A bomb squad robot has blown up a backpack dropped out of a truck near the emergency room at St. Josephs Medical Center in Tacoma.

A whale-watching boat with 80 passengers on board has run aground just north of Lopez Island -- and the Coast Guard and several other vessels in the area have come to the rescue.

A gasoline tanker explosion has forced the shutdown of an interstate highway in suburban Detroit.

Detectives in Kitsap County have released a sketch of a man believed to have been murdered -- hoping it will trigger someone's memory and help them find the killer.

What a difference a day makes.

Keeping you safe on the new "Central Link" light rail system is the goal of the Sound Transit Police.

WASHINGTON (AP) - A chaotic scene unfolded near the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday after police shot and killed an armed man in what authorities described as a routine rush hour traffic stop thatturned deadly.

The mother of the missing McCleary girl says the Amber Alert system needs to be changed.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A Russian-made jetliner carrying 168 people nose-dived into a field after taking off from the Iranian capital on Wednesday in a fiery crash that shredded the aircraft and killed everyone aboard — Iran's worst air disaster in six years. Witnesses say the plane's tail was on fire before it went down.

Firefighters fully contained a brush fire on Wednesday off of Highway 410 between Sumner and Bonney Lake.