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By Dee Riggs The Wenatchee World WENATCHEE — A forensic anthropologist with the King County Medical Examiner’s Office will be assisting Chelan County in trying to determine whose bodies were found this past week in two different locations of Chelan County. On Sunday, two people driving on a Forest Service road to scout for the upcoming hunting season…

Update | 8:08 p.m.: Seattle police detectives arrested a man Saturday who is under investigation in the deaths of a man and woman found with similar head injuries, within blocks of each other in the area of the Duwamish Waterway. Detectives served a search warrant at a home in the 700 block of South Southern Street as…

Update| 9:40 p.m.: This post has been corrected to say the body was found at Pier 90, not Pier 89 as earlier indicated. A male body has been found at at Seattle’s Pier 90 in Interbay. Port of Seattle spokesman Peter McGraw said someone from a nearby business noticed the body on the rocks at the north…

The body of a Seattle woman was found floating in the water near the Edmonds marina this morning, according to Edmonds police. Authorities were called shortly before 6 a.m. to the marina’s L dock, where they found the woman and pulled her from the water. She was already dead, police said. The most recent address for the woman,…

CENTRALIA (AP) — The Lewis County sheriff’s office says a man walking his dog stumbled upon human skeletal remains outside of Centralia in a wooded area. The remains were found Friday evening. Search teams canvassed the area on Saturday. Authorities say the area where the remains were found is close to the roadway and it’s owned…

King County sheriff’s deputies are investigating the discovery of human remains on Vashon Island. Sgt. Cindi West said that investigators believe the body discovered around 1 p.m. on Saturday are that of a 27-year-old woman last seen on Tuesday. The woman’s father reported her missing around 8:30 p.m. on Friday. The body was found in the 16000 block…

The discovery of a woman’s body in a South Everett restaurant parking lot is being investigated as a homicide, the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office said Saturday morning. Authorities provided no information about the woman’s age, identity or how she may have died. The sheriff’s major crimes unit is probing the death of the woman, whose body was…

Pierce County officials are “99 percent” certain a body recovered from the Puyallup River today  is 29-year-old Josh McNamara, who was swept away while floating the river on an inner tube last month. “We’ve notified the family,” said Ed Troyer, spokesman for the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office. The body was spotted this morning by fishermen, near…

Weather:  Cloudy with sun breaks today. Yeah, right. But tomorrow, ah, tomorrow. Mostly cloudy (aka, mostly sunny), no rain and a high of 66 degrees. Why are the high temperature forecasts on our weather chart always lower than the forecasts by everyone else? Time to check those other forecasts for their high…

Two Tacoma teenagers are in jail on suspicion of first-degree murder after their mother reported finding a body in her home on Friday. The mother went to police after finding the body at about 4 p.m., according to The News Tribune. When the woman returned with police, the body was gone, but police found it in…