washington state patrol

A 19 year old man from Yakima is in the county jail today after being arrested following a crash Sunday that injured a passenger. Gage Van Wyk is being held on 25,000 dollars bail. State Patrol troopers say he lost control of a vehicle that rolled on North Wenas road...

A car struck a 68-year-old woman while she was walking along Highway 97 a mile south of Union Gap. Washington State Patrol troopers say Maxine Rippy was walking northbound at about 5:30 last night, when she ran into the roadway and was struck by a vehicle driven by a 38-year-old Yakima man who was not injured. Rippy was taken to a Yakima hospital....

Investigators are looking for answers after a man was found dead inside his vehicle on Monday. Washington State Patrol troopers say 59-year-old Dennis Weaver of Union Gap drove off an embankment near Moxee Monday morning. Troopers say it happened on the 1600 block of Walters Road...

Marcel Maldonado, 21, of Grandview, wanted for two carjackings, a robbery and a high-speed chase has been arrested in Colorado after a high-speed chase. Maldonado stole a Volkswagen Jetta at gunpoint at a rest stop near Selah last Monday...

The “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” traffic emphasis starts Wednesday in Yakima and throughout state as people start having a good time for the holidays. Officers and troopers throughout the state will conduct special DUI emphasis patrols looking for drivers who drink and get behind the wheel...

Investigators say a 17-year-old Kittitas student left school and shot himself in a barn before returning to school later yesterday morning. As a result Two Kittitas schools were put on a precautionary lockdown as authorities investigated...

A 28-year-old man was killed in a crash on Highway 12 early Thursday morning 13 miles west of Naches. State Patrol troopers say Michael Orr was driving his Chevy pickup truck westbound when he entered a right curve, drifted into the eastbound lanes and off the roadway...

A Central Washington University van carrying six passengers drove off the road at the Rest Haven Road overpass on Sunday night just north of Yakima, Wash. The Washington State Patrol said the driver got lost returning to Ellensburg and missed the freeway overpass turn, resulting in the van striking the guardrail...

The Washington State Patrol blames a fatal crash in Prosser Saturday on neglect. A mother and daughter died in the crash reported afternoon on State Route 22 at Richards Road. A pickup truck crossed the center line and crashed into the vehicle of 44-year-old Llda (Ida) Islas  and 14-year-old Alejandra Islas, both from Prosser who died at the scene...

Washington State troopers working in the Yakima area are the first in the state to switch over to a new digital radio system developed because of a change in rules by the Federal Communications Commission.  The rule change, intended to make more frequencies available for licensing, is essentially an unfunded federal mandate...