LYNNWOOD — The Lynnwood Police Department will soon become one of the few agencies in the nation able to send live video from a patrol car to its police station. The technology can allow officers involved in vehicle chases or dangerous traffic stops…

Snohomish County is clearing the airwaves. The aging and overcrowded radio system used by police and firefighters is getting a major upgrade this year after nearly a decade of debate. The change is expected to help speed aid to your door when you…

EDMONDS – Police have arrested an Edmonds teenager in connection with a road-rage attack that left Richard Alseth struggling to survive. A tip led police to the boy, 17, hours after Alseth’s family pleaded for help in finding the person who beat the…

Becoming the top-ranked dance team in the state for the fourth year in a row takes practice. A lot of practice. The 18-member Meadowdale High School dance team worked two hours a day, five days a week to perfect every double turn, leap and spin in…

LYNNWOOD — Jason Ponik has almost all his Christmas shopping done, but he’ll still spend up to 40 hours in December at Alderwood Mall. Most of the time, he won’t go inside. The Bothell mortgage broker will be riding with other members of the Lynnwood…

Snohomish County can continue to boast that some of Puget Sound’s hottest firefighters work here. Three local firefighters have been selected to appear in the popular 2004 firefighter calendar, which raises money for the nonprofit Washington State…

LYNNWOOD — The city is asking for federal money to design a new southbound I-5 freeway exit to give drivers easier access to north Lynnwood and reduce the traffic backup on 196th Street SW. The proposed exit would be built at I-5 and Alderwood Mall…

LYNNWOOD — The Washington State Patrol is still investigating whether the driver of a tanker truck that exploded July 12 was asleep when he crashed into a guardrail at the 44th Avenue W. overpass. “Witnesses have said he looked like he was falling…

MONROE – Law enforcement officials on Tuesday blasted a cost-cutting measure that has already released 283 inmates early and could shorten the sentences of hundreds of others. The new state policy gives some prison inmates more time off for good…

LYNNWOOOD — The music thudded through the dark room as the strobe light flashed. The teenage DJ cranked up the fog machine a few notches, sending wisps of white onto a dance floor filled with three dozen teenagers. Down the hall, five teens were…

MOUNTLAKE TERRACE — A Korean church was targeted by vandals who spray-painted buildings with ethnic slurs, smashed the windows of a church van and defaced a cross, police said Sept. 26. Members of the Korean Presbyterian Church of Seattle, 23601 52nd…

EVERETT — Housing for some of the state’s most violent sexual predators won’t be built in Snohomish County anytime soon, state officials announced this week, but the county could be the site of the state’s third offender halfway house. The county…

LYNNWOOD — Phyllis and Bill Butler do not remember much about the first hours of that terrible morning when they awoke to find their home in flames and the lives of two of their children ended by a fire. But they will never forget the volunteers who…

STANWOOD – Torrey Dringman barely broke a sweat as he led his sons’ Boy Scout troop on a 10-mile bike ride through Stanwood last summer. Twelve hours later, the 6-foot-2-inch, 255-pound Snohomish County sheriff’s deputy collapsed. In less than three…

Catholics in Snohomish County came together Friday to pray for Pope John Paul II, whom one local parishioner called “a pope of the people.” Julie Busch/ The Herald Debbie Resch of Marysville prays after Mass on Friday at Immaculate Conception Church…

OAK HARBOR – Elaine Sepulveda was not pregnant when she was killed Nov. 6, according to autopsy results released Tuesday. Prosecutors still suspect that her boyfriend, James Sanders, murdered Elaine, 15, because he believed she was carrying his…

COUPEVILLE – James L. Sanders pleaded innocent Friday in Island County Superior Court to the murder of his 15-year-old girlfriend, Elaine Sepulveda. Sanders, 18, was arraigned on a second-degree murder charge, and his trial was set for March 22,…

Police are finding less homegrown marijuana in Snohomish County, dispelling its dubious distinction as one of the state’s top pot producers. A three-year decline in the illegal industry here dropped Snohomish County from fourth in Washington state in…