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A man has sued the Mormon church and the Boy Scouts, claiming he and many other boys were abused by a church-sponsored assistant scoutmaster in the late 1970s.

Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., is one of the big question marks among Senate Democrats on the health care reform bill.

It was the bow that launched a thousand blog posts. But while conservative commentators complained that President Obama should not have bowed to Japanese Emperor Akihito last week during his inaugural presidential trip to Asia, experts on protocol say the president's real faux pas came when he combined the bow with a handshake, a breach of Japanese ...

Another strong Pacific storm has brought high winds to the Washington coast and northwest interior of the state, with accompanying power outages.

In Section: NY comPRESSed >> Posted In: Sex And Relationships , Culture This morning's Washington Post examines the horrifying rash of "drive-by porning" incidents that are plaguing that city's subways, highways and even the airplanes flying overhead.

A retired State Department worker and his wife accused of a decades-long plot to spy for Cuba pleaded guilty Friday in a deal that will leave him behind bars for the rest of his life but gives her a chance at freedom in six years.

Now that voters have rejected I-1033, the spending limit initiative, the talk in Olympia has turned to raising taxes.

As utilities completed repairs Thursday to the latest wind-caused power outages in Western Washington, forecasters said the breezy wet weather would continue with snow in the mountains and parts of Eastern Washington .

Washington's insurance commissioner says unpaid medical bills in the state will cost about $1 billion a year by 2011.

Published on Thu, Nov 19, 2009 by Belinda D. Stewart, Communications Director Read More County & State The Department of Corrections has agreed to pay $4 million to a former offender who sustained permanent, severely disabling injuries when he was assaulted by his cellmate at Washington Corrections Center near Shelton in 2006.

When President Barack Obama met with Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu over coffee and sweets in his private presidential dining room off the Oval Office last week, a solemn Civil War-era painting featuring Abraham Lincoln deliberating with his generals hung above their evening tete-a-tete, as seen in an official photograph of the meeting the White House ...

A senior Afghan official allegedly took a $20 million bribe to steer a copper mining project to a Chinese company, a glaring example of the claims of corruption clouding the Obama administration's deliberations over expanding the U.S. commitment in Afghanistan.

The National Weather Service says another strong Pacific storm will hit Washington Wednesday night and Thursday.

A man who killed six people, including a sheriff's deputy, in a northwest Washington shooting rampage last year pleaded guilty Tuesday and will spend the rest of his life in a mental hospital or prison.

A man who killed six people, including a sheriff's deputy, in a northwest Washington shooting rampage last year pleaded guilty Tuesday and will spend the rest of his life in a mental hospital or prison.Isaac Zamora entered the pleas to 18 charges, including aggravated murder, attempted murder and burglary, after prosecutor Rich Weyrich agreed he ...

A storm that blew through Western Washington overnight knocked out power to thousands of people, but winds were easing Tuesday morning and crews were quickly restoring electricity.

Granite Falls residents are suspicious of any newcomers, let alone a Muslim native of Pakistan who moved to this rugged, blue-collar mining town to open his own bar.

Premature birth rates in the Pacific Northwest are among the lowest in the nation, but the March of Dimes says that only earns Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska C's on the organization's premature birth report card.

U.S. President Barack Obama, left, bows as he is greeted by Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, not pictured, as he arrives at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, Saturday, Nov.

The National Weather Service is warning of possible damaging 40 mph winds with gusts to 60 on Monday night and Tuesday morning from the Washington coast, through the Strait of Juan de Fuca and into Whatcom and Skagit counties.