These three images were used to prove Glenn Proctor was not the shooter in a homicide last year at the Federal Way Transit Center. Video forensics expert Tom Sandor developed a program called Cranial Relative Comparative Measurement. The program converts facial features into mathematical formulas. Sandor compared a surveillance photo of the shooter and two photos of Proctor that were taken in jail. Sandor compared facial features related to bone structure in the hairline

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Video forensics clear suspect in Federal Way Transit Center homicide; investigation exposes shortcomings in surveillance

Video forensics helped clear a suspect who was held in jail for nearly a year after a Federal…

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Federal Way students need parental permission to watch Obama’s inauguration

Federal Way students will be required to have permission slips to watch President-elect Barack Obama sworn into office…

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Coeds distract clerk and steal beer | Federal Way crime blotter

Coeds distract clerk, steal beer The following is a sample from the Federal Way police public information log:…

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Inauguration Day: Federal Way connections to history

Drew Conley is going to witness history next week. The Christian Faith School sophomore will be in Washington,…

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Municipal League rates candidates for county elections director

The Municipal League of King County has rated Sherril Huff and David Irons as “outstanding” candidates for the…

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Federal Way police ponder pros and cons of hiring volunteer reserves

The Federal Way Police Department and a city council sub-committee discussed Jan. 13 the pros and cons of…

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Forecast cloudy for Puget Sound region’s economy

The economy is tough and it will get worse before better — but with hard work and optimism,…

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The governor’s budget is unconstitutional, according to the Federal Way School District. On Tuesday, the Federal Way School…

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Federal Way schools fight for funding; call governor’s budget ‘unconstitutional’

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Glenn C. Proctor

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Federal Way homicide suspect freed from jail

King County prosecutors dismissed charges against Glenn C. Proctor, 21, formerly accused of second-degree murder of a woman…

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Hotel bandit pleads guilty to six Pierce County robberies

Omari Moore, dubbed the ‘hotel bandit,’ was sentenced to seven years in prison Jan. 13. Moore is accused…

Police are looking for Maria Lopez-De-Guardado

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Missing elderly woman found uninjured

Police located, at 5 p.m. Jan. 13, the elderly woman who went missing about 3 p.m. Jan. 12.…

Police are looking for Maria Lopez-De-Guardado

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Police seeking missing elderly woman

Police are asking the public for assistance in locating an elderly woman who went missing about 3 p.m.…

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MLK Jr. Day celebration is still growing in 16th year

For the past 10 years, I have had the privilege of spearheading our city’s 16-year-old Martin Luther King,…

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Crime blotter: Loud music makes the voices in man’s head go away, report says

• At 2:27 a.m. Jan. 8 in the 1900 block of Southwest 321st Lane, police responded to a…

Sid Lee

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Federal Way landmark featured in documentary

One of Federal Way’s historical landmarks stars in a documentary on 1840s Methodist missionaries arriving in Puget Sound.…

Kat Albrecht poses with one of her pet detective volunteers

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Kat Albrecht: Pet Detective

Kat Albrecht has spent years searching for lost pets, and now, TV producers are looking at her. Albrecht,…

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Multi-Service center offering free tax help

The Multi-Service center and United Way of King County are partnering to offer low- to moderate-income families a…

Pavement at 20th Avenue Southwest

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Flooding, for the most part, misses Federal Way

While Federal Way wasn’t hit too hard in the winter rain storm and flooding earlier this week, that…

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Crime blotter: Bomb threat can’t stop man’s girlfriend from being arrested

• At 11:48 a.m. Dec. 31 at 34520 16th Ave. S., a male called to report a bomb…