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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.
It is one of several recent actions taken by the …
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Annette Cary / Tri-City Herald
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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.
In court papers filed in Yakima County Superior …
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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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Isabella Breda / The Seattle Times
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3/13/23
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EPHRATA — Andrea Campos Hernandez, 22, Moses Lake has been arrested after an investigation into alleged sexual abuse of a 15-year-old Warden High School student, according to a statement from …
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Hans Miller / Columbia Basin Herald
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3/13/23
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Cody Easterday has filed another lawsuit from behind bars. This time he's making antitrust claims against the company he was convicted of stealing more than $200 million from.
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Cory McCoy / Tri-City Herald
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3/13/23
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Walmart announced earlier this week that it will cease to supply plastic carryout bags at its Washington retail stores starting April 18. The move will encourage shoppers to use the retail chain's …
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Jared Gendron / The News Tribune
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3/13/23
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CATHLAMET — It's an unremarkable day at the Wahkiakum School District when a bathroom floods, rainwater drains from the ceilings and classrooms are cold enough that teachers pass out blankets.
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Dahlia Bazzaz / The Seattle Times
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3/13/23
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The number of Washington students going to college within a year of graduating from high school took a sharp hit during the pandemic, a concerning trend that could exacerbate racial inequities in …
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Katherine Long / The Seattle Times
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3/13/23
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They shot them down from the sky.
It happened two winters ago in Adams County, but the federal government won't say where. A pilot and gunner did it from a plane while flying low over wheat …
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Colin Tiernan / The Spokesman-Review
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3/13/23
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OLYMPIA — Legislation to fund aerial fire suppression assistance for small and rural fire departments passed the state House Wednesday.
"Listening to some of the people here at my …
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Rebecca Pettingill / Columbia Basin Herald
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3/13/23
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