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Initiative promoter Tim Eyman says he's found the target for his next direct-democracy campaign. Eyman says next year's initiative will seek to reinforce the two-thirds vote requirement for the Legislature to raise taxes. That rule is already in state law...

Ivette Davila reported seeing flashes of light, hearing strange voices and believing people were walking on the roof of her cell. She also called blood-stained sheets “yucky,” peppered letters with childish drawings and had a tendency to zone out. The...

Police are looking for the suspect or suspects who slashed the tires on more than two dozen vehicles Monday night in Montesano, according to The Daily World of Aberdeen. Fourteen tires were slashed at the Whitney’s car dealership and 16...

State Rep. Christopher Hurst of Enumclaw plans committee hearings in January to explore why the presumed killer of four Lakewood police officers was free on bail as he awaited trial on child-rape charges. Meanwhile, state agencies that report to Gov....

Deputies are looking for Loretta A. Purcell, 37, who last was seen Sunday afternoon in a wooded area off Lynch Road when she and her male companion became separated while picking mushrooms. A search began Tuesday morning.

A Lacey woman was sentenced to three years and four months in prison Monday in Thurston County Superior Court, a little more than a year after her newborn daughter's body was found in a cabinet in the woman's home. Jessica...

Wherever a void needs to be filled, Olympia girls basketball coach Louise Webb has the perfect player to call on. Senior Marnie Brown has been called upon throughout her basketball career to play different positions. Shooting guard?

33 a minute behind winner The Olympian • Published December 02, 2009 Jesse Stevick of Olympia placed second among 1,442 men Sunday in the 39th Seattle Marathon. The 27-year-old Stevick, who has won the past four Capital City Marathons in...

Before most of Jefferson Middle School started stirring, students Noah Bauer and Derek Caldwell were focusing the cameras and getting ready for their show of the day. Noah, a seventh-grader, demonstrated the switches between Channel J’s two cameras and a...

A man accused of fatally shooting Shaun Allen Peterson outside a Capitol Way residence Nov. 16 is a "big-money" drug dealer who was arrested Friday in Lewis County while riding in a Corvette carrying about three pounds of methamphetamine, a...