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Dad gets 14 years for shaking, crippling infant
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.
Wildfire battle begins in Capitol forest
A 10-acre wildfire in Capitol State Forest remained out of control Friday night as an investigator worked to determine the cause.
Fireworks-spawned fires damage 7 W. Wash. houses
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.
DEA agents arrest four locally in statewide raid
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.
Feds bust Seattle drug trafficking ring
Federal law enforcement agents in Seattle say they have busted a drug trafficking ring that distributed methamphetamine and cocaine from Jalisco, Mexico, in Washington.
4-year-old boy seriously injured in hit-and-run
A 4-year-old boy suffered serious facial injuries in a hit-and-run crash near Yelm Tuesday evening.
Man in Yelm hit-and-run was rushing dog to vet clinic
An Olympia man is accused of causing an accident while rushing his dog to veterinary clinic.
Yelm woman sues Nestle for E.coli
A Yelm woman who allegedly got sick after eating cookie dough tainted with E.coli is suing Nestle.
Thurston County: Dive team pulls unoccupied car from river
The Thurston County Sheriff's Office dive team fished out a car in the Nisqually River on Sunday afternoon.
Fresh bread, ranch beef on South Hill
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.
Thurston County: Yelm man jailed on rape, assault charges
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.
Wilkeson, Wash., miners' story set into stone
Paul Keeslar likes to believe the 50-million-year-old sandstone block had been waiting for him.
Preparation, patience key to getting enhanced license
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.
Survivor, scholar 1 hour, 12 minutes ago
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
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.
Stimulus money goes to work in Thurston
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.
Body identified as missing 12-year-old girl
The Thurston County coroner has identified the body found in Yelm as a 12-year-old girl who had been missing since December.
Officials try to identify body of girl
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.
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