SEATTLE TIMES: In a six-page claim filed Friday against the city of Seattle, attorneys representing the estate of Charleena Lyles say two Seattle police officers “lost their composure” when the pregnant mother of four began waving a knife or knives around, then failed to order her to drop her weapon and warn her they would shoot.
Read MoreSEATTLE TIMES: A battle between two prominent Seattle lawyers now includes a claim that John Henry Browne has had an “inappropriately intimate relationship” with his client, an accused killer. Browne denies it and dismisses opposing attorney Karen Koehler’s accusations as “rumors and gossip.”
Read MoreCRIME WATCH DAILY: A family at war, a very suspicious death and a controversial forbidden romance. Was Tim McNamara's death a suicide or was it murder? The answer to that question certainly depends on who you ask. One shot to the back of the head. But was it suicide or something else?
Read MoreKING 5: It has now been one year since the devastating crash on the Aurora Avenue Bridge where a duck boat crashed into a tour bus killing 5 and injuring dozens more. Many of the people on the tour bus were international students from North Seattle College who were checking out the city on one of their first days in America.
Read MoreSEATTLE TIMES: Jamco America employee Kenneth Ott died a month after a seat-belt air bag exploded in his face last fall.
Read MoreSEATTLE TIMES: A private spat between prominent Seattle attorneys Karen Koehler and John Henry Browne has spilled out publicly.
Read MoreSEATTLE TIMES: Let’s get ready to rumble! In this corner, the tenacious personal-injury attorney and former president of the Washington State Trial Lawyers Association, whose clients include multiple victims of last year’s deadly Ride the Ducks tourist-vehicle crash.
Read MoreKING 5: Tracy Nessl talks with KING 5's Linda Byron in her home in Soap Lake, Washington. Belize has issued a warrant for Nessl's arrest for allegedly murdering Tim McNamara, her uncle and the man she considered to be her husband.
Read MoreKING 5: Last September's crash of a Ride the Ducks amphibious tour boat and a bus loaded with college students on the Aurora bridge killed five and injured more than 60 others.
Read MoreSEATTLE TIMES: Michelle Mallari, who was wounded by gunfire last week in a Renton movie theater, said she didn’t realize she had been hit by a bullet until she reached the lobby.
Read MoreKOMO NEWS: A 40-year-old woman was seriously injured Thursday when she was shot in the chest inside a Renton movie theater, police said.
The shooting happened at around 8 p.m. at a movie theater at the The Landing in Renton during a showing of the film "13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi."
Read MoreSEATTLE TIMES: After news reports of foreign student Phuong Dinh’s slow recovery and soon-to-lapse medical coverage, state Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler and North Seattle College both say they’ll help her obtain ongoing insurance coverage.
Read MoreSEATTLE TIMES: Phuong Dinh, 18, and her lawyer say the initial response of aid has since subsided. On a sunny day in September, 18-year-old Phuong Dinh snapped photographs from her window seat in a charter bus filled with other North Seattle College students as it motored across the Aurora Bridge.
Read MoreSEATTLE TIMES: A Redmond couple is suing the owners of Redmond Town Center, alleging safety violations at a children’s play area contributed to the death of their 2-year-old daughter, who ran into the street and was killed by a motorist in July.
Read MoreYAKIMA HERALD: The Grandview School District has settled a federal civil rights lawsuit filed on behalf of a deaf student for $1 million, attorneys for the student announced Tuesday.
Read MoreKOMO NEWS: A 2-year-old girl was struck and killed by car in Redmond Wednesday afternoon. The crash happened just before 5 p.m. at the Redmond Town Center, according to Redmond Police. The child was with a caregiver and darted out in front of an approaching car as it was coming to a stop, said Cmdr. Charles Gorman with Redmond Police.
Read MoreSEATTLE TIMES: A worker for a Boeing supplier has died from injuries caused when a passenger-seat air-bag inflater accidentally discharged during installation on the Everett flight line last month.
Ken Otto, a technician for Jamco America, which supplies Boeing with aircraft interiors, died Sunday, said Jamco spokeswoman Shelley Rich.
Read MoreSEATTLE TIMES: Four survivors of a 2012 tree-fall crash that killed parents Cheryl and Tim Owen near Stevens Pass are far from being completely healed physically and emotionally.
The couple’s once-athletic daughter, Jessica Owen, 29, mostly relies on a motorized wheelchair and hopes to teach again. Daughter Jaime Owen Mayer, 26, who leans on a cane to walk, feels robbed of decades more she could have had with her parents. Their son-in-law, Steven Mayer, 27, walks with forearm crutches and has several more surgeries ahead of him. Self-described mama’s boy Jeremy Owen, 23, still isn’t used to not getting checkup calls from his mom.
Read MoreSEATTLE TIMES: Four family members who survived a 2012 accident in which a huge tree fell onto an SUV on Highway 2 near Stevens Pass will receive $10 million from the state, in a tentative settlement announced by the family Friday.
Read MoreSEATTLE TIMES: Claims that could turn into a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the state were filed Tuesday by a Bothell family that lost two parents when an ice-heavy tree struck their SUV east of Stevens Pass in December.
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