From: KOMO Seattle on Sun, Jun 12 2011 4:18 PM

A day of fun was punctuated by fear when the Falling Star ride at Wild Waves theme park malfunctioned while a group of kids on a school field trip were riding on it, sending chunks of debris flying.

From: KOMO Seattle on Sun, Jun 12 2011 2:09 PM

Crews have freed a group of more than 30 campers trapped since Friday by a large mudslide in the upper Icicle Valley of the Cascade Mountains about 10 miles west of Leavenworth.

From: KOMO Seattle on Sat, Jun 11 2011 11:19 PM

Weekend revelers heading out to sample Seattle’s nightlife can expect to see more officers on the streets as patrols are added to hot spots around the city.

From: KOMO Seattle on Sat, Jun 11 2011 6:18 AM

Melissa McMillan entered the plea to second-degree murder in court on Friday. The 20-year-old woman is accused of concealing her pregnancy, then giving birth in her family’s North Tacoma home last Saturday.

From: KOMO Seattle on Fri, Jun 10 2011 9:48 PM

Police in Everett have been dealing with a murder - a murder of crows targeting officers in the parking lot. "I saw the Alfred Hitchcock movie, 'The Birds', and of course, that comes to mind," said one captain.

From: KOMO Seattle on Thu, Jun 09 2011 4:09 PM

The Belltown neighborhood near downtown Seattle is under assault by vandals who keep targeting businesses by smashing out their windows.

From: KOMO Seattle on Wed, Jun 08 2011 9:25 PM

The woman who survived the attack at her South Park home relived the horrifying incident during the trial of Isaiah Kalebu, who is accused of raping and stabbing the woman and her partner, Teresa Butz, who didn’t survive.

From: KOMO Seattle on Tue, Jun 07 2011 9:40 PM

Officer T.J. Berg was the first officer to roll up on the bloody scene in Seattle’s South Park neighborhood. His dash cam recorded every move, and the footage was shown in court on Tuesday.

From: KOMO Seattle on Mon, Jun 06 2011 11:44 PM

As jurors listened to the prosecutor’s opening statement on Monday, suspected South Park killer Isaiah Kalebu was not in the courtroom; he was shackled in a separate courtroom where he watched his trial on closed-circuit TV.

From: KOMO Seattle on Fri, Jun 03 2011 9:16 PM

Skeletal remains found last year in a shallow grave in Kittitas County have been identified as a Seattle woman who disappeared nearly 40 years ago, authorities said.

From: KOMO Seattle on Thu, Jun 02 2011 11:16 PM

In the last two weeks, the company which operates the tolling system on the Tacoma Narrows bridge sent out 23,000 violation notices — nearly twice the average of 12,000 tickets issued every month.

From: KOMO Seattle on Sat, May 28 2011 7:05 AM

Diana Kannenberg said the tornado stuck just before 2 o’clock about a mile east of town, and twisted the metal roofing of her shed "just like you would take a piece of seran wrap and twist it."

From: KOMO Seattle on Wed, May 25 2011 11:34 PM

The department must now pick up the pieces on the cases former Det. Shane Farnworth was handling, KOMO News has learned, and it appears Farnworth had done little follow-up on many of them, including a case of rape.

From: KOMO Seattle on Tue, May 24 2011 12:11 AM

Lawmakers have reached a tentative agreement on how to close the $5 billion budget shortfall that Washington state faces in the next two years.

From: KOMO Seattle on Mon, May 23 2011 3:06 PM

A minister and former foster parent who prosecutors say sexually abused several boys pleaded not guilty on Monday.

From: KOMO Seattle on Mon, May 23 2011 6:35 AM

Washington lawmakers ended days of contentious negotiations Sunday night with a plan to overhaul the state’s workers' compensation system and potentially save hundreds of millions of dollars in the years to come.

From: KOMO Seattle on Mon, May 23 2011 6:35 AM

A massive tornado blasted its way across southwestern Missouri on Sunday, flattening several blocks of homes and businesses, smashing up cars and leaving an untold number of people dead.

From: KOMO Seattle on Sat, May 14 2011 12:16 AM

Randy says it all began with the click of the "friend" button on Facebook. The button wasn’t necessarily the cause or the reason, Randy says, "But it was a tool or a symptom, and it certainly helped it along."

From: KOMO Seattle on Tue, May 10 2011 8:59 PM

Buying Skype gives Microsoft access to a user base of about 170 million people who log in to Skype every month, using the Internet and Skype usernames as a complement to the traditional phone network and its phone numbers.

From: KOMO Seattle on Tue, May 10 2011 6:19 AM

None of us will live forever, but what we create online can live eternal. Estate planning attorney Wendy Goffe of Graham & Dunn encourages clients to incorporate their digital assets into their estate planning.