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Washington's education department hasn't adequately tracked how schools are spending hundreds of millions in federal aid earmarked for pandemic learning loss, according to an audit ordered by state …
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Dahlia Bazzaz / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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5/12/23
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Attorney General Bob Ferguson has shifted more than $1.2 million in surplus campaign money to his 2024 gubernatorial bid — getting ahead of a ruling placing new limits on such transfers.
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Jim Brunner / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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5/12/23
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The current flu season in Washington state is at least 10 times deadlier than last year's season and the deadliest in five years, according to state data.
So far, the data show there have been …
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Martín Bilbao / The Olympian (TNS)
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5/12/23
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A $1,000 reward is offered for information leading to the arrest of those responsible for violently killing dogs in the Lower Yakima Valley this spring.
Multiple deceased dogs have been found …
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Tammy Ayer / Yakima Herald-Republic (TNS)
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5/12/23
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An accused rapist is one of the first to have his bail amount cut this week because of Franklin County's acute shortage of public defense attorneys.
In a second case, a man suspected of driving …
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Cameron Probert / Tri-City Herald (TNS)
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5/12/23
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Former Washington State University football coach Nick Rolovich was in a Spokane courtroom Thursday, asking a federal judge to allow his case to continue against his former employer for firing him …
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Kip Hill / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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5/12/23
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An Aberdeen man was injured in an alleged drunk-driving related crash in Montesano on Tuesday afternoon and was transported for further medical care.
The crash occurred just after 5:30 p.m., …
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Michael S. Lockett / The Daily World
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5/12/23
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OLYMPIA — Gov. Jay Inslee this week signed into a law a measure that will expand free school lunches to all students in kindergarten through fourth grade in districts where at least 30% of all …
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Charles H. Featherstone / Columbia Basin Herald (TNS)
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5/12/23
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A 65-year-old Black man will get a new trial after the Washington Supreme Court ruled that prosecutors discriminated against him by striking the last Black person from his jury pool nearly 20 years …
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Alexandra Yoon-Hendricks / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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5/12/23
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Third-party investigators are trying to determine the cause of a blaze that destroyed the historic Hurricane Ridge Day Lodge at Olympic National Park on Sunday.
A law enforcement ranger reported …
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Martín Bilbao / The Olympian (TNS)
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5/12/23
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A Rochester woman was charged with controlled substance homicide in Lewis County Superior Court on Thursday after law enforcement found alleged ties between her and an overdose-related death that …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@chronline.com
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5/11/23
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Two teenagers accused of murdering 30-year-old Navjot Singh during an attempted robbery at a Toledo area Shell station last week entered not guilty pleas Thursday to all charges filed against them in …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@chronline.com
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5/11/23
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According to a notification from the Chehalis School District, W.F. West High School was placed in lockdown Thursday morning due to an “outside threat.”
Law enforcement was on …
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By The Chronicle staff
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5/11/23
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A 33-year-old woman was arrested Wednesday after she allegedly admitted to detectives with the Joint Narcotics Enforcement Team (JNET) that she supplied fentanyl to a 57-year-old Lewis County man who …
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By The Chronicle staff
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5/10/23
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It was unusual for Ostynn Farrier to be out driving very early in the morning, especially when he was scheduled to work later in the day.
So when his father, Ed Farrier, got a call from a …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@chronline.com
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5/10/23
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Between a growing population and the increased potency and presence of opioids and other drugs, the area’s death toll from overdoses is already on track to outpace 2022.
In Lewis County …
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By Isabel Vander Stoep / isabel@chronline.com
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5/10/23
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The first weekend of 80-degree days is on its way to Lewis County beginning Friday.
“We just wanted to make sure everybody was aware that summer is coming. It should be here on …
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By Isabel Vander Stoep / isabel@chronline.com
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5/10/23
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Adrianna Garibay will be the newest member of the Centralia City Council.
Late Tuesday afternoon, the council held a special meeting to select a candidate to fill an at-large position on …
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By Owen Sexton / owen@chronline.com
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5/10/23
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The Centralia-Chehalis Chamber of Commerce had 157 students apply for the 10 scholarships — which total about $17,000 — it offers to graduating high schoolers in Centralia, Chehalis and …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@chronline.com
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5/10/23
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After pandemic-related changes, the Salvation Army of Lewis County reopened its food bank on Monday, welcoming people back inside after three years of a menu ordering format.
“We are all …
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By The Chronicle staff
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5/10/23
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