9 March 2010, 9:47 am
EAST WENATCHEE — A high-speed chase through East Wenatchee streets Monday night ended with a short foot pursuit and two 18-year-olds suffering from road rash. Treated at Central Washington Hospital were motorcycle driver Cameron M. Darnell and passenger Madison T. Miller, according to a Washington... Read More »
9 March 2010, 9:32 am
WENATCHEE — A 23-year-old Wenatchee man was arrested Monday night on suspicion of second-degree assault, accused of injuring another Wenatchee man Feb. 22 at Sharx Bar & Bites. He is accused of hitting Charles Wagner, 34, over the head with a pool cue. Wagner’s father, John Wagner, said last mon... Read More »
8 March 2010, 1:04 pm
Warmer than normal temperatures this winter is raising concerns as the already slim snowpack is melting away at a faster than usual rate.... Read More »
8 March 2010, 11:47 am
ELMA — School officials in the southwest Washington town of Elma say graffiti threatening the lives of three black students was found on a bathroom mirror at Elma High School. The Daily World in Aberdeen says the Thursday incident prompted school officials to call police and send a letter home to ... Read More »
7 March 2010, 11:16 pm
SEQUOIA NATIONAL FOREST, Calif. - Not far from Yosemite's waterfalls and in the middle of California's redwood forests, Mexican drug gangs quietly are commandeering U.S. public land to grow millions of marijuana plants and using smuggled immigrants to cultivate them.... Read More »
6 March 2010, 11:01 pm
The state of Washington has done its regulatory duty with the Christopher House, the former St. Anthony’s Hospital now home to 53 disabled Wenatchee adults. Surprise inspections uncovered multiple violations of state law, with some sounding uncomfortably like neglect of a most unacceptable nature.... Read More »
5 March 2010, 9:58 am
WENATCHEE, Wash. - The reward to help find the killer of a 17-year-old Wenatchee High School girl is now up to $40,000. Investigators are asking the public for more tips about the final days of Mackenzie Cowell whose body was found Feb. 13 along the Columbia River at Crescent Bar. Her cell phone, an... Read More »
5 March 2010, 9:46 am
WENATCHEE — After making a tearful apology in court, a 34-year-old Wenatchee man was sentenced to three and a half years in prison for running over and killing a pedestrian on North Wenatchee Avenue last September. Michael D. Burke pleaded guilty Wednesday in Chelan County Superior Court to causin... Read More »
4 March 2010, 6:15 pm
The reward for information leading to a conviction in the killing of a 17-year-old Wenatchee-area girl has been boosted to $40,000, police said.... Read More »
3 March 2010, 10:45 am
(OLYMPIA) -- The Washington State Traffic Safety Commission released some new research on traffic deaths Wednesday morning' 2009 marked the safest year on Washington’s highways since 1955. According to Washington’s Fatality Analysis Reporting System, there were about 30 fewer highway deaths tha... Read More »