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The page was called "509hoesexposed." It went live Tuesday night and was up most of the day until it was taken down sometime Wednesday.  It seems it was designed to identify young girls considered to be promiscuous around Yakima. These girls had no control over their pictures being posted, free for anyone to comment...

The Kittitas County Sheriff's Office said Thursday they recovered more than 200 items that were fraudulently taken from a Taylor Bridge Fire donation center. Our news partner KIMA Action News reports the county's Pro-Act Unit recovered the items following a report they received from the Community Closet's volunteer manager, officials said...

Remember how people would proudly wear that ‘ I voted’ sticker on election day? Those have disappeared because of mail-in ballots. But... there’s a new e-version from the Washington Secretary of State’s Office. It’s an “I voted” e-sticker for you to use on Facebook...

When you grow up in a community, or have lived and worked in a community for a long time, there are lots of great memories about things in the past. People from Yakima are no different.

If you’ve ever been to a bar, you’ve likely had a bouncer check your ID to be sure you’re old enough to drink. But since IDs can be faked, some bouncers in the UK have a new screening method: they’re checking your Facebook account, too.

Walmart has announced a hunger effort that will generate more than 42 million meals and provide $2M in donations nationwide between now and April 30th. Yakima has been selected as one of 200 communities where unemployment rates are the highest, according to the Department of Labor...

Schools these days seem to have no compunctions about policing students’ use of social media. An Indiana teenager was recently expelled for swearing in a tweet, and now a Brooklyn, New York school is forcing its charges to delete their Facebook accounts — or face expulsion themselves.

In celebration of its 99th birthday on March 19, the Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission today announced the addition of two new online information sources for visitors – a new Facebook page and a recently completed mobile website that provides visitors access to information from their mobile devices while they are on the move...

No one can accuse Pope Benedict XVI of being old-fashioned, even if his beliefs on doctrine are strictly traditionalist. The Pontiff proved he holds his traditional views in a very modern social landscape by praising the usefulness of social media communication.

Here is a question for Facebook users ….How many friends do you have?  NOT the Facebook kind but the real life human kind?  Chances are you have a lot more of the cyber friends than the flesh and blood variety…and chances are cyber friends actually have more influence on you!  “Facebook blogger Eytan Bakshy, of the site's data science team said that "Social networking technologies like Facebo