Crime

Episode 3: Adults in the Room, 'Blame the Messenger'

Months go by as two student reporters anxiously await the results of an investigation into a teacher accused of sexual misconduct. Then a sudden tragedy changes everything.

Episode 2: Price of Belief, Adults in the Room

Garfield High School is shocked after learning their beloved principal is in an inappropriate relationship with a student. In the fallout of the revelation about their principal, Isolde and Ella hear a second-hand allegation of child abuse against teacher Tom Hudson from a member of his outdoors club, Post 84. The students debate what they should do and decide to bring the allegation to their journalism teacher, Dave Ehrich, and Isolde’s parents.

Suspect and 4 others dead after stabbing near Tacoma, authorities say

A suspect and four other people were dead Tuesday after a sheriff’s deputy responded to reports that a man was stabbing people outside a home near Tacoma.

Two Seattle girls learn a secret at their high school. Their lives change forever.

Someone left a gun in a Bellevue elementary school. The district didn’t tell parents for almost a month

A semi-automatic Glock pistol was left in the boys' bathroom at a Bellevue elementary school over winter break by someone who attends a church that rents the school every Sunday.

2 teen boys killed at bus stop on Rainier Avenue in Seattle

Seattle's first 2026 homicide stems from a shooting more than 50 years ago

The story of Joseph Garrett’s murder is more than 50 years in the making. His life ended on Jan. 4, making 71-year-old Garrett Seattle’s first homicide of 2026.

Seattle charges man with assault for slapping, grabbing women from Lime bike

The Seattle City Attorney has charged a 24-year-old man with one count of assault with sexual motivation for grabbing and groping multiple women’s buttocks in downtown Seattle last spring.

Police say 2 officers shot in Northeast Portland; suspect at large

Two police officers were shot Monday night near Lloyd Center in Northeast Portland, according to the Portland Police Bureau.

Man who held himself out as Native American activist sentenced to 46 years for serial rapes

A man who held himself out as a Native American activist was sentenced Wednesday to 46 years in prison for drugging and raping women in a case that inspired calls for changes in Washington state law to prohibit defendants who represent themselves from directly questioning their accusers.