Sue Bird made a tiebreaking 3-pointer with 2.8 seconds Sunday and the Seattle Storm advanced to the WNBA finals with a 91-88 victory over the defending champion Phoenix Mercury, closing the game with a 15-0 run.

Police fear that a crime spree in Mill Creek is about to become more violent. Armed robbery is the crime, a shopping center is the target - and police have surveillance video of the suspect. But, in a twist, there could be more than one thief.

It's been almost three years since floodwaters swallowed up much of Lewis County. But now - after all those years and thanks to a bunch of volunteers - there's one family who's getting a second chance with a complete home makeover.

For years, Kirkland financial planner Rhonda Breard spent millions of other people's money on a lavish lifestyle. Now some of the big-ticket items she bought are going up for auction - while she serves a six-year term in prison.

Bumbershoot is here - and it's already setting records. Seattle's late-summer music and art festival is now in its 40th year - and for the first time, the main stage sold out before the event started.

Five people have died this week in violent confrontations with police in the Puget Sound region - and some people now are asking why there isn't a less deadly way of dealing with aggressive suspects.

The driver and the front-seat passenger of a Chevy Blazer that triggered a deadly crash Friday night on Whidbey Island are both facing possible vehicular homicide charges, the Washington State Patrol says.

Kaine Horman has no idea whether his son, Kyron - who's been missing since June 4 - will be going to third grade this year with his classmates. But he's full of hope. His son's backpack is stuffed with school supplies and all is ready for the first day of classes.

Unless he wins another stay, Cal Coburn Brown will become the first person since 2001 to be executed in Washington, and the 78th since the first in 1904.

A 25-year-old Sultan man died after deputies stunned him with a Taser during an incident early Saturday morning in Gold Bar. It is the second Taser death this week in the Puget Sound region and the fifth death caused by a violent encounter with police.

Craigslist appears to have surrendered in a legal fight over erotic ads posted on its website, shutting down its adult-services section Saturday and replacing it with a black bar that simply says "censored."

A 22-year-old Tacoma mother who admitted to killing her toddler has been sentenced to 14 years in prison. Melani Lotu was sentenced in Pierce County Superior Court on Friday.

A youth counselor who brought her son to work was fired from her job because of it. And now some parents in Seattle's New Holly Community are angry over the firing.

Three people were killed and three others injured in a head-on crash on State Route 20 on Friday night. One of the survivors was a pregnant woman.

That situation began when someone called 911 at approximately 8:30 a.m. and reported someone was trying to get into a Spanaway apartment.

Searchers spotted the body of the son of Hall of Fame boxing promoter Bob Arum on a rugged Washington state mountainside Friday afternoon, five days after they began looking for him in North Cascades National Park.

On the night of her arrest, Seattle attorney Anne Bremner called a police officer a "Nazi," smelled "overwhelmingly" of alcohol and started banging her head against the partition in the officer's patrol car, police said.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has reached a settlement with former Qwest Communications International Inc. Joseph Nacchio in a civil lawsuit against him.

A local sheriff is sending out a warning Friday that budget cuts in Kitsap County could mean fewer deputies protecting the populace there.

A federal grand jury has indicted five people on charges that they knowingly violated a high-security area of the Naval Base Kitsap's Bangor complex where weapons are stored for nuclear missile submarines.