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  • Indoor burn ban to end this afternoon

    Yakima Herald-Republic – Fri Dec 4, 3:53 pm ET  

    YAKIMA, Wash. — A ban on indoor burning will end at 4 p.m. this afternoon, thanks to changing weather conditions and public compliance with restrictions on burning that went into effect early this week. Full Story »

  • Moxee tire plant bid turned away in 11-page decision

    Yakima Herald-Republic – Fri Dec 4, 3:23 pm ET  

    MOXEE, Wash. — A Tacoma company has lost its bid to locate a plant in Moxee to reclaim usable products from waste tires. A Yakima County Superior Court judge this week ruled the city has the authority to deny the $25 million plant. Full Story »

  • Study finds Bears' stadium lacking for fans, teams

    Yakima Herald-Republic – Fri Dec 4, 2:39 am ET  

    The Yakima County Stadium is the current home of the Yakima Bears baseball team. Full Story »

  • Communication heals relations between Memorial Hospital and neighborhood

    Yakima Herald-Republic – Fri Dec 4, 2:38 am ET  

    Megan Mauch carries her 18-month-old son Logan into Memorial Hospital's child care center, just across the street from the main hospital, on Dec. 3, 2009. The current child care facility will be replaced by a new, larger facility in the second phase of the planned expansion of the hospital. Full Story »

  • Cell phone store robbed in Union Gap

    Yakima Herald-Republic – Fri Dec 4, 2:25 am ET  

    UNION GAP -- Police are searching for two men who robbed a cell phone store Thursday afternoon in the 1600 block of East Washington Avenue. Both men were armed when they entered the Totally Cellular store about 1:35 p.m., said Union Gap police Sgt. Chase Kellogg. Full Story »

  • Scoggins rejoins school board

    Yakima Herald-Republic – Fri Dec 4, 2:25 am ET  

    YAKIMA, Wash. -- Jim Scoggins is taking back his seat on the Yakima school board today. Scoggins, who beat incumbent Raymond Navarro Jr. in last month's general election, will be sworn in at the Yakima School District Board of Directors' meeting at 7 a.m. Full Story »

  • Toys for Tots event today

    Yakima Herald-Republic – Fri Dec 4, 2:25 am ET  

    The U.S. Marines, along with Salon Tzerrs, Garden Girl, Cafe Melange and Sawyer House, will hold a Toys for Tots event from 3 to 6 p.m. today . Full Story »

  • Police to honor fallen officers

    Yakima Herald-Republic – Fri Dec 4, 2:25 am ET  

    YAKIMA, Wash. -- The Yakima Police Department will hold a memorial service Tuesday in honor of the four Lakewood, Wash., police officers killed Sunday afternoon. Full Story »

  • Three held after traffic stop

    Yakima Herald-Republic – Fri Dec 4, 2:25 am ET  

    SUNNYSIDE -- A traffic stop for a defective windshield Tuesday afternoon ended with the arrests of three Sunnyside men for outstanding warrants, and one of them for unlawful possession of a firearm. Full Story »

  • Monkey busines over gorilla in Sunnyside

    Yakima Herald-Republic – Fri Dec 4, 2:24 am ET  

    SUNNYSIDE -- Mico was new in town, a visitor from the big city here for some temporary work. His job is to attract attention. He's good at it, being a 35-foot purple, inflatable gorilla. Full Story »

  • Sunnyside embezzling suspect arrested

    Yakima Herald-Republic – Fri Dec 4, 2:24 am ET  

    SUNNYSIDE -- A former Sunnyside Police Department clerk accused of embezzling from the department was arrested Thursday in Southern California. Full Story »

  • Church offers a 'Journey to Bethlehem'

    Yakima Herald-Republic – Fri Dec 4, 2:24 am ET  

    Jon and Jodie Dupuis play Joseph and Mary in the manger during a dress rehearsal of Yakima Seventh Day Adventist Church's "Journey to Bethlehem" walk-through nativity Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009. The stop is the final one on a meandering walk through a re-created Bethlehem that includes several stops telling the story of the birth of Jesus Christ. Full Story »

