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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Over the last week, the Kansas City metro area has been plagued by a high pace of violence that has even caused the mayor to publicly criticize the city's current approach to …
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Kaitlin Washburn and Humera Lodhi / The Kansas City Star (TNS)
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12/8/21
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WASHINGTON — A Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday made clear the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan this year has further complicated the political, legal and legislative quandary …
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Todd Ruger / CQ-Roll Call (TNS)
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12/8/21
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NEW YORK — Ghislaine Maxwell groped a 14-year-old girl’s bare breast and declared the teen “had a great body for Mr. Epstein,” a Manhattan jury heard Tuesday.
The third …
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Molly Crane-Newman / New York Daily News (TNS)
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12/8/21
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Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. is facing mounting legal challenges by Rohingya refugees who blame the social media company for inciting genocidal violence in 2017 against the Muslim minority in …
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Naomi Nix / Bloomberg News (TNS)
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12/8/21
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An effort to recall Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant led in Tuesday night's vote count with about 53% supporting her removal from office, as voters in her district took part in a historic …
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Sarah Grace Taylor / The Seattle Times
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12/8/21
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Most Thurston County elected officials may get at least a 4.2% raise for their six figure salaries in 2022 if proposed increases are approved.
The county's Citizen's Commission on Salaries for …
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Martín Bilbao / The Olympian
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12/8/21
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The Washington State Gambling Commission has shut down several illegal pull-tab games operated on Facebook by several people in Whatcom and Skagit counties, according to a Tuesday, Dec. 7, news …
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Denver Pratt / The Bellingham Herald
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12/8/21
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A 13-year-old Seattle Public Schools student was arrested Monday after allegedly threatening on social media to shoot students at his school, according to a police statement.
Earlier this week, …
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Monica Velez / The Seattle Times
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12/8/21
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On the 75th episode of News Dump, Aaron VanTuyl, Franklin Taylor and Eric Schwartz discuss Christmas caroling, Santa Claus, Christmas lights and parades, as well as Old Man TransAlta’s big …
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12/8/21
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At first glimpse, the email seemed like good news: all employees with Tacoma Public Schools are eligible for 20-50 percent discounts and free shipping with Amazon for the months of November and …
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Allison Needles / The News Tribune
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12/7/21
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A jury has convicted Brian A. Westbrook, 40, of Centralia, on charges related to the repeated sexual abuse of a 13-year-old between December 2020 and June 2021.
Westbrook's four-day jury …
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By The Chronicle staff
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12/7/21
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Two Lewis County corrections deputies and a court security officer were recognized this week for their “quick and efficient” response to a man who attempted to take an officer’s gun …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@chronline.com
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12/7/21
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The Grays Harbor County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s assistance in locating a missing and endangered child from Oakville, according to a news release.
Oakley …
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By The Chronicle staff
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12/7/21
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Six more states no longer require residents to hold a permit to carry a concealed firearm.
Arkansas, Iowa, Montana, Tennessee, Texas and Utah this year enacted what gun rights advocates often …
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Matt Vasilogambros / Stateline.org (TNS)
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12/7/21
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SAN DIEGO — Prosecutors on Monday charged at least seven people, whom they described as self-identified anti-fascists, in connection with eight alleged assaults that occurred in January during …
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Alex Riggins / The San Diego Union-Tribune (TNS)
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12/7/21
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A 27-year-old man was killed early Sunday morning after a 20-year-old woman driving north along Interstate 205 left the roadway and struck his tent, the Portland Police Bureau said.
Terrence …
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Fedor Zarkhin / Oregonlive.com (TNS)
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12/7/21
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Gov. Kate Brown is taking heat on social media after being spotted maskless at an event in Washington, D.C., while maintaining her controversial indoor mask mandate at home.
Brown was in the …
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Ted Sickinger / Oregonlive.com (TNS)
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12/7/21
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PETERSBURG — The two deadliest foreign attacks on United States soil are 9/11 and the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Stephen Cease was a witness to both, as a child living near the U.S. naval …
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Paul Guzzo / Tampa Bay Times (TNS)
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12/7/21
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Eight decades have passed since the Japanese military attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor.
Since then, Michiganders lived through countless other calamities including many far …
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Bill Laitner / Detroit Free Press (TNS)
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12/7/21
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Eighty years ago today, a 9-year-old boy looked through his window and met the eyes of a Japanese fighter pilot streaking through the sky over his home near Honolulu.
It was one second, maybe …
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Adam Duvernay / The Register-Guard (TNS)
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12/7/21
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