Crime

The Department of Homeland Security says a nationwide sweep last week picked up 2,059 convicted criminals.

Prosecutors have charged a man from White Swan with second-degree murder in connection with the shooting death of his neighbor earlier this month. Linden Asbell, a 53-year-old, is now charged in the death of 65-year-old Mason Creel. Yakima County Sheriff's Deputies say a dispute over the use of a driveway led to the fatal shooting on Feb...

A Washington state man and woman accused of leaving three young children alone without food in a cold, filthy house have been charged with criminal mistreatment and abandonment of a dependent person.

A Yakima woman has been sentenced to three years in prison for tax fraud.

A Yakima County Superior Court jury deliberated for only a few hours before returning  a guilty verdict Wednesday in the trial of John Munzenreder.

Yakima Police continue to search for the killer of a 25-year-old man shot in an East Yakima neighborhood this past Thursday.

Fifteen people have been accused of stealing $179,000 worth of scholarships from the Yakama Nation Higher Education Program. An indictment in federal court in Yakima says they were awarded 67 checks for studies at colleges and universities that reported the students had never enrolled or completed coursework...

A car chase through downtown Yakima and onto Interstate 82 led to the arrest of a bank robbery suspect near Zillah.

A 60-year-old man arrested this week in the 1997 shooting death of his wife is expected to face a charge of first-degree murder when he appears in a Yakima County Superior Court room on Friday.

Yakima County Sheriff's Deputies have arrested a man wanted in connection with a cold case that's more than a decade old.