Ruling reduces Providence property tax bill by about one-third - Sun, 05 Feb 2012 PST

5 February 2012, 12:19 am

Providence Health Care is shaving $550,000 from its Spokane property tax bill each year as nonprofit hospitals across the state take advantage of a court ruling that extended them new exemptions. The tax cut for Providence amounts to about a third of its property tax. The hospital system, which runs... Read More »

Eagles anxious to swing into baseball season

2 February 2012, 10:21 am

It’s been 257 days since Oklahoma Wesleyan University baseball players launched their gloves toward the sun, ran together on the manicured turf of Prasco Park, in Mason, Ohio, rolled around in a dogpile. On that golden day of May 21, 2011, the Eagles celebrated the school’s first-ever National C... Read More »

Foster homes needed for 73 rescued cats

30 January 2012, 5:56 pm

The kitties were treated for dehydration, fleas and ear mites, and are now ready to go to foster homes, says Lori Mason with Regional Animal Services of King County.... 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, 5:47 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, 4:02 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, 10:13 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, 9:32 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, 8:04 am

NEAR HOODSPORT, 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, several miles north of Hoodsport. The Mason County Sheriff’s Office said two males and a female entered the home an... Read More »

Police: Man had more than 1 million photos of child porn

7 January 2012, 2:49 am

BELFAIR, Wash. -- A 67-year-old Belfair man is under arrest, accused of collecting more than a million images of child pornography on his computer and other digital media.... Read More »