SEATTLE (AP) — Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson is challenging the lavish personal spending of bankrupt anti-tax activist and candidate for governor Tim Eyman, saying Eyman’s assets must be preserved so he can pay his debts to the state. Eyman’s…
CUDAHY, Calif. (AP) — Jet fuel dumped by an aircraft returning to Los Angeles International Airport fell onto an elementary school playground Tuesday, fire officials said. The Los Angeles County Fire Department said firefighters assessed 17 children and nine adults…
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Democrat Cory Booker has dropped out of the presidential race after failing to qualify for the December primary debate. Booker announced Monday that he was ending a campaign whose message of unity and love…
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The 60-day legislative session in Washington state begins Monday, with lawmakers set to adjust the state budget and tackle several policy issues, including how to address homelessness in the state. About 10,000 people in the state…
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday the House will take steps next week to send articles of impeachment to the Senate ending Democrats’ blockade of President Donald Trump’s Senate trial. In a letter to her Democratic colleagues,…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two U.S. officials said Thursday it was “highly likely” that an Iranian anti-aircraft missile downed a Ukrainian jetliner late Tuesday, killing all 176 people on board. The crash came just a few hours after Iran launched a…
TIERRA DEL MAR, Ore. (AP) - A tiny coastal village in Oregon is opposing a plan by Facebook to build a landing spot for a submarine cable connecting America with Asia. Representatives of the social media giant say Tierra del…
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - The Washington Supreme Court has sworn in its new chief justice as well as its first Native American justice ever. The Spokesman-Review reports Justice Debra Stephens on Monday became its 57th chief justice. Stephens is…
SEATTLE (AP) - A Washington state lawmaker has announced plans to introduce legislation that would cap insulin costs at $100 a month. KING-TV reported Thursday that state Sen. Karen Keiser introduced the bill last month after a report showed patients…
ASTORIA, Oregon. (AP) - All four Coast Guard crew members are doing well after their boat capsized in heavy wakes near Oregon and they had to be rescued. TV station KOIN reports the 25-foot boat capsized Saturday near Pier 39…
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) — County commissioners in Washington state have settled a legal battle with an oil refinery and environmental groups arguing against plans to produce xylenes for shipment overseas. The Skagit County Board of Commissioners signed the agreement…
BREMERTON, Wash. (AP) - A man living at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor was sentenced to nine years in prison for stabbing his wife's boyfriend. The Kitsap Sun reports Masson Warwick Manson pleaded guilty in November to two counts of second-degree assault…
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Former Obama housing secretary Julian Castro on Thursday ended his run for president that pushed the 2020 field on immigration and swung hard at rivals on the debate stage but never found a foothold to…
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A public memorial service was held Monday for fallen Pierce County Sheriff’s Deputy Cooper Dyson in the Tacoma Dome. KOMO-TV reports the service was preceded by a street procession that began at 11 a.m. at Joint…
YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — Washington’s snowpack is less than a year ago and officials say it’s similar to the start of 2015, the state’s last big drought. The Capital Press reports the statewide snowpack is 47% of normal. It was…
(AP) - The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality has fined a creamery for river water pollution caused by dumping milk. The Statesman Journal reported Friday that the $26,574 fine was levied against Organic Valley for dumping by its McMinnville Creamery.…
WHITE SETTLEMENT, Texas (AP) — A man who trained others in his Texas church to use guns to protect the congregation fatally shot a gunman seconds after he opened fire during a service, the Texas attorney general said Monday. Jack…
SEATTLE (AP) — The stage was set for a storybook ending, with the ball on the 1-yard line and Marshawn Lynch running out onto the field ready to score a division-clinching touchdown in his first game back in Seattle in…
JUNCTION CITY, KAN. (AP) — McDonald's is disputing allegations that a Kansas police officer was handed a coffee with an expletive and the word “pig” written on it when he stopped there on his way to work. Dana Cook, the…
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Employees in Washington state can soon start applying for time off under the state's paid family leave law. Kate Ginn, a 33-year-old project manager for a non-profit in Tacoma, is among those ready to submit her…
This still image taken from surveillance video provided by NYPD shows suspects in connection to a mugging of a 60-year-old man on Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2019 in the the Morrisania neighborhood of the Bronx in New York. Juan Fresnada died…
ST. PETERSBURG (AP) — In 2019, Florida Banana managed to eclipse Florida Man. From alligator antics to naked people doing wacky things, Florida did not disappoint in the weird news department this year. (So. Many. Naked. People.) In December, a Miami…
WHITE SETTLEMENT, Texas (AP) — Congregants returned fire and fatally shot a gunman who killed at least one person in a church near Fort Worth, Texas, on Sunday, police said. A second parishioner has life-threatening injuries following the attack at…
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington state’s minimum wage will increase to $13.50 an hour in the new year, the final of four set increases set by a ballot measure that passed in 2016. The increase — up from this year’s…
