Sara Jean Green | The Seattle Times

March 15, 2019 at 6:32 pm

After two mistrials, prosecutors will again try two brothers accused of 2016 killings in ‘The Jungle’

Three jurors in the second trial of James and Jerome Taafulisia blamed the cast of unsavory characters called as witnesses and sloppy police work as...

A sting operation by the Seattle Police Department’s Vice & High Risk Victims’ Unit has closed many massage parlors in Seattle. This closed parlor is at 1221 South Main Street in the International neighborhood.

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March 7, 2019 at 3:53 pm

Major prostitution bust: Seattle police raid 11 massage parlors, freeing 26 women

Five owners and operators were arrested and the massage parlors were shuttered last week in the raids in Seattle's Chinatown-International District and Beacon Hill neighborhoods.

Tuesday, January 22, 2019. Opening statements in the murder and assault trial of James and Jerome Taafulisia who are accused of killing two people in the jungle homeless encampment in January of 2016. From left is defense attorney Dan Norman, James Taafulisia, defense attorney Yvonne Curtis and Jerome Taafulisia. They are standing as the jury leaves the courtroom at the Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent. 208999

March 5, 2019 at 5:52 pm

Second mistrial declared in trial of brothers accused of deadly ‘Jungle’ shootings

James and Jerome Taafulisia were tried for a second time on two counts of first-degree murder and three counts of first-degree assault in connection with...

February 26, 2019 at 12:11 pm

Seattle man, 21, dead after fight leads to gunshots at home near Everett

Deputies responded to a report of a shooting just before 11 p.m. Monday and found a Seattle man dead at the scene from a gunshot...

February 21, 2019 at 11:55 am

King County jury awards West Seattle woman nearly $14M for stroke during heart surgery

The woman underwent a cardiac catheterization at Seattle Children's when she was a teen to replace a fractured stent. The jury found that a stroke...

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February 20, 2019 at 6:25 pm

Stanwood man accused of prostituting teen, forcing her to marry his barber for a green card

The suspect works as King County Metro's manager of transit security and emergency services for King County Metro Transit, a spokeswoman confirmed. He has been...

February 18, 2019 at 7:30 pm

During SWAT standoff, Kent man wanted by Seattle police fatally shoots himself

The Valley SWAT team responded to an apartment building near Kent Station but repeated attempts to contact a man in his 50s were unsuccessful. Kent...

February 13, 2019 at 5:43 pm

North Seattle homicide victim — and her suspected killer who was fatally shot by police — identified

Irma Rodriguez Vaquedano, 48, died from multiple sharp force injuries and her death was ruled a homicide. Danny Rodriguez, who is not related to Rodriguez...

Scraps of crime scene tape and footprints are left in the snow Wednesday February 13, 2019, the morning after a fatal shooting occurred at Puget Sound Park in Burien. –

February 13, 2019 at 3:38 pm

Man charged with murder in connection with ‘coldblooded’ fatal shooting at Burien park

Edwin Espinoza Lopez, 22, had gone to dinner with his sister and girlfriend and was driving home to Burien when they stopped at Puget Sound...

Kenneth Ruffer is pictured on a playing card produced by the King County Sheriff’s Office. Packs of playing cards were distributed to prisoners in hopes of generating leads to solve cold-case homicides. Detectives arrested two suspects on Wednesday in connection with Ruffer’s 1995 shooting death.

February 13, 2019 at 12:36 pm

Two suspects charged with first-degree murder in 1995 White Center homicide

Christopher Wright, 52, and Nichole Asphy, 48, were arrested and charged with first-degree murder in connection with the fatal shooting of Kenneth Ruffer in White...