WA to pay $2.35M in abuse case settlement

26 January 2012, 4:36 am

Washington state will pay $2.35 million to settle a lawsuit filed by a woman who alleged that two state agencies failed to protect her from a sex offender who abused her when she was a child.... Read More »

Big waves no longer a threat to Wash. coast, but could be on Wednesday

23 January 2012, 8:04 am

ABERDEEN, Wash. -- The National Weather Service says the waves on the Washington coast Monday are not as big and powerful as feared. Forecasters canceled a high surf advisory and flood watch. They say high tides are not a significant risk to the jetty under repair at the Quileute lower village. Fore... Read More »

Detectives look for suspects in Fawn Lake abduction attempt

12 January 2012, 5:46 pm

The Mason County Sheriff’s Office received a report Wednesday that a 19-year-old Fawn Lake woman was the victim of an attempted abduction.   According to detectives, the woman was checking her mailbox when two men pulled up beside her in a blue van.   One man was described as white, stocky, 5 fe... Read More »

Woman reports attempted abduction by man with big belly

12 January 2012, 4:01 pm

A 19-year-old Fawn Lake woman told Mason County deputies she was the victim of an attempted abduction as she checked her mailbox Wednesday.... Read More »

5 guns stolen in Lilliwaup home invasion robbery

12 January 2012, 10:24 am

Five handguns were stolen in a home invasion robbery Thursday morning at Lilliwaup, on the Hood Canal in Mason County.... Read More »

Couple beaten, bound, robbed in Mason County home invasion

12 January 2012, 9:30 am

Robbers burst into a home and beat, tied up and robbed a couple in Mason County on Thursday.   Robbers broke into the house in the 900 block of North Colony Surf Drive near Lilliwaup, authorities told KIRO 7 Eyewitness News reporter Richard Thompson.  After ransacking the victims’ house, they st... Read More »

Man assaulted in Mason County home invasion robbery

12 January 2012, 8:00 am

NEAR LILLIWAUP Wash. – One man was injured in a violent home invasion robbery in Mason County Thursday morning. It happened around 6:30 a.m. in the 900 block of Colony Surf Drive in Lilliwaup. The Mason County Sheriff’s Office said two males and a female entered the home and beat up one of the t... Read More »

One million child porn images found after Belfair man's arrest

4 January 2012, 10:09 am

The Mason County Sheriff’s Office said the arrest of the 67-year-old man was the culmination of a two-year investigation by the sheriff’s office, Washington State Patrol and the Department of Homeland Security.... Read More »

More arrests possible after child porn raid at Belfair man's home

4 January 2012, 9:17 am

The Mason County Sheriff’s Office arrested a 67-year-old Belfair man on Wednesday who they say may possess millions of pornographic images of children.   Donald Oars, a retired Weyerhaeuser executive, was arrested after police served a search warrant at his home in a two-and-a-half-year child por... Read More »

4th District would lose Kittitas County

28 December 2011, 12:06 pm

OLYMPIA, Wash. — The 4th Congressional District will lose Ellensburg along with the rest of Kittitas County and will include all of Okanogan and Adams counties under a proposal released Wednesday by the state Redistricting Commission.... Read More »