PORT ORCHARD - As Kitsap County jail corrections officers prepared to shackle Robert "Doug" Pierce for the bus to the state prison in Shelton, he was handed a flurry of paperwork. It was December 2009 ...

The younger fiancée of a private tutor who sexually assaulted a smart but troubled 14-year-old pupil was spared a jail sentence as judge struck down a mandatory minimum sentence for the offence.

The Hancock County Council and commissioners are just testing us to see if we are paying attention to their financing of the proposed new jail. Right? Some of us have, in fact, noticed, and we can’t ...