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Police Investigating Home Invasion, Robbery in Kennewick

A group of unknown suspects forced their way into a Kennewick home this morning. The three-to-five suspects beat three occupants with clubs and then robbed the home.

The criminals' faces were concealed with masks and they fled the 700 block of East 13th Avenue in a dark-colored four-door sedan

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Man Found Dead in Pasco Motel Room [PHOTOS]

Pasco police are investigating a possible homicide at the Tahitian Inn behind Lee's Tahitian on the corner of Lewis Street and 28th. Newstalk 870 reporter Hayden Sprenkle said the motel room was torn up. KNDU is reporting there may also have been a fire in the room and the body was found by a maid at about 10:30 a.m.

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Kennewick Teen Stabbed While Playing Basketball

Police have apprehended a 16-year-old Richland boy involved in a stabbing at Eastgate Park in Kennewick. The suspect is being held in juvenile detention charged with Assault 1st degree. A second suspect remains at large

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Seats Available for Hanford B Reactor Bus Tour

Hanford is now offering tours of the B Reactor and the current environmental cleanup site.

The B Reactor was the world’s first full-scale nuclear reactor. It was here that the plutonium was produced for the “Fat Man” bomb dropped over Nagasaki, Japan in 1945

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Gov. Inslee to Tour Hanford This Wednesday – Seeking Answers to Leaking Tanks

Gov. Jay Inslee plans to tour the Hanford site to gather information about the six leaky tanks and others that could pose a significant problem down the road.

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More Kennewick Schools Could Go to All-Day Kindergarten

The Kennewick School District is hoping to expand it's all-day Kindergarten program to a number of elementary schools. It must wait to see what the state legislature does this spring.

District Spokesperson Lorraine Cooper told Newstalk 870:
"We are waiting on the state legislature to pass a budget and until they do we can’t say for certain how much additional funding there will be for all-day Kindergarten

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Hear What Your Benton County Sheriff Thinks About Gun Control [INTERVIEW]

This weekend Newstalk 870 shared an exclusive interview with Benton County Sheriff Steve Keane.

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Tri-Cities Native and No. 1 New York Times Bestselling Author Releases Her Latest Book

 

Local novelist Patricia Briggs released her latest book Frost Burned this week. Frost Burned is the 7th in the Mercy Thompson series that takes place in the Mid-Columbia and involves encounters with werewolves, vampires, witches, fairies and a tentacled river monster.

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Woman Shot in the Head at Movie Theater Near Yakima

A woman was shot in the head as she left a movie theater Thursday night in Union Gap.

Union Gap Police reported to KIMA Action News that multiple shots were fired about 8:40 p.m. as the woman was leaving the Majestic Theatre

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Former Hanford High Teacher Will Register as a Sex Offender

Former Hanford High School teacher Daryl Rachinski, 59, will register as a sex offender for 10 years as part of plea agreement offered by the Benton County Prosecutor.

Last June Rachinski was accused of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl and was arrested for third-degree rape

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