Yakima County Coroner Jim Curtice’s stepson, worried about his stepfather, called a sheriff’s sergeant March 10. Curtice, he said, had left the family’s home and was driving around in his ...

Yakima County Coroner Jim Curtice, left, makes his first appearance in Yakima County District Court in Judge Brian K. Sanderson’s courtroom Friday, Jan. 31, 2025, at Yakima County Courthouse in ...

Dec. 13—An attorney representing three Yakima County Republican Party officers has given Coroner Jim Curtice a choice: Resign or be recalled. Zachary A. Stambaugh, an attorney representing GOP ...

Yakima County Coroner Jim Curtice is pictured at the coroner's office in February 2020. Curtice is currently on paid leave. Police say he stole drugs from corpses, used them in his office and then ...

Yakima County Sheriff Bob Udell and police chiefs from around the Yakima Valley are calling for Yakima County Coroner Jim Curtice to step down. In a joint statement, the police chiefs of Union Gap ...

Yakima County leaders are pressuring Coroner Jim Curtice to resign after police accused Curtice of using drugs on the job and after experts raised concerns about his investigation of a local jail ...

A prosecutor has decided to bring criminal charges against embattled Yakima County Coroner Jim Curtice in response to police allegations that Curtice stole illicit drugs from dead bodies, used ...

Local law enforcement is accusing Yakima County coroner Jim Curtice of snorting cocaine he stole from dead bodies. As the Seattle Times reports, Curtice first reported that he had been poisoned ...

Yakima County Coroner Jim Curtice makes his first appearance in Yakima County District Court in Judge Brian K. Sanderson’s courtroom Friday, Jan. 31, 2025, at Yakima County Courthouse in Yakima ...

Calls for Jim Curtice to resign. In November, the Yakima Herald-Republic quoted Yakima County’s chief deputy coroner and medical examiner as saying they won’t work there if Curtice also does.

Yakima County Coroner Jim Curtice blamed a colleague for spiking his energy drink, shake powder and the water in an electric tea kettle with cocaine and fentanyl.

Yakima County Sheriff Bob Udell and police chiefs from around the Yakima Valley are calling for Yakima County Coroner Jim Curtice to step down. In a joint statement, the police chiefs of Union Gap ...