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Automotive giant Honda has come under fire after it asked workers at one of its US factories to repay hundred of dollars in bonuses they received earlier this month, saying it overpaid many of the checks in error and now needs that extra money back. The brazen reneging from the car manufacturer came on Tuesday, when staff at the Marysville Honda Motors Co. factory in Ohio - which employs thousands of workers - were sent a memo demanding they give back money from overpaid bonuses. The amount of each overpayment is currently unclear, as it varies from person to person...

MARYSVILLE, Wash. — We're taking a look at the worst of the worst traffic spots in western Washington – and some of the solutions to the problem. Marysville A problem spot in Marysville has city and state transportation officials working to come up with a fix. Interstate 5 traffic between Everett and Marysville gets congested during rush hour. According to the Washington State Department of Transportation, between 1980 and 2017, the population of Snohomish County increased 137%. It's expected to gain another 200,000 residents by 2035. This explosive growth increased the number of vehicles using I-5 between Everett and Marysville,...

"Officials are anticipating a failure of the Auxiliary Spillway at Oroville Dam within the next 60 minutes (5:45 p.m.)," the California Department of Water Resources said on Facebook. The Yuba County Office of Emergency Services said on Facebook an evacuation has been for "all Yuba County on the valley floor." The city of Marysville and Yuba County have been ordered to evacuate, the Marysville Police Department tweeted.

Update, 7:15 p.m. Thursday: The situation surrounding the damaged spillway at Oroville Dam has escalated into a crisis, with state water managers hoping they can dump enough water down the badly compromised structure to prevent the state’s second-largest reservoir from pouring over an emergency release point that has never been used before. Flow rates down the collapsing spillway were increased late Thursday morning to 35,000 cubic feet per second. The result was a spectacle of churning mud and water and the further damage to the concrete structure. [snip] Officials at the media briefing repeated further reassurances that the integrity of...

Marysville police launched its own investigation after eight employees wrote letters seeking a more lenient sentence for convicted sex offender Jared Tomlinson. "There were some sworn police officers. There were some professional staff with the department, and they were all people who knew the individual personally," said Marysville police chief Aaron Easton. Watch report: Marysville police launch investigation into own department Tomlinson joined Marysville police as an officer in 2007. He was arrested in 2013 for sexually molesting a child in the mid-2000s. A jury convicted Tomlinson in February, but before sentencing, letters arrived at the Butte County Superior Court, asking...

A newly-hired social studies teacher intercepted a gunman as he tried to reload during a deadly shooting at a Washington state high school on Friday, a union official says, describing her actions as amazing. Marysville Education Association president Randy Davis told The Associated Press Saturday that first-year social studies teacher Megan Silberberger intervened in the shooting at Marysville-Pilchuck High School.

A student with a "blank stare" opened fire in the cafeteria of a high school north of Seattle on Friday, killing one person and wounding at least three others before fatally shooting himself, police and witnesses said. A hospital official said three patients were in "very critical condition" after the 10:30 a.m. PDT shooting at Marysville-Pilchuck High School. A 14-year-old boy was in serious condition at another hospital with a jaw wound.

At least three people are dead and several are injured in a school shooting that has taken place at Marysville Pilchuck High School in Marysville, Washington. News reports state that the gunman was a student. The school is currently in a lockdown. All after school activities have been cancelled. Unconfirmed reports from local news sources say at least three people are dead and six are injured. The shooter reported that the gunman walked into the cafeteria and opened fire.

EVERETT, Wash. – The man accused of shooting at police stations, patrol cars and officers in three Washington cities told detectives he wanted to be killed and was disappointed in their marksmanship. Police say the 43-year-old Granite Falls man told detectives at a hospital: "Your guys aren't very good shots."

<p>Police have responded to a high school north of Seattle following reports of a shooting.</p>

MARYSVILLE — A man managed to elude police after being Tased 4 times on Interstate 5 Sunday in Marysville, Wash. Police believe he was on some sort of drug. The family filming the incident couldn’t believe the man was still standing. Read more: http://q13fox.com/2013/04/02/raw-man-fights-off-police-taser-on-interstate/#ixzz2PLQmvLnj

The Marysville, Wash., police officer whose daughter was fatally shot by a sibling last weekend has been placed on administrative leave for an investigation. [...] The 7-year-old girl was shot Saturday by a sibling who found a loaded gun in the family's van as it was parked near the Stanwood City Hall. The parents were out of the vehicle at the time, but nearby. The girl died Sunday at a Seattle hospital.

Honda to discontinue production at Marysville motorcycle plant in 2009 By Elaine Morris Roberts Staff Writer Wednesday, February 27, 2008 SPRINGFIELD — Honda of America Manufacturing Inc. announced this morning, Feb. 27, that it will discontinue production at its Marysville motorcycle plant in the Spring of 2009. The 450 associates at the plant will not lose their jobs, instead they will be transferred to other positions within the company's Ohio production network, according to a release issued by the company. In Ohio, the company produces vehicles and component parts including the Honda Accord sedan and coupe, natural-gas powered Civic GX,...

JOE ALLOWAY PREDICTED WINNER OVER PAVLOV IN MICHIGAN 81 –POLL: JOE ALLOWAY’S EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE BEATS OUT PHIL PAVLOV PORT HURON, MI, July 26, 2004 (NEWSWIRE) -- The latest poll of voters in this crucial MichiganState House swing District 81 has Joe Alloway-R (Port Huron Township) the predicted winner over St. Clair’s Phil Pavlov, and Yale’s Steve Pray with a greater than 9-percent margin. The poll of 600 likely Republican voters in St. Clair County Michigan’s State Representative District 81 countywide found Alloway with a solid lead with Education, Experience and USMC background over underqualified Phil Pavlov-R (St. Clair).

A Snohomish County Superior Court judge this morning ordered striking Marysville teachers back to work on Wednesday. Judge Linda Krese ruled that the strike, now in its state-record 49th day, is illegal. She told teachers to return to school and work under the terms of their previous contract until they can hammer out a new one with the school district. "Even with teachers back to work this contract needs to get settled," Krese said. "It's time for all the adults to grow up and look at their obligations to these children." The 650-member Marysville Education Association voted to strike Sept....

EVERETT -- Susan Lemery cupped her face in her hands and wept yesterday as a court clerk read the jury's verdict: The second-grade teacher was guilty of fondling and raping a 14-year-old boy. She turned to her husband, Dan Lemery, a Boeing Co. engineer, hugged him and cried briefly in his arms before corrections officers led her to jail. "Susan has maintained her innocence all along, and she still does," defense attorney David Allen said later. The jury of six men and six women deliberated for more than 23 hours over a span of four days before finding Lemery, 38,...