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VANCOUVER (AP) — A Vancouver man accused of posing as a police officer to lure two women has pleaded not guilty to rape, kidnapping and other charges. The Columbian newspaper reports that 46-year-old Shannon Stover was arraigned Monday in Clark County Superior Court...

LONGVIEW (AP) — Authorities have found a girl who was missing for six months and arrested a 24-year-old man on suspicion of rape and kidnapping charges after searching a home in southwestern Washington. The Daily News reported Tuesday that Columbia County deputies found the teenage girl and Eric Salce after entering the residence in Rainier last week...

Still no arrest in the June 14 kidnapping and rape of a Yakima woman, but Yakima Police have released a sketch of the suspect and a photo of the suspect's vehicle. Police spokesman Mike Bastinelli says "We're just hoping that if someone recognizes the man or the vehicle to call us immediately...

A State Senator did not call authorities after his wife had reportedly discovered his teenage son sexually abusing a younger child. The Seattle Times reports Brian Hatfield’s son pleaded guilty in Lewis County juvenile court this week to a series of charges related to child molestation and rape...

SEATTLE (AP) — A Seattle attorney suspected of sexually assaulting four massage therapists in Seattle, Shoreline and Bellevue has been charged with six counts of rape and attempted rape. The King County Prosecutor's office says 47-year-old Danford Grant raped at knifepoint a massage therapist in Bellevue...

DNA has helped to crack a rape case in Yakima County that went cold. Yesterday 28-year-old David Endres, also know as David Workman, was sentenced to 13 years in prison for his third sex offense. He was convicted of second-degree rape following a jury trial last month...

Yakima County Superior Court Judge Ruth Ruekoff called the crime one of the worst in her experience as a judge. Then she sentenced 23-year-old Aaron Briden to life in prison without parole - the maximum sentence she could give. Briden was found guilty in the brutal rape and murder of Shelley Kinter back in 2009...