State puts ignition interlock devices to the test - 
Yakima County, No. 7 in the state for population, ranks third for the number of drunken-driving deaths. Hundreds of Yakima County residents are charged each year with driving under the influence of intoxicating drugs or alcohol. Perhaps as many as three-q...

Sayler pleads guilty to child rape, molestation - 
A former West Valley youth coach pleaded guilty Thursday afternoon to raping and molesting three teenage boys who played on his teams. Prosecutors are expected to recommend that Randy Sayler, now 46, face a minimum prison sentence of 23 years. A state rev...

Gathering celebrates lawsuit that changed women's sports - 
It took long hours, dedication and a sprint to the finish, but she won. In a way, all women did. On Thursday evening, Karen Troianello of Yakima took time to look back on history as part of a Seattle event celebrating a legal victory that changed the c...

Latin music celebration at YVCC - 
The Yakima Valley Community College Latin Music celebration has evolved from a series of Internet clinics to a three-day festival that incorporates education and performances. In its second year of hosting a formal celebration, YVCC has brought in thre...

Favorable winds for wind farm dedication - 
About 300 people showed up Thursday to dedicate Klickitat County's second major wind farm. The White Creek Wind Project is a 205-megawatt wind farm about 12 miles south of Bickleton. Its 89 turbines on 9,500 acres of ranchland will generate enough elect...

Advocates hear story of a life turned around - 
Liz Murray's parents partied too much in the '70s and got hooked on drugs. After Liz was born in 1980, their addictions continued and she was raised in a Bronx tenement where the daily trade-off was drugs or food, paid for with the monthly welfare check...

Ross starts campaign for return to Olympia - 
State Rep. Charles Ross, R-Naches, likes being seen as a law-and-justice legislator. The Naches Repub-lican, who kicked off his re-election campaign Thursday morning outside the Yaki-ma police station, gained the reputation this year by successfully pu...

Prep report -- Small-school vaulting flying high with TL-G - 
Is it track and field for the Trout Lake-Glenwood program or, more specifically, simply track and pole vault? Hard to tell since nine of the 15 boys in the two-school program have competed in the event and three of them are among the top four 1B vaulters...

Prep golf -- Overcoming over and over - 
YAKIMA -- In the opening minute of what would be one of the biggest victories in the history of West Valley's girls basketball program, Liz Tikriti was forced to do something which for her was unthinkable. She sat. Inside her right knee was so much ligame...

Local report -- Central signs Spokane point guard - 
ELLENSBURG -- Central Washington, which lost starting point guard Nate Jackson to graduation, has possibly found a successor. Jon Clift, who helped lead Spokane to a runner-up finish to Yakima Valley in the NWAACC Tournament in March, has decided to conti...

Prep Roundup -- Mercado's goals lift Selah - 
YAKIMA -- Senior Israel Mercado scored early and late -- both times with the help of Michael Fadden -- and lifted Selah to a 2-1 overtime victory over East Valley in a loser-out CWAC district boys soccer match on Thursday. Mercado scored on an assist from...

5/9/08 Prep standings - 
Fastpitch CWAC W L Othello 15 1 East Valley 14 2 Ellensburg 14 2 Selah 13 3 Grandview 5 11 Prosser 5 11 Quincy 5 11 Ephrata 5 11 Toppenish 2 14 Wapato 2 14 Today's games Othello at Selah (2), 3:30 p.m. Saturday's games Prosser at Grandview (2), 10 a.m. T...

5/9/08 Hot Tickets - 
TODAY BASEBALL: Take your pick between these two CWAC district semifinals -- Ellensburg at Selah and Ephrata at East Valley. Both start at 4 p.m. Meanwhile, Naches Valley hosts Kiona-Benton in a SCAC semifinal. SATURDAY BOYS SOCCER: Sunnyside hosts Eastm...

CWU Hall of Fame -- Central marks a season of firsts - 
YAKIMA -- More than one member of the 1987-88 Central Washington women's basketball team admitted to memory lapses when asked about the historic team. "That was, after all, 20 years ago," one of them explained. True. But closer examination reveals that a...

Central needs to get its house in order - 

05/09/08 Death Notices - 

Guilty Pleasures -- Brews at the beach - 
Back in the day, beer was beer was beer. That was until several years ago, when Guilty Pleasures became intimately involved with the beer business. Well, more accurately, intimately involved with someone in the beer biz. During that time, Guilty Pleasure...

Farmers markets up and running - 
For the past couple of weeks, local muralist Rick Fuller has been painting the North Third Street windows of the former Liquidation World building. His latest public work features a brick facade and the different Yakima Farmers Market posters from over th...

It's all about emotion for acclaimed guitarist Feriante - 
There's something about the guitar, says classical guitarist Andre Feriante. It has a sound that just pulls at your heart. That's especially true with Feriante, who spent part of his childhood in Yakima. His romantic...

Spring fashion goes electric - 
This season's "color" is not pink. It's not black, brown or blue, either. It is electric. Electric, saturated hues. ...

Downtown shop goes eclectic - 
Though tables of flowers greet you as you round the corner and ceramic pots flank the entrance, it's the clothing that catches your eye when you walk through the door of Garden Dance. "Home, garden, and fashion fro...

YVCC Salsa Band's 'Clavecide!' CD highlights Latin music fest - 
At the beginning of the school year in September, Yakima Valley Community College jazz instructor David Blink promised his Latin jazz students the opportunity to record a CD if they came up with an entire set of original tunes. They did, and this week "Cl...

YVCC student and faculty exhibit opens Monday - 
Artworks created between the 2007 spring quarter and the 2008 winter quarter at Yakima Valley Community College will go on display next week in the annual YVCC Department of Visual Arts Student & Faculty Exhibit, a fixture at the Larson Gallery for mo...