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Vice President Joe Biden will speak at Fort Lewis today during a memorial ceremony for seven Stryker brigade soldiers killed in Afghanistan. Full Story »

A man dies and his body is left for hours in a driveway. A train hits a teenager and parts of his body are left on the tracks for the family to find. And when a third man dies, his expensive electronics disappear from his locked apartment. All three cases took place in Lewis County, and coroner Terry Wilson won't talk about what went wrong. Full Story »

The Clackamas County Sheriff's Office says a 32-year-old Milwaukie woman fell into Johnson Creek early Sunday after she stepped out of a hot tub. She managed to cling to blackberry bushes until rescuers pulled her from about 15 feet of water. Full Story »

King County will close its animal shelters by January 31, 2010 and end offering animal control services to cities within the county by June 30, 2010, according to a new legislation adopted by the King County Council on Monday. Full Story »

A tragedy in Afghanistan has a family devastated and this small Western Washington town in mourning. Spec. Aaron Aamot, 22, was recently killed when his vehicle ran over a roadside bomb during his first deployment overseas. Full Story »

Kathi Goertzen was in Berlin covering the fall of the Berlin Wall when it came down 20 years ago. Here are some of her reflections about those tumultuous days in our history. Full Story »

Last June, Chris Chase walked out of his home to see that his property had been reshaped. He found more than 30 of his trees chopped down to the stumps. Frederic and Holly Anderson live just above Chase's property. They now have a fabulous view of Puget Sound. Full Story »

T-Mobile executive Joe Mallahan conceded defeat Monday in the race for Seattle mayor, handing environmental attorney Mike McGinn a victory in the state's biggest city. Full Story »

The latest round of poll results released Monday afternoon showed Mike McGinn with 50.88 percent - or 96,514 - of the votes, and Joe Mallahan with 48.28 percent, which equates to 91,575 of the votes. Full Story »

Authorities say a 14-year-old boy was shot to death while sleeping inside a motor home at a hunting camp in Central Oregon. Full Story »

Seattle police officials say DNA evidence collected from the scene of Officer Tim Brenton's murder and the firebombing of several police vehicles a week earlier are a match to Christopher Monfort, who was shot during a confrontation with detectives. Full Story »

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi toured Swedish Medical Center in Seattle on Monday, calling it an example of what's right with health care. Full Story »

The governor cited Seattle's unresolved mayoral race Monday as the most recent example of why she thinks the state needs an earlier deadline for mail-in ballots. Full Story »

Lt. Gov. Brad Owen said his son, 37-year-old Mark Owen, was doing OK, but that he'd been shot by one of the lieutenant governor's "very, very best friends." "How do you comprehend anybody shooting anybody, more or less your own son by your own friend?" he said. Full Story »

Gov. Chris Gregoire cited Seattle's unresolved mayoral race Monday as the most recent example of why the state needs an earlier deadline for mail-in ballots. Full Story »

Nicholas Francisco, who vanished just before Valentine's Day in 2008 after telling his wife he was on his way home from work to bake cookies with his young daughter, was found alive and well living under a new name in another state. Full Story »

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Prosecutors are still reviewing evidence in the case against Christopher Monfort, and a possible connection to the trial of a sheriff's deputy accused of beating a teenage girl has caused the deputy's trial to be put on hold. Full Story »

The two soldiers were killed November 5 in Afghanistan when a bomb was detonated beneath their vehicle. Full Story »

Biologists studying salmon in the Pacific Northwest have for decades lost track of the fish just as they set out on life's last leg, that final upstream lunge to spawn and die in the remote, backcountry streams and creeks in Oregon, Washington and central Idaho. Full Story »

Mark Shaver, 43, of Eagle Creek, failed to return with the children - ages 3 to 14 - by Saturday and was reported missing near Breitenbush Lake. Full Story »

Investigators say four more fires overnight in Seattle's Greenwood neighborhood were intentionally set. All were extinguished quickly, but that brings to ten the total number of arsons in the neighborhood in recent weeks. Full Story »

The Washington state Department of Transportation has closed two highways in the Cascade Mountains for the season due to heavy snow and avalanche risk. At the same time, some ski areas are preparing to open. Full Story »

Reality is beginning to sink in for residents at a Tukwila apartment complex who now know they had been living only feet away from an arsenal of bombs and weapons found in the apartment of the man suspected of killing a Seattle police officer in cold blood. Full Story »

A young man from Mason County has been found shot to death near San Francisco - but police don't have a clear motive or any suspects in his killing. Full Story »