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YAKIMA, Wash.
WA medical school celebrates opening
- A new Pacific Northwest medical school celebrated its opening Wednesday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the College of Osteopathic Medicine, which plans to send primary care doctors to serve in rural and low-income areas in a five-state region.
Authorities close to ID on canal shooting victim
- Yakima County investigators say they are close to identifying a woman found dead of a shotgun blast to her torso.
Manhattan Project reactor nears landmark status
- The National Park Service's advisory board on Tuesday recommended designating the world's first full-scale nuclear reactor, which produced plutonium for one of two bombs dropped on Japan during World War II, as a national historic landmark.
Hanford reactor closer to historic landmark status
- The National Park Service's advisory board has recommended designating the world's first full-scale nuclear reactor, which produced plutonium for one of two bombs dropped on Japan during World War II, as a National Historic Landmark.
Body recovered from WA's Yakima River
- A man's body was recovered from the Yakima River after boaters saw it trapped near a log.
WA biologists capture two wolves
- Washington state Fish and Wildlife biologists and wolf experts from Idaho captured what they believe are two wolves Friday in western Okanogan County, a development that could confirm the first wolf pack in Washington since the animals were eradicated decades ago.
AP Newsbreak: WA biologists capture two wolves
- Biologists say they have captured two wolves in western Okanogan County and fitted both with radio collars to track their movements and learn more about them.
Man caught at border arraigned in Yakima killing
- A man who was arrested entering the country from Mexico has been arraigned in a gang killing in Yakima in 2001.
Delta to discontinue service at Yakima WA
- Delta Air Lines plans to discontinue SkyWest Airlines flights between Yakima and Salt Lake City, effective Aug. 31.
Woman shot to death in Yakima, son-in-law sought
- A woman has been shot to death in Yakima, and her son-in-law is being sought for investigation of first-degree murder.
Toppenish man charged in shooting death
- A 25-year-old Toppenish man, accused of fatally shooting another man in an apparent dispute over a woman they both had dated, has been charged with second-degree murder.
Feds require new pesticide measures
- Federal regulators will require new measures to protect agricultural workers from five pesticides, including two widely used in the Northwest potato industry, but are allowing continued use of another that is widely banned under international treaty.
Alabama rape suspect ordered held without bail
- A federal judge has ordered detention without bail for a man accused of driving cross country to have sex with a Boise, Idaho, teenager.