Summit House in Sequim hosting ice cream social
SEQUIM – In Sequim, the acronym ORCA stands for Our Resilient Community Alliance, a non-profit group that recently opened Summit House for women and children who are experiencing homelessness, crisis or trauma. Summit House, in the heart
Wetherington pleads not guilty after confessing to murder
PORT ANGELES – Matthew Wetherington, charged with four counts of Aggravated Murder in the First Degree in the death of his wife of his wife, 34-year-old Valerie Kambeitz and her three children, pleaded not guilty Friday in
Escaped prisoner being sought
SEATTLE — Authorities are searching for an inmate who escaped from a work crew at the state ferries warehouse in Seattle. According to the Washington State Department of Corrections, 29-year-old Jeffrey Allen Beach escaped around 10:45 a.m.
Man who confessed to murder, then recanted, not held for now
OLYMPIA (AP) — A man who police say confessed to killing a Tenino mother a decade ago will not face any charges at this time. The Olympian reports Eric Lee Roberts was released from federal custody after the Bureau
BLM proposes plans for fire control in the west
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Trump administration is proposing an ambitious plan to slow Western wildfires by bulldozing, mowing or revegetating large swaths of land along 11,000 miles of terrain in the West, including here in
Officer resigns after DUI charge (again)
SEATTLE (AP) — A police officer in Washington state has resigned after he was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving. KOMO-TV reported Friday that a Lewis County deputy pulled over a speeding car near Morton on July 3. The
Watchdog: Border protection stored enough fentanyl to kill 794 million, but isn’t doing enough to protect its agents
iStock(NEW YORK) — U.S. Customs and Border Protection has stored enough fentanyl in the past year to kill an estimated 794 million people, and now a government watchdog office is warning that the agency is “unnecessarily jeopardizing
Canadian police investigating 'suspicious' deaths of couple on side of remote highway
iStock(BRITISH COLUMBIA, Canada) — Authorities in British Columbia, Canada, are desperately looking for answers after the lifeless bodies of a young couple were found on the side of a remote highway. Chynna Noelle Deese, 24, of Charlotte,
What's in a decimal point? Maybe a $9672 Uber ride
iStock(NEW YORK) — An Uber glitch moving the decimal point over two spaces caused several riders to be charged eye-popping fares this week, or 100 times the original amount. After users took to social media earlier this
EPA allows continued use of pesticide linked to developmental issues in children
iStock(NEW YORK) — The Environmental Protection Agency is not banning a pesticide linked to developmental issues in children, the agency announced this week despite years of calls to pull it from use, saying further study of its