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Cleanup after Washington landslide moves forward with effort to save stranded fish

A gigantic landslide that buried a highway, uprooted homes and rerouted a river in Washington state's Cascade Range left hundreds of smaller victims: fish.

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Related Topix: Landslide

Thu Nov 19, 2009

Yakima Herald-Republic

NEW Wapato man is Yakima County's 19th homicide this year

WAPATO, Wash. -- A 55-year-old Wapato man was found fatally shot in his car at a rural intersection southeast of Wapato.

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Related Topix: Wapato, WA

Yakima Herald-Republic

Yakima County pageant contestants face Dec. 31 deadline

The Miss Yakima County and Yakima County's Outstanding Teen pageants are seeking contestants through the end of the year.

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Related Topix: Yakima Metro, Yakima, WA

Wed Nov 18, 2009

KIMA

Census Jobs Coming to Yakima County

The Eastern Washington 2010 Census Office is offering something that Yakima desperately needs right now, jobs.

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Related Topix: Yakima Metro, Yakima, WA, Richland Metro

KIMA

Scrap Yards Fight Metal Theft

With metal theft on the rise, local scrap yards are scrutinizing a lot more of the things being brought in.

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Related Topix: Yakima Metro, Yakima, WA

Mon Nov 16, 2009

The Seattle Times

Waiting guards catch intruder at Yakima school

Because of thefts from remodeling work at the old West Valley High School building at Yakima, security guards were hired to spend the night.

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Sun Nov 15, 2009

KOMO News

Traffic offenses top charge for Yakima noncitizens

The Yakima County jail echoes with slamming steel doors and yelling prisoners as a federal agent sits down behind a computer with a list of inmates to interview.

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Related Topix: Prison, Immigration Reform, Criminal Defense Law, Law, US News, Illegal Immigration

KNDO - Yakima

Federal Aid request for landslide victims

Governor Gegoire is making a request for Federal Ad to help businesses affected by last month's landslide.

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Sat Nov 14, 2009

KNDO

2 Yakima County election races still undecided

After more than a week of counting, 2 of Yakima County's election races are still undecided.

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Related Topix: Selah, WA, Sunnyside, WA

Fri Nov 13, 2009

KNDO

No more seasonal flu vaccine in Yakima County

If you haven't received your seasonal flu shot yet, it might be too late. Employees at the Yakima County Health District say all supplies of the seasonal flu vaccine have been exhausted.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Influenza, H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Yakima, WA

Thu Nov 12, 2009

Appeal Tribune

Yakima sheriff: 3 people suspected in graveyard robbery

Yakima County sheriff's deputies are looking for three people suspected in robbing a cemetery of 217 brass vases worth around $106,000. The Yakima Herald-Republic reports the three people attempted to sell what looked like destroyed vases to a local junk yard.

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KHQ-TV Spokane

Brass vases stolen from Yakima cemetery

The Yakima County Sheriff's Office is searching for three suspects after a large number of brass vases were stolen from a cemetery.

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Related Topix: Yakima, WA

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Selah woman, 63, adopting 4-year-old foster child

When Mark came into Rosemary Luce's life a few years ago as a foster child, he didn't talk.

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Related Topix: Selah, WA, Yakima, WA, Parenting

KIMA

County Courts Plan To Give Aid To Drunk Drivers, Not Just Time

Drunk drivers has cops busy all over Yakima County. It has the courts even busier, and it seems like the same faces keep coming back.

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Wed Nov 11, 2009

Yakima Herald-Republic

Former Wapato teacher found guilty on lesser charges of child rape

A jury found a former Wapato teacher accused of raping one of his fifth-grade students not guilty Thursday on the three of five sex charges.

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Related Topix: Wapato, WA, Yakima Metro, Yakima, WA

Tue Nov 10, 2009

KNDO-TV

Suspect arrested for assault with firearm

Sunnyside Police and the Yakima County Violent Crimes Task Force arrest 20-year-old Ramon Verduzco in connection with an assault that happened on November 4th.

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Related Topix: Sunnyside, WA

Mon Nov 09, 2009

KNDO

People in Yakima have mixed feelings over health care reform

YAKIMA, Wash.- For many house members, this weekend was an exciting step forward.

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Related Topix: Yakima Metro, Yakima, WA, Health Insurance, Health

KGW-TV Portland

Nile home was where landslide wanted to go

Steve Smith will never forget the sound. Standing behind his house at the bottom of a steep slope, he heard muffled thunder and cracking in the hillside.

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Related Topix: Landslide, Yakima Metro, Yakima, WA, Naches, WA

Sun Nov 08, 2009

KNDO - Yakima

Commissioners seeking disaster declaration for Nile Valley

Yakima County commissioners are seeking state and federal assistance to help pay for damage caused by the Nile Valley landslide.

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Related Topix: Christine Gregoire, US Governors

Sat Nov 07, 2009

Yakima Herald-Republic

NEW Grandview woman killed in I-82 head-on collision

PROSSER, Wash. - A 20-year-old Grandview woman was killed in an accident on Interstate 82 near Prosser early this morning when a pickup crossed over into the wrong lane of traffic and drove into her car.

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Related Topix: Prosser, WA, Grandview, WA, Sunnyside, WA

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