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A class-action lawsuit has been filed in Washington State against Idaho-based Lamb Weston, Inc. The suit was filed on Jan. 21 in Benton County Superior Court by Derrick Gilbert, who is an employee at the food processing company, which is one of the world's largest producers and processors of frozen french fries and other frozen potato products...

A pair of household hazardous waste collection events will take place in Grant County in the coming weeks. Residents can bring a variety of items to the events for safe and proper disposal, including paint, gasoline and automotive fluids, yard and pool chemicals, batteries, and fluorescent light bulbs and tubes...

A man wanted on burglary charges is in police custody after he was found hiding inside an assisted living facility in Grant County. The Quincy Police Department says officers were actively searching for 33-year-old Joshua D. Avalos at around 2:15 p...

An elderly man is dead following a two-vehicle collision in Grant County on Wednesday afternoon. The Grant County Sheriff's Office says it happened at around 1 p.m. at the intersection of Adams Road North and Road 5 Northwest when 81-year-old Ford Hemmann of Quincy turned his sedan into the path of a tractor-trailer truck driven by 32-year-old Isaac Anderson of Colfax...

Maintenence crews will work on SR 28 in Quincy starting this Sunday. Washington State Department of Transportation says they will begin sealing a crack along a section of SR 28 through the city of Quincy starting Sunday night. Crews will work from 7 p...

It appears that it won't take long for residents in North Central Washington and the Columbia Basin to forget about Old Man Winter. The National Weather Service (NWS) Office in Spokane says daytime high temperatures in the region to start next week will be well-above widespread averages, and even close to record-setting territory in some places...

A Quincy man is in jail after police say he burglarized a convenience store in Moses Lake early this morning. The Moses Lake Police Department says officers responded to reports of a break-in at the Circle K in the 600 block of Stratford Road at around 2:30 a...

A Quincy man has been sentenced to over 26 years in prison for multiple sex crimes involving children. A federal judge handed down the 318-month sentence to 37-year-old Jose Martinez-Cruz on Jan. 10. The term follows Martinez-Cruz's conviction on multiple counts of child molestation and incest, as well as child rape...

Several residents in the Columbia Basin are buzzing after reportedly spotting what they say was a meteor in the skies over the weekend. Most of the reports came from the Quincy area where at least one person reported seeing a streaking object with a long trail of smoke behind it during the daylight hours on Saturday...

A Quincy man narrowly escaped serious injury or worse on Wednesday night when his vehicle was hit by a passenger train. The Grant County Sheriff's Office says it happened on Road J.7 Northwest near Winchester, when 18-year-old Rogelio Bryan Ramirez of Quincy unsuccessfully attempted to cross the railroad tracks ahead of the Amtrak train...