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Federal agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Drug Enforcement Administration along with state and local law enforcement officers have arrested 31 people following a lengthy investigation into a drug trafficking organization that supplied methamphetamine and cocaine from Mexico for distribution in Washington.

Their lives were linked forever from the day the pair of West Vancouver youths began meticulously planning a brutal triple murder 15 years ago.

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National Archives visitors know they'll find the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights in the main building's magnificent rotunda in Washington.

The state fire marshal's office says forget about firing homemade cannons to celebrate the Fourth of July.

Washington and Oregon cherry growers will be able to export sweet cherries to Japan more quickly under a new inspection protocol approved by that country Thursday.

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

Strip Club Mogul and Associates Indicted for RICO Conspiracy, Money Laundering and Mail Fraud Colacurcio Organization Promoted Prostitution, Laundered Illegal Proceeds and Cheated on Tax Payments A federal grand jury indictment unsealed today charges FRANK COLACURCIO, SR, his son FRANK COLACURCIO, JR, and four of their close associates with a ...

The white supremacist who shot and killed a guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington remains too injured to appear in court, officials said.

SAN JOSE, Calif. - A Washington state man's shambling sentence about screaming seafarers on the sturdy whaler Ellie May stood shoulders above the rest in an annual bad writing contest.

State officials say Washington's population is growing, but at a slower rate than just a few years ago.

A trio of powerhouse lawfirms are taking on nearly all the cities in Washington state that employ red light cameras and speed cameras.

The weather held long enough on a foreboding day in Washington, with the rain starting to fall now, for "Renegade,'' a.k.a. the president, to fit in 18 holes of golf.

Given the economy, some question Washington schools' hiring of foreign teachers, typically to fill math and special-ed shortages.

The U.S. House today approved the controversial cap-and-trade bill that sets the nation's first limits on greenhouse-gas emissions.

In this June 4, 2009, file photo Somalians in Mogadishu react to President Barack Obama as he speaks live on television from Cairo, quoting a verse from the Holy Qur'an on the importance of peace in the Arab and the Muslim world.

The first graduating class of the Washington Youth Academy celebrates their commencement Saturday.

From left, White House Seniors Advisers David Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, and Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, take their seat before the start of President Barack Obama's news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on Washington, Tuesday, June 23, 2009.

When you hear the term exorcism, it's likely you think of Linda Blair's head spinning around in the movie by the same name.