The search for Renton dentist Mitch Hungate, missing and presumed dead in a Saturday avalanche, has been called off indefinitely. The victim in a second avalanche a few miles away was identified as Dr. Joy Yu, a Bellevue naturopathic physician.
Dangerous conditions Monday prevented rescuers from searching for a hiker who was caught in an avalanche over the weekend in the Cascade Mountains east of Seattle.
An attempt by King County sheriff's deputies to arrest a man sought in a shooting earlier this week led to a four-hour standoff at a Bellevue, Wash., shopping center before the man surrendered.
A King County sheriff's spokeswoman says detectives have made an arrest in a March 29 emailed bomb threat that warned of a "blood bath" at Kentwood High School in suburban Covington, south of Seattle.
A King County sheriff's spokeswoman says 5-year-old girl who kicked and screamed was able to get away from a young man who picked her up while she was at a Maple Valley, Wash., apartment complex playground.