ABERDEEN, Wash. Police say a transient used a library computer for sexually explicit communications with a 13-year-old girl in Aberdeen.

AUBURN, Wash. The King County sheriff's office says no gun was found in the room where a man claiming to have a rifle was shot by deputies.

REDMOND, Wash. Neighbors heard a loud party at a Redmond home but they didn't know a woman had been shot until police showed up.

ABERDEEN, Wash. Aberdeen police are asking neighbors of the Franklin playfield if they saw a fight there Saturday night that ended in the death of a man with multiple cuts.

SPOKANE, Wash. Authorities in Washington say the vehicle of a Spokane woman killed with her two young sons has been found, but the main suspect's still on the loose and is believed to be armed with stolen handguns and rifles.

COUPEVILLE, Wash. A crab fisherman is missing from a 32-foot boat that was found empty with its motor running off Penn Cove on Whidbey Island.

DECEPTION PASS, Wash. A driver fleeing from a Washington State Patrol trooper was killed in a crash Sunday on Highway 20 near Deception Pass.

MADRID Police are conducting a homicide investigation regarding the death of an American college student in Spain and have detained a suspect.

LONG BEACH, Wash. A dead killer whale washed ashore over the weekend near Long Beach.

PULLMAN, Wash. A campus-wide alert for gunfire was issued at Washington State University Sunday afternoon for shooting that turned out to be target practice.

EVERETT, Wash. Police are looking for a car in which a man fled after firing shots into an Everett restaurant early Monday, wounding two men in the legs.

OLYMPIA Gov. Chris Gregoire will sign a measure legalizing gay marriage in Washington state into law on Monday.

PUYALLUP, Wash. Volunteers sifted through tons of paper at a recycling center Sunday, hoping to find items that Josh Powell may have dumped before killing himself and his two sons in a house fire last week.

SEATAC, Wash. Sen. Maria Cantwell says a bill to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration includes a number of benefits for Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.

SEATTLE To the Campbell brothers, the 56 acres of prime land near the Tulalip Tribes' popular casino and outlet mall was a chance for the family to generate income for generations to come.

SEATTLE A Tulalip Tribes family is feuding with their own tribal leaders over 56 acres of prime land near the tribe's popular casino and outlet mall.

PUYALLUP, Wash. Volunteers from Pierce County Search and Rescue sifted through tons of paper at a recycling center Sunday, hoping to find items that Josh Powell may have dumped before killing himself and his two sons in a house fire last week.

BELLINGHAM, Wash. A 28-year-old pilot is resting at home in Bellingham after crashing a small plane on Mount Baker.

RENO, Nev. Wild horse protection advocates are accusing the federal Bureau of Land Management of stacking a public advisory board with friends of cattle ranchers at the expense of mustangs, and warning that the panel is increasingly sympathetic to the idea of slaughtering excess animals in overpopulated herds on U.S. lands in the West.

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho Two national forests in Idaho and Washington state could receive more than $90 million over the next 10 years as part of a forest restoration plan intended to boost timber production and create jobs while making forests healthier and less prone to wildfire.

MATTAWA, Wash. The Grant County sheriff's office says a pregnant woman and her unborn child are dead after a shooting east of Yakima.

BRANFORD, Conn. When it comes to chatting on the phone or texting while driving, it's the men who are more often the culprits.

SPOKANE, Wash. Spokane police say they man they're looking for in connection with the death of a woman and her two sons is believed to be armed with stolen handguns and rifles.

OLYMPIA, Wash. State lawmakers moved ahead Saturday on a range of legislation, including measures on child pornography viewed by criminal defendants, electric car fees and adoptees' access to birth certificates.

OLYMPIA, Wash. The Washington state Senate has passed a bill to charge electric car owners a $100 annual fee to compensate for the lack of gas taxes they pay.

OLYMPIA, Wash. A bill passing unanimously in the Washington state House would allow adult adoptees access to their birth certificates unless a biological parent has filed an affidavit to the contrary.

KETCHIKAN, Alaska Two Prince of Wales Island boys who went missing in June were found Friday in Washington state after stepping off the Alaska-Washington ferry.

PENDLETON, Ore. A fire that killed two toddlers is the subject of a Umatilla County lawsuit that alleges negligence on the parts of the Seattle-based management company and the trailer park manager.

OLYMPIA, Wash. The Washington state House has passed a bill that would restrict the ability of criminal defendants to view child pornography pertaining to their cases.

MEDFORD, Ore. An Oregon regional drug team has charged two people with carrying $1 million worth of heroin on a bus that left California bound for Washington state.

OLYMPIA, Wash. The Washington state Senate has passed a bill to rein in future tax breaks granted by the Legislature.

TACOMA, Wash. More than a thousand people mourned the deaths of Charlie and Braden Powell at a public funeral Saturday, nearly a week after the young boys' father killed them and himself in a gas-fueled blaze.

MOSCOW, Idaho David Harlan has taken the concept of theater-in-the-round to the next level. He's converted an old grain silo in this college town into a live theater space.

TACOMA, Wash. A funeral for the two sons of missing Utah woman Susan Powell will be held Saturday morning at a Tacoma church.

MARINETTE, Wis. Marinette Marine says it will build another 40 boats for the U.S. Coast Guard.

SPOKANE, Wash. Police were searching for the person responsible for the deaths of a woman and two children whose bodies were found in a home in north Spokane, authorities said Saturday.

SPOKANE, Wash. Spokane police say a woman and two juveniles have been found dead in what authorities are calling a triple homicide.

OLYMPIA, Wash. The Washington state Senate passed a bill Friday to ban one potentially cancer-causing flame retardant from kids' products but not another that is more widely used.

BREMERTON, Wash. Police in Bremerton, Wash., say two recent homicides and a non-fatal stabbing may be linked and they are working with the FBI and nearby police agencies to solve the crimes.

OLYMPIA, Wash. Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum is bringing his campaign to Washington next week.

OLYMPIA, Wash. The Washington state Health Department says testing shows that norovirus caused more than 200 illnesses among people who attended a state cheerleading tournament last weekend in Everett.

DALLAS Federal charges have been leveled against a Dallas-based mail-order compounding pharmacy over a shipment of a misbranded drug ingredient federal officials blame for three deaths in the Pacific Northwest.

SEATTLE The dispatcher who took a much-criticized 911 call from a social worker trying to alert authorities to danger at Josh Powell's house before he killed himself and his children says the case has been "a nightmare."

SPOKANE, Wash. A Deer Park man has been charged with aggravated first-degree murder and sexually violating human remains in the death of his ex-wife.

OLYMPIA, Wash. Gov. Chris Gregoire and British Columbia Premier Christy Clark have signed an agreement to conduct a cross-border earthquake readiness exercise.

SEATTLE Police in Washington state who searched a storage unit rented by Josh Powell found a stained comforter that tested positive for blood in initial exams, according to documents filed in court Friday.

NEW YORK New York and 10 other states filed a lawsuit Friday designed to force the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to issue new regulations on soot pollution.

LONGVIEW, Wash. The International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the EGT joint venture signed a five-year labor agreement Friday covering operations at the grain terminal at the Port of Longview.

OLYMPIA, Wash. The state Senate has approved a bill that would repeal the mandatory retirement age for district court judges.

BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. Minnesota is banning the man known as the "Piggyback Bandit" from high school games in the state.