Wildfire Burning Near Lake Wenatchee

A combined state and federal team was set to take over management of a wildfire burning near Lake Wenatachee. About 100 firefighters from Western Washington were expected to bring much needed relief to Central Washington fire crews as they battled the state's newest wildfire. Slideshow: Fire Burns Near Scores Of ...

• Updated: 12:00 p.m. Monday, Aug. 1, 2005

Woman Dies In Diving Accident

A Yakima woman who disappeared while scuba diving with friends was found dead more than two hours later on Saturday at a popular underwater park in Edmonds. The 44-year-old victim was not identified. She was described as an experienced diver with no known medical problems. Authorities say the woman and ...

• Updated: 9:04 a.m. Monday, Aug. 1, 2005

Crews Contain Fire In Lincoln County

A fire that burned about 5,400 acres in Lincoln County in eastern Washington was declared contained Saturday. The Wall Lake blaze destroyed three hunting cabins and several outbuildings, but no injuries were reported. The fire burned over sagebrush and rangeland and was fanned yesterday by wind gusts and hot temperatures. ...

• Updated: 7:56 a.m. Sunday, July 31, 2005

Three Drown In Cle Elum River

Searchers have recovered the body of a Seattle man who drowned in the Cle Elum River in Kittitas County.The victim was 46-year-old Robert Mack. Kittitas County Undersheriff Clayton Myers says 45-year-old Robert Mack was trying to help a father and daughter who became caught in a whirlpool at the river ...

• Updated: 7:46 a.m. Sunday, July 31, 2005

Kidnapped Girl, Suspect Found

Police have found a 16-year-old kidnapping victim and the man accused in a Federal Way abduction that triggered an Amber Alert, KIRO 7 Eyewitness News reported.The 16-year-old girl is OK, police said. Officers found the two in a Pierce County home after receiving an anonymous tip. Justo F. Lopez, subject ...

• Updated: 12:23 p.m. Friday, July 29, 2005

2 Dead In Apparent Murder-Suicide

Sheriff's deputies are investigating an apparent murder-suicide in Whatcom County that left a young couple dead, KIRO 7 Eyewitness News reported. Renee Di Lorenzo, 18, was shot in the back and Saxson Rech, 20, had a gunshot wound to the head, the Bellingham Herald reported.The two were found by a ...

• Updated: 8:37 a.m. Friday, July 29, 2005

Abduction Victim, Suspect Still Missing

A woman and her daughter who were allegedly abducted by a man in Federal Way Thursday, triggering an Amber Alert, were found safe at a motel in Fife Thursday night, KIRO 7 Eyewitness News reported.Police were looking for the suspect and a 16-year-old girl but the Amber Alert issued Thursday ...

• Updated: 10:01 a.m. Friday, July 29, 2005

White Ford Explorer Wanted In Amber Alert

• Updated: 10:25 p.m. Thursday, July 28, 2005

Amber Alert Issued For 3 Abucted In Federal Way

The Washington State Patrol has issued an Amber Alert in connection with an incident in which troopers said a man abducted his wife, his daughter and a family friend Thursday afternoon. Police are on the scene of the Cove East Apartments in Federal Way. The abduction happened at about 1 ...

• Updated: 10:38 p.m. Thursday, July 28, 2005

Bodies Found In Lynden-Area Home

Police are investigating the discovery of two bodies in a home east of Lynden in Whatcom County.KIRO 7 Eyewitness News North Sound Bureau Chief Anna Velasquez says the bodies are those of a boyfriend and a girlfriend. Police tell Velasquez that the boyfriend died of a gunshot wound. The 18-year-old ...

• Updated: 5:27 p.m. Thursday, July 28, 2005

Driver Sought In Brutal Beating On Capitol Hill

Police are looking for a driver who beat a man in a traffic dispute on Capitol Hill, KIRO 7 Eyewitness News reported.Mick King was critically hurt in the July 16 attack and has been in and out of a coma ever since. King was nearly hit by a car when ...

• Updated: 5:08 p.m. Thursday, July 28, 2005

Local Scientists Take Virtual Voyage Of Discovery

Local scientists are able to explore a world that's new to science -- and they're able to do it from their own lab here in Seattle. Video: Exploring The 'Lost City' KIRO 7 Eyewitness News Reporter Rick Price investigated this virtual voyage of discovery.They call it the Lost City because ...

• Updated: 11:10 a.m. Friday, July 29, 2005

Fundraiser To Be Held For Man Hurt In Hit-And-Run

Coworkers of a Kent man who was hurt in a hit-and-run crash are holding a fundraiser for him this weekend, KIRO 7 Eyewitness News reported.John Hatch, 38, faces months of rehabilitation for spinal cord injuries and nerve damage from the crash.Hatch's 2-year-old son was also injured.Police said the accident was ...

• Updated: 3:16 p.m. Thursday, July 28, 2005

Concert Shooting Leads To Lawsuit

The family of a man shot dead during a summer concert three years ago has filed a wrongful death claim KIRO TV News reported.Leonard Smaldino was shot to death in July of 2002 at the campground next to the Gorge Amphitheatre during the Summer Jam Concert.A representative of Smaldino's estate ...

• Updated: 1:20 p.m. Thursday, July 28, 2005

Soldier Accused Of Possessing Child Porn

Police arrested a Fort Lewis soldier who served in Iraq after his wife allegedly found child pornography on his computer and called authorities, KIRO 7 Eyewitness News reported. Police said Charles Berry had more than 2,000 pornographic images on his computer. Twenty of them were of young children.Investigators said they ...

• Updated: 8:01 a.m. Thursday, July 28, 2005

Residents Forced From Homes By Fire

An apartment fire forced 13 people from their homes early Thursday morning in Seattle's Northgate neighborhood, KIRO 7 Eyewitness News reported.The fire started at 2:30 a.m. in a building in the 110000 block of Third Avenue. One of the residents called 911. "I heard crackling and around the door you ...

• Updated: 12:03 p.m. Thursday, July 28, 2005

Missing Girl Found Safe

Gabriella Mercedes, 17, who was last seen walking away from Stanwood High School on May 11, was reunited with her mother Wednesday at the Lynnwood Police Department. Gabriella Mercedes, Missing, then found Gabriella Mercedes Gabriella Mercedes Police responding to a tip found Mercedes at a Taco Bell at 4919 196th ...

• Updated: 8:50 a.m. Thursday, July 28, 2005

Level 3 Sex Offender On Loose

The Snohomish County Sheriff's Office is asking for the public's help in tracking down a Level 3 sex offender who's failed to register and is believed to have fled the county. Timothy A. McCamey - missing sex offender Timothy A. McCamey Timothy A. McCamey A felony warrant was issued Wednesday ...

• Updated: 4:41 p.m. Wednesday, July 27, 2005

Charges Filed In Blue Ridge Fatal Shooting

A man accused of shooting his roommate at their north Seattle apartment has been charged with first-degree murder.Michael Brian Tooley, 20, will be arraigned Aug. 3 in King County Superior Court.He's accused of beating and stabbing John Gregory Baker, 46, and shooting him five times in the head.Tooley was arrested ...

• Updated: 3:16 p.m. Wednesday, July 27, 2005

Switch Suspected Of Causing SUV Fires

Some of the most popular trucks and SUVs on the road have a part that's suspected of causing hundreds of fires.KIRO 7 Eyewitness News Consumer Investigator Wayne Havrelly says some of those fires burned right here in Western Washington.I've met several people who experienced these fires.They all say what happened ...

• Updated: 10:46 a.m. Thursday, July 28, 2005