WATCH: Teenager's Miraculous Rescue From Waterfalls
By Gene Johnson, AP/The Huffington Post SEATTLE — Swept down one waterfall and about to plunge over a much larger one, a 13-year-old boy managed ...
By Gene Johnson, AP/The Huffington Post SEATTLE — Swept down one waterfall and about to plunge over a much larger one, a 13-year-old boy managed ...
Katherine Gustafson | Posted 05.14.2012
The meat industry, like much else in U.S. agriculture, has consolidated rapidly over the last half-century. Four giant companies produced 83.5 percent of U.S. beef as of 2007. It is in this context that the mobile slaughterhouse makes local slaughter available and affordable to small farmers.
Michael Russnow | Posted 05.14.2012
Wasn't the purpose of political primaries to take the process out of the hands of big city bosses and to allow the citizenry of each state to choose their nominees?
The Huffington Post | Melissa Jeltsen | Posted 04.26.2012
Republican gubernatorial candidate Rob McKenna lashed out at a constituent on Tuesday, telling the young woman to "go get a job" in response to a ques...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ariel Edwards-Levy | Posted 04.24.2012
WASHINGTON -- As many states debate and pass new restrictions on abortion, often against increasing resistance, a small number of others are consideri...
Posted 04.05.2012
In 2001, an 11-year-old girl told a judge that her father raped her, sending the man to prison for nine years. Today, she admits that she lied. Now...
The Huffington Post | Jeffrey Young | Posted 04.03.2012
In Pennsylvania, the struggle to keep up with the demand for health care among the state's poor residents means that nearly 90,000 children are losing...
The Huffington Post | Khristopher Brooks | Posted 03.27.2012
A group of public school employees in Washington state are outraged by the racially insensitive remarks they said their superintendent has made in the...
AP | DONNA BLANKINSHIP and DOUG ESSER | Posted 03.16.2012
SEATTLE -- A toddler shoots himself to death with his father's gun. A young girl dies when a sibling fires a gun found in the family car. A school gir...
AP | DOUG ESSER | Posted 05.15.2012
SEATTLE — A prosecutor said he will try to stretch the law to go after a Bremerton woman and her boyfriend who are accused of having a role in a...
Ryann Blackshere | Posted 05.14.2012
College students excitedly anticipate opening their mailboxes to find care packages filled with food, school supplies, and other college essentials sent from mom and dad. But for students who grew up in foster care, the care packages don't often come.
AP | GENE JOHNSON | Posted 05.11.2012
SEATTLE — The U.S. Coast Guard suspended its search Sunday for four men missing from a fishing trawler off the Washington coast, saying it's unl...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.10.2012
Congressman Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) will announce on Saturday that he is resigning from Congress to devote time to his run for governor, a Democratic sou...
The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 03.08.2012
A million-dollar embezzlement case in Seattle could land Bank of America in hot water. Joseph Phan, a former Seattle Public Utilities employee, is ...
Rick Steves | Posted 05.07.2012
In the men's room, a religious flier, propped on the sink as if waiting for me, asks the important question: "Where will you spend eternity?"
Rick Steves | Posted 05.06.2012
I'm kicking this 20-day, 20-city tour off with a stop in probably the most conservative corner of my state: the Tri-Cities.
AP | Posted 03.02.2012
SEATTLE -- Washington voters have approved all but five school levies on the ballot this winter. They voted in favor of 152 school levies, for a tota...
AP | MANUEL VALDES | Posted 04.25.2012
SEATTLE — Prosecutors are expecting the police investigation into a shooting at a Washington elementary school to include a harder look into wha...
AP | GENE JOHNSON and DOUG ESSER | Posted 04.24.2012
PORT ORCHARD, Wash. — A Washington State Patrol trooper was gunned down at a traffic stop early Thursday, and the suspect – an ex-con with...
AP | MANUEL VALDES and GENE JOHNSON | Posted 04.24.2012
PORT ORCHARD, Wash. — Crying and wearing an orange jail jumpsuit, a frightened 9-year-old boy accused of accidentally shooting a classmate sat b...
AP | GENE JOHNSON | Posted 04.23.2012
TACOMA, Wash. — Washington state cannot force pharmacies to sell Plan B or other emergency contraceptives, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, sayi...
AP | MANUEL VALDES | Posted 04.20.2012
STEVENS PASS, Wash. — Three skiers were killed Sunday when an avalanche swept them about a quarter-mile down an out-of-bounds canyon at a popula...
AP | By JONATHAN J. COOPER | Posted 04.18.2012
By JONATHAN A. COOPER, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS VANCOUVER, Wash. -- Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul decried the "war on drugs" Thursday nigh...
Christine Pelosi | Posted 04.16.2012
Marriage equality is a personal one for me because I chaired the California Democratic Party Platform Committee that adopted marriage equality in 2006 just days before my first date with my husband.
Posted 02.13.2012
Washington became the seventh U.S. state to acknowledge same-sex marriage when Gov. Chris Gregoire signed voter-approved legislation into law today. ...
Posted 05.22.2012