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Washington saw 810 traffic deaths in 2023, according to the state Traffic Safety Commission's annual fatalities report which was released on May 13. That figure is up from 743 the previous year and …
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Daniel Schrager / The Bellingham Herald (TNS)
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5/15/24
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Boeing violated an agreement that allowed it to avoid criminal charges following two fatal 737 Max crashes, U.S. Justice Department attorneys announced Tuesday as they revived a prosecution paused …
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Lauren Rosenblatt / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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5/15/24
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A 25-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of vehicular assault after he triggered a three-vehicle collision that sent a motorcyclist to an area trauma center, according to Tumwater police.
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Rolf Boone / The Olympian (TNS)
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5/15/24
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Two men were rescued from Puget Sound waters Saturday evening after their kayak sank, according to Lacey Fire District 3.
The men spent an hour in the water between Tolmie State Park and …
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Rolf Boone / The Olympian (TNS)
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5/15/24
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A man was taken to an area hospital Monday morning after his camper caught fire, according to Lacey Fire District 3.
Fire crews were dispatched about 9:40 a.m. to the 7900 block of Kelly Beach …
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Rolf Boone / The Olympian (TNS)
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5/15/24
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Amazon will open a new logistics center in Everett, Washington, for its broadband satellite network, Project Kuiper, expanding its ability to design, test and manufacture satellites in the Puget …
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Lauren Rosenblatt / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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5/15/24
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Mutilated, injected and forced to kill or be killed: Roosters raised for the blood sport of cockfighting face a hellish life.
"Usually after a fight, they just throw them away. I've seen …
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Questen Inghram / Yakima Herald-Republic (TNS)
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5/15/24
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A fire swept through the beach grass at Pacific Beach State Park on Saturday, destroying about two acres, after a campfire on the beach spread.
Grays Harbor Fire District 8, with assistance from …
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5/15/24
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Gov. Jay Inslee visited a forested site above the south end of Lake Whatcom on Tuesday, praising state and local officials for their efforts to fight climate change through land preservation.
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Robert Mittendorf / The Bellingham Herald (TNS)
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5/15/24
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Once the Billy Frank Jr. statue is installed in the National Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol in Washington D.C., in 2025, sculptor Haiying Wu will be the first Chinese-American to have a …
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By Dylan Reubenking/dylan@yelmonline.com
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5/14/24
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A man accused of plying his daughter’s sleep-over friends with sedative-laced smoothies must be monitored by GPS tracking, a Clackamas County judge ruled Monday.
The Clackamas County …
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Noelle Crombie / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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5/14/24
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Killer in Oregon beat, strangled girlfriend’s father and then went on family vacation; gets 19 years
Zachary Hackman jogged down the Seaside beach, scooping up sand dollars and tossing them into the waves on a vacation with his girlfriend’s family in October 2022.
It didn’t appear …
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Zane Sparling / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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5/14/24
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SEATTLE — As Darcy Batura often wanders Cle Elum Ridge, she cherishes the ponderosa pine bark glowing red in the sunshine, releasing a sweet aroma that permeates the forest. A blanket of lupine …
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Isabella Breda / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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5/14/24
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A Riverside Elementary School paraeducator and high school coach admitted to recording himself engaging in sex acts with underage boys and sending the videos to other children, court records say.
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Alexandra Duggan and Elena Perry / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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5/14/24
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OLYMPIA — Drama that ensued last week when three people named Bob Ferguson all filed to run for Washington's governorship appeared to have settled down Monday when two of the trio of Bobs …
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Ellen Dennis / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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5/14/24
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Yakima police are investigating the shooting death of a 71-year-old man during a dispute Saturday afternoon.
The accused shooter, a 27-year-old man, is not in custody, according to a YPD news …
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Donald W. Meyers / Yakima Herald-Republic (TNS)
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5/14/24
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Washington recorded another grim milestone this week, with numbers from the Washington Traffic Safety Commission showing yet another year of increasing fatalities on the state's roads.
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Nicholas Deshais / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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5/14/24
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SEATTLE — The evening of May 31, 2019, a troubled 26-year-old man and an Auburn police officer with a violent history came together in a fateful, fatal 67-second encounter outside a …
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Mike Carter / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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5/14/24
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Like a thief in the night, the aurora borealis arrived suddenly — and seemingly unannounced, if you weren't paying close attention — across the upper half of the globe this past weekend.
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Vonnai Phair / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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5/14/24
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Friday marks the sixth day of Boeing firefighters being locked out by the aerospace company in a contract dispute.
Negotiations between Boeing and the International Association of Fire Fighters …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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5/14/24
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