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Authorities have arrested a 17-year-old boy in the death of 6-year-old Bremerton girl Jenise Wright. The teenager, who was not named, will be booked on investigation of second-degree murder, first-degree manslaughter and child rape, said detective Lt. Earl Smith of the Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office during an afternoon press conference Saturday. Smith said the suspect was arrested earlier in…

Aaron Rey Ybarra, shown at court today wearing a jail-issued suicide smock. (Photo by Greg Gilbert / The Seattle Times) Aaron Rey Ybarra, the 26-year-old suspect in the shootings that left one man dead at Seattle Pacific University on Thursday, called 911 in a rage in 2010, saying he “wanted to hurt himself and others,” according…

A diver from Marysville has died at a popular Edmonds scuba park. Crew members from a nearby ferry spotted the diver floating in the water around noon today and sent one of their rescue boats to bring the diver ashore, said Leslie Hynes, a spokeswoman at Snohomish County Fire District 1. Firefighters met them at the…

Give these guys a C++ for effort. Game developers in Seattle have surpassed their Kickstarter goal, raising enough money to produce a 2015 calendar featuring pinup photos of “game development’s most hunky men.” It’s like a calendar of firemen, except with more beards than brawn. The idea for the calendar comes from Seattle-based independent video game studio…

Police officers know the rules to enforce — and the ones that don’t apply to them. A local resident questioned the Bellevue Police Department on Friday night after seeing an officer talking on a cellphone while driving. In a Twitter post, the person suggested an officer was breaking the state law that restricts cellphone use in vehicles. The…

Detectives have made an arrest in connection with the case earlier this week of a man pushing a shopping cart with a body in it through a South Seattle neighborhood. Authorities said a man, 46, was arrested at 8:20 p.m. Friday, and booked for investigation of murder and for an outstanding felony warrant from another…

A 24-year-old Seattle woman has been arrested after an overnight stabbing in Renton. The Renton Police Department said in a statement today that they responded to the 200 block of Rainier Avenue North about 1:45 a.m., finding a 30-year-old man with a “deep” stab wound in his stomach. Officers quickly made contact with the woman nearby and…

Timber companies that want to harvest near potentially dangerous landslide areas will now have to conduct geologic reviews before getting a logging permit from the state, officials said Friday. Under the new procedures announced by Commissioner of Public Lands Peter Goldmark, the state will require a geotechnical report when there’s a potential risk to public safety…

Washington state logging regulators have canceled a timber sale near the Highway 530 mudslide, saying they want to take another look at the plan. The 188-acre sale of timber from state land, about five miles from the slide, had been reviewed by the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and was scheduled for auction next week. The…

Ray Tungate doesn’t plan to leave his home despite the threat of possible flooding due to the Oso mudslide. “If I make it out, I make it out.” Photo by Mike Baker/The Seattle Times OSO, Snohomish County — Ray Tungate, 63, has no plans on leaving the home where he’s lived since 1979, even though it…