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Published Tuesday, Feb. 09, 2010

The Washington state Senate has passed a measure to help businesses in the Green River Valley find additional flood coverage.

Published Tuesday, Feb. 09, 2010

State and federal wildlife officials will begin killing some wild bighorn sheep in the Yakima River Canyon later this month to curb the spread of pneumonia.

Published Tuesday, Feb. 09, 2010

A study finds that visitors spent $14.2 billion last year in Washington.

Published Tuesday, Feb. 09, 2010

A man who shot and killed his ex-girlfriend in Bellingham died by his own hand, not police gunfire.

Published Tuesday, Feb. 09, 2010

The mild winter in Washington is causing some worry for managers of the state's water supply.

Published Tuesday, Feb. 09, 2010

When a group of high school welding students decided to offer a class for the community, they never imagined having to turn people away.

Published Tuesday, Feb. 09, 2010

The Seattle Art Museum has landed a major exhibition of Pablo Picasso's work.

Published Tuesday, Feb. 09, 2010

Centrist Democrats frustrated that their ideas and voices are routinely mashed by the Legislature's liberals and conservatives are banding together.

Published Tuesday, Feb. 09, 2010

Three employees of a Bremerton nursing home have been fired over allegations they took nude cell phone pictures of residents.

Published Tuesday, Feb. 09, 2010

Ocean Shores Mayor Dean Bunkers is resigning, less than two years into his term.

Published Tuesday, Feb. 09, 2010

A buildup of ice in the fuel lines of a Boeing 777 caused its crash landing at London's Heathrow Airport two years ago, an accident investigation concluded Tuesday.

Published Tuesday, Feb. 09, 2010

Jose Valencia was 14 years old and looking forward to a high school football camp when he was hurt in a rear-end auto crash in 2004.

Published Tuesday, Feb. 09, 2010

A Clark County sheriff's deputy found about three-dozen lawn ornament flamingos stolen from the yard of a Vancouver cancer patient.

Published Tuesday, Feb. 09, 2010

Snohomish County has spent more than $87,000 on an e-mail archiving system that was put on hold last year.

Published Tuesday, Feb. 09, 2010

DNA evidence has led to the arrest of a Montana man in the fatal shooting of his common-law wife in July along Interstate 82.

Published Tuesday, Feb. 09, 2010

The Winter Olympics torch made its only visit to the United States for a ceremony Tuesday at the Peace Arch border crossing in Blaine.

Published Tuesday, Feb. 09, 2010

Police are looking for two Pasco men charged with murder in the stabbing death of nightclub bouncer.

Published Tuesday, Feb. 09, 2010

A man has been found shot to death in a pickup truck at a gas station near Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.

Published Tuesday, Feb. 09, 2010

A woman walking along Interstate 5 in south Seattle has been struck and killed by a truck and a car.

Published Monday, Feb. 08, 2010

No winning tickets were sold for the Washington State Lottery's $6.8 million Lotto jackpot or the $200,000 Hit 5 cashpot Monday night, so prizes will increase to $6.9 million in Lotto and $240,000 in Hit 5.

Published Monday, Feb. 08, 2010

Oregon State Police say a trooper who stopped a car in southern Oregon for several traffic violations found more than a quarter million dollars worth of marijuana neatly packaged in the trunk.

Published Monday, Feb. 08, 2010

In a Facebook announcement, the family of a 57-year-old Washougal, Wash., man missing since Haiti's Jan. 12 earthquake says his remains have been identified in the rubble of the collapsed Hotel Montana in Port-au-Prince.

Published Monday, Feb. 08, 2010

A Bellevue business executive charged with lying to a grand jury about strip club sex acts says contacting a stripper who's a witness in the case was a "colossal mistake."

Published Monday, Feb. 08, 2010

U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks is likely to succeed the late Rep. John Murtha as chairman of the House subcommittee that oversees Pentagon spending.

Published Monday, Feb. 08, 2010

Gov. Chris Gregoire will join British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell for a cross-border Olympic torch ceremony.

Published Monday, Feb. 08, 2010

Two men from Washington state face felony drug charges in North Dakota after a big drug bust.

Published Monday, Feb. 08, 2010

Amtrak says it's stepping up security this week on trains operating to Vancouver, British Columbia, because of the Winter Olympics.

Published Monday, Feb. 08, 2010

A 13-year-old girl in Bridgeport told the Douglas County sheriff's office that her fiance had disappeared.

Published Monday, Feb. 08, 2010

Boeing Co.'s giant 747-8 freighter - the biggest plane the company has ever built - successfully completed its first flight Monday, a year later than originally planned.

Published Monday, Feb. 08, 2010

Someone kicked in doors at three different homes early Monday in Walla Walla.

Published Monday, Feb. 08, 2010

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service improperly failed to make a decision about protecting the rare pygmy rabbit in eight Western states, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court by an environmental group.

Published Monday, Feb. 08, 2010

Areva, the international energy company based in France, and Charlotte, N.C., based Duke Energy have formed a joint venture to build a biomass energy plant at Shelton.

Published Monday, Feb. 08, 2010

The reasons are as different as the teenagers themselves.

Published Monday, Feb. 08, 2010

The winter forecast for the Bonneville Power Administration is for light snow and possibly even lighter revenue.

Published Monday, Feb. 08, 2010

A burglary suspect who was shot and killed by a Pierce County sheriff's deputy at Lake Tapps has been identified as a 23-year-old Renton man, Ion Ungureanu.

Published Monday, Feb. 08, 2010

The Lynnwood City Council will consider ordinances Monday night to tidy up neighborhoods.

Published Monday, Feb. 08, 2010

Four riding horses were shot in a pasture in Yakima County.

Published Monday, Feb. 08, 2010

Ballots will be counted Tuesday for school elections in Washington.

Published Monday, Feb. 08, 2010

The biggest plane Boeing Co. has ever built has taken off on its first flight.

Published Monday, Feb. 08, 2010

A brother and sister driving from a family gathering to a friend's house in Tacoma were shot by someone in a white minivan that pulled alongside at an intersection.

Published Monday, Feb. 08, 2010

Police say the man wounded by two Suquamish tribal officers has nine felony convictions for drug, burglary and violent offense.

Published Sunday, Feb. 07, 2010

The man stabbed to death outside a Pasco nightclub was a bouncer.

Published Sunday, Feb. 07, 2010

Nearly 70 people attended a clinic aimed at showing immigrants how to become naturalized citizens, part of a push by Washington state and an immigrant advocacy group to encourage legal permanent residents to become U.S. citizens.

Published Sunday, Feb. 07, 2010

When Alfredo Garcia wasn't toiling in the fields, he spent hours building his American dream.

Published Sunday, Feb. 07, 2010

A man wounded by an armored car guard remains in critical condition Monday at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. A spokeswoman says he's in the intensive care unit.

Published Sunday, Feb. 07, 2010

A Kitsap County teenager charged with stabbing an elderly neighbor to death has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.

Published Sunday, Feb. 07, 2010

A 90-year-old Vancouver woman safely escaped her home before a blaze damaged her home Sunday morning.

Published Sunday, Feb. 07, 2010

A Republican state senator says he will enter the race for the U.S. Senate seat held by Democratic Sen. Patty Murray.

Published Sunday, Feb. 07, 2010

With ballooning elk and deer populations eating up greenery and altering ecosystems at national parks across the country, a group of researchers is suggesting an unusual solution: introduce small packs of gray wolves to curb the expanding herds.

Published Saturday, Feb. 06, 2010

Sheriff's deputies say a 17-year-old boy crashed his parents' car through the doors of Shorecrest High School in Shoreline, then drove it down the hall.


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