gunman kills self

A man is dead in what Yakima police are calling an officer-involved shooting. The victim has been identified as 55-year-old Joseph Ricard of Yakima. The incident started in a Lewis County hotel room Tuesday. A cleaning crew at the Cowlitz River Lodge found a large amount of blood in one of the rooms...

BLAINE, Wash. (AP) — Canadian border guard Lori Bowcock remains hospitalized in stable condition after being shot Tuesday in the neck at her booth at the Peace Arch crossing near Blane, Wash. Royal Canadian Mounted Police Cpl. Bert Paquet said Bowcock was wounded Tuesday by a man entering Canada in a van with Washington license plates...