Police arrest suspect connected to attack on journalist during anti-ICE protests
(The Center Square) – The man accused of attacking an independent journalist during protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Seattle last month was arrested Wednesday. The victim, Cam Higby, told The Center Square he got a text from a detective with the Seattle Police Department confirming 33-year-old...
Seattle police searching for SODO homicide suspect
The Seattle Police Department (SPD) is asking for the public’s help in identifying a person of interest connected to a fatal stabbing in the SODO neighborhood on July 14.
Tukwila Costco murder suspect apprehended in Kenya, extradited to Seattle
SEATTLE — A 20-year-old man who is accused of fleeing to Africa after killing a woman in the parking lot of a Costco in Tukwila last year has been apprehended and extradited back to the United States. The U.S. Attorney's Office in Seattle confirmed Salman S. Haji was taken...
Tacoma High-Speed Chase Ends with Unusual Drug Concealment by Suspect Woman
In what can only be described as a sequence of desperation, a 36-year-old woman's attempt to evade law enforcement resulted in a spectacle that combined high-speed chases with unconventional drug concealment. According to the Pierce County Sheriff's Office's social media post, the incident occurred on July 17, when...
Wheel detaches from monster truck during show, lands on car in parking lot
Video posted on social media shows one of the monster trucks landing from a jump and the front left wheel detaches from the truck.
Fatal police shooting of unarmed Black man in Pierce County to get new look
A new investigation will be opened into the 2013 death of Leonard Thomas, an unarmed Black man killed by a police sniper in Lakewood during a response to a domestic-violence dispute, the state’s Office of Independent Investigations announced Monday. A retired King County Superior Court judge made the decision,...
‘It builds neighborhoods’: Federal funds support Port Orchard self-help housing project
A long-vacant piece of land off SE Ives Mill Road in Port Orchard could become a new neighborhood, built not by contractors, but by the hands of the families who will live there. The project, called Ives Mill, would bring 49 affordable single-family homes to Kitsap County through a self-help housing model. With the...
ICE arrest of high school theater manager raises questions on immigration verification in school...
KIRKLAND—Fernando Rocha, theater manager at Juanita High School in Kirkland, was arrested by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents as first reported by independent journalist, and senior fellow with Discovery Institute, Jonathan Choe on Sunday, July 20. Rocha’s arrest by ICE may signal a...
Seattle detectives investigate brutal attack at local grocery store
Police said they recovered the knife used in the attack.
Aurora Avenue bus-only lanes go 24/7 in Seattle, street parking for cars relocated
Taking the bus along Aurora Ave. North in Seattle should be quicker thanks to expanded hours of the bus-only lanes. The buses now run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week from downtown Seattle to N 145th St. “This is going to help tens of thousands of Seattleites who...