Local & Regional

Local & Regional (New) Woman injured in Sunday night shootout across MLK Jr. Way

By KOMO Staff Published: May 20, 2013 at 6:56 AM PDT Last Updated: May 20, 2013 at 6:56 AM PDT

Officers have one suspect in custody and continue to look for others after a woman was wounded in a shootout across Martin Luther King Jr. Way in South Seattle, police said.

Local & Regional As Mercer corridor work continues, expect big delays (Video)

By Jamie Lynn and KOMO staff Published: May 19, 2013 at 7:51 PM PDT Last Updated: May 20, 2013 at 6:24 AM PDT

New closures and reconfigurations will affect the Monday morning commute so expect big delays.

Local & Regional Neighbors lift pickup truck, pull trapped man to safety (Photo Gallery) (Video)

By Bob Heye, KATU News and KATU.com Staff Published: May 19, 2013 at 7:21 PM PDT Last Updated: May 19, 2013 at 7:21 PM PDT

Scott Lakey said he was trapped under his truck with three broken ribs and no help in sight on Saturday.

Local & Regional Cheerleader beats cancer with help from drug developed locally (Video)

By Kelly Koopmans Published: May 19, 2013 at 7:11 PM PDT Last Updated: May 19, 2013 at 8:14 PM PDT

The young woman was sidelined by a cancer diagnosis, but she is alive today thanks to a new drug developed by Seattle Genetics in Bothell

Local & Regional Thousands run in Seattle to fight juvenile diabetes (Video)

By KOMO staff Published: May 19, 2013 at 5:23 PM PDT Last Updated: May 19, 2013 at 6:47 PM PDT

About 11,000 runners turned out in Montlake for the 31st annual Nordstrom Beat the Bridge eight-kilometer athletic race and fundraiser.

Local & Regional Scientists excited about new lab at bottom of Pacific Ocean (Photo Gallery)

By DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP Associated Press Published: May 19, 2013 at 3:54 PM PDT Last Updated: May 19, 2013 at 4:10 PM PDT

The $239 million National Science Foundation project will install video cameras, seismic monitors and other gauges along a volcano in deep waters off the Pacific Northwest coast

Local & Regional Report: Canadians boosting e-commerce in Whatcom County

By Associated Press Published: May 19, 2013 at 6:34 PM PDT Last Updated: May 19, 2013 at 6:34 PM PDT

A new report from the state Department of Revenue shows that online commerce is a big boon for the Whatcom County towns of Blaine and Sumas on the Canadian border.

Local & Regional Tornadoes level homes in Oklahoma

By SEAN MURPHY, Associated Press Published: May 19, 2013 at 4:13 PM PDT Last Updated: May 19, 2013 at 7:55 PM PDT

One of several tornadoes that touched down Sunday in Oklahoma turned homes in a trailer park near Oklahoma City into splinters and rubble and sent frightened residents along a 100-mile corridor scurrying for shelter.

Local & Regional Snohomish County transit organization rejects anti-gun ad

By Associated Press Published: May 19, 2013 at 3:39 PM PDT Last Updated: May 19, 2013 at 3:39 PM PDT

The main transit organization in Snohomish County is declining to run advertisements from a statewide gun control group on public buses.

Local & Regional Police search for missing Oregon woman in Hawaii

By Associated Press and KATU.com Staff Published: May 19, 2013 at 2:40 PM PDT Last Updated: May 19, 2013 at 2:40 PM PDT

Honolulu police are searching for a tourist from Oregon who has been missing on Oahu since Thursday.

Local & Regional With son in jail after manhunt, attention turns to fugitive father (Video)

By Mark Miller and KOMO staff Published: May 18, 2013 at 7:39 PM PDT Last Updated: May 19, 2013 at 10:55 AM PDT

After the arrest of Vincent Nutter, officers are looking for Mark Nutter, a fugitive considered armed and dangerous--and wanted in connection with firearms violations.

Local & Regional Dead pedestrian found in Seattle likely dragged by vehicle (Video)

By KOMO staff and Mark Miller Published: May 19, 2013 at 8:59 AM PDT Last Updated: May 19, 2013 at 7:57 PM PDT

Police believe a 34-year-old pedestrian found dead in Seattle early Sunday morning was hit and dragged by a vehicle and left for dead.

Local & Regional Two suspects jailed after brutal beating of man in downtown Seattle

By KOMO staff Published: May 19, 2013 at 10:13 AM PDT Last Updated: May 19, 2013 at 11:02 AM PDT

The suspects, a 19-year-old man and a 20-year-old man, were both booked into the King County Jail for felony assault for brutally beating a man in downtown on Friday night.

Local & Regional Mount St. Helens' deadly eruption 33 years ago changed landscape (Video)

By KOMO staff and Associated Press Published: May 18, 2013 at 4:06 PM PDT Last Updated: May 18, 2013 at 6:45 PM PDT

Thirty-three years ago on May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted and changed the landscape of the Pacific Northwest.

Local & Regional Suspected drunk driver hits police car and flees in N. Seattle

By KOMO staff Published: May 19, 2013 at 2:35 PM PDT Last Updated: May 19, 2013 at 2:35 PM PDT

A woman alleged to be driving drunk hit a Seattle patrol officer's car in North Seattle early Sunday morning on 3rd Avenue Northwest.