Wash. Senate starts clearing way for tax hikes
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- The Washington state Legislature's Democratic majority started clearing the way for tax increases Tuesday with its first major vote to brush aside Tim Eyman's tax-limiting Initiative 960....

Police round up Crips in Tacoma gang sweep
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) -- Police say a round up of gang members that began at 4 a.m. Tuesday in Tacoma aims to arrest 32 people on 51 charges....

Winter Olympics torch visits US at Blaine
BLAINE, Wash. (AP) -- The Winter Olympics torch made its only visit to the United States for a ceremony Tuesday at the Peace Arch border crossing in Blaine....

Giant boulders hauled through Portland traffic
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- The calls have been flooding in from worried motorists - who's hauling those giant boulders chained to giant trailers through some of the Portland area's heaviest traffic? And why?...

Discovery Channel: 'Deadliest Catch' captain dies
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Phil Harris, the fishing boat captain whose adventures off the Alaska coast were captured on the television show "Deadliest Catch", has died, the Discovery Channel said Tuesday night. He was 53....

Discovery Channel: 'Deadliest Catch' captain dies
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- The Discovery Channel says the captain of the "Deadliest Catch" fishing vessel Cornelia Marie has died....

Discovery Channel: 'Deadliest Catch' captain dies
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- A spokesman for The Discovery Channel says the captain of the "Deadliest Catch" fishing vessel Cornelia Marie has died....

Soldier's family brings pup home from Afghanistan
SEATAC, Wash. (AP) -- The family of a 5th Stryker Brigade soldier has found a way to bring a stray dog rescued in Afghanistan home to Washington state....

Cat wanders into police parking lot, is euthanized
EVERETT, Wash. (AP) -- An Everett family is upset after learning a local animal shelter euthanized their family cat after the pet wandered into an Everett police department parking lot and was captured....

Pickup crashes into Wash. convenience store
COVINGTON, Wash. (AP) -- A Kent Fire Department spokesman says a pickup truck has crashed into the front of a convenience store in the south King County community of Covington but no one was injured....