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A growing number of children in mental health crises are spending days, sometimes nearly a week, in hospital emergency rooms because there is nowhere else for them to go, a new study has found.
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Kristine de Leon / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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8/15/25
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The claim — a drag queen exposing his genitals to children — was so incendiary, so horrifying that the Idaho Family Policy Center demanded voters change the law to “address these …
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By Daniel Walters / InvestigateWest
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8/15/25
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A 38-year-old man was sentenced earlier this summer to 35 years in prison for shooting a man in the head with a shotgun at a Colville homeless camp.
A jury found Ryan M. Vanpelt guilty June 11 …
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Garrett Cabeza / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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8/15/25
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Hundreds of investigative documents released by the Seattle office of police accountability show that four officers who fought for years to keep their identities secret insisted they did not see or …
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Mike Carter / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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8/15/25
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Standing outside a Redmond office park, astronaut Warren Woody" Hoburg holds a basketball to signify planet Earth.
He holds a tennis ball in his other hand to represent the moon and passes both …
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Lauren Rosenblatt / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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8/15/25
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The Olympia City Council is considering adopting an ordinance aimed at keeping illicit and dangerous activities from happening in professional massage and reflexology businesses.
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Ty Vinson / The Olympian (TNS)
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8/15/25
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The progressive Olympia Indivisible group is hosting a Saturday “peaceful sign wave” to protest President Donald Trump’s aggressive redistricting push.
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Simone Carter / The Olympian (TNS)
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8/15/25
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The Pierce County Republican Party will have a booth at this year’s Washington State Fair after all. The fair opens in two weeks.
After being told by fair organizers that the Pierce County …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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8/15/25
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Another religious rally is planned to occur in the heart of Seattle’s LGBTQ neighborhood later this month, but the city says a permit to use the location has not been requested yet.
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By Spencer Pauley / The Center Square
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8/14/25
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With tens of millions of dollars at stake, former Spokane Police Chief Craig Meidl plans to use his new position to broker a deal between Washington state and President Donald Trump.
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Tim Clouser / The Center Square
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8/14/25
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Republicans believe they have a good chance of winning back a seat in the Third Congressional District in Southwest Washington state.
Democratic U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez defeated …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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8/14/25
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Gov. Bob Ferguson on Thursday announced the hiring of a Biden administration executive to lead the state Department of Social and Health Services whose programs serve nearly a quarter of …
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By Jerry Cornfield / The Washington State Standard
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8/14/25
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The Lower Columbia SWAT team on Tuesday detained a Castle Rock man allegedly armed with a machete and threatening to kill people.
After speaking with a crisis negotiator, law enforcement …
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Matt Esnayra / The Daily News
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8/14/25
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A 16-year-old drowned in the Columbia River near Vancouver’s Frenchman’s Bar Regional Park on Wednesday evening, officials said.
The teen was swimming about 20 yards offshore when he …
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The Oregonian / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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8/14/25
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“Munchie Monday.”
“Wax Wednesday.”
“Flower Friday.”
These are just a few of the weekly pitches offered by Shawn Kemp’s Cannabis, one of the …
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Claire Bernard / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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8/14/25
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A flash of orange darted between blue broadleaf lupine, magenta paintbrush and pink-white mountain daisies before the small butterfly disappeared into the sky.
“That’s another …
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Becca Most / The Peninsula Gateway (TNS)
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8/14/25
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A man who escaped Tuesday from Washington State Department of Corrections’ custody while being transported through Seattle-Tacoma International Airport was arrested in Tacoma on Wednesday …
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Kai Uyehara / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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8/14/25
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A federal judge has temporarily blocked the U.S. Department of Homeland Security from using the Medicaid data of patients in Washington and 19 other states for immigration enforcement purposes.
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Elise Takahama / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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8/14/25
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When it comes to Western Washington's weather, there's good news and bad news.
Wednesday marked the start of a cooling trend, bringing lower temperatures through the end of the week and …
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Catalina Gaitán and Isabella Breda / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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8/14/25
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After orchestrating a cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme that generated more than $577 million in sales and targeted hundreds of thousands of people around the world, two men from Estonia were sentenced …
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Sujena Soumyanath / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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8/14/25
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