Crime and Public Safety

Amanda Knox is again defending herself in an Italian court in a slander case that has the potential to remove the last legal stain against her, following her exoneration nine years ago in the 2007 murder of her roommate, Meredith Kercher.

Though absent in the physical sense, Matilda "Tilly" Wilcoxson's presence was felt as her family and the local community gathered to honor her memory.

Police are investigating after a woman was shot outside a bar in Lakewood on Wednesday morning. 

A University of Washington football player has been arrested for allegedly raping two college-aged students in separate incidents just days apart last year. 

The Snohomish County Sheriff's Office is looking for a missing man from Mill Creek who has dementia.

A woman was found dead inside her home, and police are looking for her husband, who they believe is a person of interest in her death. 

A suspect involved in a shooting was arrested over the weekend after a high-speed police pursuit that ended in a wrong-way crash on I-5 near Grand Mound.

A burglary suspect was arrested in Port Angeles after the homeowner held him at gunpoint and called police.

A teenager planned to attack churches in a northern Idaho city using a metal pipe, butane fuel, a machete and, if he could get them, his father's guns, according to federal prosecutors who charged him with attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State group.

A Seattle man suspected in two rape cases was arrested late last week.

On Monday, Renton police said the three suspects face charges ranging from first-degree attempted robbery, attempting to elude a pursuing police vehicle, felony hit-and-run and obstructing a law enforcement officer. The other two suspects were not charged because of a "lack of criminal history," and them to receive diversion.

Police are investigating after a large group of burglars rammed a stolen car into a Central District pot shop and stole thousands of dollars' worth of merchandise on Tuesday.