Yakima News

Richard Dawson, the wisecracking British entertainer who kissed thousands of female contestants as host of the game show "Family Feud" has died.

NATO and Afghan forces launched a daring operation to rescue two female foreign aid workers and their two Afghan colleagues after learning the Taliban planned to kill one of the hostages, an intelligence official said Sunday.

A gunman fired shots in a crowded food court in one of Canada's busiest malls Saturday killing a man and injuring seven others, police said.

Hundreds of four-legged friends were in town today all competing for "best in show." The Yakima Kennel Club Dog Show was held at the fair grounds.

A Florida man is being held without bond in the death of his 1-month-old son, who was found in the trunk of a car.

YAKIMA, Wash. -- Police arrested a 32-year-old man they believe is responsible for stabbing another man in the chest on Friday.

Argentine President Cristina Fernandez's second-in-command is known as a fun-loving, guitar-playing renegade who wore a leather jacket to their Election Day victory bash.

A man is in the hospital after a downtown stabbing in Yakima. It happened at an apartment building on east a street just after noon today.

Gleed resident Julie Mayes took this photo of smoke rising from a fire near Gleed around 7:45 p.m. Friday.

YAKIMA, Wash. - One man was seriously injured and another is on the lam after a stabbing at the Cascades Apartment in downtown Yakima.

A Birmingham police officer was charged with arson Friday, accused of setting one of more than a dozen blazes that investigators said charred abandoned homes in a part of the city plagued by vacant houses.

YAKIMA, Wash. -- A 50-year-old Wapato man has been charged in a string of White Swan arsons that occurred last month.

Ernie Brown's search for dangerous snapping turtles in a central Kentucky pond ends in a swirl of muddy water and loud whooping sounds, his bare hands clutching one of the angry, armored reptiles.

The priest always started his favorite "game" by having the young boy remove his underwear and put on loose-fitting shorts so he could fondle him more easily.

A jury took less than two hours Thursday to acquit an Oregon woman on trial for the second time on allegations that she killed her newborn son, in a case in which no remains were found and defense attorneys argued the woman was never pregnant.

Pasco Police say it happened just after 8pm Wednesday in the Walmart parking lot in Pasco.

The struggling women's clothing chain Talbots is being taken private by Sycamore Partners for about $193.3 million in cash, an abrupt turnaround after buyout talks appeared to stall last week.

Pasco police arrested Eluterio Camacho last December. Prosecutors say Camacho broke into a woman's home and attempted to rape her.

Federal officials say more than two dozen bus operations that transported more than 1,800 passengers a day along Interstate 95 between New York and Florida have been shut down for safety violations.

The number of Afghan civilians killed has dropped 36 percent so far this year compared with last, the U.N. said, the first time the death toll has declined over multiple months since the United Nations started keeping track.