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Skyline Elementary School in Portland started the new school year Tuesday with extra security and many changes, following the disappearance of Kyron Horman on June 4.

Federal prosecutors are accusing a Western Washington man of counterfeiting hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of checks - checks drawn from the United States Treasury. But, the case may not be as cut and dry as it seems.

Investigators are looking for the cause of the Monday night fire that caused significant damage to the Pussycat Strip Club in Beaverton.

The Navy is sending them on a routine deployment in the western Pacific, Indian Ocean and Arabian Gulf.

Police say the man was armed and threatened officers near the intersection of 4th Plain Blvd. and Fruit Valley Road.

Organizers of Seattle's end of summer music and arts festival believe they will turn a good profit this year.

Thousands of Washington state employees are having an extended Labor Day weekend with an unpaid day off Tuesday.

A gun stolen from a southwest Ohio home has been recovered 23 years later at a pawn shop in Washington state.

The Everett area population is dropping by more than 3,000 Navy sailors as the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln departs Tuesday with two other Everett-based ships - the destroyers Momsen and Shoup.

Forty years ago, the bank of the Puyallup River was the scene of a violent struggle by Indian people encamped to defend their treaty fishing rights against hundreds of law-enforcement officers, many of them armed.

Clark County's public-health officer says the health department has been investigating a growing number of pertussis cases.

Crowds, a little rain, ticketing snafus, Bob Dylan — how Bumbershoot managed on its 40th anniversary.

Eight months after BNSF Railway gave away part of an Eastside rail line because of a lack of freight customers, a short-haul operator wants to bring trains back between Woodinville and Redmond. The prospect upsets some government officials and bicycle advocates, who have promoted a biking and hiking trail.

Experimental treatment for a congenital eye disease has raised hopes for young brothers Casey and Alex Catalan, and the procedures at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland reflect renewed interest in gene therapy.

When it comes to driving drunk and dealing with it, I put state schools chief Randy Dorn at the head of the class.

These days the big conflicts are over Latinos crossing the southern border, but America's first patrollers along that corridor called themselves Chinese catchers. They hunted people who were trying to avoid the Angel Island Immigration Station by entering the country through Mexico.

The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Washington Lottery's "Daily Game" game were:

The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Washington Lottery's "Match 4" game were:

The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Washington Lottery's "Keno" game were: