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Lyle Mitchell Corbine is the new chief executive and general manager of the Little Creek Casino Resort, the Squaxin Island Tribal Council announced Friday.
The director of the Lindsey Baum Search Center says volunteers are needed to search for the missing McCleary girl, noting that winter weather soon will halt ground searches.
Olympia police served a search warrant Thursday night at a home in Rochester but weren't able to find Robert J. Maddaus, who is suspected of shooting a man Monday morning.
Tim Eyman lost a round in court Friday over his effort to make state elections officials answer questions about their policy for making initiative-signers' names public.
TUMWATER - Two ordinances aimed at preserving affordable housing for mobile home park residents in Tumwater are headed for an extensive legal fight, with park owners claiming they're unfairly burdened and residents saying they need protection.
An Olympia man with a history that a prosecutor called "horrendous" was sentenced to more than 50 years in prison this week for his leadership of a cocaine ring and for arranging the murder of a police informant.
OLYMPIA - The Port of Olympia must pay about $56,000 in legal fees and costs to activists who sued for records related to a contractual agreement to bring Weyerhaeuser's log-export business here a few years ago, a judge ruled Friday.
An Olympia man with a history that a prosecutor called “horrendous” was sentenced to more than 50 years in prison this week for his leadership in a cocaine ring and arranging the murder of a police informant.
Five residents testified Thursday during a public hearing about the city's proposed 2010 budget.
An additional $760 million in hoped-for state revenue evaporated in the latest economic forecast, and lawmakers began talking up the pros and cons of tax increases to help plug a budget shortfall now estimated at $2.7 billion.
Federal prosecutors in Philadelphia have charged a Tumwater man and two others with diverting traffic from the Web site of telecom giant Comcast last year.
OLYMPIA - Olympia police are looking for Robert J. Maddaus, 40, who is wanted on suspicion of firing the gunshots that killed a man whose body was found early Monday morning on Capitol Way.
• Olympia police seek 3 in connection with shooting
• Olympia police find car they sought in shooting
• Man killed near Capitol
Renewed heavy rains and strong damaging winds were expected to blow through South Sound before relenting this morning, the National Weather Service predicted Thursday night.
OLYMPIA - An Olympia man was sentenced to life in prison under the state's "three strikes" law Thursday for raping and assaulting a woman who offered him a ride home April 12.
OLYMPIA - Thurston County Superior Court Judge Chris Wickham's penstroke Thursday made it official: Tamara and Ross Paddock had a new daughter, 2-year-old Alex Paddock.