulators will hear Thursday what the public thinks of the Waste Management strike that delayed garbage pickups for about 200,000 customers in the Seattle-Everett area....
View ArticleMissing Woman Found After Swimming In River In Her Sleep
BURLEY, Idaho (CBS Seattle) – A missing woman was found safe after she reportedly left home to take a swim in the Snake River – in her sleep. The Times-News of Twin Falls is reporting that the...
View ArticleChild Found Alone In Ore. Home With Woman’s Corpse
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Police say officers rescued a hungry and thirsty 2-year-old boy from an east Portland house where a woman’s body was found Wednesday. The Oregon state medical examiner says that...
View ArticleTased Benton Co. Inmate Dies In Hospital
RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — A 29-year-old man hospitalized after being stunned with a Taser at the Benton County jail has died. Kevin T. Culp of Spokane, who died Tuesday, was in the jail as a contract...
View ArticleReward For Help In Catching Shore Birds Killer
LONG BEACH, Wash. (AP) — PETA is offering $5,000 for help in catching whoever drove into a flock of shore birds on the beach in southwest Washington and killed 92 of them. KING-TV (http://is.gd/qJytgi...
View ArticleNCAA Investigating Syracuse? Boeheim Brushes Off ‘Annual’ Reports
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) – Syracuse has been under investigation for possible NCAA violations, mostly in its basketball program, for at least a year, according to two reports. CBSSports.com, citing an...
View ArticleMan Charged With Murder; Wash. Grandparents Slain
SEATTLE (AP) — King County prosecutors have charged a man accused of killing his grandparents at their Renton home with first-degree aggravated murder, which carries the state’s ultimate penalty....
View ArticleWitnesses Sought In Wash. State Faculty Beating
PULLMAN, Wash. (AP) — Pullman police Monday investigated a beating that put a Washington State University faculty member in the hospital with a serious head injury. The disturbance early Saturday...
View ArticleRobot Disables Explosive Device In Boardman
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Morrow County Sheriff’s Office says an explosive device was found on a road in the Eastern Oregon city of Boardman. The agency said Saturday that the device would have...
View ArticleBody Found At Home Of DB Cooper Parachute Packer
SEATTLE (AP) — Detectives are investigating a homicide at a suburban home owned by the man who packed the parachutes used by infamous airplane hijacker D.B. Cooper more than four decades ago. A woman...
View ArticleWSU Grad Student Accused Of Trying To Poison Wife
COLFAX, Wash. (AP) — The Whitman County sheriff’s office says a Washington State University graduate student attempted to poison his wife as she slept. The woman reported last week that it happened in...
View ArticleWoman Wounded In South Seattle Shootout
SEATTLE (AP) — Police say two groups exchanged shots across a south Seattle street Sunday night just before midnight, wounding a woman in the leg. Officers have arrested one suspect and seized a...
View ArticleArson Ruled Out In Ore. House Fire That Killed 5
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Investigators say they don’t know exactly what caused a house fire that killed five people Sunday in Eastern Oregon, but it wasn’t arson caused by an accelerant or an accident in...
View ArticlePolice: Ore. Hit-And-Run Victims Were Fighting In Road
CAVE JUNCTION, Ore. (AP) — State police say two men killed in a hit-and-run in Southern Oregon were fighting in the road when they were struck by a pickup truck. Authorities identified the victims...
View ArticleArmy Investigation Says Walsh Misused Position
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A 2010 investigation by the U.S. Army’s inspector general concluded that lieutenant governor and senatorial candidate John Walsh used his position as Montana adjutant general for...
View ArticleHusband, Wife Found Dead At Oregon Cabin
SUTHERLIN, Ore. (AP) — Detectives are investigating an apparent murder-suicide at a cabin west of Sutherlin, Ore. The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office says deputies were called late Monday afternoon...
View ArticleIdaho Police Officer Facing Wrath After Killing Dog
FILER, Ida. (CBS Seattle) – A southern Idaho police officer has been placed on administrative leave after video showing him shooting a dog went viral. Filer mayor Rick Dunn made the announcement after...
View ArticleGOP Rep Calling For Federal Investigation Into Oregon’s Obamacare Website For...
MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Greg Walden and three congressional colleagues — all fellow Republicans— on Thursday requested a federal investigation of Oregon’s troubled health insurance exchange,...
View ArticleMan’s Body Found In Recycling Center
WOODINVILLE, Wash. (AP) — A King County sheriff’s spokeswoman says a man’s partially decomposed body has been found at a recycling center in the northeast Seattle suburb of Woodinville. Sgt. Cindi West...
View ArticleCouple Plead Guilty in Bank Fraud Case
SEATTLE (AP) — Federal authorities say a couple who fled to Eastern Europe during a bank fraud investigation has entered guilty pleas in U.S. District Court in Seattle after returning to the United...
