Gene Johnson

Former Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges stemming from a drunken driving and domestic disturbance last summer, as part of an agreement that spares him further jail time.

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has signed two bills fixing parts of a sweeping package of police reform measures that lawmakers passed last year, in the wake of 2020′s widespread racial justice protests.

A trade group that represents some of the biggest U.S. food companies has agreed to pay $9 million for violations of Washington campaign finance laws, after the state Supreme Court upheld a penalty twice that much.

A woman who torched five Seattle police cars during a tumultuous protest that heralded a summer of unrest after George Floyd's murder in 2020 was sentenced Tuesday to five years in prison.

A metallurgist in Washington state was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison and a $50,000 fine Monday after she spent decades faking the results of strength tests on steel that was being used to make U.S. Navy submarines.

The Washington Supreme Court has narrowly upheld an $18 million fine against an association of large food brands that funneled dark money into a state political campaign. The 5-4 decision found that the penalty against the Grocery Manufacturers Association did not violate the U.S. Constitution’s excessive fines ban.

A Neo-Nazi who helped lead a campaign to threaten journalists and Jewish activists in three states was sentenced Tuesday to seven years in federal prison — the longest prison term handed out to the participants in the conspiracy.

Newly unsealed federal court orders show that a veteran King County sheriff's detective made several false statements in a search warrant application — resulting in a man's false arrest on drug charges. Detective Kathleen Decker was looking for a murder weapon when she obtained a search warrant for the car and apartment of Gizachew Wondie in 2018.

Two artists are facing federal charges that they faked Native American heritage to sell works at downtown Seattle galleries.

A recall vote that ends Tuesday asks whether Kshama Sawant should be removed from the Seattle City Council for a campaign finance violation, her involvement in a protest march to the home of Mayor Jenny Durkan, and her decision to let a crowd of protesters into City Hall during the pandemic. Sawant says the charges are a pretext for commercial real-estate and big business interests to try to remove her from office.