A former Tri-Cities judge should never have been on the bench because of his alleged abusive relationship with his ex-wife and the relentless hounding of a former girlfriend, argued an attorney for Washington’s judicial conduct commission this week Sam Swanberg’s behavior was the focus of a day and a half of testimony at the Benton […]
Registration opens June 1 for the second half of the 2024 tour season of the Coyote Canyon Mammoth Site just outside Kennewick, Wash. Tour slots for summer and fall months are expected to be snapped up quickly. Visitors on the public tours of the site will observe the ongoing digging, participate in screening soil, see […]
Thousands of seniors will graduate at about two dozen high school commencement ceremonies May 30-June 8 around the greater Tri-Cities region. Most will be at the Toyota Center at 7000 West Grandridge Boulevard in Kennewick and the neighboring Three Rivers Convention Center. One notable change is coming to Tri-City graduations this year — the Toyota […]
A Tri-Cities man is back in jail after allegedly stealing a car from an auto dealership at knife point. Michael Deshawn Sparks, 33, of Kennewick, was released from jail on a pending felony robbery charge last Friday, and was back in jail by Tuesday afternoon. He’s accused of going to a car dealership on the […]
The Lineage cold storage warehouse continues to smolder and burn three weeks after the fire started, destroying much of the massive building. The remaining fire is in the center of the nearly 12-acre building, which is too unstable for firefighters to enter to extinguish the fire completely, according to Benton Fire District 1. “We keep […]
At the dawn of the U.S. entry into World War II, Lura and Fred Harris owned land the government wanted for the war effort. It gave them 30 days to vacate their east Pasco dairy, citing military needs. Diversity Farm Dairy became a supply depot. Today, it forms the heart of Big Pasco Industrial Park, […]
The contours of Sageview High School are beginning to take shape 44 weeks into construction, just as contractors near the project’s halfway point. Classrooms, study areas, hallways, offices, restrooms and the building’s library and theater are coming to life as crews install roofing, drywall, HVAC systems and wiring, and begin painting walls inside the two-story, […]
Tri-Cities candidates planning to run for public office later this year began filing their paperwork on Monday to get on the ballot. The Washington Secretary of State’s candidate filing period opened at 8 a.m. Candidates have until 5 p.m. Friday to submit their paperwork online or by mail to get their name on the ballot. […]
A Tri-Cities family is asking for help finding a missing 13-year-old boy believed to be in Kennewick or Richland. Dustin Sutphin ran away from his father’s home near 7th Avenue and Gum Street in East Kennewick on April 19, his aunt Sarah Galloway Sutphin told the Tri-City Herald. The boy appears to have run away […]
A 30-year-old man is facing decades in prison after he was convicted of molesting a young girl in Pasco. A Franklin County jury found Damaso A. Montes guilty of first-degree child rape and two counts of first-degree child molestation after deliberating for about two hours following a six-day trial, according to a news release from […]
The mother of a 4-year-old who died from a fentanyl overdose pleaded guilty Tuesday to her daughter getting into her drugs. Judy Bribiescas, 39, pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter in Benton County Superior Court. She was initially charged with first-degree manslaughter. Bribiescas has no previous felony convictions. The standard range is about two years in […]
A Pasco-area dairy worker has filed a lawsuit after her legs were ripped off by an auger in a farm accident nearly three years ago. Teresa Rodas Aguirre is suing Easy Automation, which made and installed the automated auger system at Ruby Ridge Dairy, which is between Pasco and Eltopia, according to her suit. The […]