Prosecutors Monday charged Gary Ridgway, the confessed "Green River Killer," with a 49th slaying -- that of a 20-year-old mother more than 28 years ago.
The FBI in Seattle, Washington, is looking into allegations of civil rights violations in the case of a police officer caught on video kicking a Latino detainee, an agent said Wednesday.
The reality TV star failed to appear at a hearing in his reckless driving case
Rick Sanchez and Brooke Baldwin discuss a videotaped beating where uniformed security officers refused to intervene.
Video of unarmed transit guards watching a girl being beaten on a bus tunnel platform has prompted Seattle authorities to review guidelines that kept the guards from intervening.
The remains of an Oregon teenager missing for more than 25 years were recently identified by authorities, and police are looking into whether she might have been a victim of Gary Ridgway, known as the "Green River Killer."
Credit rating agencies have long relied on the right of free speech as protection against litigation, especially in the U.S. A hole has just been poked in this shield.
A father who shot and killed his five children in their Washington state home before killing himself had argued with his wife over another man before the shootings, police said.
Five children were found shot to death in a home near Tacoma, Washington, Saturday afternoon, police said.
Locke nominated
updated: Wed Feb 25 2009 14:31:00
President Obama announces Gary Locke is his latest nominee to lead the Commerce Department.
President Obama named former Washington Gov. Gary Locke as his nominee for commerce secretary Wednesday.
President Barack Obama's pick for commerce secretary is likely to be former Washington Gov. Gary Locke, two administration sources told CNN Monday.
President Barack Obama's pick for commerce secretary is likely to be former Washington Gov. Gary Locke, two administration sources told CNN Monday.
A Seattle man has been charged with insurance fraud for allegedly sinking his own yacht because of "financial pressure and frustration with the maintenance" of the vessel, authorities said.
A mistrial was declared in the case of a man who opened fire in a Jewish center. In Session's Jennifer London reports.
Driven by curiosity and customer demand, Marc Geman, CEO of the Spicy Pickle restaurant chain, sent 30 of his top-selling dishes to a testing lab for nutritional analysis. It cost him about $2,500, but he learned everything about each dish, from calories to sodium content, which he then posted on the Spicy Pickle website.
The King County prosecutor lays out the case against a couple charged with murdering six members of a family.
A man and a woman have been arrested in connection with the deaths of six people -- believed to be three generations of the same family -- in a rural area outside Seattle, Washington, on Wednesday, authorities said.
Thousands of people are reported missing each year in the United States, and police say searching for adults can be particularly difficult, because it's hard to tell whether the person wants to be found.
A man whose wife was rescued after being trapped in an SUV for eight days talks to CNN's Kiran Chetry.
A woman who was missing for eight days was found alive after searchers traced a signal from her cell phone.
Another year, another record for the rich. The ranks of households with a net worth of at least $1 million grew 5 percent to an all-time high of 9.3 million, according to a report released Monday.
Real wages are not exactly going through the roof.
Democrat Christine Gregoire finished 130 votes ahead in the roller-coaster Washington governor's race after results of a hand recount including disputed ballots were released Thursday by King County.
Unofficial results from a manual recount of ballots in King County have tilted the result of the unsettled Washington governor's race for the first time to Democrat Christine Gregoire.
A judge Friday sided with the Washington state Republican Party in deciding to block the counting of more than 700 uncounted ballots in the governor's race, which the GOP candidate is winning by a few dozen votes.
Republican Dino Rossi was officially certified Tuesday as Washington state's new governor-elect, giving Democrats until Friday to decide whether they want to challenge his election by paying for a hand recount that could push the uncertainty over the closest gubernatorial race in state history to Christmas -- or beyond.
U.S. federal disease experts have called for adoptions of children from one Chinese orphanage to be suspended because of a measles outbreak.
Ten years after the mysterious murder of up-and-coming punk singer Mia Zapata, her case will finally be heard in a Seattle courtroom, when opening statements begin Monday in the trial of Cuban native, Jesus Mezquia.
In building a lakefront estate estimated to cost $50 million just outside Seattle, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates is violating a classic real estate rule of thumb: Never own the biggest house on the...