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Straight from the KIRO Newsradio newsdesk. Contributors include reporters Sam Campbell, Luke Duecy, Aaron Granillo, Heather Bosch, Matt Markovich, James Lynch, Katrina Guischard, Charlie Harger and more.

Boeing looks for new factory site in South Carolina

Boeing is looking for a new factory site in South Carolina. The size of the new building would be about 220,000 square feet with room to expand.
13 years ago

Memorial service being held in Everett for WSP trooper

A procession of hundreds of police cars is scheduled to travel down Interstate 5 Thursday from the Smokey Point rest area to the public memorial service at Comcast Arena in Everett.
13 years ago

Sea-Tac Airport welcoming 500,000 honeybees

Honeybees are taking flight at Sea-Tac Airport.
13 years ago

Man charged with attempted kidnapping at Race for the Cure

Charges have now been filed against the man who allegedly tried to snatch a 4-year-old boy during Sunday's Race for the Cure in Seattle.
13 years ago

How to express sympathy for family of Molly Conley

The family of a teen shot and killed while walking with friends in Lake Stevens Saturday night has set up memorial funds to honor Molly Conley.
13 years ago

Judge finds JBLM soldier guilty in Afghan massacre

A judge has accepted a Joint-Base Lewis McChord soldier's guilty plea in the Afghan massacre of 16 people and has found him guilty.
13 years ago

Ben & Jerry’s making Seattle-inspired ice cream flavor

What does Seattle taste like? Seattle will be the inspiration for a new ice cream flavor from Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream. The ice cream maker is coming out with signature flavors for five U.S. cities.
13 years ago

5 out-of-town men charged with hate crime on Seattle’s Capitol Hill

King County prosecutors have charged five men with a hate crime after police say they beat a man on Capitol Hill.
13 years ago

‘Tuba Man’ killer sentenced to prison again

One of the men convicted of killing Seattle street musician Ed "Tuba Man" McMichael five years ago has been sentenced to six years in federal prison.
13 years ago

Boeing to move 300 engineering jobs out of Washington

Boeing is creating new design centers in other parts of the country and moving a few hundred Seattle area engineering jobs in the process.
13 years ago

Scandal-ridden Reardon leaves Snohomish County exec office

Friday is the last day on the job for Snohomish County Executive Aaron Reardon.
13 years ago

Small plane crashes into Eatonville home; pilot and passenger escape serious injury

Two men walked away with only minor injuries after their small plane crashed into a house in Eatonville.
13 years ago

Seattle fast food workers strike for more money, right to organize

Fast food workers in Seattle launched walkouts at a number of area restaurants, forcing several to shut down.
13 years ago

JBLM soldier to plead guilty to killing 16 Afghan villagers

The Army staff sergeant charged with slaughtering 16 villagers during one of the worst atrocities of the Afghanistan war has agreed to plead guilty in a deal to avoid the death penalty, his attorney told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
13 years ago

Man dies after being struck, thrown into water by Amtrak train

An Everett police spokesman says an Amtrak train traveling along the city's waterfront hit a pedestrian Tuesday evening, knocking the man into the waters of Possession Sound.
13 years ago

Rescuers free a pony stuck in a 70 foot ravine

Rescue crews spent Tuesday morning trying to free a pony from a 70 foot ravine in Redmond.
13 years ago

Changing marijuana laws & treats may send more kids to ER

The tricks that make marijuana palatable for some medicinal uses might also make it tempting for young kids.
13 years ago

‘I hit the brakes and we went off;’ survivor shares story of I-5 bridge collapse

Three people were pulled from the water of the Skagit River after a section of a bridge over Interstate 5 fell 25 feet into the water.
13 years ago

Commuters in disbelief after I-5 bridge collapses

Hundreds of people lined the banks of the Skagit River Thursday evening to witness three people being rescued after a section of I-5 collapsed.
13 years ago

Seattle schools to bring back full midwinter break

Kids will be overjoyed but some parents won't be pleased, after the Seattle School District announced Thursday midwinter break will be back in full next year.
13 years ago

Seattle City Light warns of scammers threatening to cut off power

Seattle City Light is warning customers of a new scam involving con artists who threaten to cut off your power if you don't pay up.
13 years ago

Tolls to go up on 520 bridge this summer

Beginning in July, it'll cost you more to drive across the 520 bridge.
13 years ago

Seattle woman thinks she’s shot in the leg, actually stabbed herself

"Sometimes crimes solve themselves," Seattle Police noted on their crime blotter Wednesday evening.
13 years ago

Attorney claims feds investigating Susan Cox Powell disappearance

An attorney for Susan Cox Powell's family said Tuesday that there is an active federal investigation into her disappearance.
13 years ago