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A Bellevue high-school teacher accused of having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old student was arrested last week, police said Friday. The 33-year-old teacher was arrested Nov. 7 after the Bellevue Police Department received a complaint the day before alleging that he’d engaged in a sexual relationship with a female student, the department said. He was…

The Bellevue Police Department is seeking the public’s help in locating a Bellevue man who has not been seen since late September. Michael W. Bennett, 44, who lives in Bellevue’s Newport Hills neighborhood, was last seen on Sept. 26, police said. His father reported him missing on Oct. 11, after he did not show up…

The woman who made assault and property-damage allegations against Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch in August has been charged with making a false statement to a public servant. Jammie Lynn Ficarelli, 31, of Everett, was charged Thursday in King County District Court, according to the Bellevue City Attorney’s Office. Ficarelli alleged that Lynch had assaulted her…

UPDATE, 6:30 a.m. | The suspected shoplifter allegedly hit the employee with a bottle before the employee stabbed the suspected shoplifter, according to a Bellevue police tweet. ORIGINAL POST |  Police say a grocery store employee stabbed a shoplifting suspect in a confrontation Wednesday night in Bellevue. Police say the employee confronted the 37-year-old suspect inside a…

A pedestrian was critically injured after she was hit by a car that initially stopped but then drove off in Bellevue on Wednesday afternoon, police said. The woman was crossing the street at Coal Creek Parkway and Forest Drive when she was struck by a Porsche Cayenne, according to the Bellevue Police Department. She was taken…

About 100 fast-food workers and supporters rallied at an overlook park above Interstate 90 over the noon hour Wednesday as part of an effort to bring the fight for a $15 an hour minimum wage from Seattle to Bellevue. The group was heading across Lake Washington on the I-90 bridge in early afternoon, with plans to…

A 38-year-old man was charged Wednesday with second-degree murder in connection with the fatal stabbing of another man at a Bellevue Burger King on Sunday Prosecutors allege in court documents that Steven Padilla walked up and started stabbing Jose Arias, 65, with a 10-inch knife for apparently no reason. Arias, who appeared to be sleeping when he…

The 65-year-old man who was fatally stabbed inside a Bellevue Burger King on Sunday afternoon appeared to be sleeping when he was attacked, according to court documents. The alleged assailant, a 38-year-old homeless man, is being held in King County Jail on investigation of first-degree murder. King County prosecutors said the suspect will have a bond hearing…

A man was stabbed to death at a fast-food restaurant in Bellevue Sunday afternoon. Bellevue police say they have a suspect in custody. The suspect, 38, was found at a grocery store, KING 5 reported. The stabbing occurred at the Burger King in the 14600 block of Northeast 24th Street. The victim staggered out of the restaurant and collapsed with…

A man who had pleaded guilty to bludgeoning his 72-year-old aunt to death during a relapse on drugs was sentenced Friday to 27 1/2  years in prison. The decades Mark Irwin will serve for second-degree murder come despite an appeal from his sister and brother-in-law, who asked King County Superior Court Judge Roger Rogoff for the shortest…