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TACOMA  (AP) — A 23-year-old man has been charged with murder in the death of his mom's boyfriend July 4 south of Tacoma. The Pierce County Prosecutor's Office says Tyler Thiel was charged Thursday in the death that prosecutors say happened while Thiel was assaulting 52-year-old Stephen Gale in Steilacoom...

EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — A Washington woman who falsely accused her former boyfriend and a roommate of a crime has been charged with murder. The Daily Herald reports 54-year-old Tammie Peterson was charged on Friday in the death of Deborah Jeanneret...

EVERETT (AP) — The trial for a man charged with murder in the deaths of a rural Washington state couple has been pushed back to 2018. The Daily Herald reports John Reed's trial was rescheduled Monday after he exercised his right to hire new legal counsel...

TRI-CITIES  (AP) — Two half-brothers will face trial together in the shooting death of a 27-year-old man who one of them got into an altercation with at a southern Washington nightclub. The Tri-City Herald reports Simeon Howard and Nathaniel Thompson are both charged with murder...

WENATCHEE  (AP) — Authorities say a Sultan man and Leavenworth woman have been arrested in the death of a man who disappeared 34 years ago. KCPQ-TV reports detectives on Friday arrested 60-year-old Bernard Swaim in connection with the disappearance of Cashmere resident Stephen E...

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A man recently released from a Washington state psychiatric hospital was charged with murder in the death of a transient man found dead along a Pierce County road. Pierce County prosecutors say 42-year-old Douglas Murray was charged Monday and had bail set at $1 million...

SEATTLE (AP) — A 19-year-old man has been charged with murder in connection with a Seattle shooting over the apparent theft of a machine used to make counterfeit credit cards. The Seattle Times reports Kenny Kim-Phannary Am was charged Tuesday with second-degree murder...

SEATTLE (AP) — A 36-year-old Spokane woman has been charged with murder in the death of her infant son. The Seattle Times reports that Tami Christianson was charged Wednesday with second-degree murder in connection with the death of the 15-month-old boy...

SEATTLE (AP) — A 21-year-old man accused of assaulting a University of Washington student he was dating has been charged with murder. King County prosecutors charged Casey Henderson on Wednesday with first-degree murder in the death of 22-year-old Katy Straalsund. ...

SEATTLE (AP) — A U.S. soldier charged with killing 16 Afghan civilians is expected to undergo a review of his sanity beginning this weekend. John Henry Browne, an attorney for Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, said Wednesday his client will participate in the review by Army doctors...