  • Christmas tree sales help Davis athletics

    Yakima Herald-Republic – Fri Dec 4, 2:24 am ET  

    It's time to get your tannenbaum. The Davis High School Athletic Booster Club is selling Christmas trees weekdays from noon to 7 p.m. and weekends from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on the Davis soccer field. Full Story »

  • Help needed for reunited family

    Yakima Herald-Republic – Fri Dec 4, 2:24 am ET  

    Many of us are thankful for caring friends and family, and for the good things in life we have. Unfortunately, there are all too many whose fortunes aren't as good and whose needs are great. Full Story »

  • Union Gap will have holiday parade

    Yakima Herald-Republic – Fri Dec 4, 2:23 am ET  

    UNION GAP, Wash. -- On Wednesday, Union Gap Mayor Jim Lemon believed this year's lighted Christmas parade was canceled. A day later, he began singing a different tune. Full Story »

  • Gunfire shatters quiet of neighborhood

    Yakima Herald-Republic – Fri Dec 4, 2:23 am ET  

    Yakima police officer Andy Garcia and Amber Ross look over several bullet rounds found in the 200 block of South Naches Avenue after a suspected gang related shooting on Nov. 3, 2009 in Yakima, Wash. Full Story »

  • Here comes the cold!!

    Yakima Herald-Republic – Fri Dec 4, 2:23 am ET  

    YAKIMA, Wash. -- It's going to be a cold weekend in the Yakima Valley. Forecasters predict significantly colder temperatures late this weekend and into next week as an Arctic air mass invades the Pacific Northwest. Full Story »

  • Union Gap phone store robbed by gunmen

    Yakima Herald-Republic – Thu Dec 3, 9:38 pm ET  

    UNION GAP, Wash. -- Police are searching for two men who robbed a cell phone store this afternoon in the 1600 block of East Washington Avenue. Both men were armed when they entered the Totally Cellular store around 1:35 p.m., said Union Gap police Sgt. Chase Kellogg. Full Story »

  • Shooting injures one in southeast Yakima

    Yakima Herald-Republic – Thu Dec 3, 8:23 pm ET  

    Yakima police investigate a shooting on Naches Avenue and East Walnut Street near a group of apartment houses on Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009. Full Story »

  • Let there be light opera -- in Yakima

    Yakima Herald-Republic – Thu Dec 3, 8:10 pm ET  

    Yakima opera fans have traditionally been short on options; they could drive to Seattle or Portland or catch the occasional touring company at the Capitol Theatre. Full Story »

  • The Indoorsman -- Fighting with breakfast

    Yakima Herald-Republic – Thu Dec 3, 8:10 pm ET  

    I had just been bloodied by a frozen potato shred when I decided I'd had about enough; if breakfast was going to play rough, so was I. That's how your Indoors-man ended up frying a cheddar bagel in bacon fat. Full Story »

  • Mighty Tieton bazaar -- Nothing says art like chandeliers

    Yakima Herald-Republic – Thu Dec 3, 8:10 pm ET  

    Those crazy artists up in the hills are at it again. The Mighty Tieton organization, headed by Seattle art-book publisher Ed Marquand, will host the Mighty Tieton Crafts Bazaar and Chandelier Festival this weekend, combining commerce and crafts with artistic, abnormal light fixtures. Full Story »

  • Exhibition artwork will be sold at auction tonight

    Yakima Herald-Republic – Thu Dec 3, 8:10 pm ET  

    Central Washington University's art department has one of its biggest nights of the year tonight, with the Student Artist Collective 2009 Evening with the Arts. Full Story »

  • 12/04/09 Film clips

    Yakima Herald-Republic – Thu Dec 3, 8:09 pm ET  

    "ARMORED" -- A heist goes awry when armored-car employees rip off their own company. Starring Matt Dillon, Laurence Fishburne and Columbus Short. Directed by Nimrod Antal. (PG-13 for sequences of intense violence, some disturbing images and brief strong language.) Full Story »

  • 12/04/09 10 Days Out

    Yakima Herald-Republic – Thu Dec 3, 8:09 pm ET  

    * What better way to kick off the holiday season than with an old-fashioned Victorian Christmas at the Gilbert House? From 1 to 4 p.m., visitors can walk through the historic home at 2109 W. Yakima Ave. and bask in the sights, sounds and smells of a late 19th century Christmas. Full Story »

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