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Gov. Jay Inslee has tested positive for COVID-19 and is experiencing “very mild symptoms,” including a cough, his office announced Wednesday.
Inslee, who is fully vaccinated and has …
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By Jim Brunner / The Seattle Times
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5/25/22
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The unnaturally large black bear that evaded capture on the Eastside for more than two years was trapped and killed near Issaquah last week, wildlife officials said Tuesday.
The 5-year-old bear …
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Paige Cornwell / The Seattle Times
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5/24/22
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In the end, it was a drink at the Horse Brass Pub in Southeast Portland that led to a break in the cold case killing of an airport worker who disappeared more than 20 years ago.
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Noelle Crombie / Oregonlive.com (TNS)
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5/24/22
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A federal grand jury has indicted a man on charges that he supplied the counterfeit pills made of fentanyl that killed one of two Portland high school students in March.
Manuel Antonio Souza …
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Maxine Bernstein / Oregonlive.com (TNS)
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5/24/22
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A banner displayed at an Auburn Police Department recruitment booth on Saturday urging would-be cops to "Join Team Auburn PD" uses Officer Jeff Nelson as a poster child, outraging the family of the …
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Mike Carter / The Seattle Times
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5/24/22
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U.S. Sen. Patty Murray will face 17 candidates in the Aug. 2 primary.
Washington's primary ballot is set after last week's filing deadline. Murray's senate seat along with a number of local and …
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Laurel Demkovich / The Spokesman-Review
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5/24/22
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Seattle-King County health officials announced Monday they are investigating a "presumptive" case of monkeypox virus infection.
The case was reported to Public Health — Seattle & King …
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Debbie Cockrell / The News Tribune
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5/24/22
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OLYMPIA — Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced on Thursday that chicken producer Mar-Jac Poultry will pay the state $750,000 as the company seeks to settle its portion of a major …
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By The Columbia Basin Herald
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5/23/22
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An Ariel man was sentenced Friday to more than a year in prison for loosening the lug nuts on the wheels of his former partner's car before she drove it with their young daughter inside.
Zachery …
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Becca Robbins / The Columbian
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5/23/22
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A man charged with shooting a Tacoma woman to death with her three small children in the apartment also pointed the gun at her 5-year-old daughter, court records show.
The girl told a forensic …
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Adam Lynn / The News Tribune
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5/23/22
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Following similar trends nationwide, COVID-19 case rates are rising in Washington.
The statewide average of cases over the past seven days is 228 per 100,000 people, keeping Washington in …
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Laurel Demkovich / The Spokesman-Review
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5/23/22
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DUPONT, Pierce County — A yellow school bus carefully chugged up a curving gritty driveway, past early-20th-century dairy barns to the top of the hill of what used to be known as Braget …
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Jenn Smith / The Seattle Times
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5/23/22
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A 33-year-old man was arrested early Sunday on suspicion of multiple crimes after a woman reported being held against her will in an apartment in Lacey and sexually assaulted, according to …
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Rolf Boone / The Olympian
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5/23/22
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A 36-year-old man was flown to a Seattle hospital Saturday afternoon after he crashed his motorcycle in Grays Harbor County, according to Washington State Patrol.
About 1 p.m., the Seattle man was …
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Rolf Boone / The Olympian
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5/23/22
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A man found dead under the Percival Creek bridge in west Olympia has been identified, according to Thurston County Coroner Gary Warnock.
Cameron J. Long, 31, was found by Olympia police about …
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Rolf Boone / The Olympian
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5/23/22
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Four bedrooms. Two-and-a-half bathrooms. A fenced backyard and a two-car garage. The listing for a blue two-story house in a Wenatchee subdivision includes all the usual details.
But keep …
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Heidi Groover / The Seattle Times
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5/23/22
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They say the best solution is always the simplest. But what could be Washington's greatest weapon against climate change — or yet another roadblock — is anything but.
A new program …
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Nicholas Turner / The Seattle Times
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5/23/22
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WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday approved $40 billion in military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine in a bipartisan measure backed by Democrats and most Republicans, while Northwest lawmakers …
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Orion Donovan-Smith / The Spokesman-Review
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5/20/22
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Washington's job market is rebounding faster than it is across much of America, and is barely a thousand jobs short of its all-time high, according the latest state jobs report.
One surprising …
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Paul Roberts / The Seattle Times
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5/19/22
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A 29-year-old man barricaded himself in a home on Mayfair Drive in Tumwater Wednesday evening, prompting police to close Somerset Hill Drive and activate a SWAT Team.
After about four hours, …
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Martín Bilbao / The Olympian
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5/19/22
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