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It Works For Neighborhoods, Why Not Businesses? YAKIMA -- You've heard of neighbors looking out for each other through neighborhood block watches. Now the practice might be used by more Yakima businesses to fight crime. Full Story »

YAKIMA -- A gang member who escaped from jail in Sunnyside in 2006 has been captured in Manzanillo, Mexico. The U.S. Marshals Service said Saturday that Aaron Lopez Garcia, 31, was arrested Friday at an ice cream factory by Colima State Police, assisted by U.S. Marshals. Full Story »

YAKIMA -- The Washington State Department Of Transportation has closed Chinook and Cayuse passes for the season on Sunday due to avalanche risk and heavy snow. Since Friday Chinook has received over three feet of snow and much more is expected. Full Story »

SEATTLE -- The Washington state Department of Transportation has temporarily shut down two highways in the Cascade Mountains due to heavy snow from a fall storm and plans to close a third. Full Story »

YAKIMA -- Yesterday around 1:30 in the afternoon, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, an army psychiatrist, opened fire at the soldiers in the Readiness Processing Center at Fort Hood in Texas. Tory Feidler is a disaster mental health specialist with the yakima Red Cross. Full Story »

YAKIMA -- A program that provides emergency winter shelter for the homeless in Yakima is having an emergency of its own. Organizers say they need about 40 volunteers for each of the four overnight winter shelters. So far only 15 are trained and ready to go at Vineyard Church in downtown. Full Story »

UNION GAP -- A nursing home under investigation after a resident went missing, has now been cited. The Department of Social and Health services began looking into Parkside Nursing Home in Union Gap after Rose Watson was discovered missing. Full Story »

YAKIMA -- Indian reservations in the U.S. are increasingly hot spots for marajuana and weapons trafficking according to an article out in the Wall Street Journal today. The story mentions Yakama Nation as one of the reservations where pot and weapons busts are all too common. Full Story »

YAKIMA -- A jury has convicted an ex-Wapato teacher on two charges of second-degree child rape. Jesus Barcenas faces a sentence of life in prison, even though the jury decided not to convict him on the two counts of first-degree child rape he was charged with. Full Story »

YAKIMA -- There's quite a bit of disappointment in Yakima county over Referendum 71, where 65 percent of the voters shot it down. Now, there's a move to remove one of the state representatives from Yakima who supported the "Everything But Marriage Law." Full Story »

YAKIMA -- The county prosecutor and sheriff may have been the biggest winners of the night. Jim Hagarty and Ken Irwin led the campaign for Proposition 1, the renewal of the 3/10ths of a cent sales tax that funds Yakima County law enforcement. It passed by a landslide. Full Story »

WASHINGTON -- Election results are in. See the numbers for yourself on the provided links. Full Story »