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Prosecutors in Kittitas County have filed charges against a man they say robbed and killed a King County hunter who went missing near Liberty six years ago.

A Kittitas County man is behind bars for murder after a fatal shooting in Ellensburg on Saturday morning. The Ellensburg Police Department says officers responded to a residence near Chestnut Street and Helena Avenue at around 2 a.m. after reports of gunshots in the area...

Three young girls from Wenatchee who'd been missing since Friday after failing to return home from a visitation with their father have been found dead. The Wenatchee Police Department issued a statement this morning saying the bodies of 9-year-old Paityn Decker, 8-year-old Evelyn Decker, and 5-year-old Olivia Decker were discovered on Monday afternoon near Rock Island Campground off Icicle Road ab

An Ephrata man is in jail facing murder charges in connection to a drive-by shooting that happened in Schawana late Wednesday. The Grant County Sheriff's Office says deputies were dispatched to a location on Road T.5 Southwest at around 10 p...

More details are coming to light about a shooting in East Wenatchee on Friday night that left a 48-year-old man dead. According to affidavits from Douglas County Superior Court, Gregorio Garza, Sr. was pronounced deceased at the scene in the 100 block of 9th Street Southeast after officers responded at around 10:10 p...

A teenager convicted of killing a rival gang member in the parking lot of an Ellensburg fast food restaurant last year has been sentenced to 56 years in prison. The sentence was handed down to 18-year-old Benny Lee Castizo in Kittitas County Superior Court this week...

One of the two remaining suspects wanted in connection to a drive-by shooting in Moses Lake that killed a teenage boy and wounded four other people earlier this month has been apprehended. The Moses Lake Police Department says 18-year-old Matthew Valdez was arrested Friday in Beaverton, Oregon after fleeing the state in the wake of the crime...

An Okanogan County man has been convicted of First-Degree Murder in the death of his girlfriend. ON Wednesday, a jury found 70-year-old Roy Parker Rasmussen guilty of killing 46-year-old Siri Carina Zosel in Oroville in April, 2022. Police found Rasmussen at the same residence with Zosel's dead body after responding to a domestic violence call...

Yair Flores Cavero was shot to death in August 2022 while sleeping in his home in the 1600 block of Methow Street.

The U.S. Marshals Service has announced it's offering a reward of $1,500 for information leading to the arrest of a Moses Lake man accused of first-degree muder. The U.S. Marshals Pacific Northwest Violent Offender Task Force and the Moses Lake Police Department say 18-year-old Christopher Valle-Maciel shot and killed 22-year-old Armando Benavidez in Seattle's Montlake neighborhood last November..