The call arrived at the emergency dispatch center at 1:06 a.m. Wednesday. A man yelled that “bunch of smoke and flames” was coming from the roof of a building in Southeast Portland.
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Tom Hallman Jr. / Oregonlive.com (TNS)
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5/15/22
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The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is offering a reward for information leading to the arrest of people responsible for the theft of a truck and trailer containing dozens of …
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Griffin Reilly / The Columbian
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5/15/22
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For those hoping to break out the shorts any time soon, weather forecasters have some bad news.
A cool trough of low pressure continues to draw storm systems through the region, with rain …
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Mike Reicher / The Seattle Times
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5/15/22
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In a message to Alaska Airlines employees Thursday evening, CEO Ben Minicucci said the high level of flight cancellations since April will continue through this month but added that stability should …
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Dominic Gates / The Seattle Times
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5/14/22
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Taking a new approach to bringing attention to how Amazon uses individuals' data, a shareholder is suing Jeff Bezos, Andy Jassy and 17 other Amazon leaders he claims knowingly allowed the company to …
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Lauren Rosenblatt / The Seattle Times
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5/14/22
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A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by 314 Hanford nuclear reservation and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory workers in Richland over COVID-19 vaccine requirements.
The lawsuit was …
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Annette Cary / Tri-City Herald
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5/14/22
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LOS ANGELES — Four people have been arrested on suspicion of arson after firefighters responded to dozens of small fires in Northern California last weekend.
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Christian Martinez / Los Angeles Times (TNS)
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5/14/22
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Spokane police officers replaced a 7-year-old girl's bicycle after three teenagers reportedly pushed her off her bike, kicked her in the stomach, called her vulgar names and rode off with it Friday …
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Garrett Cabeza / The Spokesman-Review
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5/14/22
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Milana Li left on one of her usual walks Sunday in the Southwest Beaverton neighborhood where she lived, but her family started worrying when the 13-year-old didn’t make it back to the …
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Savannah Eadens / Oregonlive.com (TNS)
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5/14/22
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A King County Superior Court judge on Friday handed down a decades-long prison sentence to a Tacoma man who killed a stranger nearly four years ago in a plot to take over the victim's property and …
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Sara Jean Green / The Seattle Times
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5/14/22
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A Vancouver man stands accused of urinating into milkshake mix, which was then served to between 30 and 40 people, while working as a manager at the Mill Plain Arby's restaurant in October.
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Becca Robbins / The Columbian
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5/14/22
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Childhood vaccination rates have fallen 13% during the COVID-19 pandemic compared to pre-pandemic levels, particularly among young children, according to a statement by the Washington State …
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By The Chronicle staff
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5/13/22
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Sunday's full moon is the first so-called supermoon of the year, when the moon is closest to Earth in its elliptical travels around our planet.
Though the odds currently aren't great that …
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By The Seattle Times
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5/13/22
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Randy Weaver, the white supremacist who became a hero of the modern militia movement after an 11-day standoff with federal agents at Ruby Ridge in North Idaho, has died.
The 74-year-old passed …
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By The Spokesman-Review
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5/13/22
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Washingtonians can receive a DUI for driving while high, the state's Supreme Court concluded Thursday, a decision that upholds the state's decade-old law regulating marijuana use behind the wheel of …
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David Kroman / The Seattle Times
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5/12/22
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WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats on Wednesday failed to pass a bill to enshrine in law the right to terminate a pregnancy, a largely symbolic vote held in response to a leaked document that …
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Orion Donovan-Smith / The Spokesman-Review
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5/12/22
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Anglers will get another shot at a better-than-expected spring chinook salmon run on the Columbia River.
Bolstered by a 30% uptick in the spring run at Bonneville Dam, Oregon and Washington …
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Bill Monroe / Oregonlive.com (TNS)
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5/12/22
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Law enforcement busted large-scale illegal marijuana grow operations near Shelton and Lacey on Monday.
The Mason County Sheriff’s Office served warrants along with the Washington …
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Martín Bilbao / The Olympian
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5/12/22
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A woman killed her two young children in their Gresham apartment this week as she was in the midst of an acrimonious custody battle with her former spouse, according to family members, police and …
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Noelle Crombie / Oregonlive.com (TNS)
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5/12/22
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A tool to combat the worst effects of wildfires has come back to Washington state: prescribed burning.
For the first time in 18 years, the state Department of Natural Resources (DNR) in fall …
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By Sydney Brown / The Daily News
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5/11/22
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