Benton City News

Home-brewed coffee lovers, take note: More than a million coffee makers are being recalled after dozens of reports of the brewers spraying hot liquid, coffee grounds or tea leaves onto people.

Randolph Construction of Pasco is building a new Army Corps of Engineers project office with energy efficiency features just downstream from Mill Creek Dam near Walla Walla under a $2.2 million contract.

Officials at Rutgers University say the FBI has determined there is no threat to students on their Newark campus after a student was arrested and his dorm was searched for potentially hazardous substances following a tip from authorities in South Dakota.

A veteran Denver television anchor was injured Wednesday after she was bitten in the face by a dog while doing a live broadcast about a dog rescued by a firefighter.

Linda Brown lost her home and virtually all of her possessions Saturday to a fire, but it wasn't a total loss.

A Puerto Rican fisherman spent nearly three weeks adrift in the Caribbean, surviving on raw fish and trapped rainwater, before reaching the Colombian island of San Andres.

An estimated 16 small dogs appear to have perished in a house fire Saturday afternoon about six miles west of Benton City.

A 64-year-old woman suffered burns on her hands in a house fire in Benton City where 12 small dogs died.

Firefighters have confirmed 12 dogs dead in a house fire. Benton County firefighters say at least 12 small dogs are dead after a house fire at 26004 251 Private Road in Benton City.

Firefighters with Benton fire districts 2, 3 and 4 fight a blaze Saturday afternoon at 26004 251 Private Road in Benton City.

The independent Akher Lahza daily ran the report Saturday, one day after teachers said that a Bible school had been attacked.

KENNEWICK, Wash. --A Benton County Judge says a stiffer sentence is necessary for a man who crashed his truck into two people on a motorcycle.

A jury found a 37-year-old Bellingham man guilty of first-degree child molestation and five counts of first-degree child rape for sexually abusing a girl younger than 10 over a period of two years.

Workers on the next shift saw the item, couldn't figure out what it was - and called the bomb squad.

A state Department of Corrections spokesman says a Shelton prison officer accused of domestic violence in Tacoma won't be allowed back at the Corrections Center until his case is resolved.

Capt. John Green said the man fled into a Swanson's parking lot Monday afternoon, chased by customers and the victim's son.

A federal judge has declared a mistrial in the case against a retired police sergeant charged with helping cover up deadly shootings on a New Orleans bridge after Hurricane Katrina.

FORD EARNINGS: Ford Motor Co. earned $1.1 billion in the first quarter, excluding a big accounting gain.

KENNEWICK, Wash. - Defense attorneys asked a judge Thursday to excuse himself from sentencing a Benton City man convicted of severely injuring two motorcyclists in a July crash.

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