Man sentenced to 8.5 years for rape outside car dealership
SEATTLE (AP) — The homeless man accused of raping a woman three years ago in a Ballard car dealership was sentenced to prison. Officials said Monday that Christopher Teel was ordered to serve a sentence of 8.5
Coast Guard rescues kayakers, paddlers during windy race
BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — Marine rescue crews, including a boat from Coast Guard Station Bellingham, rescued more than 20 paddlers caught off guard and capsized by winds during the Deception Pass Challenge paddling and rowing race. The
Wildlife commissioner resigns, citing “politicized quagmire”
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — A member of the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission has resigned, saying in his resignation letter that the commission is stuck in a “politicized quagmire.” Fred Koontz was appointed on Jan. 5 by
Spokane County man convicted of killing wife with ice cream
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — A jury in Spokane County has convicted a man of murdering his wife by lacing her ice cream with a lethal dose of hydrocodone. David Pettis was convicted Monday of grinding up and
Pickup belonging to missing Washington man found in Idaho
LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) — Searchers in Idaho have found a pickup truck belonging to Washington state man who was last seen Dec. 7, but the man wasn’t near the vehicle. The Lewiston Tribune reports family members reported
Judge: Prison company to pay Washington $4.5M in legal fees
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — The private prison company The GEO Group has been ordered to pay Washington state nearly $4.5 million in legal fees, after the state sued to force the company to pay detainees at its
New Zealand boat builders expand manufacturing to Port of Port Angeles
By Pepper Fisher PORT ANGELES – The Port of Port Angeles, Clallam County EDC and the State Department of Commerce announced that Stabicraft, an international recreational boat builder headquartered in New Zealand, has chosen to locate its
Belarus jails husband of opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya for 18 years
Aliaksandr Bukatsich/iStock (LONDON) — A court in Belarus has sentenced the husband of the leader of the country’s pro-democracy movement, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, to 18 years in prison, convicting him in a closed-door trial widely condemned as revenge
Full House expected to hold Mark Meadows in contempt of Congress
Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House on Tuesday is expected to hold Mark Meadows, former President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, in contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena for his testimony from the select committee
Ex-Gaetz associate Joel Greenberg agrees to pay Seminole County nearly $2M in restitution
Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla.) — Former Seminole County tax collector Joel Greenberg, the one-time associate of Rep. Matt Gaetz who in May pled guilty to multiple charges including sex trafficking