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 ...

Feb. 19—Yakima County Coroner Jim Curtice will not appeal an effort to recall him from office. That means the campaign to recall Curtice can start gathering the more than 13,000 signatures ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

YAKIMA COUNTY, Wash. – The attorney for embattled Yakima County Coroner Jim Curtice has clarified that a resignation agreement approved by the county commission still needs to be signed.

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 ...

Local law enforcement is accusing Yakima County coroner Jim Curtice of doing drugs he stole from dead bodies. As the Yakima Herald-Public reports, Curtice first reported that he had been poisoned ...

Yakima County Commissioners unanimously approved a resignation agreement with County Coroner Jim Curtice on Tuesday. As a part of the agreement, the county will pay Curtice $66,774 and provide ...