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A military judge sentenced Pvt. Deron Gordon to over six years in prison for sexually assaulting a college student. JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. — A Joint Base Lewis-McChord soldier who sexually assaulted a college student in the barracks in 2024 was sentenced to more than six years in prison Friday. A military judge sentenced Pvt. Deron Gordon, 20, to six years and three months in prison after he pleaded guilty to one specification each of sexual assault, abusive sexual contact and as a principal to indecent recording. Gordon was previously charged with additional crimes, but those were dismissed as part of the plea agreement. Gordon is one of four soldiers who were charged in in connection to the sexual assault of a college student, who is now a commissioned Army officer, in October 2024. When Gordon pleaded guilty, he said that he and another soldier followed the college student into a bedroom after she had been drinking with them. He said she was unstable walking into the room and when they went inside she was on the bed and not responsive. Gordon said he and the other soldier each proceeded to have sex with her and they filmed each other sexually assaulting her on Snapchat. As part of his sentencing, Gordon will be reduced in rank to E-1 and dishonorably discharged from the Army. Gordon will serve the remainder of his sentencing at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Once he is released, Gordon must register as a sex offender. The three other soldiers who were charged in the incident are at different points in the legal process, and their cases are being treated separately. If you or someone you know has been a victim of sexual assault, you can call the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-4673. Additional resources are available on the Washington State Department of Health's website. KING 5’s Conner Board contributed to this report. 

In the plea agreement, the teen said he recognized the man from pulling a gun on him on the bus several days prior and was nervous and scared. WHITE CENTER, Wash. — A teenager was sentenced Friday to over 23 years in prison for shooting and killing a man aboard a King County Metro bus near White Center in 2023. King County Judge Brian McDonald sentenced Miguel Rivera Dominguez, 19, to 23 years and 4 months in prison, with credit for time served. Prison time will be followed by three years of community custody. The sentencing comes after Rivera Dominguez pleaded guilty July 3 of first-degree premeditated murder. On Oct. 3, 2023, Rivera Dominguez fired five shots from “point blank range” at the head and neck of Marcel Da'jon Wagner, 21, who appeared to be asleep aboard the bus near Southwest Roxbury Street and 15th Avenue Southwest, according to charging documents. In the plea agreement, Rivera Dominguez said he recognized Wagner from having “pulled a gun” on him on the bus a few days prior. “i was nervous and scared when I saw him on 10/3/23 but he was not threatening me and I was not acting in self-defense,” Rivera Dominguez wrote. There were 15 other passengers on the bus at the time, but none of them were injured in the shooting. Rivera Dominguez, who was 17 at the time of the shooting, fled after the incident and remained at large for a month before he turned himself in. The shooting prompted concerns about safety aboard King County Metro buses. After the shooting, Metro said it would add security to the H Line, expanding transit security officers who patrol buses and transit centers.

Let's Go Washington, the backers of the 2024 initiatives, is looking for signatures again. OLYMPIA, Wash. — Let's Go Washington is back in the initiative game. The organization, founded by Brian Heywood, sponsored several initiatives in 2024 changing state law. Heywood announced Monday signatures are being gathered to submit two initiatives to the 2026 state Legislature or potentially voters. The initiatives relate to parental rights and trans youth athletes. Heywood's organization achieved significant victories last year when voters supported initiatives restricting natural gas use and overturning state laws limiting police pursuits. The state Legislature also passed Let's Go Washington-backed measures banning income taxes and guaranteeing parental rights to access school records. The success came after Heywood invested more than $5 million of his own money into seven initiatives. "Someone has to stand up and fight back. And what I think I've done is given the voice. I've given voice to 1.2 million people who signed at least one of our initiatives," Heywood said. However, the organization faced a setback earlier this year when Gov. Bob Ferguson signed legislation overhauling the "parents bill of rights" initiative.  "It stripped all the parts about parental notification or parental access to information," Heywood said. In response, Let's Go Washington is now gathering signatures for two new campaigns. The first seeks to overturn Ferguson's recent law, restoring their original parental rights initiative. The second would require physicians to assign genders to youth athletes during physicals, prohibiting those considered males from competing against females. "Allowing biological males to compete in girls sports is a blatant, a flagrant violation of Title IX, I would argue, and also extremely unfair to girls who've worked really hard to get in a position to be top athletes," Heywood said. Despite failing to pass initiatives targeting the state's climate law, long-term care savings program, and capital gains tax in 2024, Heywood remains optimistic about his organization's impact.  "Four out of seven, I'm pretty, pretty happy with what we did, and we're not done," he said. If the organization can collect enough signatures by the end of the year, the issues would be submitted to the state Legislature. Lawmakers could either pass the initiatives or let voters decide in November 2026.

