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2021 wasn't a good year for police agencies around the state of Washington including in Yakima.

Traditional and effective police practices and tools were changed or shelved and the complications and potential liabilities of all that forced many officers to have to decide to continue on the job under the new laws or retire or resign, which many have done.

  Authorities have identified two people killed in a house fire in Union Gap last Sunday. The fire in Union Gap that destroyed a home and left the two dead was intentionally set. That from investigators in the Union Gap Police Department who say the suspicious fire has now turned into a homicide investigation. The fire was reported at about 2:50 a.m. March 28 at a home at 2210 South 5th Avenue in Union Gap. Two bodies were found after the flames were doused. An autopsy has found that both died of smoke inhalation. They've been identified as 33-year-old Tyler Aalbu and 66-year-old Roger Harr...

Union Gap Police Hoping For Tips to Solve Suspicious Fire Union Gap Police investigators are hoping for tips from the public to help solve a suspicious house fire reported in Union Gap on Sunday that resulted in the deaths of two people. No identities have been released and no word from authorities on how they died. Autopsies have been performed by the Yakima County Coroners Office but the results have not been released because of the current investigation into the fire at a home in the 2200 block of South Fifth Avenue. Union Gap Police Chief Greg Cobb tells KIT News investigators are getting...

Valparaiso-based Family Express is expanding across Indiana again. The convenience store chain acquired six Freedom Oil gas stations in Kosciusko and Marshall counties, as well as a convenience store in McCordsville in central Indiana in a separate purchase. The terms of the deals were not disclosed. Leesburg-based Freedom Oil had run the gas stations near Warsaw, the orthopedic capital of the world, for nearly two decades. The company started in July 2002 after the Cobb family bought four locations from Gast Fuel and Oil. “When our family came to Warsaw in 2002 to purchase four gas stat...