Attempted murder

Seldom do we hear of instigators of road rage being charged with attempted murder, but that is what just happened to Dowen Jones, the current mayor of Rufus, Oregon.

On Saturday police say Tariq walked into the store on North 40th Avenue, stole a knife from the store walked up behind a woman slashed her throat

When police arrived Ford struggled with officers and at one point cut an officer in the face with a razor. The officer was treated at a local hospital and released. An investigation continues Today.

An alleged gunman and five accomplices have been detained in the shooting of former Red Sox superstar David Ortiz.

MOUNT VERNON  (AP) — A man has been charged with attempted murder in a machete attack that severely injured his estranged wife and another man in Mount Vernon. The Skagit Valley Herald reports 51-year-old Eric Woody was charged Wednesday...

EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — A young man accused of shooting and killing three people at a house party in July near Seattle has been sentenced to life in prison without parole. Allen Ivanov pleaded guilty last month to three counts of aggravated first-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder for wounding two other victims...

NEW YORK (AP) — Police have arrested a suspect in the random stabbing of a tourist in New York City earlier this month. Twenty-three-year-old Connor Rasmussen, of Puyallup, Washington, was stabbed in the back of the head on Dec. 18. Police announced the arrest Wednesday of 20-year-old Steven Tlapanco on charges of attempted murder, assault and criminal possession of a weapon...

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A judge has refused to throw out statements allegedly made to authorities by a Washington state man accused of trying to kill a Highway Patrol trooper in South Dakota. The Rapid City Journal reports that attorneys for 34-year-old Donald Willingham, of Renton, Washington, unsuccessfully argued that the statements were obtained illegally...

SEATTLE (AP) — A jury has convicted a man for fatally shooting a student and wounding two others at a small private Seattle university in 2014. The King County jury found Aaron Ybarra guilty of first-degree murder, three counts of attempted murder and one account of assault for the attack at Seattle Pacific University that killed 19-year-old Paul Lee...

BELLINGHAM (AP) — A Bellingham man charged with trying to kill his estranged wife's new boyfriend on Valentine's Day has been sentenced to 13 years in prison. The Bellingham Herald reports that 44-year-old Patrick Allen Leach was sentenced Monday after pleading guilty to attempted murder as part of a plea deal...