Yakima News

Yakima firefighters Nick Sloan, left, and Andrew Morales check to see if any fire spread to the roof of a home in the 2000 block of West Nob HIll Blvd.

Two men are arrested for assault, one is still wanted at large. Pasco Police are looking for 24-year old Isidro Licon of Pasco.

The United Nations says one of its freelance consultants was fatally shot in the head while driving through an upscale Cairo neighborhood.

Gunmen burst into a family home of a provincial judge in eastern Afghanistan, killing him and his niece in the latest assassination of an Afghan government official, authorities said Sunday.

YAKIMA, Wash.-- Hundreds of people turned out to Sarg Hubbard Park in Yakima Saturday for the 11th Annual Polar Bear Plunge.

Whitney Houston. She will never be forgotten as one of the greatest voices to ever grace the earth." - Mariah Carey, in messages posted on Twitter.

One Man is arrested in assault and rape investigation. Kennewick Police arrested 25 year old William Eller Friday morning under investigations of 1st degree assault and 2nd degree rape and tampering with a witness.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney greets a supporter at an election caucus in Portland, Maine, Saturday, Feb.

Best-selling author Jeffrey Zaslow was killed Friday when he lost control of his car on a snowy road after promoting his latest book in northern Michigan.

Five staff at Britain's largest selling tabloid The Sun were arrested Saturday along with three other people over alleged bribes paid to police and defense officials, detectives and the newspaper's parent company said.

Cincinnati Bengals linebacker Rey Maualuga has been charged with assault stemming from a downtown Cincinnati bar incident.

YAKIMA, Wash.-- The search for a new Yakima city manager is getting started once again.

Several dozen animals rescued from a house fire in a Cincinnati suburb have found temporary shelter with one Ohio family.

A man from Uzbekistan pleaded guilty Friday to plotting with an Islamic terror organization in his home country to kill President Barack Obama with an automatic rifle he bought from an undercover federal agent in Alabama.

Franklin County Sheriff's Deputies have arrested a man accused of impersonating a police officer.

Spanish police said Friday they have arrested three men, including one who had been a fugitive for five years after being convicted in the 2003 assassination of Serbia's prime minister.

After nearly two decades as a fugitive, a British man suspected of driving off with an armored car loaded with cash worth about $1.5 million has been captured in southwest Missouri, where he appeared in federal court wearing blue jeans and asking for a court-appointed defense attorney because he didn't have enough money to hire one.

Yakima, Wash., police say a man who demanded money from a Chase Bank branch Thursday afternoon threw the money on the counter and demanded more.

KIMA learned fewer ex-cons are being supervised after they get out of prison because of legislative changes to the Department of Corrections.

Rap music mogul Marion "Suge" Knight is facing a March court date in Las Vegas following his arrest on a 2009 traffic warrant and a new misdemeanor drug charge, authorities said Thursday.