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A suspected drunk driver allegedly crashed into a sign memorializing a fallen Tacoma police officer, dragged it for several blocks and brandished a gun at witnesses who checked on the man's welfare.
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3/15/23
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Zohreh Sadeghi and Mohammad Milad Naseri did everything right to address the incessant calls and unwanted packages sent to their Redmond home from a Texas truck driver who had grown obsessed with …
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Paige Cornwell / The Seattle Times
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3/15/23
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A man was found dead Tuesday morning outside the Union Gospel Mission, 413 Franklin St. NE, according to Olympia police.
A preliminary investigation shows there were no signs of trauma to the …
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3/15/23
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OLYMPIA — Senate Bill 5352, a bill related to vehicular pursuits, passed the State Senate floor last week and moved on to the House. Local police and legislators say the bill is an improvement, …
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3/15/23
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The Wahkiakum School District's lawsuit against Washington state could mean a massive shift in the way school construction is funded, or no change at all. A state Supreme Court hearing on Tuesday …
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3/15/23
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Thursday morning, a BNSF Railway freight train collided with a herd of two dozen elk just east of Cape Horn Lookout, killing them all upon impact.
Operators sounded a whistle and triggered the …
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3/15/23
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A Eugene high school is fielding furious questions from parents after Churchill High’s health teacher and football coach assigned students to write a short story about a sexual fantasy short of …
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3/14/23
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The dispatcher’s broadcast to Cowlitz County sheriff’s deputies fell into the category known among first responders as “a situation.” That’s in-house lingo for a call so …
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3/14/23
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A Tri-Cities massage therapist has been accused of sexually touching a fifth patient, according to the Washington state Department of Health.
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3/14/23
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When Heaven Strothers learned two of her children had been sexually abused by her then-husband, it felt like "the floor shattered and fell out from underneath" her.
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Lauren Girgis / The Seattle Times
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3/14/23
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A 32-year-old man has been sentenced to more than 13 years in prison for fatally shooting a friend in Spanaway and sparking a 90-minute stand-off with police.
Michael Jerome Matthews' sentencing …
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Shea Johnson / The News Tribune
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3/14/23
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The Washington high school football coach at the center of a First Amendment case that went before the U.S. Supreme Court last year will return to the sidelines for the upcoming football season.
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Amanda Zhou / The Seattle Times
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3/14/23
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Yakima County prosecutors charged a Missouri man with second-degree murder in connection with a Feb. 28 head-on crash that killed two children.
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3/14/23
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A second family has sued a former Sumner High School varsity basketball coach.
The family alleges Jacob "Jake" Jackson sexually abused and harassed a boy he met at a Sumner Basketball Academy …
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Angelica Relente / Puyallup Herald
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3/13/23
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A slope stabilization project on state Route 109 through Hoquiam in Grays Harbor County will close the road round the clock for three weeks beginning March 22, the state Department of Transportation …
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Rolf Boone / The Olympian
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3/13/23
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Twenty years ago on Thursday, March 16, Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old Olympia woman who was a student at The Evergreen State College, was killed by an Israeli military-operated Caterpillar bulldozer …
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3/13/23
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The body of an adult man was found in Watershed Park on Sunday, March 12, and the Olympia Police Department has opened an investigation into the cause of his death.
Police Lt. Paul Lower said a …
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Ty Vinson / The Olympian
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3/13/23
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A 22-year-old man was sentenced to nine years in prison after pleading guilty to running a red light while intoxicated, causing a Christmas Eve crash in 2021 that killed a pregnant woman.
Sean …
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Shea Johnson / The News Tribune
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3/13/23
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When someone broke into a Sikh cultural center in Federal Way, smashed up the prayer hall and stole equipment, wreaking havoc that many community members believed must have been at least partly …
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Daniel Beekman / The Seattle Times
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3/13/23
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In a first-of-its-kind study of the hunting behaviors of salmon-eating orcas, researchers found stark differences in two populations of killer whales that may have implications for their survival.
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3/13/23
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