Crime

The senator said she wrote the language into the bill to make sure that communities like Yakima will get the federal help they need to fight gang activity.

Seven people were arrested during protests in Seattle over recent grand jury decisions not to indict police officers who killed young black men in Missouri and New York.

A California man who told central Washington residents that God taught him how to construct a laser that cured cancer will spend two years in federal prison after pleading guilty to medical fraud. 67-year-old Edward J. Brown was sentenced Thursday by a federal judge in Spokane...

A Selah man accused of killing his girlfriend's 23-month-old daughter pleaded guilty to manslaughter Monday. With the plea in Yakima, David Andrew Holbrook avoided a murder trial. The Yakima Herald-Republic reports the 24-year-old could face more than eight years in prison when he is sentenced next Monday...

A 16-year-old Yakima boy has been arrested for making threatening phone calls to Yakima businesses.

Local authorities say a man is dead after a home invasion and standoff at a home in the area of 65th Avenue and Fremont Drive.

Yakima city officials will travel to Spokane next month to talk to officials there about Spokane's Community Court, a new approach to the revolving door of jail.

Police in Yakima have arrested two people and are looking for a third in connection with a theft from a store and the assault of an employee.

Two suspects in the crime were apprehended near Wapato while another remains at large.

The Yakima County prosecutor says he will not file a charge in the death of a Wapato police officer that has been ruled a homicide. Prosecutor Jim Hagarty says it would be difficult to prove the death of Derek Hansen was caused by a struggle with a suspect two years earlier...