View ArticleAuthorities Search For Link Between Slain Family, Jailed Man
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho sheriff has appealed for the public’s help to determine what might connect a slain former Arizona power company executive, his wife and their adult son to a 22-year-old...
View ArticleExplosion Reported Along Road Near Mount Hood; US 26 Closed
RHODODENDRON, Ore. (AP) — Authorities in Clackamas County closed U.S. highway 26 on the flanks of Mount Hood on Thursday to check out a report of an explosion. The sheriff’s office said deputies found...
View ArticleState Auditor’s Office: Spokesman Done Talking About Kelley
SEATTLE (AP) — The Washington State Auditor’s Office said Wednesday its main spokesman is done talking about the investigation into State Auditor Troy Kelley. The office’s chief of staff, Doug...
View ArticleWashington Auditor’s Office Releases Grand Jury Documents
SEATTLE (AP) — The Washington State Auditor’s Office on Tuesday released copies of the documents it turned over as part of a federal investigation involving elected auditor Troy Kelley, but they...
View ArticleCourt: Investigation Of Public Employees Not Private
SEATTLE (AP) — The Washington Supreme Court says public employees don’t have a right to privacy about the fact that they’re being investigated. Two workers with the Spokane School District, who have...
View ArticleState: No Emails Between Auditor, Employee Who’s Old Friend
SEATTLE (AP) — The Washington State Auditor’s Office says it hasn’t turned up any emails or text messages between Auditor Troy Kelley, who is being investigated by federal agents, and a part-time...
View ArticlePolice Identify Homicide Victim Found Under Portland Bridge
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland police identified a homicide victim found under a downtown bridge this week as Michael Harvey, a 60-year-old homeless man. Investigators say Harvey died from blunt force...
View ArticleRecords Show Hard Drive Of Auditor Employee Was Damaged
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Public records show that the hard drive of a state worker’s laptop computer was damaged when he turned it over as part of an investigation into Washington State Auditor Troy...
View ArticleOregon City Police ID Baby Who Died From Head Injury
OREGON CITY, Ore. (AP) — Oregon City Police have identified Izaak Gillen as the 7-month-old boy who died from a head injury last week. Sgt. Matthew Paschall says the infant was at a babysitter’s house...
View ArticleWashington Auditor Pleads Not Guilty To Federal Indictment
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Washington state Auditor Troy Kelley has pleaded not guilty to charges that could ultimately force him from office but he is refusing bipartisan calls from the state’s political...
View ArticleBillings Police Investigate Possible Homicide
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Police are investigating whether a man whose body was found on the Crow Indian Reservation last week may have been killed in a Billings apartment. Billings police, the FBI and...
View ArticleAnchorage Police Release Names Of 4 Found Dead In Home
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The deaths of a couple and their two children at a home in Alaska’s largest city appeared to be an isolated domestic violence incident, and police said Thursday they aren’t...
View ArticleQuestions And Answers About The Deadly Seattle Duck Boat Crash
SEATTLE (AP) — A deadly collision last week in Seattle between a duck boat and a charter bus carrying international college students has prompted a federal investigation. Here are questions and...
View ArticleThings To Know About The Investigation Of E. Coli Outbreak
SEATTLE (AP) — Thirty-seven people in the Pacific Northwest have fallen ill with E. coli in an outbreak connected to Chipotle Mexican restaurants. The popular chain of casual restaurants voluntarily...
View Article1 Injured In Renton Shooting, Police Seeking Suspects
RENTON, Wash. (AP) — Officers are investigating a shooting that injured a man early Sunday in Renton. Renton police say they responded to a call around 2 a.m. Sunday and found a 21-year-old man...
View ArticleJustice Dept. Appoints Robert Mueller To Lead Russian Investigation
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has appointed former FBI Director Robert Mueller to serve as special counsel to oversee the previously confirmed FBI investigation of Russian efforts to influence...
View ArticleSeattle Police Detective Fired In Strip-Club Investigation
SEATTLE (AP) — A longtime Seattle police detective has been fired over misconduct findings arising from an undercover operation at a strip club, including admissions of cocaine use and providing...
View ArticlePac-12 Forms Task Force to Seek Answers For Issues in Sports
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Pac-12 Conference is launching its own task force to develop reform proposals in the wake of a federal bribery investigation that includes two assistant coaches in the...
View ArticleRenton Police Investigating Sheriff For Alleged Sex Assault
SEATTLE (AP) — Police in the Seattle suburb of Renton are conducting a criminal investigation into the King County Sheriff over a former deputy’s accusation that the sheriff sexually assaulted him in...
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