Yelm News

OLYMPIA A Thurston County judge sentenced a Yelm man to more than 14 years in prison Thursday for shaking his 12-week-old daughter, fracturing her skull and causing permanent injuries.

A 10-acre wildfire in Capitol State Forest remained out of control Friday night as an investigator worked to determine the cause.

Flames from Fourth of July fireworks damaged at least seven homes across Western Washington and destroyed some ranch housing near Harrah on the Yakama Indian Reservation, causing more than $2 million in damage.

Federal agents seized guns and methamphetamine Wednesday from a home in the 5000 block of Boston Harbor Road and arrested two Olympia-area men and two Yelm men.

Federal law enforcement agents in Seattle say they have busted a drug trafficking ring that distributed methamphetamine and cocaine from Jalisco, Mexico, in Washington.

A 4-year-old boy suffered serious facial injuries in a hit-and-run crash near Yelm Tuesday evening.

An Olympia man is accused of causing an accident while rushing his dog to veterinary clinic.

A Yelm woman who allegedly got sick after eating cookie dough tainted with E.coli is suing Nestle.

The Thurston County Sheriff's Office dive team fished out a car in the Nisqually River on Sunday afternoon.

What's fresh at the market: Whole-wheat breads, pickled asparagus, zucchini nursery starts, farm-fresh eggs, fresh salad greens, strawberries and beef sausage at the Sunrise Village Farmers Market, South Hill's new market that operates 10 a.m-4 p.m. Saturdays in the back parking lot of the shopping complex off 156th and Meridian East.

OLYMPIA Graduating from The Evergreen State College on Friday filled a gap in Esme Crosson's life that opened in the farm fields of Nevada more than three decades ago.

A 40-year-old Yelm man was in jail Tuesday, after a woman told police he raped her June 14 when she refused to have sex with him in exchange for the heroin he had shared with her, court papers state.

Paul Keeslar likes to believe the 50-million-year-old sandstone block had been waiting for him.

Like thousands of other Washington residents, I procrastinated when the time came to apply for new travel documents required since June 1 for land and sea travel between the United States and Canada, Mexico, Bermuda and the Caribbean.

David Atem, shown Wednesday outside the student union building at Eastern Washington University in Cheney, fled Sudan in the care of an aunt when he was 3 years old.

TUMWATER To many, he was known simply as Jim Chapman, but to others he was "Jimmy Junk," the longtime owner of J&J Metals, a metal recycling and salvage yard he ran for 25 years near Henderson Boulevard.

La Forza - Dance Music For Your Mind Not often do I have the respect and patience for electronic music.　 There's just not a lot of chance for mistake, and that's half the fun of making music, avoiding mistakes or melody mishaps.

YELM Evan Lamborn trimmed sheet metal to craft a piece of vent for a bathroom fan in the back of the old yellow-and-white mobile home.

The Thurston County coroner has identified the body found in Yelm as a 12-year-old girl who had been missing since December.

The Thurston County Coroner's office today will examine the dental records of an unidentified girl whose body was found Monday morning at a hydroelectric facility just outside Yelm.