Local News

Four people were arrested after a high-speed chase resulted in a crash that snarled northbound Interstate 5 traffic near the Highway 599 exit for two hours Thursday evening. Tukwila police officers were dispatched to the Southcenter mall about 6:30 p.m. after witnesses reported seeing five males break a car window in a parking lot and then flee….

A guest was arrested at an America’s Best Value Inn in Tukwila when a maid discovered and reported a drug lab in the person’s room Friday afternoon, according to a news release. Police and HAZMAT teams evacuated the motel, in the 14800 block of Interurban Avenue South, secured the area and determined that no one had been injured…

An 18-year-old man charged with killing a teenage girl a year ago because he “felt an urge to hurt someone” pleaded guilty Tuesday to second-degree murder with a deadly weapon. Kolby Clark faces a sentencing range of 12-20 years when he is sentenced on April 12. Prosecutors plan to ask that he receive a sentence…

Tukwila police are searching for a gunman and others inside a vehicle involved in a shooting this morning. Police said that a 24-year-old Kent man was in the front passenger seat of a car in the 14600 block of Tukwila International Boulevard just after 1:30 a.m. when a burgundy-colored Chrysler, occupied by four men and a woman,…

Tukwila police found a man with a gunshot wound inside a taxi traveling on Highway 518 Thursday afternoon. He had been shot and received a “superficial wound” during an altercation in Tukwila, and then after he left by taxicab, a witness phoned police with the vehicle number, said Mike Murphy, police spokesman.  No information is available yet…

There is not points to locate on the map Tukwila police are investigating the death of a 31-year-old man who was found in his backyard last night. A relative of the man, who lives in the  11600 block of 44th Avenue South, dialed 911 to report that he had collapsed in the yard, said police spokesman Mike…