YAKIMA – The next stop for “Cowboy Mike” will be Thurston County. Prosecutors in Yakima County announced Wednesday they will not seek a new trial on an attempted-murder charge for Michael Braae, an ...

The state Department of Corrections (DOC) has agreed to pay $6.4 million on behalf of four women whose families say they were attacked, raped or killed by a man not properly supervised by the ...

YAKIMA – A man charged with killing one woman and trying to kill another has been caught in what appears to be at least his fifth jailbreak attempt, officials say. Michael John Braae, 45, a former ...

OLYMPIA — Washington state is being sued over a rape and murder by Michael John Braae, 48, a former country singer known as “Cowboy Mike,” while he was on parole. In a case seeking unspecified damages ...

OLYMPIA -- Washington state is being sued over a rape and murder committed by Michael John Braae, 48, a former country singer known as "Cowboy Mike," while he was on parole. In a case seeking ...

VALE, Ore. -- "Cowboy Mike," a wandering ladies' man suspected in a string of violent crimes against women, was captured yesterday after a shootout and a desperate attempt to swim to freedom in the ...

Michael John Braae, a suspect in the 2001 disappearance of a Wahkiakum County woman, has been convicted of raping and killing a Lacey woman that same year.

Lori Jones had actually intended to go out with someone else the night she met Michael Braae. She’d been planning all week to hook up with David Bowman, a man she’d met online. Her daughter Elisa, 11 ...

LONGVIEW — When Steven Pete received a letter last month with a return address from an Idaho prison, he dumped it into a pile of junk mail without so much as glancing at it. He didn’t learn until ...

Washington state is being sued over a rape and murder by Michael John Braae, 48, a former country singer known as "Cowboy Mike," while he was on parole. The lawsuit filed last week also says Braae is ...

YAKIMA — A man charged with killing one woman and trying to kill another has been caught in what appears to be at least his fifth jailbreak attempt, officials say. Michael John Braae, 45, a former ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Michael John Braae, known as Cowboy Mike, has been convicted of raping and killing a Lacey woman in 2001. A Thurston County Superior Court jury began deliberations Wednesday and ...