King County News

A Mercer Island social worker's license was suspended this week after allegations of sexual misconduct involving a 15-year-old autistic boy he was counseling.

A 7,390-square-foot waterfront home on Mercer Island that was last valued by the King County assessor at $5 million has been nearly destroyed by fire.

Baerbel Roznowski was planning to sell her Federal Way house, get away from her longtime boyfriend and move to the Los Angeles area this summer to be close to her daughters.

A severe thunderstorm moved through the Eastside along the I-405 corridor Thursday morning, sweeping the region from Renton to Monroe with lightning, hail, strong winds and heavy rains.

This is the view from the back of the apartment building at 429 S.W. 155th St. in Burien, where three people were killed in an early-morning fire.

Investigators said the fire that destroyed the Ames Lake home of Eighth Congressional District candidate Darcy Burner was caused by a malfunctioning electrical device, according to Sgt.

I guess if Oklahoma is going to take Seattle's basketball team, it only figures we take some of their weather in return... A series of strong to severe thunderstorms rolled through the Puget Sound region ...

This report just in from P-I Legal Affairs Reporter Tracy Johnson : A staff member of a state juvenile detention center was charged Wednesday with first-degree custodial sexual misconduct amid allegations that ...

A 45-year-old man has received his ninth drunken driving conviction, a conviction that could send him to prison for six years.

After an evening of drinking, partying and celebrating the completion of a construction job, Alberto C. Rios went to sleep with his 7-month-old son on his chest next to his backyard fire pit, Federal Way police ...

Federal investigators were back in Burien Monday to search for the cause of the fire that killed three people, left 50 others homeless and damaged three buildings.

King County prosecutors this year already have filed as many homicide cases as they did for all of 2007.

In a bizarre twist, the woman accused of killing six members of her family in Carnation on Christmas Eve defied a judge's order and called a Seattle television station Wednesday from jail, confessed to the ...

The fire that raced through two Burien apartment complexes, killing three people early Sunday morning, was intentionally set, officials said Monday.

The King County sheriff's office said the Burien apartment fire that killed three people was arson.

A team from the King County Fire Investigation Unit will return Monday morning to the site of Burien's deadly weekend fire, working to find out what started the swiftly-moving blaze.

Three people were killed and six injured after a raging three-alarm fire swept through a Burien apartment complex early Sunday, fire officials said.

A 5-year-old boy is in critical condition after falling 12 feet out of a window onto concrete in the King County town of Baring in the Cascade Mountains.

The FBI is investigating three bank robberies Monday in King County. The same man committed two of them.

A disturbance at a Seattle casino may have led to a 22-year-old Renton man being struck and killed as he walked in the roadway in the Boulevard Park neighborhood of unincorporated King County Wednesday night, ...