Everett landlord won't rent to more sex offenders
A man who houses sex offenders in Everett says he is "getting out of the business" after receiving threats, including one sent to the Herald in Everett on Friday.

The link between Lyndon Johnson and Barack Obama
Without Martin Luther King and thousands of others, the Civil Rights and Voting Rights acts would not have been created. Also true is that, without LBJ, they would have never been passed and Obama wouldn't be delivering his speech tonight.

The torch passes to Michelle Obama
It's a tricky business, representing independent modern women while not creating political pain for your spouse, made even trickier if you're an African-American who is almost 6 feet tall

Earthquake strikes off B.C. coast; latest in series of tremors
VANCOUVER, B.C. — An earthquake has occurred on the sea floor off B.C., the latest in a series of tremors on the coast since Monday.

Stabbed in heart, woman tries to keep hate out of the healing
A pregnant Seattle woman who police say was stabbed in the heart by her boyfriend earlier this month has returned home to recover. The injured woman and her baby will survive.

Duncan sentenced to death
A longtime sex offender was sentenced to death Wednesday for the 2005 kidnapping, torture and murder of a 9-year-old northern Idaho boy...