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It wasn’t Santa Claus delivering Christmas presents, but on Thursday afternoon, voter advocacy group Let’s Go Washington turned in 419,699 signatures for Initiative 2109, which would …
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By Brett Davis / The Center Square
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12/22/23
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A Washington state House Republican lawmaker is speaking out after an 87-page investigation was released Monday afternoon regarding the lawmaker’s alleged pattern of bullying.
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By Shauna Sowersby /The Olympian
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12/22/23
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A Lewis County Jail inmate who allegedly had fentanyl pills hidden in her dentures was charged Wednesday with possession of a controlled substance in a correctional facility.
The dentures, which …
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By Emily Fitzgerald /emily@chronline.com
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12/22/23
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In a congressional district where roughly 98% of the land is considered rural, Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Skamania, recently launched an office in Kelso, where about 170,000 fewer people live …
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By Brennen Kauffman /The Daily News
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12/22/23
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A contract employee with the Pe Ell School District was arrested Dec. 19 for allegedly sending inappropriate messages to a female student.
The employee, Evan Lynn Schimelpfenig, 34, of Doty, now …
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By Emily Fitzgerald /emily@chronline.com
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12/22/23
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The Rochester girls basketball team got back into the win column to wrap up its two-day stint at Montesano on Friday, finding its groove as the game went on in a 57-19 win over White Salon.
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By The Chronicle staff
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12/22/23
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A woman taken to OHSU Hospital after a court hearing escaped from a deputy by removing a ceiling tile in a restroom, crawling into another room, changing her appearance and walking away undetected, …
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The Oregonian / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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12/22/23
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A private immigration prison in Tacoma must pay more than $23 million in back pay and penalties for violating Washington's minimum wage law by paying people it detains just $1 a day, a unanimous …
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David Gutman / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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12/22/23
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The jury trial for a Blaine woman accused of torturing and sexually assaulting four children known to her has been rescheduled until early spring.
Tana Perkins Reneau, 52, was charged June 5 in …
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Denver Pratt / The Bellingham Herald (TNS)
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12/22/23
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The state Public Disclosure Commission has dismissed two complaints against Attorney General Bob Ferguson over his efforts earlier this year to transfer $1.2 million in "surplus" campaign funds to …
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Jim Brunner / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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12/22/23
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Efforts to keep gender-affirming care data in Washington private continue despite out-of-state demands to share it, per a lawsuit Seattle Children's filed against the Texas Attorney General's office …
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Elise Takahama / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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12/22/23
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It's been nearly a decade since an accused child rapist fled Benton County ahead of his trial. Now he's headed back in handcuffs.
Alexander B. Callahan, 34, was caught in early December by the …
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Cameron Probert / Tri-City Herald (TNS)
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12/22/23
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A Tri-Cities gang leader will be allowed to withdraw his guilty plea for sex trafficking, which came with a sentence of 25 years, after an appeals court found "race-based prosecutorial misconduct."
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Cory McCoy / Tri-City Herald (TNS)
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12/22/23
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State prosecutors are seeking a summer 2024 trial for Bryan Kohberger, who is accused of killing four University of Idaho students.
In a motion filed Thursday, Latah County Senior Deputy …
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Alexandra Duggan / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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12/22/23
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The medical examiner's office determined 65-year-old Carol Streit's cause of death was from an arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy, a disease in which fatty tissue replaces parts of the …
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Alexandra Duggan / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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12/22/23
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TACOMA — A Pierce County jury Thursday acquitted three Tacoma police officers charged in the death of Manuel Ellis, concluding a grueling, historic trial that tested the state’s new …
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By Claire Whitcomb, Sydney Brownstone, Lulu Ramadan, Patrick Malone and Alex Yoon-Hendricks / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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12/22/23
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OLYMPIA — According to an announcement from the Association of Washington Business, several employer groups in Washington state filed a lawsuit Dec. 4 in U.S. District Court for the District of …
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Gabriel Davis / Columbia Basin Herald (TNS)
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12/22/23
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TACOMA — A Pierce County jury Thursday acquitted three Tacoma police officers charged in the death of Manuel Ellis, concluding a grueling, historic trial that tested the state's new police …
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Patrick Malone / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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12/22/23
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