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A Washington Supreme Court commissioner on Tuesday declined to pause a judge’s ruling that blocked a new law setting stricter qualifications for sheriffs.
Deputy Commissioner Walter Burton …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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5/5/26
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Toledo High School hosted a ceremonial reveal of a new Washington State Arts Commission artwork on Monday, May 4, in the commons area.
The piece is a 5-by-23-foot glass mosaic representing …
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5/5/26
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Police arrested a Centralia man Sunday following multiple alleged thefts at the local Safeway supermarket.
According to a probable cause affidavit, the man was previously trespassed from the …
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By The Chronicle staff
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5/5/26
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A woman is accused of stealing over $1,700 in items from the Chehalis Walmart on Saturday.
According to a probable cause affidavit, the woman said she stole the items for her mother’s …
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By Jacob Farmer / jfarmer@chronline.com
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5/5/26
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Shoes pounded the pavement, hearts beat fast and runners sweated through the afternoon heat Sunday during the 50th Bloomsday in the Lilac City.
Bethany Lueck, the Lilac Bloomsday Association …
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Mathew Callaghan / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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5/5/26
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Investigators are looking for the person who plunged a Toyota 4Runner into Lake Washington, north of Seward Park, sometime over the weekend.
How or when the SUV wound up in the lake, not to …
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Conrad Swanson / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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5/5/26
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Temperatures in Seattle scorched past its record high mark Sunday, capping off yet another abnormally hot week this spring and foreshadowing the inevitable summer of drought that’s fast …
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Conrad Swanson / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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5/5/26
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The King County sheriff's office is looking for a 41-year-old man in connection with a recent homicide in Covington.
Sheriff's deputies responded to a call Friday morning in the 25000 block of …
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Alex Halverson / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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5/5/26
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In 2014, Abhishek Abhyankar moved from Pune, India, to Blacksburg, Virginia, for graduate school. After getting his master’s degree, he made his way to Seattle, where he got a job, settled down and …
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Jessica Fu / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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5/5/26
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Two Republican-led Senate committees late Monday released legislative text to flesh out a nearly $70 billion reconciliation package to fund immigration enforcement agencies at the Department of …
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David Lerman / CQ-Roll Call (TNS)
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5/5/26
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The U.S. played down the prospect of a return to active war with Iran after a day of clashes involving ships in the Strait of Hormuz and missile strikes against the United Arab Emirates.
Attacks …
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Eltaf Najafizada and Omar Tamo / Bloomberg News (TNS)
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5/5/26
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Former Washington state lawmaker Eric Robertson, who served two stints in the Legislature decades apart, died April 24. He was 62.
Robertson, a former House Republican caucus chair, …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / Washington State Standard
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5/5/26
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Federal agencies say they have yet to take steps to implement President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting voting by mail, as the Department of Justice fights a Democrat-led lawsuit against …
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By Jonathan Shorman / States Newsroom
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5/5/26
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Two companies that manufacture the abortion pill drug mifepristone were on Monday granted an administrative stay on lower-court rulings that sought to heavily restrict access to the abortion pill.
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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5/4/26
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An appeal to the Washington State Supreme Court to allow a referendum effort on the new income tax law to proceed was denied on Monday.
The political group Let’s Go Washington initially filed …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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5/4/26
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Washington drivers are facing a brutal spring at the pump as gasoline prices in the state shatter all-time records, driven by a combination of the state's carbon policy and gas taxes, along with …
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By Andrew Paxton and Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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5/4/26
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A Chehalis driver fatally struck a pedestrian in King County Monday after the pedestrian reportedly exited his car on Interstate 405, according to the Washington State Patrol (WSP).
Felix …
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By The Chronicle staff
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5/4/26
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A 17-year-old girl was killed in a one-vehicle crash on Interstate 5 in Castle Rock early Saturday morning, according to the Washington State Patrol.
The driver of the vehicle, Melissa C. …
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By The Chronicle staff
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5/4/26
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A pediatrician who allegedly “hosted naked sleepovers with young children” died by suicide in Lewis County, according to the Vancouver Police Department.
In February 2026, Vancouver …
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By The Chronicle
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5/4/26
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Tracy Murphy followed through on his promise, filing to run for Lewis County sheriff early Monday morning amid an investigation and his recent termination from the Centralia Police Department.
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By Jacob Moore / jacob@chronline.com
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5/4/26
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