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6 staff members who tested positive for the virus last month are expected to return to work within the next week.

Authorities from around the valley and the state worked together last week to find the six escapees and get them back into jail today.

Three inmates were tested March 18 because they had possible symptoms of the disease.

Peyser was first arrested in May shortly after the death but was released because of a lack of evidence.
He's being held in the Yakima County jail on bail set at $100,000.

The first work will convert a storage facility next to the jail into a permanent homeless shelter to replace Camp Hope now located behind the former K-Mart on East Nob Hill Blvd. That facility is expected to be ready in June of next year.

Corrections Officer Adimando Viveros, Jr. was injured when several inmates attacked him Tuesday.

Police say it happened at about 2:00 a.m. Sunday in the 2900 block of Fifth Street. But the motive remains unclear.

COLLEGE PLACE, Wash. (AP) — Police say a middle school principal who was attacked Thursday in southeastern Washington has been released from the hospital.
College Place police said Friday that two high school students who are siblings entered John Sager Middle School Thursday and forced their w…

SEATTLE (AP) — The state of Washington has accrued fines of about $7.5 million for failing to provide competency services to mentally ill people who must wait in jails for weeks or months.
The federal judge who imposed the fines issued an order on Tuesday saying the state must pay the outstandi…

A former Snohomish County corrections deputy has been charged with providing homemade chocolate chip cookies in exchange for sexual favors from a female inmate.