By Rachel Rose Hartman, Yahoo News

Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich announced Wednesday he has decided against running for Congress in Washington state, where activists had urged him to launch a campaign. In a statement, Kucinich signaled the end of his …

MONTESANO, Wash. –  A man stabbed a judge and shot a sheriff’s deputy with her own weapon in a courthouse struggle Friday in a Washington state town that was later placed on lockdown as authorities hunted for the assailant.

The suspect …

ByLeigh Ann Caldwell, CBS News

CBS News projects former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney will win the Washington caucuses.

With 3,866 of 6,785 precincts counted so far, Romney has 36 percent of the vote. Rep. Ron Paul and former Senator Rick Santorum are in a …

By Cheryl Wetzstein-The Washington Times

Washington state officials are permanently blocked from enforcing rules that tell pharmacies and pharmacists they have to stock emergency-contraception products regardless of any religious objections, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

“The Board of Pharmacy’s 2007 rules are …

OLYMPIA, Wash. –  Washington state lawmakers voted to approve gay marriage Wednesday, setting the stage for the state to become the seventh in the nation to allow same-sex couples to wed.

The action comes a day after a federal appeals court …

By MIKE BAKER, Associated Press

OLYMPIA, Wash. —A plan to redraw Washington’s congressional districts would create a competitive seat in northwest Washington, anchor a new district in Olympia and create the state’s first majority-minority district in the Seattle area.

The proposal released …

Kim Murphy, Los Angeles Times

Benjamin Fodor, the “superhero” crime-fighter who’s become an international celebrity for his masked patrols of Seattle’s mean streets, didn’t fare so well over the weekend. He was arrested for pepper-spraying a group of patrons leaving a downtown club.

The …

Globalpost

The American College of Emergency Physicians is suing the state of Washington over its new policy of paying for only three non-emergency trips to the emergency room per year for low-income Medicaid patients, ABC News reports.

The state has defined 700 symptoms …

By Kyle Trygstad, Roll Call

Washington Sen. Maria Cantwell’s (D) opponent next year may have just been revealed.

Scott Stanzel, a former spokesman for President George W. Bush, said this week he is considering challenging the two-term Senator.

“I have spoken with leaders …

by Warner Todd Huston, Biggovernment.com

Some people think that marriage is the most absurd institution ever invented by man. But those that think so are ignoring what is truly the most idiotic, paradoxically absurd practice in all of human history: government. Yeah, …