Yakima
Homeowners help battle grass fire near Yakima
YAKIMA -- Homeowners with garden hoses helped firefighters battle a three-alarm grass fire that burned about 100 acres in the East Valley community near Yakima.The Yakima Herald-Republic reported that the fire threatened four homes Monday in gusty winds but no structures were lost.
Date: 05/29/2012 | Northwest
Good prices for near-record state apple crop
YAKIMA — Most of Washington's 2011 apple harvest has been sold and growers say prices for the near-record crop have been good for them.
Date: 05/14/2012 | Business
Drag-racing car crashes in Yakima
YAKIMA -- Police say a car was drag racing with another car in Yakima when it went out of control and crashed into a tree, critically injuring two men.KIMA reported the 17-year-old driver and a 33-year-old passenger were airlifted to a Seattle hospital with life-threatening injuries.
Date: 05/07/2012 | Northwest
Grandview farm to pay $90,000 in dumping case
YAKIMA -- A Yakima Valley farm has agreed to pay $90,000 to the Washington Department of Ecology to settle allegations of illegal dumping.
Date: 05/07/2012 | Northwest
Yakima clerk fights off would-be robber
YAKIMA -- Police say a Yakima convenience store wasn't intimidated by a man who walked in with a gun and tried to take cash out of the register.She thought the gun looked like a toy, and it didn't sound or smell like a real shot when he fired into the ceiling.
Date: 05/04/2012 | Northwest
Yakima jail nurse arrested in marijuana case
YAKIMA -- A nurse at the Yakima County Jail is now an inmate after her arrest in a marijuana investigation.The jail director says Michelle Warnick was arrested Friday when she arrived for work.
Date: 04/23/2012 | Northwest
19-year-old slain at Toppenish-area home
YAKIMA -- Yakima County sheriff's detectives are investigating the shooting death of a 19-year-old man at a home near Toppenish.Deputies were called to the home Wednesday night and found the victim dead at the scene with a head wound.
Date: 04/12/2012 | Northwest
Police officer witnesses fatal stabbing in Yakima
YAKIMA -- A police officer who witnessed a fatal stabbing in Yakima chased down the suspect.
Date: 04/11/2012 | Northwest
6-year-old playing with matches starts Yakima fire
YAKIMA -- Fire authorities say a 6-year-old playing with matches started a fire that caused $40,000 damage to an Yakima apartment building and sent a woman to a hospital.
Date: 03/14/2012 | Northwest
Newlywed Yakima cancer patient dies
YAKIMA -- A Yakima cancer patient who fell in love with another cancer patient and married has died.The father of Rodney Conradi told Yakima Herald-Republic that he died Saturday at Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital. He was 21.
Date: 03/12/2012 | Northwest
Couple finds love while being treated for cancer
YAKIMA -- This is not a sad story.
Date: 03/10/2012 | Northwest
Bill would open way for Klickitat energy plan
YAKIMA -- A bill awaiting Gov. Chris Gregoire's signature would open the way for an ambitious $2.5 billion plan to create a large generating plant along the Columbia River.
Date: 03/10/2012 | Northwest
Yakima shooting apparently gang related
YAKIMA -- Police say a shooting that wounded a 19-year-old Wednesday afternoon in Yakima appears to be gang-related.Witnesses said the shooter approached the victim, spoke to him briefly and then fired. The victim was treated and released at a hospital.
Date: 03/08/2012 | Northwest
Settlement reached in 2007 Kittitas copter crash
YAKIMA -- A confidential settlement has been reached in the case of a 2007 Kittitas County helicopter crash that killed four people and ignited a 485-acre forest fire.
Date: 03/03/2012 | Northwest
$4B plan proposed for Yakima water supplies
YAKIMA -- The state and federal governments released a long-awaited plan Friday for improving the water supply in the agricultural Yakima River basin, where periodic droughts reduce streamflows for farmers, communities and threatened fish.
Date: 03/02/2012 | Northwest
Man who shot, killed man over laptop sentenced
YAKIMA -- A Granger man who shot and killed another man over laptop has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Date: 02/25/2012 | Northwest
Toppenish ordered to pay clean-air fees
YAKIMA -- A Yakima County judge has ordered the city of Toppenish to pay annual fees to the Yakima Regional Clean Air Agency.
