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Family, friends and veterans groups filled the airport terminal to greet Jordan Olson. For the Joint Base Lewis-McChord soldier, on leave from the war in Afghanistan, Saturday's homecoming was a hero's welcome. Two days later, the soldier's lies became public.

Skip Rodvold's most important job these days is staying alive and healthy until he gets a kidney transplant.

The people who have had their genetic blueprints fully deciphered wouldn't fill a typical coffee shop. Now, Seattle scientists have ushered a family of four into that elite group.

About 600 soldiers from Joint Base Lewis-McChord are preparing to deploy to Afghanistan.

The man accused of killing Seattle police Officer Timothy Brenton is scheduled for a case hearing at 3 p.m. Thursday in King County Superior Court.

FLORENCE, Ore. - For the third year in a row, truffle thieves have trespassed on Roy Marshall's carefully managed woodland east of Florence, Ore., exposing tree roots with their rakes and scattering trash.

A man whose dog mauled his 11-year-old son last month was sentenced to three months in jail Wednesday in Port Angeles, the Peninsula Daily News is reporting.

A 21-year-old Yakima man was killed in a crash Wednesday night on Highway 97 north of Ellensburg.

Police say a Tulalip man wanted on a murder warrant in the beating death of a baby is suspected of robbing a pharmacy in Marysville.

A 10-year-old girl suffered head injuries when she rode her bicycle between parked cars into the path of a car in Marysville. She was not wearing a helmet.

Les Schwab Tire Centers has paid $2 million to settle a hiring discrimination suit brought four years ago by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich (kuh-NEZ'-oh-vich) toured the Pine Lodge women's prison at Medical Lake that the state plans to close and says it is not a viable option for a new county jail.

A Moscow, Idaho man accused of injuring two Washington State University students in a December hit-and-run has been released from a hospital and deemed ready to stand trial.

A late winter storm is bringing snow to the mountains in Washington and rain to much of the rest of the state.

University of Oregon star quarterback Jeremiah Masoli was charged with 2nd degree burglary - the latest in a series of legal problems for Ducks football players.

Without a TV show to do every night, Conan O'Brien is taking his act on the road.

When suspected extremists armed with assault rifles and a homemade bomb burst into a World Vision office in northwestern Pakistan this week...

The Washington State Patrol says a school bus carrying 36 children left the road and rolled over on its side in the Skagit County community of Conway.

Dallas Seavey of Willow won $3,000 in placer gold nuggets by arriving first early Thursday at Cripple, the halfway point in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

Skamania County searchers said they'd canvassed more than 98 percent of the area where Katherine Heuther was thought to have been hiking.