09/05/08 Photojournal - 
Andrew Miller, Jake Sagare and Bob Schefter play a soccer juggling game at Randal Park on Wednesday. The trio has played organized soccer together since they were 13. c# Yakima Herald-Republic...

Hops processor welcomes 'Dirty Jobs' film crew - 
The job may not have been all that messy, but that didn't stop "Dirty Jobs" host Mike Rowe from picking hops in the Yakima Valley this week. "They worked hard and played hard. I liked it," said Ralph Olson, general manager and part owner of Hopunion at...

Former priest accused of abuse - 
A former Yakima resident filed a lawsuit Tuesday in King County against the Catholic Diocese of Yakima and a former priest here. A woman, identified only by the initials M.C., alleged that she was sexually molested as a teenager 40 years ago by Christop...

Campaign contributors - 
A dozen volunteers donned gardening gloves and got to work. Their task: some light landscaping, including weeding, trimming, and removing dead vines and a tree from the flower beds at Yakima's Allied ArtsCenter. But these jobs didn't daunt the folks fr...

Crews will be repaving two busy city streets - 
Motorists will surely take notice next week as Yakima's major street-repair project of 2008 gets started. Crews working for contractor Granite Northwest will begin prepping portions of Nob Hill Boulevard, one of the city's five busiest thoroughfares, for...

Work begins on new skills center for Valley students - 
It was all smiles, shovels and hard hats as more than 50 people gathered Thursday at the groundbreaking for the new Yakima Valley Technical Skills Center. The center will be built just east of State Fair Park at 1120 S. 18th St. The gathering drew school...

Bake sale will help Asthma Walk - 
MOXEE — A team participating in the 2008 Yakima Asthma Walk for the American Lung Association will host a bake sale Saturday in Moxee. Team captain Shayna Dye will host the event, where the team will sell donated home-baked goods as well as items donate...

LSD dealing sends former Yakima resident to prison - 
SPOKANE — A former Yakima man was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 51/2 years in prison for distributing LSD. A yearlong investigation showed that Allen Lint, 27, was a selling the hallucinogenic drug at regional barter fairs, federal prosecutors sa...

Man's hobby finds a home at museum - 
One man's junk became another man's hobby and, eventually, the Yakima Valley Museum's treasure. Arnold Thomas, 93, has donated to the museum a 1925 Chevrolet one-ton pickup he spent as many as 20 years restoring. "It's a dandy," said his son, Chawley Th...

Schweppe has ringside seat - 
Yakima's Al Schweppe hadn't even heard John McCain's nomination speech yet on Thursday, and already he believed he'd witnessed history at the Republican National Convention. Like pundits across the country, Schweppe was impressed with Alaska Gov. Sarah P...

Yakama Nation is suing state - 
The Yakama Nation and several cigarette retailers and distributors on the reservation have sued the state of Washington over cigarette taxes, the latest move in a long-running dispute over treaty rights. The lawsuit, which seeks to block the state from t...

NEW: Convenience store robbed in Yakima - 
YAKIMA -- A man robbed Cruisin' Bill's convenience store last night of an undisclosed amount of money, Yakima police said. Police said the man entered the store at 702 W. Yakima Ave. just before 8:30 p.m. and demanded money. The man did not display a wea...

NEW: 300-acre land sale in the works - 
The city of Yakima is moving to sell nearly 300 acres of land along State Route 410 it has owned since before the Great Depression. The state Department of Fish and Wildlife is buying the land for $1.3 million in grant funds from the Bonneville Power Admi...

NEW: Garage fire does $5,000 in damage - 
Yakima fire officials are estimating damage at $5,000 from a garage fire at Pleasant and Hamm avenues, south of Nob Hill Boulevard, early this morning. The fire was apparently caused by a short in electrical wiring leading from the residence to the garage...

