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Note: The following text is a quote: May 6, 2010 ICE deports Iraqi national with ties to Al Qaeda operatives SEATTLE - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) today announced that an Iraqi citizen, who had ties to an Al Qaeda leader and was deemed a national security risk by a federal immigration judge, an administrative appeals court and a federal appeals court, was recently removed to his native country. Sam Malkandi, 51, was living in Kirkland, Wash., in 1999 when he attempted to fraudulently obtain a U.S. visa for Tawfiq bin Attash to travel here and purportedly receive medical...

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Red Cross officials have contacted the military commander of a Kirkland man whose family died in a house fire Monday afternoon, and he is expected to return from overseas in the coming days, authorities said Tuesday. Two children, at least one adult and another person, possibly a teenager, were found dead after a fire destroyed a home in the 9500 block of Slater Avenue Northeast about 11:30 a.m. Kirkland Fire Marshal Grace Steuart said investigators with the King County Medical Examiner's Office were able to remove the victims from the home late Monday. The Medical Examiner's Office has not released...

SEATTLE -- A Washington state jury says a man convicted of killing the family of a National Guard sergeant who was serving in Iraq, then burning down the house in an attempt to conceal the crime, should be sentenced to death. The King County Superior Court jury's decision was read by Judge Gregory Canova on Wednesday and was met by silence in the courtroom. Conner Schierman was convicted last month of four counts of aggravated first-degree murder and one count of arson in the 2006 stabbing deaths of 28-year-old Olga Milkin, her two young sons and her sister. No clear...

A convicted killer who claims he was in an alcoholic blackout the night of the murders has spoken publicly for the first time. Conner Schierman was recently found guilty in the 2006 killing of a National Guardsman's family, then setting the house in Kirkland on fire to cover up the murders. In a rare move, the King County Prosecutor is asking for the death penalty. Reading from a prepared statement, Conner Schierman addressed the court. He began with an apology. "I know it's a long time in coming and I know it can never be enough, but I wanted the...