Yakima News

Yakima Police have a man in custody in connection with the murder of David Childs of Yakima.  Yesterday 34 year old Armando Vieyra was arrested and a vehicle police were looking for were found in the Lower Valley off of Lateral 1 road.  He faces a charge of first degree murder...

Yakima County Corner Jack Hawkins has determined that a woman whose body was pulled from an irrigation canal yesterday drowned.  Yakima Police Captain Rod Light said "There was no evidence of foul play."  The woman has been identified as 62 year old Valarie LynnWinnier of Yakima...

Yakima Police have identified the cities first homicide victim of the year. He was 70 year old David Lee Childs of Yakima. His body was found Tuesday morning in a parking lot on North Front Street.  Yakima County Coroner Jack Hawkins, who performed the autopsy said "Childs did not die from stab wounds, instead he died from a combination of head and neck trauma and puncture wounds...

A woman's partially nude body was pulled from the irrigation canal near the Harmon Center near 66th and Summitview in West Yakima.   The woman's has been identified , but police are not releasing her name until next of kin is notified...

  Yakima Police are still trying to identify a man whose body was found in a parking lot on North Front Street early Monday morning.   Police Captain Rod Light says "It's causing investigators a great deal of frustration not being able to identify the man because every day that  goes by it makes our job more difficult in tracking down individuals who may have been invovled in the murder, in a

Picture from KIMA Action News A woman and her son suffered serious injuries after a two-car accident caused by street racing. The woman was pulling out of the Burger King parking lot on the 2700 hundred block of West Nob Hill at 11:15 this morning when she was hit by a by a west bound Jeep Cherokee that was racing another car...

OLYMPIA – Governor Jay Inslee today announced his latest round of cabinet appointments, naming directors for the state departments of Agriculture, Early Learning and Health. Okanogan rancher Bud Hover will become the director of the Department of Agriculture...

SEATTLE (AP) — Police are searching the Northwest for a man accused of killing his Seattle-area grandparents, who had just picked him up after his release from a Washington state prison, hosted a party in his honor and offered him a room in their home for the night...

A broad coalition kicked off a campaign in Yakima today, urging Congress to pass immigration reform this year. A press conference at the Red Lion in Yakima was held to announce the formation of the Washington Compact. A coalition of business leaders, agriculture, faith communities and immigrant rights groups have come up with a declaration of five principals to guide Washington State's immigratio

Yakima police, the FBI and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents raided three homes Wednesday in Yakima.  Agents also raided 8 other homes, 22 cars and two Mexican restaurants. Federal court documents indicate dozens of people are under investigation for possession of counterfeit identification documents and falsely claiming to be U...