No criminal charges will be filed against a Seattle SWAT officer who in 2020 shot and killed a 24-year-old man who was fleeing officers while carrying his infant daughter in Columbia City, the …
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By Mike Carter / The Seattle Times
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3/15/24
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Lacey firefighters quickly extinguished a house fire in Tanglewilde Tuesday evening, but four cats died in the home.
Lacey Fire District 3 responded to the blaze at about 6:30 p.m. on the 300 …
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By Martín Bilbao / The Olympian
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3/15/24
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A 29-year-old woman is in custody for allegedly fleeing from Milton police in a stolen car while under the influence of drugs or alcohol and crashing a short time later, decapitating a passenger in …
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By Peter Talbot / The News Tribune
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3/15/24
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A man who groped a 14-year-old girl on a flight from Portland to Oakland was sentenced Thursday to three years of probation, including 30 days of home detention and 1,000 hours of community service.
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Maxine Bernstein / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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3/15/24
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A $1.75 million lawsuit claims a customer contracted the genital herpes virus while getting a manicure at a Portland salon that had poor hygiene practices.
The suit, filed last week in Multnomah …
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Aimee Green / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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3/15/24
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A 14-year-old boy this week fought off a man who broke into the family’s Longview home and stabbed the boy’s mother.
The boy and his 31-year-old mother were both stabbed in the …
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Tom Hallman Jr. / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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3/15/24
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SEATTLE — Geno Smith remains the Seahawks’ quarterback of the present.
But the Seahawks added a candidate to be the QB of the future on Thursday, and got a backup for today, pulling …
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Bob Condotta / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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3/15/24
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A Thurston County judge denied bail Tuesday for a 37-year-old man accused of murdering a woman who was found in a burning home last weekend.
Galaxy Ray Muffett attended his preliminary …
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Martín Bilbao / The Olympian (TNS)
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3/15/24
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When Pamela Nearing walked into the restaurant at Quinn's Hot Springs Sunday afternoon, the last thing she expected to see was the man who had molested her son sitting at the bar with a teenager.
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Emma Epperly / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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3/15/24
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OLYMPIA — During the past two months, state legislators in Olympia passed a stack of 359 bills that Gov. Jay Inslee has been working through signing into law this week.
Lawmakers showed up …
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Lauren Rendahl and Ellen Dennis / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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3/15/24
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A man was arrested Wednesday morning after smashing a jewelry case at the Aberdeen Walmart and attempting to steal the contents.
Jonathan A. Weaver, 29, Aberdeen, was arrested for second-degree …
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Michael S. Lockett / The Daily World (TNS)
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3/15/24
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OLYMPIA — Two bills requested by the Department of Natural Resources, House Bill 2003 and House Bill 2091, were signed into law Wednesday, according to a Wednesday announcement from the …
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Gabriel Davis / Columbia Basin Herald (TNS)
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3/15/24
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Less than eight months from now, Washington state voters will – in addition to casting a ballot for president in November’s general election – decide the fate of three initiatives …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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3/14/24
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Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee has signed into law a bill that classifies certain types of public defacement as a felony if it's perceived to be an act of "hate."
Senate Bill 5917 amends …
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By TJ Martinell / The Center Square
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3/14/24
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One of the most controversial bills passed by the Washington State Legislature this session has yet to be signed into law by Gov. Jay Inslee.
Engrossed Substitute House Bill 1589 , dubbed by …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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3/14/24
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The son of an incapacitated former Oregon lobbyist pleaded guilty Thursday to stealing money from his father’s estate.
Earl Joe “Joey” Gilliam III entered the plea in a …
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Tom Hallman Jr. / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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3/14/24
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OLYMPIA — During the past two months, state legislators in Olympia passed a stack of 359 bills that Gov. Jay Inslee has been working through signing into law this week.
Lawmakers showed up …
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Lauren Rendahl and Ellen Dennis / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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3/14/24
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SEATTLE — Bobby Wagner hoped his return to the Seahawks in 2023 meant he would end his NFL career in the city he has come to call his second home.
Wagner has also learned in his 12 NFL …
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Bob Condotta / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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3/13/24
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Evergreen State College personnel turned off carbon monoxide alarms that went off in an on-campus residence hours before a 21-year-old student died from carbon monoxide poisoning, according to State …
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Lauren Girgis / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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3/13/24
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With both Democratic and Republican presidential candidates cruising to comfortable victories in Washington’s primary, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will officially face …
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By Mitchell Roland /
mitchell@chronline.com
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3/13/24
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