King County News

When the girl, now 15, was found last year, she weighed just 48 pounds. Her stepmother, Rebecca Long, was sentenced Friday to three years, five months in prison for isolating and starving the girl.

The Metropolitan King County Council has begun thinking about how it will replace departing member Dow Constantine, even as executive-elect Constantine puts his own transition team in place.

Charlene Strong, at right, who appeared in campaign ads for Approve 71, celebrates the early results with friends Kris Kucera, center, and Catherine Loukas, at left, at an election night gathering of the Approve 71 Campaign at Pravda Studios on 10th Avenue in Seattle.

King County Metro Transit is rerouting its buses to accommodate hundreds of police cars that will take part in Friday morning's memorial procession for Seattle Police Officer Timothy Brenton.

Dow Constantine, King County executive-elect, said Thursday he hoped to begin naming senior officials to his administration next week.

Wow Dow.....really people....7 years of him doing nothing was not enough?. I know the ladies love em ask them down in Olympia.

Rise to the challenge during National Novel Writing Month and write a 175-page novel by midnight Nov.

Washington state's new "everything but marriage" law was narrowly passing Wednesday, with about half of the vote still to be counted.

Voting patterns on statewide initiatives and referendums tell us something about the strength of Washingtona s progressives and conservatives, and the results of 2009 balloting are quite similar to elections of 2007 and 2008.

Location : The Crystal Ballroom at the Edgewater Hotel Mood : So excited that even though the election returns were already announced, every time the King County Executive's race scrolls through on the news ticker, people cheer once again.

By RACHEL LA CORTE Associated Press Originally published 12:01 a.m., November 3, 2009 Updated 10:32 p.m., November 3, 2009 Elections Guide Visit http://elections.kitsapsun.com and you'll see: Election night interviews with candidates Links to regional blogs and results OLYMPIA - Washington state voters on Tuesday were narrowly approving the state's ...

Federal Way police are searching for a Puyallup-area man suspected of trying to kill his former boss at a Federal Way apartment complex last week.

Two statewide ballot measures top the ticket Tuesday for Washington state voters.

Purse snatcher: At 7:30 a.m., a white male walked into the Coach store in North Bend and asked questions about purses.

Health officials are telling nearly two thousand people to boil their water tonight -- after two separate water supplies were contaminated by bacteria.

A Medina police officer has been accused of coercing a woman to have sex to make charges against her go away.

A Kent man and his former wife are accused of streaming sex abuse of a 4-year-old girl live on the Internet.

Following is a sample from the Federal Way police log: a Catch and release: At 8:46 p.m. Oct.

Police in the east Seattle suburb of Redmond say the fully clothed body of a man believed to be about 60 has been pulled from Lake Sammamish.

It was a man taking a shortcut from SeaTac to Burien who discovered the first major break in the death of Nicole Pietz.