NEW: Quintet to appear on drug trafficking charges - 
Five men are set to appear today in Yakima County Superior Court on drug trafficking charges stemming from a bust earlier this week in the Sunnyside area. The men were arrested on suspicion of manufacturing marijuana. The case stems from a tip that detect...

NEW: White Swan man injured in accident near Toppenish - 
TOPPENISH— A 55-year-old White Swan man is in satisfactory condition at a Yakima hospital after rolling his pickup truck on McDonald Road, north of Toppenish, early this afternoon. The Washington State Patrol said George Norcross was trav...

NEW: Yakima man gets 24 years for distributing methamphetamine - 
YAKIMA -- A Yakima man has been sentenced to more than 24 years in prison in U.S. District Court for distributing methamphetamine and conspiring to manufacture the drug. Jose Luis Manzo, 32, was long the subject of an investigation into the...

NEW: Come Cruise The Ave tomorrow night - 
YAKIMA -- Tomorrow marks the summer's-end celebration known as Cruisin' The Ave. The event, which gives motorists and their families a chance to cruise downtown Yakima Avenue at a leisurely pace, starts at 6 p.m. and ends at 10 p.m. It is t...

Fall Prep Previews -- Girls soccer capsules - 
COLUMBIA BASIN BIG NINE CONFERENCE FAVORITES With graduation hitting perennial powerhouse Richland hard, this figures to be the year that PASCO -- which shared the conference title with the Bombers last year -- finally stands alone atop the final standin...

Fall Prep Previews -- Change at the top for soccer? - 
YAKIMA -- The girls who have made up the lineup of each West Valley soccer team since 1996 have known only triumph, with a cumulative league record of 138-9-3 and not a single season in which the Rams did not win outright or tie for their league title. L...

9/5/08 This Week on Track - 
YAKIMA SPEEDWAY What: Late Models, Super Stocks, Hobby Sportsman, Hobby, Bump to Pass, Hornets, Youth Hornets. When: Saturday. Gates open at 4 p.m., time trials at 5. Point leaders -- Late Models: Mike Longton 463, Mike Zamora 459, Owen Riddle 415, Ron Be...

Fall Prep Previews -- Girls soccer, 2007 revisited - 
2007 REVISITED CBL 4A W L Richland 11 1 Pasco 11 1 Eisenhower 8 4 Walla Walla 5 7 Wenatchee 4 8 Davis 2 10 Moses Lake 1 11 CBL 3A W L West Valley 12 0 Southridge 10 2 Kamiakin 8 4 Eastmont 6 6 Hanford 3 9 Kennewick 2 10 Sunnyside 1 11 CWAC North Divis...

Future begins tonight - 
YAKIMA -- The Yakima Herald-Republic sports department is making a comeback of sorts. After giving readers the most complete coverage in print of the prep sports in the Yakima Valley, we're expanding our game on the Internet, where we've been lacking for...

College football -- CWU looking for less drama - 
YAKIMA -- For their next act, Central Washington's Wildcats will seek to avoid late-game drama. They will try to make the fourth quarter less chaotic, will attempt to place less pressure on the arm of Mike Reilly and the foot of Garrett Rolsma and thereby...

Local Report - 
ELLENSBURG -- Rachael Schurman and Erin Norris combined for 21 kills Thursday night as Central Washington overwhelmed St. Mary's (Texas) 3-0 in the CWU Invitational in Nicholson Pavilion. Schurman had 11 kills and Norris 10 as the Wildcats won their home...

Government was ready for Gustav - 
While we're not ready to declare that it was a "heckuva job," it's obvious that state and federal officials did learn lessons from Hurricane Katrina three years ago and are much better prepared to deal with natural disaster in the Gulf Coast this hurrican...

09/05/08 Death Notices - 
Richard Buhl, 73, of Cle Elum died Tuesday at Kittitas Valley Health and Rehabilitation Center. Mr. Buhl was born in Renton, Wash., and served in the armed forces. He lived and worked in Graham and Wenatchee before moving to Cle Elum. He work...