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18-year-old grazed in head after Rainier Valley drive-by shooting targets Tesla

One person was injured in a drive-by shooting that happened Wednesday afternoon in Seattle’s Rainier Valley neighborhood.According to the Seattle Police Department (SPD), someone in a car shot at the driver of a Tesla, spraying that car and multiple others with bullets.Multiple intersections were closed as Seattle Police Department (SPD) officers investigated three separate crime scenes. Officers recovered dozens of shell casings and bullet damage to a nearby business at the intersection o

1 injured in shooting during armed robbery in Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood

An armed robbery in Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood led to a shooting early Thursday morning, the Seattle Police Department (SPD) confirmed.According to SPD, at least one person was injured in the shooting. The armed robbery happened on 4th Avenue in Seattle at approximately 5:30 a.m.<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Seattle police are investigating an armed robbery in the 2400 block of 4th Avenue. One victim injured by gunfire. More information to follow.— Seattle Police Department (@SeattlePD) <a href="https://twitter.com/SeattlePD/status/2042224829395611702?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">April 9, 2026</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>SPD is investigating the armed robbery.This is a developing story, check back for updatesFollow Frank Sumrall <a href="https://x.com/FMSumrall" target="_blank" rel="noopener">on X</a>. Send <a href="https://mynorthwest.com/contact-us">news tips here.</a>

Woodinville-area trailer fire leaves 2 dead, investigators searching for cause

When fire crews arrived, they saw that the fire was near a large propane tank.Because the trailer was fully engulfed in flames, firefighters were unable to enter and began extinguishing the fire from the outside. Other obstacles they faced were overhead power lines, no nearby hydrant, and the risk of the fire spreading to nearby brush and trees.Once they put the fire out, firefighters found two people dead inside the trailer. One body was near the front of the trailer while the other was in the

Ceasefire in the Iran war teeters in the face of disagreements over Lebanon and the Strait of Hormuz