Date: 02/04/2012 | Northwest
Yakima likely to settle lawsuit from police chase
YAKIMA -- A man seriously injured in a deadly police pursuit in Yakima 2006 is expected to receive $350,000 to settle the last of three related lawsuits.
Date: 02/03/2012 | Northwest
Yakima lawyer convicted of theft disbarred
YAKIMA -- The state Supreme Court has disbarred a Yakima lawyer who was convicted of theft.
Date: 01/13/2012 | Northwest
Royal City dairy contaminated water, judge rules
YAKIMA -- A federal judge has ruled that an Eastern Washington industrial dairy that has been the subject of air and water pollution complaints for years consistently applied excessive amounts of manure to neighboring fields, causing or contributing to groundwater contamination in the area.
Date: 01/05/2012 | Northwest
Economic funds to help pay for vacant Yakima jail
YAKIMA -- County commissioners agreed to commit at least $3.8 million from a fund for economic development to pay off a new jail that is sitting vacant.
Date: 12/21/2011 | Northwest
Yakima council raises utility taxes to hire police
YAKIMA -- The Yakima City Council approved a budget for next year that raises utility taxes 6 percent and calls for the hiring of 12 police officers.KAPP reported that the budget that was approved Tuesday also includes hiring a firefighter.
Date: 12/14/2011 | Northwest
Illegal immigrant sentenced for fraud
YAKIMA -- An illegal immigrant from Yakima has been sentenced to 8 years in prison on federal fraud and immigration charges.
Date: 12/14/2011 | Northwest
Divorced? Christian group in Yakima offers support
YAKIMA -- Your emotions are shattered, your self image in shreds, your children confused -- all common occurrences when divorce hits a family.
Date: 12/11/2011 | Northwest
Snokist announces it will lay off 610 employees
YAKIMA -- Snokist Growers has notified the state it will lay off 610 full and part-time employees in February.
Date: 12/10/2011 | Northwest
Yakima County prosecutor charged with DUI
YAKIMA -- Kittitas County prosecutors charged Yakima County Prosecutor Jim Hagarty with drunken driving on Thursday in Yakima County District Court.
Date: 12/02/2011 | Northwest
Yakima prosecutor apologizes for his DUI arrest
YAKIMA -- Yakima County Prosecutor Jim Hagarty has apologized for his drunken-driving arrest and says he's ready to accept the consequences.Hagarty was arrested by the Washington State Patrol on Tuesday evening after a rear-end collision in Selah.
Date: 11/17/2011 | Northwest
Yakima police allegedly covered up purchases
YAKIMA -- Records obtained by the Yakima Herald-Republic show the Yakima police officers suspended for spending more than $400 in tax money on beer for themselves tried to hide their alcohol purchases.
Date: 11/06/2011 | Northwest
90-year prison sentence in Yakima for gang murder
YAKIMA -- A Toppenish gang member was sentenced to 90 years in prison for his role in the fatal shooting of a rival gang member.
Date: 10/28/2011 | Northwest
Moxee man charged with assault in orchard shooting
YAKIMA -- A 72-year-old man accused of shooting at orchard workers near Moxee has been charged with assault.The Yakima Herald-Republic reports Gerald H. Lenderman appeared in court Wednesday and was ordered held on $250,000 bail.
Date: 10/27/2011 | Northwest
Man shoots at workers in orchard near Yakima
YAKIMA -- Authorities in Yakima County say a 72-year-old apparently upset with farmworkers in a nearby orchard shot at them from his home and injured a tractor operator.
Date: 10/23/2011 | Northwest
Guilty plea in Yakima police chase that killed 2
YAKIMA -- A man who was fleeing police in a stolen truck when a crash killed two people in Yakima pleaded guilty Thursday to second-degree murder and other charges.Shaun Kollman, 32, faces up to 51 years in prison when he is sentenced Nov. 7 in Yakima County Superior Court.
Date: 10/21/2011 | Northwest
Yakima Valley man files suit against diocese
YAKIMA -- A Yakima Valley man has filed suit against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Yakima alleging he was sexually abused decades ago by an associate pastor.
Date: 10/12/2011 | Northwest
45-day jail sentence for Yakima library voyeurism
YAKIMA -- A man caught peeping on women in the restroom of the downtown Yakima library was sentenced Thursday to 45 days in jail.Jose Luis Vazquez, 48, pleaded guilty to voyeurism and was given credit for 27 days already spent in jail.
