SEATTLE — The Kingdome officially was the home to 1,755 Mariners games, 303 Sonics games, 184 Seahawks games, three seasons of the Sounders, three Final Fours and one of the most famous …
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Bob Condotta / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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7/13/24
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The chief medical officer of a hospital in Toppenish, Republican U.S. Senatorial Candidate Raul Garcia said he sees between two to five fentanyl overdoses every shift.
Amid a rising number of …
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By Mitchell Roland / mitchell@chronline.com
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7/12/24
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Three of the four candidates for Washington's highest education office pledged to make funding among their largest priorities at a virtual debate moderated by students on Tuesday.
Two-time …
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By Dahlia Bazzaz / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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7/12/24
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Washington's Supreme Court dealt a blow earlier this month to a lawsuit seeking to protect people living in their vehicles. The court ruled the city of Lacey did not violate the state constitutional …
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Greg Kim / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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7/12/24
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Two Portland-area hospital systems announced Thursday afternoon that a doctor involved in roughly 2,400 surgeries and other procedures may have exposed patients to infections, including HIV and …
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Aimee Green, Kristine de Leon / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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7/12/24
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A pair of orphaned river otters have found a new home in central Oregon, thanks to some help from a coalition of kind-hearted humans.
On June 26, Oregon State Park ranger Tyler Banks found a …
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Jamie Hale / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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7/12/24
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U.S. Coast Guard rescuers lifted a blind man and his service dog up from the Rogue River National Recreation Trail and onto a helicopter this week after he was overcome by heat and spent at least one …
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Fedor Zarkhin / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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7/12/24
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The fire that destroyed an elderly Pasco couple's home nearly a year ago ravaged a lifetime of memories and nearly took their lives.
For Ernesto Parra, who pulled his wife Lillian to safety, …
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Cameron Probert / Tri-City Herald (TNS)
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7/12/24
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A troubled 14-year-old girl ran away from her Kennewick home with the help of a former school and hospital security officer who once promised to adopt her, say investigators.
The teen told her …
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Cameron Probert / Tri-City Herald (TNS)
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7/12/24
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A Spokane bank manager was sentenced to two years in federal prison for stealing at least $345,000 from her employer.
Jessica Ann Marshall, 27, pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of …
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Emma Epperly / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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7/12/24
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Parts of Western Washington got a ShakeAlert notification Thursday morning after a magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck about 150 miles southwest of the Canadian town of Port Hardy on Vancouver Island.
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The Seattle Times (TNS)
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7/12/24
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SEATTLE — The reported finalizing of the NBA's national media-rights contracts worth $76 billion over 11 years with ESPN, Amazon and NBC has cleared the league's final stated obstacle before …
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Geoff Baker / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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7/12/24
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New rules intended to keep a tighter lid on methane gas leaking from the state's landfills as food and garbage decompose went into effect last month.
The state Department of Ecology estimates …
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Amanda Zhou / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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7/12/24
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A Clackamas County man who seven years ago decapitated his mother and drove with her severed head to a grocery store is stable enough to be transferred from the state psychiatric hospital to a secure …
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Noelle Crombie / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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7/11/24
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SEATTLE — In a long awaited breakthrough, the U.S. and Canada have reached an agreement in principal renewing the Columbia River Treaty, which governs the use of the most important river …
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Lynda V. Mapes / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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7/11/24
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The elderly driver who struck and killed a young mother last month before crashing into a Longview apartment building and injuring another woman has not been charged with a crime, officials report.
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Matt Esnayra / The Daily News
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7/11/24
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A 27-year-old Olympia man accused of instigating a fight and stomping on a person's head Sunday is being held in the Thurston County jail in lieu of $200,000 bail.
Cliver Mesubed Telei attended …
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Martín Bilbao / The Olympian (TNS)
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7/11/24
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Joseph Cross woke up around 3:30 a.m. Tuesday to the piercing sound of his smoke alarm. When he walked out of his bedroom, his living room was full of smoke and his porch was in flames.
At about …
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Alexandria Osborne / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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7/11/24
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The saga of the 55 failed drones at the bottom of Angle Lake continued Wednesday. Divers spent much of the morning searching, and they found 48 of them and their batteries.
"There will be no …
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Erik Lacitis / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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7/11/24
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A new scam is targeting area residents, the state Department of Transportation announced via social media on Monday.
The scam, apparently sent by text and email, asks those who received it to …
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By Rolf Boone / The Olympian
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7/10/24
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