With the installation of the Chehalis Railfan camera, tourists have started to visit to see the trains and try to get on camera.
Now, local train enthusiasts are proposing that a Railfan park be …
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By Owen Sexton / owen@chronline.com
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8/19/22
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The Washington State Garlic Festival, once a backyard celebration held west of Chehalis, will make its grand return to the Southwest Washington Fairgrounds next weekend after a two-year …
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By Isabel Vander Stoep / isabel@chronline.com
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8/19/22
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At 4:40 a.m. Aug. 10 a Hanford nuclear reservation worker driving north across the site was startled by the sight of a vertical, cigar-shaped object with lights hovering more than 500 feet in the …
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Annette Cary / Tri-City Herald
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8/19/22
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A single-vehicle fatal crash involving a United States Postal Service truck and a separate three-car accident on Wednesday, Aug. 17, blocked off an area near State Route 8's milepost 4 east of Elma.
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Matthew N. Wells / The Daily World
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8/19/22
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Former Aberdeen Wildcat and current Seattle Seahawks linebacker Joel Dublanko has garnered praise from head coach Pete Carroll after a solid performance in a 32-25 exhibition loss to the Pittsburgh …
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Ryan Sparks / The Daily World
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8/19/22
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An 81-year-old man accused of impersonating a lawyer to trick foster parents into returning a child to her parents told a judge the "whole thing is a farce" while representing himself Thursday, …
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Garrett Cabeza / The Spokesman-Review
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8/19/22
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A Whatcom County man in his 80s became the first Washington state resident to acquire a case of the tick-born disease anaplasmosis within the state.
The case was discovered Aug. 8, the …
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David Rasbach / The Bellingham Herald
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8/18/22
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Traditional spike strips weren't quite enough to stop a domestic violence suspect fleeing Pierce County deputies on Tuesday. It was nature's spike strip, Washington's infamous blackberry bushes, that …
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Peter Talbot / The News Tribune
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8/18/22
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The sighting of a giant moth in Bellevue, never seen before in the U.S., has entomologists scratching their heads.
On July 7, a University of Washington professor reported what officials believe …
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Amanda Zhou / The Seattle Times
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8/18/22
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Meta, Facebook's parent company, is asking a court to strike down parts of Washington state's decades-old campaign finance law, arguing that requiring media companies to disclose information on …
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David Gutman / The Seattle Times
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8/18/22
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Washington State Patrol troopers cited 170 high-occupancy vehicle lane violators during a 2 1/2 hour emphasis patrol on Wednesday, according to Trooper Rick Johnson.
HOV violations are the most …
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Christine Clarridge / The Seattle Times
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8/18/22
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Oakley Carlson, a missing 5-year-old from Oakville, will be featured on the season four premiere of the Investigation Discovery series “In Pursuit With John Walsh,” airing at 9 p.m. on …
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By The Chronicle staff
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8/18/22
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Parker Vermilyea might not be walking yet, but that doesn’t mean the 14-month-old can’t hit the gas when he wants to.
And in a larger-than-normal field at the KELA/KMNT Diaper Derby on …
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By Josh Kirshenbaum / josh@chronline.com
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8/18/22
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NEW YORK — The Trump Organization’s long-serving financial gatekeeper pleaded guilty to 15 felonies on Thursday and directly implicated Donald Trump’s family real estate business in …
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Molly Crane-Newman / New York Daily News (TNS)
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8/18/22
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In what appears to be the first documented instance of monkeypox spreading from humans to animals, a dog was likely infected with the virus by its owners in France, scientists say.
The …
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Rong-Gong Lin II and Luke Money / Los Angeles Times (TNS)
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8/18/22
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Applications for U.S. unemployment insurance fell for the first time in three weeks, suggesting demand for labor remains healthy.
Initial unemployment claims decreased by 2,000 to 250,000 in the …
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Molly Smith / Bloomberg News (TNS)
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8/18/22
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ORLANDO, Fla. — With NASA’s first Artemis mission to the moon set to launch before the end of the month, teams are gearing up for future missions with astronauts including just exactly …
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Richard Tribou / Orlando Sentinel (TNS)
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8/18/22
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Researchers discovered Aug. 9 that 21,000 fish had died in their enclosures at UC Davis’ Center For Aquatic Biology and Aquaculture — a mass die-off that appears to have been caused by …
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Ariane Lange / The Sacramento Bee (TNS)
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8/18/22
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Columbia County Undersheriff Robbie Patterson did not break departmental policy or violate the Constitution by speaking publicly about his religious and political beliefs while in uniform, according …
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Emry Dinma / Walla Walla Union-Bulletin
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8/18/22
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A recent study found that people in 33 out of the 39 Washington counties have become more overweight over the last 10 years, according to BarBend, an online strength training resource and fitness …
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Alyse Messmer-Smith / The Bellingham Herald
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8/18/22
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