A tentative ceasefire in the Iran war staggered Thursday under the weight of Israel’s intense bombardment of Beirut, Tehran’s continued chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz, and uncertainty over whether negotiators can find common ground on a <a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" href="https://apnews.com/article/iran-war-ceasefire-strait-hormuz-nuclear-enrichment-9f5d7fce2cf32b8513861ca872e3cfb2" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">range of other differences</a>.Hours after the ceasefire was announced — amid disagreement over whether it included a pause in fighting between Israel and Hezbollah — Israel <a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" href="https://apnews.com/article/israel-lebanon-hezbollah-beirut-strikes-9402965418687c634d4a157c966ec6ea" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pounded Beirut with airstrikes</a>, resulting in the deadliest day in the country since the war began on Feb. 28.Iran and the U.S. — which both <a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" href="https://apnews.com/live/iran-war-israel-trump-04-09-2026" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declared victory in the wake of the ceasefire announcement</a> — appeared to try to pressure each other. Semiofficial news agencies in Iran suggested forces have mined the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial waterway for the world’s oil whose closure has proved Tehran’s greatest strategic advantage in the conflict. President Donald Trump, meanwhile, warned that U.S. forces would hit Iran even harder than before if it did not fulfill the agreement.But what that agreement is remains in deep dispute. Beyond whether Lebanon is included, there are questions over what will happen to Iran’s <a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" href="https://apnews.com/article/iran-nuclear-uranium-enriched-trump-war-1fd6de24bd1e6c3a4945d58d3f777462" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stockpile of enriched uranium</a>, how and when normal traffic will resume <a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" href="https://apnews.com/video/what-to-know-about-strategic-straight-of-hormuz-ap-explains-b7883bdeeea8497b8d239e967510e24d" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">through the strait</a>, and what happens to Iran’s ability to launch missile attacks in the future. The U.S. and Iran are due to meet in Pakistan for talks this weekend.<h2>Israeli strikes on Lebanon threaten the ceasefire</h2>Lebanon’s health ministry said at least 203 people were killed and more than 1,000 wounded in widespread Israeli strikes in central Beirut and other areas of Lebanon on Wednesday, when Israel intensified its attacks on the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group, which joined the war in support of Tehran.The death toll was the highest for a single day in Lebanon during more than five weeks of renewed war between Israel and Hezbollah.Iran said Israel was violating the ceasefire agreement, which it has said included a stop to the fighting in Lebanon. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Trump have said it does not.Iran’s parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf warned Thursday that continued Israeli attacks on Hezbollah in Lebanon would bring “explicit costs and STRONG responses” in a message on X.“Ceasefire violations carry explicit and STRONG responses,” he wrote. “Extinguish the fire immediately.”Netanyahu said in a social media post that Israel will continue striking Hezbollah “with force, precision and determination.”Qalibaf has been discussed as a possible negotiator who could meet U.S. Vice President JD Vance this weekend in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan.Israel said Thursday it killed Ali Yusuf Harshi, an aide to Hezbollah leader Naim Kassem. Hezbollah did not immediately respond to a request for comment.A New York-based think tank warned the ceasefire “ <a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" href="https://apnews.com/article/iran-us-israel-trump-lebanon-april-8-2026-38d75d5e4f1c7339a1456fc99415bb2a" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hovers on the verge of collapse</a>.”“Even if Lebanon was formally outside the deal, the scale of Israel’s strikes was likely to be viewed as escalatory,” the Soufan Center wrote in an analysis. “Israel’s strikes can be understood both as an effort to drive a wedge between Iran and its proxies and as a response to being allegedly sidelined in the original ceasefire discussions.”Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported Thursday that an Israeli strike overnight had killed at least seven people in southern Lebanon. The Israeli military did not immediately acknowledge the strike.<h3>Oil prices remain high amid uncertainty over the Strait of Hormuz</h3>Semiofficial news agencies in Iran published a chart Thursday suggesting the country’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard put sea mines into the strait during the war — a message that may be intended to pressure the U.S.The chart, released by the ISNA news agency and Tasnim, showed a large circle marked “danger zone” in Farsi over the route ships take through the strait, through which 20% of all traded oil and natural gas once passed.Only a trickle of ships have passed through the strait since the war began after several were attacked and Iran threatened to hit any that it deemed connected to the U.S. or Israel. Ships appeared to continue to avoid the strait even after the ceasefire: Data from Kpler showed only four vessels with their trackers on passed through.The chart suggested ships travel through waters closer to Iran’s mainland near Larak Island, a route that some ships were observed taking during the war. It was dated from Feb. 28 until April 9, and it was unclear if the Guard had cleared any mines since then.Iran’s deputy foreign minister, Saeed Khatibzadeh, told the BBC on Thursday that his country will allow ships to pass through the strait in accordance with “international norms and international law” once the United States ends its “aggression” in the Middle East and Israel stops attacking Lebanon.The head of the United Arab Emirates’ major oil company, Sultan al-Jaber, said some 230 ships loaded with oil were waiting to get through the strait and must be allowed “to navigate this corridor without condition.”The strait’s de facto closure has caused oil prices to skyrocket — raising, in turn, the cost of gasoline, food and other basics far beyond the Middle East. Oil prices fell on news of the ceasefire Wednesday, but began to climb as uncertainty over the deal grew.The spot price of Brent crude, the international standard, was around $98 Thursday — up about 35% since the war began.Trump warned that U.S. warships and troops will remain around Iran “until such time as the REAL AGREEMENT reached is fully complied with.”<h3>Peace talks expected in Pakistan</h3>The White House said that Vice President JD Vance would lead the U.S. delegation for talks in Islamabad aimed at ending the war, which are set to start Saturday.There appear to be many points of disagreement to address, including whether Iran will be allowed to formalize a <a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" href="https://apnews.com/article/strait-of-hormuz-iran-tolls-oil-3ef5dcd907122922db714d318c35317e" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">system of charging ships</a> to use the strait that it has instituted. That would upend decades of precedent treating it as an international waterway that was free to transit.The fate of Iran’s missile and nuclear programs — the elimination of which were major objectives for the U.S. and Israel in going to war — also remained unclear. The U.S. insists Iran must never be able to build nuclear weapons and wants to remove Tehran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium, which could be used to build them, should it choose to pursue the bomb. Iran insists its program is peaceful.Trump said Wednesday that the U.S. would work with Iran to remove the buried uranium, though Iran did not confirm that. In one version of the deal that Iran published, it said it would be allowed to continue enrichment.The chief of Iran’s nuclear agency said protecting Tehran’s right to enrich uranium is “necessary” for any ceasefire talks with the United States.Mohammad Eslami, who leads the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, made the remarks Thursday to journalists, including one from The Associated Press, during commemorations for the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran.

