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After fatal car crashes, fires or other emergencies, coroners and medical examiners are among the first to respond.
But unlike police, firefighters and other first responders, they're limited in …
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Taylor Blatchford / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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2/28/25
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OLYMPIA — Washington has joined 20 other states in supporting a legal challenge to a federal ban on transgender military personnel serving in the armed forces.
The state's amicus brief, …
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Mitchell Roland / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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2/28/25
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A Yakima woman has been charged with first-degree manslaughter in the death of her infant daughter.
Yakima County Prosecuting Attorney Joe Brusic announced at a news conference Thursday that …
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Donald W. Meyers / Yakima Herald-Republic (TNS)
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2/28/25
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OLYMPIA — Democratic state lawmakers in Washington are proposing a bill that would move the entirety of the state's rainy day fund into the general fund, despite warnings from the state …
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Shauna Sowersby / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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2/28/25
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Gary Lowry worked for more than 40 years as a dishwasher at Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center, taking his lunch break to devour a cheeseburger almost every day in the Northwest Portland …
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Maxine Bernstein / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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2/28/25
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The man who was shot and killed by police on Thursday at the Army Aviation Training Center in Salem had given a threatening note to a guard at the airfield’s security gate, officials said.
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The Oregonian / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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2/28/25
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As schools and local groups continue to search for ways to reduce teen substance use , Cowlitz County Board of Health Chairman Kelly Lane has offered his own solution: using simulated high school …
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Minka Atkinson / The Daily News
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2/28/25
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An infant in King County was identified as the first confirmed measles case in Washington in 2025, following increases in cases in other parts of the United States, county officials said.
There …
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By Jacquelyn Jimenez Romero / The Washington State Standard
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2/28/25
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An online privacy bill that critics contend undermines parental rights is set for executive session Friday in the Senate Ways & Means Committee.
Senate Bill 5708 , sponsored by Sen. Noel …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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2/27/25
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House Democrats in the Washington state Legislature want to align standards across law enforcement, but the approach passed out of committee Wednesday would allow state agencies to decertify elected …
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Tim Clouser / The Center Square
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2/27/25
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A Naches man has been sentenced to a year in prison for a drunken driving crash that injured another man.
Derek James Peters pleaded guilty in Yakima County Superior Court on Feb. 7 to a single …
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Donald W. Meyers / Yakima Herald-Republic (TNS)
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2/27/25
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A Yakima woman has been arrested after police found a dead infant and malnourished toddler in a squalid apartment Tuesday.
The 20-year-old woman is being held in the Yakima County jail in lieu …
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Donald W. Meyers / Yakima Herald-Republic (TNS)
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2/27/25
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WASHINGTON — At the end of a dramatic night on the House floor, Republicans on Tuesday narrowly passed a framework for massive cuts to taxes and spending that would likely reduce funding to …
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Orion Donovan Smith and Amanda Sullender / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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2/27/25
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A man pretending to be a captain boarded a fishing boat and convinced the crew to leave the bay, police said.
He went on the Jamie Marie, an $8 million and 80-foot-long vessel docked in …
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Helena Wegner / The News Tribune (TNS)
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2/27/25
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The Bonneville Power Administration, the region’s largest transmission grid operator, has retained some workers originally set to be fired under President Donald Trump’s federal cutbacks.
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Gosia Wozniacka / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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2/27/25
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Paul Goodrich is just worried about his mules.
The pack of mules, 16 in all, live with seven horses at a U.S. Forest Service property called Eightmile Ranch in the Methow Valley of northern …
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Jamie Hale / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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2/27/25
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Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson unveiled a plan for about $4 billion in budget cuts Thursday as officials look for fixes to a state balance sheet that is billions of dollars in the red.
This scrub …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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2/27/25
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Microsoft and Amazon are among the wealthiest companies in the world, each with a market capitalization of well over $2 trillion, but a bill out of Washington could trim off some cash to save the …
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Tim Clouser / The Center Square
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2/27/25
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Although bills proposing a road usage charge failed to clear their original committees prior to last Friday's legislative cutoff date, one ranking House Transportation Committee member is saying …
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By TJ Martinell / The Center Square
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2/27/25
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Republicans in the Washington state Legislature say Democrats are exaggerating the size of the projected four-year operating budget shortfall to justify proposed tax increases.
The amount of the …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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2/26/25
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