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The U.S. Department of Justice is preparing to offer Boeing a plea deal to resolve a criminal charge of fraud following two fatal crashes of the manufacturer’s 737 Max jet.
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Lauren Rosenblatt / The Seattle Times / (TNS)
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7/1/24
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The Washington state Department of Ecology has issued a $1.6 million fine against Home Depot for selling products restricted under state law. The company has 30 days to appeal the fine.
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Karlee Van De Venter / Tri-City Herald (TNS)
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7/1/24
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A 41-year-old man was arrested Friday night after a deputy found multiple garbage can-size bags of marijuana in his vehicle, according to the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office.
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By Rolf Boone / The Olympian
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6/30/24
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It’s been nearly a month since asylum seekers set up camp on property next to State Route 167 in Kent, urging city leaders to let them move into a vacant hotel on Central Avenue.
“We …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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6/29/24
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“Oh no! I think I lost it......WHOA! WHEEeee...”
As Betsy Jeffords, a 100-year-old WWII veteran of the U.S. Navy Air Corps took a firm grip on her “joystick,” an angry …
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Bill Monroe / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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6/29/24
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Just an hour away from Portland, right off Interstate 5 but hidden by trees, is Oregon’s (much smaller) answer to Disneyland: Enchanted Forest .
Robert Tofte opened Enchanted Forest in …
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Lizzy Acker / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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6/29/24
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The estate of a 38-year-old man who was one of seven farm workers who died when the passenger van he was in was sandwiched between two semitrucks along Interstate 5 filed a lawsuit this week seeking …
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Aimee Green / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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6/29/24
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A 57-year-old Pierce County man pleaded guilty Thursday to killing a plumber he'd called to his home for a repair job, shooting him through his work truck seven times after the victim hit a gate on …
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Peter Talbot / The News Tribune (TNS)
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6/28/24
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A new report from the National Low Income Housing Coalition, or NLIHC, finds most workers in Washington are spending so much on rent, they are priced out of saving for an eventual down payment on a …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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6/28/24
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Washington Secretary of State Steve Hobbs' Office has, through agency rulemaking, officially removed a residency requirement for registering to vote enshrined in the state’s original 1889 …
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By TJ Martinell / The Center Square
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6/28/24
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All sockeye fishing closed Thursday evening in the mainstem Columbia River from the mouth up to Pasco, Washington.
Despite an apparent record return of sockeye across Bonneville Dam, nearly all …
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6/28/24
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Washington Public Lands Commissioner Hilary Franz is urging federal officials to put the brakes on a plan to kill hundreds of thousands of barred owls in the Pacific Northwest as a means of …
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Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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6/28/24
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An Olympia man has pleaded guilty to charges stemming from the 2023 Net Nanny sting operation in Longview, which resulted in the arrest of 15 men across Washington state.
Justin Michael Gardner, …
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By Matt Esnayra / The Daily News
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6/28/24
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Former President Donald Trump claimed in Thursday’s debate that Portland had been “ripped down.”
“What they have done to some people that are so innocent, you ought to be …
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Beth Slovic / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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6/28/24
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Comet 13P/Olbers will pass by our planet for the first time in almost 70 years this summer.
The comet may be visible from Earth, though that will depend on a few factors. Astronomy website …
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Julie Evensen / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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6/28/24
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday reversed lower court rulings, finding that public camping restrictions issued by southern Oregon’s Grants Pass do not constitute “cruel and unusual …
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Maxine Bernstein / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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6/28/24
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The National Transportation Safety Board issued a strong rebuke to Boeing late Wednesday, and said it will sanction the company.
The move follows comments by a senior executive who spoke to a …
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Dominic Gates / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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6/28/24
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U.S. President Joe Biden stumbled over his words repeatedly in his first presidential debate with former President Donald Trump leading up to the November election, and the Republican frontrunner …
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Ellen Dennis / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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6/28/24
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Three resolutions related to the ongoing war in Gaza passed Sunday at the Washington State Democratic Convention, but not without controversy.
Members of the Washington State Democratic Party …
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Gabrielle Feliciano / The Olympian (TNS)
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6/28/24
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With the support of high school track and field coaches, the Kennewick School Board passed a resolution Wednesday night denouncing transgender girls from participating in divisions with their …
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Eric Rosane / Tri-City Herald (TNS)
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6/28/24
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