A man violently assaulted two women at an Edmonds massage parlor on Sunday, according to police. Both were taken to area hospitals for treatment. EDMONDS, Wash. — A man "violently" assaulted two female employees at an Edmonds massage parlor Sunday evening, according to the Edmonds Police Department.  A 911 caller reported an assault at the business on Edmonds Way just before 6 p.m. A 48-year-old man allegedly attacked the two women and then fled the area on foot.  When police arrived at the massage parlor, they found both women unconscious. One woman was taken to Swedish Edmonds and the other woman was taken to Harborview Medical Center for treatment of their injuries.  There is no information on their conditions at this time.  Witnesses were able to point police officers in the direction of the suspect, and he was taken into custody nearby. The man made statements to police acknowledging he assaulted the women, but he did not share a motive, Edmonds police said. Detectives are still investigating what led up to the attack. 

The moose showed up late last week in a suburb of the provincial capital, St. Pölten and doesn’t seem to be in any hurry to leave. VIENNA, Austria — For weeks, sightings of a rare immigrant have been keeping a corner of Austria on its toes. A moose that has come to be known as Emil appeared nearly three weeks ago in Lower Austria, a province in the country's northeast that surrounds Vienna, and it doesn't seem to be in any hurry to leave. Sightings of the animal have drawn curious onlookers, and by Monday a Facebook fan page for him had 10,000 members. It's been an eventful few days for Emil. The moose showed up late last week in a suburb of the provincial capital, St. Pölten. On Saturday evening, he found his way onto the tracks at its main railway station — prompting a several-hour closure of the Vienna-Salzburg main line, which passes through the city. Moose aren't native to Austria. Emil is believed to have come from Poland via the Czech Republic, Austria's northern neighbor. The local animal protection organization says people should avoid feeding him or approaching him for photos and videos. It urged people to leave the animal in peace and not to make a special trip to see him — moose, it said in a social media post, “don't need closeness to humans.” Emil's whereabouts weren't clear on Monday — he was believed to have wandered northward out of St. Pölten. Police reported no new deployments related to the moose, the Austria Press Agency reported. Copyright 2025 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.     

Lydia and her parents, Harry and Leah, were visited by Vice President JD Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance Wednesday. MINNEAPOLIS — Lydia Kaiser, the 12-year-old who was injured in the Annunciation Church shooting while shielding a younger student, has been released from the hospital, according to a spokesperson with Children's Minnesota. The spokesperson confirmed Saturday that all seven of the children admitted to the hospital had been discharged. Lydia and her parents, Harry and Leah, were visited by Vice President JD Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance Wednesday. Harry said he read a note to the vice president, urging him to take action to reduce gun violence. "Will you please promise to pursue, despite powerful lobbies, some commonsense bipartisan legislation as a starting point, so we can come out of our corners and find the values that we share so that this time some progress is made?" Harry said, while reading the note to reporters. "Thoughts and prayers haven’t been enough; many policies have been dismissed without even being studied or tried. It’s so complicated. I don’t claim to have the answers, but we have to commit to looking." According to a GoFundMe set up for Lydia and her family, she is walking and talking, but she will need another surgery in the near future to replace a section of her skull that was removed to allow for swelling in her brain.

Davies died Saturday after battling multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer, for more than a decade, the band said. LONDON, UK — Rick Davies, the lead singer and co-founder of British band Supertramp, has died after a long battle with cancer, the band said Monday. He was 81. Davies, who co-wrote the band's music with Roger Hodgson, was “the voice and pianist behind Supertramp's most iconic songs, leaving an indelible mark on rock music history,” the band said in a statement on its website. He died Saturday after battling multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer, for more than a decade, the band said. Davies and Hodgson formed Supertramp in 1969, and produced hits including “Goodbye Stranger" and “The Logical Song." The band's 1979 album “Breakfast in America" topped charts in the United States and Canada, won two Grammys and sold over 18 million copies. Davies' “soulful vocals and unmistakable touch on the Wurlitzer became the heartbeat of the bands’ sound,” the statement said. Born in Swindon, England in 1944, Davies had a passion for jazz, blues and rock'n'roll from a young age, the band said. Hodgson left the band in 1983 and released solo albums. Supertramp disbanded in 1988, though Davies revived it in 1996. The group performed for the last time in Madrid in 2012. Copyright 2025 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.     

