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An autopsy on the body is expected to happen on Tuesday.

Roa said that a few months ago people began screeching their tires in front of her house and taking photographs of her granddaughter in the yard. She says she's worried about the escalation.

William Gardipee was shot and killed as he was walking in the 400 block of West First Street at about 1 p.m. Friday.

A shooting in downtown Wapato Friday afternoon shut down roads and put area schools on lock down.

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...

AP-Wapato officials say they'll try to do something about a home surrounded by gang violence that has taken three lives in five years. The latest shooting Sunday killed 19-year-old Abel Velazquez and wounded a 17-year-old and a 26-year-old man...

AP-Two women inmates of the Wapato city jail are accused of starting a fire at the jail on last Saturday. The fire caused minimal damage but forced guards to evacuate 52 men and 10 women until the building was cleared of smoke.According to Yakima County Superior Court documents released at a hearing Monday, several women inmates say the mattress fire was started by a 23-year-old at the instigation

A fire at the Wapato jail Saturday forced a quick evacuation of more than 60 inmates. No injuries were reported. The inmates were held in a yard near the jail until the fire was out and smoke was cleared. No word on the cause of the fire that caused only minor damage...

County authorities are investigating two carjackings reported in the lower valley over the weekend. The first was reported in Toppenish Saturday night. Police were called to a report of a car theft on East Toppenish Avenue. They found two people who told them a gunman in a dark Honda pulled up next to them at a nearby intersection, pointed a gun and told them to get out of their car...