US economy grew a sluggish 0.5% in fourth quarter, government says, downgrading previous estimate

The latest number was marked down from the Commerce Department’s previous estimate of 0.7% fourth-quarter growth.Federal government spending and investment fell at a 16.6% annual pace because of the shutdown, lopping 1.16 percentage points off fourth-quarter GDP growth. Consumer spending expanded at a 1.9% pace, down a notch from the previous estimate and from 3.5% in the second quarter.For all of 2025, the economy grew 2.1% last year, slower than 2.8% in 2024 and 2.9% in 2023.The economic

Key inflation gauge remains elevated in February before Iran war

<block>WASHINGTON (AP) — A key measure of inflation stayed high in February, before the war in Iran spiked gas prices, a sign that everyday costs were elevated even before the conflict began. An inflation gauge monitored by the Federal Reserve rose 0.4% in February from January, up slightly from the previous month. Compared with a year ago, prices rose 2.8%, the same as January. Thursday’s data was delayed by a backlog of economic reports created by the six-week government shutdown last fall. Excluding the volatile food and energy categories, core inflation also rose 0.4% in February from January, and it was 3% higher than a year earlier. The annual figure is slightly below January’s reading of 3.1%. Still, the monthly increases are at a pace that if continued for a whole year, would easily top the Fed’s 2% inflation target. Thursday’s report is largely a warm-up for the more important inflation data to be released Friday, when the government will publish the higher-profile consumer price index for March. The Friday report will be the first to reflect the impact of the gas price spike from the Iran war. Economists forecast it will show a big increase of 0.9% just in March from February, and a 3.4% gain from a year earlier. The annual figure would be a big increase from 2.4% in February. The large jump in inflation in March will heighten concerns at the Fed that prices are moving further away from their inflation target and make it much less likely the central bank will cut rates anytime soon. At their most recent meeting last month, some Fed officials supported opening the door to the potential for rate hikes if inflation didn’t show signs of improving. </block>

‘Prolonged abuse:’ Jury awards $130M in wrongful death of Pierce Co. 2-year-old

A Pierce County jury has returned a $130M verdict in favor of the estate of a 2-year-old who died from “prolonged abuse.”The lawsuit filed alleged that both the Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) and Love and Laughter Learning Centers, Inc. “ignored clear warning signs of abuse and failed to take basic steps that would have saved Sarai Brooks’ life.”This is the largest verdict of its kind in the state’s history.Follow this link to read additional stories from KIRO 7What happenedAr

Rutte the ‘Trump whisperer’ faces a fresh test as Trump turns on NATO over Iran

troops out of European countries that do not support the war.Asked whether the world is safer thanks to the U.S.-Israel war, Rutte said: “Absolutely.”War launched by a NATO member, not at oneThe striking thing about the war on Iran is that NATO has no role to play there. As a defensive alliance it has protected ally Turkey when Iranian missiles were fired in retaliation at its territory, but the war was launched by a NATO member, not at one.Rutte himself has said that NATO would not join the war

Attorney General charges 2 with dumping over 1,000 tires in Capitol State Forest, threatening local salmon

The Washington State Attorney General’s Office charged two people after they allegedly dumped more than 1,000 tires in the Capitol State Forest near Olympia in 2024.Washington State Department of Natural Resources employees discovered that the two individuals allegedly dumped approximately 1,009 tires in Capitol State Forest over the course of two weeks, according to a news release from the AG’s Office.Each person was charged with seven counts of unlawful dumping of solid waste and t

Now that trains are rolling across Lake Washington, what about life jackets?

Are there life jackets on board?I asked Sound Transit’s Rachelle Cunningham about life jackets the week light rail service began. Her answer was simple.“There are not any life jackets, and it’s because they aren’t required,” she said.It’s something that Sound Transit investigated, but it didn’t find anything suggesting that life jackets were necessary, even with trains going across the water.“There is no regulatory requirement,” Cunningham sa

The Latest: Ceasefire at risk over Israel’s attacks in Lebanon, possible mines in Strait of Hormuz

President Donald Trump issued an online statement Thursday insisting that his surge of warships and troops will remain around Iran “until such time as the REAL AGREEMENT reached is fully complied with.”Trump’s comments on his Truth Social platform appear to be a way to pressure Iran as uncertainty hangs over the tentative two-week ceasefire now holding in the war.“If for any reason it is not, which is highly unlikely, then the ‘Shootin’ Starts,’ bigger, and better, and stronger than anyone has e

