Jesse Curtis Morton, also known as Younus Abdullah Mohammad, was charged last year with communicating threats and has been in custody since his arrest in Morocco in October.

Eight people have been arrested in a drug sting that Lewis County authorities dubbed "Operation Merry Christmas." The Lewis County Sheriff's office says Thursday's arrests were the result of a three-month investigation into a local band of Methamphetamine dealers in the towns of Morton and Packwood.

The Thurston County sheriff's office says a man has been killed and a woman wounded in a shooting in a rural area near Lacey.

MORTON, Wash. Lewis County Sheriff's Office detectives are investigating after human remains were found just outside Morton on Tuesday evening.

A Morton man accused of sexually assaulting an 8-year-old boy in a Castle Rock sports complex restroom has been found incompetent to stand trial and ordered to be held at Western State Hospital.