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Capt. Frank Scalise called the deaths "a potential domestic violence" situation.

DEFICIT SHRINKS: The federal deficit is running lower through the first four months of the budget year than the previous year.

A Deer Park man has been charged with aggravated first-degree murder and sexually violating human remains in the death of his ex-wife. Spokane County prosecutors brought the charges Thursday against 47-year-old Duane Starbuck in the death of his 42-year-old wife Chanin Starbuck.

It's the first child for Williams and her husband-manager Nate Yetton. The baby is due in late June.

Greg Morgan presents some pictures of Paria Canyon in Arizona, and has the audacity to express his belief that the sandstone was sculptured by a global flood .

A Muslim convert from Brooklyn who ran a website that posted threats against the creators of the television show "South Park" for supposedly insulting the prophet Muhammad is expected to enter a guilty plea.

KENNEWICK, Wash. - As state lawmakers continue to grapple with a tight budget, a viewer sent "Connect with Shane" an e-mail wanting to know where all the money generated from the Washington Lottery goes.

Rising crime across the Caribbean threatens the region's tourism-based economy and has exposed a weak and ineffective judicial system, according to a sweeping U.N. study released on Wednesday.

After a couple of false starts, Hamilton Cellars in Richland got rolling a year ago and already is releasing some startlingly superb wines.

Police in Alabama say they have arrested three suspects in the deaths of five people whose bodies were found by officers investigating a possible robbery.

Police, government and U.N. officials destroyed pistols and revolvers by pitching them into a kiln glowing bright orange at a cement factory in the capital of Kingston.

Retired Brig. Gen. Julius Maada Bio alleged late Monday that the government wants to use the violence to call a state of emergency and extend the president's tenure.

City documents show that a plan is in the works to bring a Yoke's Fresh Market to Keene Road just west of Badger Mountain Park.

Emde pleaded guilty to four offenses, including possessing copies of the al-Qaida magazine Inspire, which contained articles with headlines such as "Make A Bomb In The Kitchen Of Your Mom." Judge Peter Rook at London's Central Criminal Court said the material made for "chilling reading" and jailed Emde for 16 months.

Instead, the 36-year-old former Marine and West Richland resident says he's turning his efforts toward a November showdown with state Rep.

Switzerland's government says an advocacy group has collected enough signatures to prompt a vote on whether to end the nation's long tradition of compulsory army service.

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After a couple of false starts, Hamilton Cellars in Richland, got rolling a year ago -- and already is releasing some startlingly superb wines.

Paint, cleanup projects and bridge lights were on the minds of West Richland City Council members during Tuesday's workshop meeting.

Israeli authorities have indicted an Arab-Israeli couple on charges they imprisoned the man's daughter for years in their West Bank home and encouraged her to kill herself.