All lanes are open now, but an 8-mile backup has been reported on northbound I-5 at State Route 516 near Des Moines, due to an earlier accident. Find alternate routes. The accident occurred in the southbound lanes, but required repairs to the median, that blocked lanes in both directions for a period of time. At around 2:30…

Gov. Jay Inslee announced Friday the appointment of Veronica Alicea Galván to the King County Superior Court bench. Galván is a former Assistant City Attorney for the city of Seattle who currently presides over the Des Moines Municipal Court and operates a dual-language courtroom that allows cases to be heard in Spanish. She earned her law…

The man who was fatally shot in the front yard of a Des Moines home last week has been identified by the King County Medical Examiner as Robert H. Ward. Ward, 44, died of a single gunshot wound to the torso, the medical examiner’s office determined. According to police, Ward was among a number of people at a…

  Updated at 3:25 p.m.: Des Moines Memorial Drive between S. 200 Street and S. 202 Street was still closed at 3 p.m. and police said they did not expect it to reopen until around 6 p.m. Updated at 12:03 p.m.: Des Moines police confirmed the man shot Wednesday morning has died. Police are still trying to…

A fire broke out on the roof of a minimum security jail early Tuesday in Des Moines. KIRO reports the fire did not get inside the jail known as SCORE or the South Correctional Entity. It holds up to 800 misdemeanor inmates for south King County cities. Deputy Director Jim Kelly says inmates were moved to areas…

An explosion in Des Moines leveled a house and sent a man to the hospital on Friday evening. Police responded to multiple reports of a house explosion in the 2000 block of South 232nd Street around 7 p.m. and found that the house had collapsed, Des Moines Police Department spokesman Sgt. Doug Jenkins said. A…

Now here’s some news to our liking: President Obama is scheduled to present the Medal of Honor to a Seattle native who saved a fellow soldier’s life and secured the evacuation of other wounded Americans under continued fire during an ambush in Afghanistan in 2007. Kyle J. White, 27, will be the seventh…

A man was shot when occupants of two different vehicles started shooting at each other in Des Moines this evening, according to the Des Moines Police Department. Officers responded to reports of numerous shots fired in the area of South 218th Street and 29th Avenue South around 7 p.m. and located a 28-year-old male who had…

A foreign student who crashed his newly purchased Mercedes-Benz into another car, killing its driver and injuring three people, was sentenced to 17½ months in prison on Friday. Yichun Xu, 20, pleaded guilty in February to vehicular homicide and three counts of reckless endangerment for a Nov. 10, 2012, crash in Des Moines that killed a…

A man in a dress was caught taking photos in the women’s restroom at the Des Moines Library. Police say a victim knocked the phone out of his hand Thursday evening and chased him out of the restroom. KOMO reports that the man fled and shed his skirt, but officers tracked him down.