Washington

About 85% of the aircraft was recovered from the ocean floor several weeks after the crash

A pair of front-row balcony tickets to Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865 — the night President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth — has sold at auction for $262,500.

A 96-year-old U.S. federal appeals court judge has been barred from hearing cases for a year after a judicial panel said she refused to undergo medical testing over concerns she’s no longer mentally fit to serve on the bench.

A Seattle police oversight organization, the Community Police Commission, called the audio “heartbreaking and shockingly insensitive.”

A city watchdog agency is investigating after a body-worn camera captured one Seattle Police Department union leader joking with another following the death of a woman who was struck and killed by a police cruiser as she was crossing a street.

A track for live horse racing in suburban Seattle turned prehistoric over the weekend as more than 200 people ran down the track cloaked in inflatable Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaur costumes.

Authorities say a second person has died in wildfires in eastern Washington state that have burned hundreds of structures and briefly closed a section of an interstate.

Three people have died following a listeria outbreak at a family-owned burger restaurant in Tacoma, Washington.

The wildfires have damaged hundred of homes and burned at least 25,000 acres.

One of the largest blazes, the so-called Gray Fire near Spokane in eastern Washington, began around noon Friday and a few hours later had surged through 4.7 square miles

A Bellevue, Washington, motorcycle police officer assigned to a visit by Vice President Kamala Harris was injured Tuesday after falling around 50 feet from a highway on-ramp in Seattle, police said.

The Big Ten has cleared the way for Oregon and Washington to apply for membership, four people familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press.

Three people were dead and two others have survived after suffering severe infections from listeria in Washington state, health officials said in a report posted Friday. All the infected patients were older than 60, and each had a compromised immune system, the Washington Department of Health said in a statement Friday. They were all hospitalized, it said. Four patients were…

The U.S. Army Specialist told police he started hallucinating and told his partner they needed to return to the campground. “This is the end,” he told her, court documents said.

Mount Rainier National Park officials say search crews have found and recovered the body of a man matching the description of a solo climber reported missing.

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is calling lawmakers back to work after they rejected a bill setting out a new statewide drug policy.

A passenger ferry carrying hundreds of people ran aground near Bainbridge Island west of Seattle on Saturday but there were no immediate reports of injuries or contamination, authorities said.

The woman has refused numerous orders to isolate. It isn’t clear why the officer didn’t take her into custody.

A legal battle over a dress code for bikini baristas at coffee stands is ending after a city north of Seattle agreed to pay $500,000 to the owner and employees who sued over it six years ago.

The crafty thieves stole over 400 iPhones worth about $500,000 from an Apple Store in the middle of the night in under 15 minutes. Here’s how they did it.