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An 18-year-old Oregon woman died in a single-vehicle crash on northbound Interstate 5 in Cowlitz County on Monday after her vehicle left the roadway and struck trees.
Breauna L. Vaughn, of Eagle …
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By The Chronicle staff
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2/19/25
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The sounds of 1960s and 1970s bands are now on the airwaves in East Lewis County as the Packwood Improvement Club’s new classic rock radio station — KVRY 89.1 FM — is now …
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By The Chronicle staff
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2/19/25
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Anyone planning a visit to the Veterans Memorial Museum in Chehalis on Wednesday, Feb. 26, might notice more than a few regional law enforcement K9 units conducting drug searches,
Don’t be …
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By Owen Sexton / owen@chronline.com
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2/19/25
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On Feb. 18, 1925, Clarence Piper was born in the Puyallup Valley. He was one of seven children of Francis “Frank” and Stella Piper, who lived on a small farm near Orting.
A century …
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By Owen Sexton / owen@chronline.com
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2/19/25
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A 36-year-old man accused of raping a child, robbing his friend and fleeing to Idaho is being held in the Thurston County jail without bail.
Devin James Smith appeared in Thurston County …
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Martín Bilbao / The Olympian (TNS)
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2/19/25
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A former supervisor at a U.S. Postal Service distribution center in Tacoma has pleaded guilty to opening mail that wasn’t directed to her and stealing gift cards and money meant for at least 53 …
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Peter Talbot / The News Tribune (TNS)
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2/19/25
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A 3.0-magnitude earthquake shook the western part of Washington on Tuesday, Feb. 18, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
The 5.4-mile deep quake hit about 7 miles east from Greenwater at 9:54 …
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Helena Wegner / The News Tribune (TNS)
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2/19/25
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A 3-year-old boy was found walking along Wheeler Avenue alone last week, prompting a 911 call, according to Olympia police.
About 5 p.m. Feb. 10, a person was driving on the street, which …
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Rolf Boone / The Olympian (TNS)
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2/19/25
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The Idaho Legislature is considering a move to end a 50-year partnership with the University of Washington to train future Idaho doctors.
Since 1972, Idahoans training to be physicians have been …
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Amanda Sullender / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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2/19/25
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SAN FRANCISCO — Damian Lillard might as well be an adopted Seattle player that’s currently in the NBA but not from the city.
Remember all his years just down the road in Portland?
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Tim Booth / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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2/19/25
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Thurston County's Health Officer is leaving her role the first week of March, she has announced.
Dimyana Abdelmalek stepped into the role in July 2020, about four months after the county learned …
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Martín Bilbao / The Olympian (TNS)
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2/19/25
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A 15-year-old boy died early Monday in Graham after a “mortar-type firework” went off near his body, the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office said.
The teenager and four other boys …
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Shea Johnson / The News Tribune (TNS)
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2/19/25
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Three cats from a single Clackamas County household tested positive for bird flu this week, marking the latest infections across Oregon in the past two months, state officials confirmed Tuesday.
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Carlos Fuentes / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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2/19/25
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A Beaverton man convicted of sexually assaulting multiple women in a sparse apartment that prosecutors said he rented to carry out the attacks was sentenced Tuesday to the equivalent of a true life …
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Noelle Crombie / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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2/19/25
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A federal jury has awarded a Madras man $190,000 for emotional distress and $17,000 for lost wages after finding that Oregon-based Cal Farms violated his rights by hiring temporary foreign workers …
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Maxine Bernstein / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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2/19/25
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Can Washington state hold off harvesting older forests in the face of a projected $12 billion budget deficit without impacting local governments and school districts that get money from those timber …
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By Libby Denkmann and Alec Cowan / KUOW
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2/19/25
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A landlord from Silver Lake has been sentenced to nearly six years for child molestation after reportedly asking his tenant if he could have sex with the man's teen.
Brian James Wheeler, 62, was …
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By Matt Esnayra / The Daily News
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2/19/25
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The number of data centers around the Pacific Northwest has exploded in recent decades, growing from less than two dozen in 2008 to more than 200 across Oregon and Washington today.
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Henry Brannan / Murrow News
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2/19/25
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There’s controversy gusting through the Washington Legislature over a proposed redesign of the state flag.
House Bill 1938 , sponsored by Rep. Strom Peterson, D-Edmonds, would create …
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By Jacquelyn Jimenez Romero / The Washington State Standard
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2/19/25
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A push by Democratic state senators for greater scrutiny of those circulating and signing initiative petitions advanced in the Washington Legislature on Tuesday over the objections of Republicans and …
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By Jerry Cornfield / The Washington State Standard
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2/19/25
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