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Published Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009

Prosecutors on Saturday requested life in prison for an American student and her ex-boyfriend accused in the fatal stabbing of her British roommate during a drug-fueled sex game - charges the U.S. woman dismissed as "pure fantasy."

Published Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009

An eight-week operation headed by the U.S. Attorney's Office has netted 79 arrests in the Yakima and Tri-Cities areas.

Published Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009

The boys in the back of the room aren't listening to Bubbly Brittany.

Published Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009

In an effort to drive down costs for the Columbia River Crossing project, engineers have pulled out plans for a quicker connection between Interstate 5 and State Route 500.

Published Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009

The provost at the University of Washington has taken on a second job as a director on the corporate board at Nike.

Published Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009

An argument escalated into a shooting leaving one man dead, Bellingham police say.

Published Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009

The federal judge getting ready to decide whether the government is doing enough to save Columbia River salmon will have a question for its lawyers Monday: If you have plans in your hip pocket in case the fish numbers crash, why not put those plans to work now?

Published Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009

When Liz Fitzgerald realized her son and daughter were forced to read books in math class while the other children caught up, she had them moved into gifted classes at their suburban Atlanta elementary school.

Published Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

A man was shot and critically injured in a Friday night shooting on Seattle's Capitol Hill.

Published Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

The case of five emaciated horses found abandoned in a Pierce County forest has prompted the Humane Society of the United States to offer a $2,500 reward for information leading to arrests and convictions.

Published Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged a San Diego County man with securities fraud, saying he targeted Somali immigrants in San Diego and Seattle.

Published Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

A former Billings school bus driver accused of hitting a high school student with the bus while driving drunk will be returned to Montana to face charges.

Published Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

A 43-year-old California man has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison after pleading guilty to several bank robberies in Washington state. Robert Vincent Mendez has also been indicted in four other bank robberies in Oregon.

Published Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

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.

Published Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

A King County Superior Court judge says Seattle doesn't have to do an environmental review before July Fourth fireworks displays at Gas Works Park.

Published Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

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.

Published Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

The Burlington Northern Santa Fe refueling depot in Huetter is in compliance with local environmental regulations.

Published Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

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.

Published Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

Police have identified a suspect in the shooting death of a man whose body was found Monday on a street in Olympia.

Published Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

A man suspected of shooting another man with a cross bow near Pe Ell (pee-EL') surrendered Friday to Lewis County sheriff's deputies.

Published Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

A philanthropist and former Microsoft Corp. executive who built a big-time company with small-town people is the recipient of North Dakota's highest honor, the Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider award.

Published Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

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.

Published Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

The off-duty Las Vegas police officer killed in a shootout with intruders in his own garage grew up in Yakima where he graduated in 1997 from Davis High School.

Published Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

The Energy Department predicts employment at the Hanford nuclear reservation will peak at 10,800 next year then begin to decline as clean-up work is completed.

Published Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

The King County medical examiner's office says the death of a man at a Boeing facility in Kent was a suicide.

Published Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

The Defense Department says a Fort Lewis soldier was killed Tuesday by a roadside bomb in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

Published Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

A police officer was knocked unconscious in a struggle with a suspect in a pickup truck that crashed into a parked car in Yakima.

Published Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

An American student accused of fatally stabbing 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 contended Friday in closing arguments at her murder trial.

Published Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

A gigantic landslide that buried a highway, uprooted homes and rerouted a river in Washington state's Cascade Range left hundreds of smaller victims: fish.

Published Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

Work has officially started on building Boeing's $750 million aircraft assembly plant in South Carolina - the largest industrial investment in state history.

Published Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

The federal Government Accountability Office has denied an appeal of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's decision to move its research fleet from Seattle's Lake Union to Newport, Ore.

Published Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009

A Bonneville Power Administration proposal to build a new high-voltage power line across one of several possible corridors between new substations in Castle Rock, Wash., and Troutdale, Ore., is drawing heated comment.

Published Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009

The Washington State Patrol says a 19-year-old Auburn woman called 911 to report that she pulled over to the side of a highway because she was "very drunk" and needed a lift from police.

Published Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009

The Washington state Transportation Department says a 42-year-old employee died Thursday after he was hit by a falling tree limb while working to clear a slide on U.S. Highway 101 near Port Angeles.

Published Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009

Immigration officials say six illegal immigrants have been arrested in Mount Vernon, Wash., after agents descended on a trailer park.

Published Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009

Washington's insurance commissioner says unpaid medical bills in the state will cost about $1 billion a year by 2011.

Published Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009

The U.S. House has lent support to efforts to restore a Willamette Valley stream degraded over the years by lightly regulated logging, trashy campers and rowdy partiers.

Published Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009

Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences says its president has resigned.

Published Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009

Gov. Chris Gregoire opposes state schools chief Randy Dorn's proposal to delay the requirement for students to pass state math and science tests to graduate, because the economy depends on Washington students leaving high school well trained in both subjects.

Published Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009

Bremerton school officials are trying to figure out how the resurfacing of the high school track was botched so badly.

Published Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009

The Coast Guard has suspended its search for a body reportedly seen by two people in the water near the Mukilteo ferry terminal.

Published Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009

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.

Published Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009

The Seattle Fire Department says a safety rope helped save the life a window-washer who fell eight stories from a downtown building.

Published Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009

Federal prosecutors in Philadelphia have charged three men with diverting traffic from the Web site of telecom giant Comcast last year.

Published Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009

The Snohomish County sheriff's office says an Arlington burglary victim turned into a homicide suspect when the body of the burglary suspect was found in a field.

Published Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009

Seattle's Swedish Medical Center says it might stop accepting Regence BlueShield - the region's biggest health insurer - as a provider because its reimbursement rates are too low.

Published Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009

The Yakima County sheriff's office is investigating the killing of a man whose body was found about 1:30 a.m. Thursday in a car at an intersection near Wapato.

Published Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009

Three school districts and a coalition of charter schools have agreed to be test kitchens for some radical ideas for improving teacher quality - from paying new teachers to spend another year practicing before getting their own class to letting student test scores affect teacher pay.

Published Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009

Tax increases probably can't be avoided as the state tries to patch a budget deficit that's ballooned to about $2.6 billion, top Democratic lawmakers said Thursday.

Published Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009

Opponents of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Pasco say they may appeal the city council's decision approving a special permit.


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