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AP-Two women inmates of the Wapato city jail are accused of starting a fire at the jail on last Saturday. The fire caused minimal damage but forced guards to evacuate 52 men and 10 women until the building was cleared of smoke

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An 18-year-old man has been charged with first degree assault for shooting his 26-year-old uncle at a home in Harrah last Friday. David Fernandez made an appearance in Yakima County Superior Court on Monday

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The two men accused of killing Cynthia Kelley-Munzanreder pleaded not guilty Tuesday.

Prosecutors say John Munzanreder killed his wife Cynthia after they saw a movie together last month. A charge Munzanreder denied

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Should John Munzanreder pay for his own attorney or should taxpayers foot the bill? That was the question in front of a judge Thursday during a hearing in Yakima County Superior Court.

Munzanreder is being held in connection with the shooting death of his wife Cynthia in the parking lot of a Union Gap theater earlier this month

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Yakima County Superior Court Judge Susan Hahn entered judgment in favor of the Yakima Valley Community Foundation and dismissed, with prejudice, former employee, John Colgan’s lawsuit. A related case by another former employee, Emily Medeiros was dismissed with prejudice on February 15, 2013

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A Yakima County Superior court jury Monday found Michael Gorski guilty of 2nd degree murder for the death of Carolyn Clift in 1997. He was also convicted of having a deadly weapon at the time of the murder

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Another delay Monday in the West Valley Triple murder case against Tracy Culton.

Her trial date was pushed back several months and is raising questions whether this could be a repeat of mishaps we saw in the Kevin Harper trial.

Culton was supposed to go on trial next month for in the deaths of Bill, Pauline and Bettye Goggin.

But,

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It was the plea deal that shocked Yakima; a year and a half after three people were found brutally beaten to death it their West Valley home, prosecutors decided they did not have the evidence to convict their prime suspect Kevin Harper

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Investigators say a Utah man turned himself in to Yakima police Friday and provided information that led authorities to his girlfriend's dead body.

Steven Grey is now a murder suspect in the death of 44-year-old Jennifer Brack

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In February of last year Bill, Pauline and Bettye Goggin were found beaten to death in their home in West Valley. Today, the man arrested and charged with their murders is no longer facing life in prison

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