Oil prices rise again and Asian stocks retreat on the fragile Iran ceasefire

<block>HONG KONG (AP) — Oil rose again to above $97 a barrel and Asian stocks were trading lower Thursday on skepticism over a fragile ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran.Investors were closely watching whether a two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran was already slipping after a round of deadly Israeli strikes on Lebanon that killed and injured hundreds. Iran again closed the Strait of Hormuz, in response to the attacks in Lebanon.Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 dropped 0.9% to 55,824.30, while South Korea’s Kospi lost 1.6% to 5,776.03. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng fell 0.4% to 25,801.87. The Shanghai Composite index was down 0.7% to 3,965.70.Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 edged down 0.1%, while Taiwan’s Taiex was also 0.1% lower.U.S. futures were down more than 0.1%.Oil prices were up Thursday, reversing an earlier plunge on optimism over the temporary ceasefire agreement. Brent crude, the international standard, was up 2.4% to $97.02 per barrel. It previously fell briefly to below $92 a barrel following the temporary ceasefire announcement.Benchmark U.S. crude was 3.3% higher on Thursday at $97.50 a barrel.Uncertainties over global energy supply remained. The Strait of Hormuz, a chokepoint for energy transport where a fifth of the world’s oil typically passes, was largely closed even though the U.S. repeatedly demanded that the strait must be reopened.Talks to pursue a permanent end to the war could be taking place as soon as Friday in Pakistan, and U.S. Vice President JD Vance is expected to be leading the negotiating team for the United States.Wall Street closed higher Wednesday following U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement of a two-week ceasefire with Iran late Tuesday.The S&P 500 jumped 2.5% to 6,782.81. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 2.9% to 47,909.92. The Nasdaq composite was up 2.8% to 22,635.00.Following renewed hopes over deescalation of the war, shares of United Airlines surged 7.9% on Wednesday, American Airlines was up 5.6%, while cruise ship operator Carnival jumped 11.2%, trimming losses since the Iran war began on concerns over rising fuel costs.In other dealings, gold and silver prices fell. Gold’s price dropped 0.7% to $4,743.20 an ounce. The price of silver fell 1.6% to $74.18 per ounce.The U.S. dollar rose to 158.66 Japanese yen from 158.57 yen. The euro was trading at $1.1668, up from $1.1663.___AP journalists Stan Choe and Aniruddha Ghosal contributed to this report.</block>

Chart shows Iran may have put sea mines in Strait of Hormuz

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Semiofficial news agencies in Iran published a chart Thursday suggesting the country’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard put sea mines into the Strait of Hormuz during the war.The reports came from the ISNA news agency, as well as Tasnim, which is believed to be close to the Guard.The chart showed a large circle marked “danger zone” in Farsi over the Traffic Separation Scheme, which was the route ships used to take through the strait. That was where the Guard al

Democratic presidential prospects flock to New York to court activists at Al Sharpton’s conference

Khanna, a Sanders ally who also addressed activists on Wednesday, told The Associated Press that progressive candidates in 2028 could make greater inroads with Black voters “by speaking to the Civil Rights tradition and offering a vision rooted in Black history.”“A 2028 contender needs to articulate and run on a new moral vision for America,” Khanna said. Any presidential candidate’s platform, he added, “must be as much inspired by the greats of Douglass and King” — referring to abolitionist Fre

PHOTO ESSAY: In a corner of Appalachia, soaring utility costs are surpassing rents and mortgages

Instead, it clings to aging coal-powered electric plants more than anywhere else in the country — about 87% of all production.Even though monthly bills remain higher in other states, salaries in West Virginia have simply not kept pace — it’s the only place in the country where the median inflation-adjusted household income was lower in 2023 than it was in 1970, according to the Urban Institute.Increased demand, extreme weather and events, upgrading and maintaining aging infrastructure and rising

1 dead and 2 missing after parking garage collapses in Philadelphia

One person was dead and two were missing after a parking garage under construction in Philadelphia collapsed on Wednesday, officials said. A roof segment fell and triggered a “progressive collapse of connected sections across all seven levels,” Mayor Cherelle Parker told reporters Wednesday. “Let me be very clear about something at this moment: We are not, we will not give up on these individuals and we will not rest until everyone is accounted for from this tragedy,” she said.Crews

