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A couple of weeks ago, we alerted you to a car wash fundraiser that the Yakima's local rugby team - the Griffins - were putting on to raise money for their trip to the state championship tournament. How'd they do?

Times are tough.  The economy sucks.  Unemployment is, like..  Eleventy brazillion percent. If you are looking for an extra source of income, are unemployed or underemployed, or maybe a student returning to Yakima for the Summer, the Yakima Bears Baseball Club may have the opportunity you are looking for!

Memorial Day is coming this Monday and, while it is  a time to honor those who serve and remember those who have died in war, it has also become another guise for scam artists to take from people who are serving or have served their nation, especially elderly veterans.

I love a good "sports cry." It's probably why I'm a sucker for movies that depict moments that real-life athletes might have gone through. Which is why I'm sharing the events that unfolded at Wrigley Field a couple of days ago with you.

On Independence Day, 1902, a monument was unveiled in the center of Yakima Avenue and Third Street of what is now downtown Yakima. Over the last, nearly 110 years, it has fallen prey to the elements and is in need of restoration.

Yakama Nation Legends Casino celebrated it's 14th birthday with a giant outdoor party on Monday.

It's a sad commentary when a fifteen year-old has a better understanding of the Constitution than most of our elected representatives on Capitol Hill.   Brandon Spicer, a homeschooled junior from Selah, earned 1st place and $1,000 in the sixth annual 'Being an American Essay Contest" conducted by the Bill of Rights Institute.

March Madness began yesterday in Yakima with the opening of the Washington State Class 2A and 1A Boys and Girls basketball tournaments in the Yakima Valley SunDome. The Zillah Leopards boys team opened yesterday's schedule by knocking off Toledo, 41-38...

Sad news out of Florida this morning. Former lead singer of legendary made-for-T.V. rock-'n-roll band The Monkees, Davy Jones, suffered a heart attack and died at the age of 66. Here's a list of other rockers we've already lost in 2012...

The Washington State Patrol has identified the trooper shot and killed near Port Orchard early this morning as 44-year old Tony Radulescu, assigned to the state patrol office in Bremerton. Trooper Radulescu was a 16 year veteran of the agency, having begun state service in 1995...

With the Super Bowl coming up, I wanted to see if I could get a sneak preview of the winner, but how? Do research on each of the players? Call Miss Cleo? I'll do research the best way I know how, by pitting those teams against each other on Tecmo Super Bowl on the old 8-bit Nintendo (NES).

This just in from Yakima Mayor Micah Cawley: