Tukwila News

TUKWILA, Wash. - The Seattle Sounders took another step toward finalizing their opening-day roster this week by making a handful of training-camp cuts.

Officer Ted Rutt, of Tukwila police, peers from the warming tent at the Special Olympics Polar Plunge at South Lake Union Park on Friday.

Mayor Denis Law speaks at the groundbreaking Tuesday of a project that will help create a new east-west corridor across south Renton and provide access to Sound Transit's Sounder station.

Toward the end of 2011, when the Turf's owner announced he would be changing the working-class downotwn restaurant's name to Ludi's, certain publications who hadn't devoted any ink to the Turf in eons began eulogizing the place as though the whole of Seattle's underclass was about to be sent into the great hereafter with a 21-gun salute.

A 48-year-old man is behind bars following allegations that he attempted to photograph women in an L.A. Fitness gym, then rushed to another of the chain's establishments.

A call for a replay of a few legal calls was on the table at the Valley Medical Center Board of Commissioners meeting Monday in Renton.

Still time to nominate someone for Discover Burien awards Nomination forms for awards to be given at Discover Burien's ... 31-year-old Tukwila man found dead in his backyard From the Tukwila Police Department: At 8:26 P.M. on Feb.

King County prosecutors charged a 48-year-old Renton man Feb. 2 with voyeurism after he allegedly took photographs inside of the women's locker room at the Tukwila LA Fitness, 350 Baker Blvd.

Family members told police that they man often takes walks in the evening. But when he didn't return Thursday at his usual time, family members went out looking for him.

Monroe Ezell, 23, of Seattle, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in SeattleA to five years in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm.A Officers discovered the loaded, stolen Glock .45 pistol in the locked glove box of Ezell's car.A Ezell had given the officers permission to search the car when he was contacted about an assault ... (more)

Girls basketball Portion of West Lake Sammamish Parkway will remain closed for another six to nine weeks Extra DUI patrols to cover King County on Super Bowl Sunday 19-year-old woman shot in Tukwila and dies from injuries A section of West Lake Sammamish Parkway Southeast, closed to vehicles since a Jan.

Same-sex marriage passes in Senate; KC Council's McDermott "will marry my partner" Two years and three months after the "everything-but-marriage" ... Press release: Twenty-four schools in the Road Map Region of South Seattle and South King County are receiving Washington Achievement Awards for 2011.

Girls basketball Portion of West Lake Sammamish Parkway will remain closed for another six to nine weeks Extra DUI patrols to cover King County on Super Bowl Sunday 19-year-old woman shot in Tukwila and dies from injuries Family members said the man often walks in the evening.A When he was overdue to return, they began looking for him.A He was ... (more)

Girls basketball Portion of West Lake Sammamish Parkway will remain closed for another six to nine weeks Extra DUI patrols to cover King County on Super Bowl Sunday 19-year-old woman shot in Tukwila and dies from injuries In this 2009 photo, Federal Way police officers James Widick and Brian Bassage and community corrections officer Justin Childers ... (more)

A 19-year-old woman has died despite efforts to save her after police found her with a gunshot wound to the head Thursday night during a traffic stop on Interstate 5. The bizarre incident unfolded around 9 p.m. Friday when police pulled over a speeding driver in a white Cadillac Escalade on northbound I-5 at Dearborn Street.

A water-main break flooded a Courtyard Marriott hotel parking lot at 16200 W. Valley Highway in Tukwila near Southcenter mall Thursday.

Seattle police and fire officials say a young woman with life-threatening gunshot injuries was taken Thursday night from an SUV on Interstate 5 to Harborview Medical Center.

Senate passes same-sex marriage bill; House review next Des Moines men plead not guilty in Auburn homicide Man pleads guilty to vehicular homicide, reckless driving in death of Kirkland man Auburn cleanup continues after costly storm Water pipe break in Tukwila causes minor flooding The recent storm left tree branches and limbs scattered throughout ... (more)

Senate passes same-sex marriage bill; House review next Des Moines men plead not guilty in Auburn homicide Man pleads guilty to vehicular homicide, reckless driving in death of Kirkland man Auburn cleanup continues after costly storm Water pipe break in Tukwila causes minor flooding Kirkland resident and Google employee Steve Lacey was killed July ... (more)

The broken water pipe that flooded a Tukwila parking lot for four hours Thursday morning was an 8-inch secondary feeder, not the main 5-foot-wide transmission line from the Cedar River watershed.