How US communities have responded to plans to convert warehouses into immigration detention centers

The sale of the warehouse came two months after the owner of another Salt Lake City warehouse announced plans not to sell or lease to the federal government amid protests. VirginiaFollowing boycott threats, Jim Pattison Developments announced in January that it would not proceed with a planned sale of a warehouse in the suburbs of Richmond, Virginia. It said it was not aware of the intended use until after it agreed to the sale.___Associated Press reporters Holly Ramer, Isabella Volmert and Marc

Former NYPD officer faces sentencing in cooler throwing death

<block>NEW YORK (AP) — A former New York City police sergeant is set to be sentenced Thursday for tossing a picnic cooler full of drinks at a fleeing suspect, who then crashed his motorized scooter and died. The ex-officer, Erik Duran, was convicted of manslaughter in the 2023 death of Eric Duprey. The former sergeant, who said he was trying to protect other officers from the approaching scooter, faces up to 15 years in prison. The case has animated police on one hand and accountability activists on the other. Duran’s union, the Sergeants Benevolent Association, says thousands of officers have signed an online petition calling for him to be spared prison. Meanwhile, a small group of activists demonstrated outside a Bronx courthouse Tuesday to push for the maximum sentence, the <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/04/07/black-lives-matter-demands-max-sentence-for-cooler-cop-nypd-sgt-erik-duran/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daily News reported</a>.Duran was part of a narcotics policing group that conducted a “buy-and-bust” operation in the Bronx on Aug. 23, 2023. Police said Duprey sold drugs to an undercover officer, then tried to flee on a scooter. <a href="https://ag.ny.gov/osi/footage/eric-duprey" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Surveillance video showed</a> Duprey driving the motorized scooter on a sidewalk toward a group of people. As he approached, the then-sergeant — who wasn’t in uniform — picked up a bystander’s cooler and thew it. The container full of ice, water and sodas struck Duprey. He lost control of the scooter, slammed into a tree and crashed onto the pavement.Duprey, 30, wasn’t wearing a helmet. He sustained fatal head injuries and died almost instantaneously, according to prosecutors with New York Attorney General Letitia James’ office. They argued that Duran had enough time to warn others to move but instead hurled the cooler because he was angry. Duran, however, testified that he made a split-second decision to keep other officers safe from the scooter speeding toward them. “He was gonna crash into us,” Duran said in court, adding that “all I had time for was to try again to stop or to try to get him to change directions.”He testified that he immediately tried to help Duprey after seeing the crash and the extent of the man’s injuries.Duran opted to have a judge, not a jury, decide the case. Judge Guy Mitchell found him guilty, saying that his status as a police officer “has no bearing” on the case. But Sergeants Benevolent Association President Vincent Vallelong has said the conviction sent “a terrible message to hard-working cops” about the costs of defending themselves and fellow officers.Duran was a New York Police Department officer for 13 years before he was suspended after the crash. He was dismissed from the force after his conviction this past February. Duprey worked as a delivery driver and had three young children. His mother, who said she was on a video call with him right before he died, disputed the police claims that he sold drugs and fled from officers.A lawyer for Duprey’s family, Jon Roberts, said they are “hopeful that the court will do justice for Eric and the loss that the entire family has endured and hope that this marks the beginning of the healing process.”</block>

Protesters rally against planned Maryland immigration detention facility that’s now paused

It’s scrutinizing all contracts signed under Noem.The federal government also said in a recent court filing in Maryland’s lawsuit that “ICE is reconsidering the plans and scope of the warehouse.”Asked whether any changes were afoot for the Maryland facility, DHS said in a statement: “As with any transition, we are reviewing agency policies and proposals.” Washington County residents are waiting to see what happens The plan was to turn the Maryland warehouse into an ICE processing fac

Takeaways from the Gilgo Beach case as Rex Heuermann pleads guilty to 7 murders and admits to an 8th

(AP) — A Long Island man who carried out a series of murders known as the Gilgo Beach killings pleaded guilty to murder charges this week, bringing finality to the long-unsolved case more than 30 years after the first killing.Rex Heuermann, an architect who led a secret life as a serial killer, pleaded guilty Wednesday to three counts of first-degree murder and four counts of intentional murder in the killings of seven women between 1993 and 2010. Heuermann, 62, appeared unemotional and did not