Robbery investigation led Seattle officers into ambush of gunfire, report says
SEATTLE — Arrest reports explain new details about a shooting and pursuit involving Seattle police through the south end of the city on Wednesday. The pursuit ended in a serious crash, and the arrest of two men and a juvenile near the border of Seattle and Tukwila. According to...
Seattle mayor’s office responds to recall effort
Mayor Katie Wilson’s office is responding to the recall petition filed against her.
Seattle man accused of killing homeless men with ax has double-murder case dismissed
SEATTLE — A King County Superior Court judge dismissed two first-degree murder charges Thursday against a Seattle man accused of killing two men with an ax in separate attacks after finding him mentally incompetent to stand trial. Judge Nelson Lee found Liam Harrison Kryger incompetent based on medical reports...
Seattle police investigate stabbing in Belltown, public asked to avoid area
SEATTLE — Police were investigating a stabbing in Seattle's Belltown neighborhood on Thursday morning. The Seattle Police Department first announced the incident at 9:45 a.m. Upon arriving in the 2200 block of 1st Avenue, officers found one victim with injuries described as non-life-threatening. The SPD said one suspec
Issaquah’s first Aire Craft Festival starts Thursday
Circus arts and paragliding culture may not have much in common, but people will get to experience both and much more at the Aire Craft Festival.
‘They’re out to eat our lunch’: Tech investor Charles Fitzgerald says Seattle is drifting...
'They're out to eat our lunch': Tech investor Charles Fitzgerald says Seattle is drifting while Cleveland hustles for its future. Seattle tech veteran and angel investor Charles Fitzgerald went to Cleveland and came back with a warning: a city that was once the joke of the country is now more focused on its future than
Body of 19-year-old who went missing on Lake Washington recovered
The body of a 19-year-old man who went missing on Lake Washington during Seafair was recovered Thursday. The man, from Yelm, went missing on July 31, according to the Mercer Island Police Department. Investigators used cell phone data from the victim’s phone to narrow the search. “Using side-scan sonar...
Man arrested in arson inside Bothell Fred Meyer store
Why were fire alarms and sprinklers activated during the incident?. Bothell police on Thursday arrested a suspect on suspicion of first-degree arson at a Fred Meyer store last week. On the afternoon of Aug. 4, Bothell Fire Department crews responded to reports of smoke and flames inside the store near...
Bellevue adding speed cameras at 4 locations; citations begin in September
BELLEVUE, Wash. — The City of Bellevue will add speed safety cameras at four locations beginning the week of Aug. 17 as part of an expansion of its automated traffic safety program. The new cameras will be installed near hospitals, parks and school walk zones and along corridors with...
Washington Woman Killed After Vehicle Vaults Off Interstate 84 onto Highway 395 in Umatilla...
UMATILLA COUNTY, Ore. — A Washington woman died Tuesday afternoon following a single-vehicle rollover crash along Interstate 84 near Pendleton, state police reported. Oregon State Police troopers came upon the fatal crash at the junction of Interstate 84 and Highway 395 in Umatilla County at approximately 2:15 PM on Tu
