Northwest

At least 6 suicide attempts at Tacoma ICE facility, 911 calls show

April 11, 2024, 7:39am Latest News

Over a period of less than three months this year, the federal immigrant detention center in Tacoma has seen at least six, possibly seven, suicide attempts, according to audio and records of 911 calls. Read story

Attempt to burglarize Eastern WA Dollar Tree store ends in $3.8 million in fire damage

April 11, 2024, 7:36am Northwest

A man who started fires in the Lower Yakima Valley causing $3.8 million in damages as part of a burglary of a Grandview Dollar Tree store has been sentenced to five years in federal prison. Read story

Washington gun store sold hundreds of high-capacity ammunition magazines in 90 minutes without ban

April 10, 2024, 5:34pm Northwest

A Washington state gun store owner said he sold hundreds of high-capacity ammunition magazines in the short span of time Monday between a judge ruling a ban on the sales unconstitutional and the state filing an emergency appeal to the Washington Supreme Court. Read story

Construction of the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington began in 1933 and was completed in 1942. It is the largest hydropower producer in the U.S. and also part of the Columbia Basin Project, irrigating more than 600,000 acres.

Superfund plan for Columbia River sparks debate in Northwest

April 10, 2024, 1:00pm Editor's Choice

It would create one of the largest Superfund sites in America and the first in which most of the toxic pollution comes from another country. But those are not the only unique aspects of an EPA proposal to add the upper reaches of the Columbia River in Washington state to… Read story

FILE - Larry Woodcock speaks to media members at the Rexburg Standard Journal Newspaper in Rexburg, Idaho on Jan. 7, 2020, while holding a reward flyer for Joshua Vallow and Tylee Ryan. A self-published doomsday fiction author is on trial in Idaho in the deaths of his wife and his new girlfriend’s two children. Chad Daybell has pleaded not guilty to murder, conspiracy and grand theft charges in the deaths of his late wife Tammy Daybell, as well as the children, Joshua “JJ” Vallow and Tylee Ryan.

In triple-murder trial, prosecutor says Chad Daybell built ‘alternate reality’ to gain sex and money

April 10, 2024, 10:10am Latest News

An Idaho man charged with three murders in an unusual doomsday-focused case crafted an alternate reality so that he could fulfill “his desire for sex, money and power,” a prosecutor told jurors Wednesday morning. Read story

Italy opens new slander trial against Amanda Knox. She was exonerated 9 years ago in friend’s murder

FILE - Rudy Guede, left, leaves the penitentiary for a temporary release of thirty-six hours, in Viterbo, Italy, on June 25, 2016. Guede, the only person convicted in the 2007 murder of British student Meredith Kercher has been freed after serving most of his 16-year prison sentence. Amanda Knox faces yet another trial for slander in a case that could remove the last remaining guilty verdict against her nine years after Italy’s highest court definitively threw out her conviction for the murder of her 21-year-old British roommate, Meredith Kercher.

April 10, 2024, 7:50am Latest News

Amanda Knox was back on trial for slander Wednesday for wrongly accusing a Congolese man of murdering her roommate while the young women were exchange students in Italy. Knox herself was convicted of the slaying before being exonerated in a case that grabbed the global spotlight. Read story

Western State Hospital’s chapel was ‘most beautiful building,’ so why was it destroyed?

April 10, 2024, 7:38am Northwest

A long-reach excavator’s claw collided into the burnt-red roof of Western State Hospital’s 99-year-old defunct chapel, digging and pulling apart pieces of the wood structure. Crunched debris collapsed through sudden holes or toppled onto the ground outside. Read story