Snohomish County News

Their mission is literacy. They fund it through book sales. The nonprofit group called Friends of the Mill Creek Library wants people to read, especially children.

After a manhunt that began with a car chase, Snohomish County, Wash., sheriff's officers have arrested a 22-year-old man sought on a warrant.

UPDATE at 9:06 P.M. Deputies have arrested wanted felon Vincent Nutter after several hours of pursuit, the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office announced via Twitter.

An Everett father claims he's waited two years for his landlord to clean up a bed-bug infestation that's made his young daughter sick.

Tami Dutton, the woman who claimed she had an on-and-off six-year affair with Snohomish County Executive Aaron Reardon, appeared before a district court judge in Everett Friday following her arrest Thursday for fourth-degree assault.

Byron Scherf was sentenced to death for killing a corrections officer at the Washington State Reformatory, but he will face the same security measures as the other eight death row inmates at the state penitentiary at Walla Walla, a Department of Corrections spokesman said.

Lisa Hamm, center, sister of slain Monroe corrections officer Jayme Biendl, reacts after a Snohomish County jury decided to recommend the death penalty for Biendl's killer, Byron Scherf.

YMCA's Invest in Youth hits $1.2 million mark YMCA of Snohomish County has raised more than $1.2 million during its 2013 Invest in Youth campaign, 8 percent more than last year and exceeding its goals.

The Everett Mayor's Youth Council plans to host the 2013 annual Washington State Youth Leadership Summit from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Everett Station, 3201 Smith Ave., downtown Everett.

A woman whose dogs were depicted in a graphic dog fight video has finally been charged with animal cruelty .

Late on Wednesday, May 15, the Edmonds, Wash. Police arrested a man in connection to an animal cruelty case that has been largely driven by social media.

The three Edmonds City Council members whose terms expire this year all had filed to run in the coming election, as online and in-person filing opened Monday.

On Tuesday, May 14, animal organization Pasado's Safe Haven stated that all of the dogs belonging to an Edmonds, Wash.

A Good Samaritan's brave act - caught on tape and posted on Facebook - revealed a backyard dog fight and potentially saved an animal 's life.

Washington has one of the highest seat belt use rates in the country due in large part to its highly visible "Click It or Ticket" campaign, which includes publicity, extra enforcement and signage.

A Snohomish County jury is expected to continue deliberating Wednesday whether the inmate who killed corrections officer Jayme Biendl deserves to live or die.

A frail 62-year-old man spent two days being held hostage and threatened at knifepoint by his son and was only able to escape by pretending he needed to buy milk for his wife's in-home daycare, according to the Lynnwood Police Department.

Students at Fryelands Elementary welcomed new families to their community after a school-wide drive to purchase toys and games for the children's room at Housing Hope's Woods Creek Village.

The same jury that convicted a Monroe Reformatory inmate of aggravated murder for strangling a prison guard finished listening to arguments Tuesday in the penalty stage of the trial and were deliberating whether Byron Scherf will be executed.

Human rights vigil The Snohomish County Commission on Human Rights is hosting a May 29 vigil honoring Brisenia and Raul Flores, the 9-year-old Arizona girl and her father murdered in 2009 by an anti-immigrant activist from Everett.