Fans who tuned into Howard Stern's return broadcast instead heard a seemingly flustered Andy Cohen saying he was taking over. But not was all as it seemed. WASHINGTON — Welcome to Andy Cohen's "Andy 100."  Or at least, that's what Howard Stern wanted people to think.  The infamous radio host used a staged bit Monday morning to poke fun at rumors that his daily radio broadcast, "The Stern Show," was going off the air at SiriusXM. In the roughly 15-minute segment, Andy Cohen came on the show, seemingly flustered, to say he was taking over for Stern.  “I know you’re expecting a big announcement from Howard, and this is not how things were meant to go,” Cohen said. “This was supposed to be a cleaner hand off — I’m kind of winging it,” he continued, saying that it has been a “surreal morning here.”  A few minutes later, Stern came on the air and thanked Cohen for agreeing to the bit, confirming that he was back after his summer break.  Before the ruse was revealed, a few media outlets fell for the prank and ran headlines like "Howard Stern walks away from SiriusXM after two decades."  Earlier this summer, there has been speculation about the future of the legendary radio personality's show, fueled in part by his own social media accounts.  British tabloid The Sun reported in August that Stern's show was set to end because there was no chance that SiriusXM and Stern would be able to come to terms on a new contract. The Stern Show's X account then leaned into the report and rampant speculation, posting memes about the possibility of him being canceled or renewed. Stern's scheduled return last Monday was abruptly delayed by a week because he was sick and had lost his voice, he explained. While he did return Monday, Stern did not announce that he had reached a new contract with SiriusXM. His current deal expires at the end of 2025. “Here’s the truth: SiriusXM and my team have been talking about how we go forward in the future. They’ve approached me, they’ve sat down with me like they normally do, and they’re fantastic,” Stern said. But it's not the first time he's pretended to suddenly be replaced. In the early 2000s, as Stern was preparing to leave traditional radio, it was announced that David Lee Roth would take over his time slot.  So, Stern had a David Lee Roth impersonator on, pretending to be the real singer, announcing he was taking over for Stern immediately.   Stern had been off the air since late July for his annual summer break, and the summer months have been filled with speculation about his future and contract negotiations.  Last year, according to Deadline, SiriusXM’s Scott Greenstein told investors on an earnings call that he saw no end for Stern's partnership in sight.  “As for Howard, he’s a singular talent," Greenstein said. "No one pretended when Johnny Carson or others retired that the new group would replace them. They were just simply filling in on those slots. So Howard, we hope he continues forever."

Four suspects used a stolen Hyundai to ram into the front of a smoke shop in Seattle's Greenwood neighborhood early Monday morning. SEATTLE — Multiple suspects are wanted after a smash-and-grab robbery at a smoke shop in Seattle's Greenwood neighborhood early Monday morning.  Four suspects used a stolen car to crash through the front of Xhale Tobacco on North 85th Street at around 2:30 a.m., according to the Seattle Police Department. A witness reported that four masked men arrived at the store in three vehicles.  One suspect reportedly drove the car into the building at an angle, dislodging a bollard that was supposed to protect the store from being run into. All four suspects were seen entering the store with bags, stealing merchandise and then fleeing eastbound on North 85th Street in two different cars, leaving the stolen Hyundai behind. Police confirmed that car had been reported stolen out of Seattle.  The owner of the smoke shop said they have been the victim of a smash-and-grab robbery before, which led them to install bollards out front to try and prevent it from happening again. 

A suspect stabbed a man aboard a King County Metro bus on Sunday evening. The victim is in serious condition at the hospital. SEATTLE — A man is in the hospital after a suspect stabbed him aboard a King County Metro bus in downtown Seattle Sunday evening.  A 911 caller reported the incident at around 6:08 p.m. The Metro bus was in the area of Third Avenue and Pike Street when the stabbing happened.  There are no details as to what led up to the suspect stabbing the victim. King County Sheriff's Office (KCSO) Metro units arrived at the scene and provided the victim with aid until medics arrived. The victim, a man in his late 50s to early 60s, is in serious condition at Harborview Medical Center.  The suspect fled the scene before law enforcement arrived, according to KCSO.