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SEATTLE (AP) — Officials say the U.S. Attorney's Office has launched an investigation of a neurosurgery unit at a Seattle hospital. The Seattle Times reports Swedish Health's interim CEO, Dr. Guy Hudson, wrote in a memo to staff members Wednesday that the U...

SEATTLE (AP) — Federal prosecutors have decided to drop child pornography charges against a Washington teacher after the Justice Department refused to disclose information about a software weakness it exploited during an investigation last year...

EVERETT (AP) — Authorities have identified two girls killed in an Interstate 5 crash north of Seattle in the suburb of Lynnwood. The Daily Herald reported Tuesday that 12-year-old Amiyah Johnson died at the scene of the crash and 2-year-old Yesterday Wallace died at a hospital...

SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle's mayor says efforts to clear out a homeless encampment known as The Jungle will stop until the investigation into a police shooting that left one man dead has been completed. Seattle Mayor Ed Murray said in a statement Tuesday that a full investigation will be conducted, along with the presence of the civilian-led Office of Professional Accountability...

SPOKANE (AP) — The state attorney general is closing his investigation into the shooting of a Mexican national by Pasco police. Attorney General Bob Ferguson said Thursday that his office will not bring criminal charges in the 2015 death of 35-year-old Antonio Zambrano-Montes...

APOPKA, Fla. (AP) — An Apopka teenager has gone missing while on vacation with her family in Washington. Media outlets report that 14-year-old Katelynn Barlow was with her aunt and uncle, who have primary custody of her, when she disappeared around 9 p...

SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle Cancer Care Alliance has agreed to pay $250,000 to settle a Justice Department investigation over how a nurse was able to divert more than 96,000 oxycodone pills from an onsite pharmacy. Federal prosecutors said pharmacists should have questioned the high-dose, high-quantity prescriptions the nurse falsified between 2011 and 2013 and picked up purportedly on behalf of th

YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — A special panel in Yakima County will investigate complaints about the county clerk's office. The Yakima Herald reports that county commissioners appointed three people to the panel following a series of complaints about how Clerk Janelle Riddle is running the office. ...

Authorities say an autopsy performed on a 25-year-old man found dead on a roadway near Yakima shows he died of multiple gunshot wounds. The Yakima County Sheriff's Office said Wednesday investigators are interviewing associates of Rosendo Ramos of Yakima to find those responsible for his death...

Yakima Police have identified a woman who's body was found in a boarded up home last week as 28-year-old Verenis Fabiola Ramos. The woman's body was found in the home in the 6 hundred block of North Fourth Avenue. An autopsy shows Ramos died of a gunshot wound to the head...