Date: 10/07/2011 | Northwest
Wildfire near Satus Pass forces evacuations
YAKIMA -- A wildfire that is threatening several dozen homes and also disrupted traffic on Highway 97 between Goldendale and Toppenish.
Date: 09/08/2011 | Northwest
2 walk away from Yakima County crash landing
YAKIMA -- The Yakima County Sheriff's Office says two people in a small plane were uninjured when they crash-landed Wednesday evening in an alfalfa field about 11 miles northwest of the Yakima Airport.
Date: 08/18/2011 | Northwest
Yakima police probe leaves department short
YAKIMA -- The internal investigation into an Aug. 3 police shooting in Yakima has left the department short.A sergeant and three officers could be on administrative leave for months.
Date: 08/18/2011 | Northwest
Dump truck takes down utility lines near Wapato
YAKIMA -- The Yakima County sheriff's office says a dump truck driver didn't realize the truck bed was elevated as he left a work site and snapped about 10 utility lines near Wapato.
Date: 08/13/2011 | Northwest
Woman charged with murder in Yakima slayings
YAKIMA -- Charges against a woman accused of taking part in a fatal burglary near Yakima have been upgraded to murder.Thirty-five-year-old Tracy Elaine Culton was arraigned Wednesday in Yakima County Superior Court as an accessory in the beating deaths of three people.
Date: 08/11/2011 | Northwest
Man hit 6 times in shootout with Yakima police
YAKIMA -- A man wounded in a shootout with police in Yakima was hit six times -- twice in the head -- and was in critical condition after surgery at Yakima Regional Medical Center.
Date: 08/05/2011 | Northwest
Police shoot man who fired at officers in Yakima
YAKIMA -- Police shot the driver of a stolen car after he fired at officers following a stolen car chase that ended in Yakima.Police say the man was hit multiple times Wednesday night, and he was taken to a hospital where he had surgery. No officers were hit.
Date: 08/04/2011 | Northwest
Yakima teen to be tried as an adult in assault case
YAKIMA -- Prosecutors have a charged a 16-year-old Yakima teen with first-degree assault in a shooting that left another teenager paralyzed.The Yakima Herald-Republic reported the severity of the charge means Angel Antonio Gonzalez is being tried as an adult.
Date: 07/23/2011 | Northwest
6-year-old girl shot in Yakima
YAKIMA -- A 6-year-old Yakima girl is at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle after being shot.
Date: 07/21/2011 | Northwest
Yakima diocese target of priest abuse lawsuit
YAKIMA, Wash. -- An Oregon man has filed suit in federal court against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Yakima, alleging he was abused as a teen by a former Catholic deacon who later became an Episcopal priest in Mexico.
Date: 07/14/2011 | Northwest
State fruit growers pleased by agreement with Mexico
YAKIMA -- Washington fruit growers are celebrating an agreement with Mexico that should increase exports.
Date: 07/07/2011 | Business
Yakima police captain in sex scandal reinstated
YAKIMA -- A Yakima police captain who was demoted last year for having sex with two female sergeants will be reinstated to his rank with back pay and benefits.
Date: 06/30/2011 | Northwest
Yakima teacher appealing license revocation
YAKIMA -- A Yakima teacher who was acquitted of sexual misconduct charges says she'll appeal the state's move to revoke her teaching certificate.
Date: 06/24/2011 | Northwest
State revoking Yakima teacher's license
YAKIMA -- The state Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction plans to revoke the teaching certificate of Yakima teacher Michele Taylor, who was accused of sexual misconduct with students.
Date: 06/22/2011 | Northwest
Man arrested in Yakima teaching assistant's death
YAKIMA -- One man has been arrested in connection to the shooting death of a 24-year-old teacher's assistant in Yakima.
Date: 06/19/2011 | Northwest
Grass fire covers 1,200 acres in Yakima Valley
YAKIMA -- A wind-blown grass fire covered 1,200 acres near Union Gap and required firefighters from several Yakima Valley agencies to bring it under control.
Date: 06/16/2011 | Northwest
Woman shot to death in Yakima parking lot
YAKIMA -- Yakima Police are investigating the shooting death of a 24-year-old woman in the parking lot of a fast-food restaurant.
Date: 06/12/2011 | Northwest
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