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The city of Auburn has agreed to pay $450,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a convicted and incarcerated drug dealer who was run down and seriously injured by a police officer now facing murder …
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Mike Carter / The Seattle Times
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12/16/22
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Four accused Tri-Cities drug traffickers were arrested this week in one of largest drug busts in Eastern Washington history.
FBI agents and local police officers seized more than 100,000 …
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Cameron Probert / Tri-City Herald
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12/16/22
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A couple is accused of traveling with the body of the woman's 8-year-old adopted daughter, who had reportedly been dead for at least a month and a half, from Airway Heights to South …
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Garrett Cabeza / The Spokesman-Review
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12/16/22
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Olympia Police Chief Rich Allen came before the City Council last summer to gain approval for a gun buyback program. The council earmarked $15,000 for the program, but the buyback part of the deal …
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Ty Vinson / The Olympian
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12/16/22
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A 4-year-old Seattle boy suffered massive head injuries and languished for hours before he died Sunday.
King County prosecutors have since charged his mother and her boyfriend with second-degree …
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Sara Jean Green / The Seattle Times
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12/16/22
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OLYMPIA — Gov. Jay Inslee on Wednesday proposed a state budget topping $70 billion for the next biennium that would invest money for homelessness and behavioral health services across …
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Laurel Demkovich / The Spokesman-Review
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12/15/22
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The privately owned operator of a natural gas power plant in Grays Harbor County is challenging the constitutionality of the state's Climate Commitment Act, which seeks to clamp down on greenhouse …
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Hal Bernton / The Seattle Times
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12/15/22
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A member of the Lummi Nation and former owner of a wholesale fish processor was sentenced Wednesday, Dec. 14, in U.S. District Court to three years of probation for violating the Lacey Act by selling …
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Julie Shirley / The Bellingham Herald
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12/15/22
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The state agency that oversees training and certification of police officers moved on Wednesday to more aggressively remove recruits from the state law enforcement training academy when they show …
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Patrick Malone / The Seattle Times
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12/15/22
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OLYMPIA — Gov. Jay Inslee proposed Wednesday that state spending over the next two years prioritize "pressing needs" such as housing, including an ambitious effort to quickly build thousands of …
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Claire Withycombe / The Seattle Times
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12/15/22
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A business in Franklin County has the first outbreak in Washington state of avian influenza in a large commercial flock of chicken since a nationwide outbreak began in February.
Chickens are …
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Annette Cary / Tri-City Herald
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12/15/22
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A Gleed man convicted of brutally raping a 12-year-old girl in 2018 will have to spend at least 80 years in prison.
Daniel John Arnold, 34, was sentenced Monday to an indeterminate sentence of …
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Donald W. Meyers / Yakima Herald-Republic
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12/15/22
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Court records reveal new details about the alleged murder of a Kenmore man outside a Lacey motel in August.
Sean Shea died Aug. 30 after suffering blunt force injuries to his head. First …
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Martín Bilbao / The Olympian
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12/15/22
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Projects to help fish navigate Washington's rivers could get a boost of nearly $40 million from the federal government.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Wednesday announced …
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Isabella Breda / The Seattle Times
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12/15/22
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Lacey police have arrested one of two men who they suspect killed a 36-year-old Kenmore man outside a motel in August. Arrest warrants were issued for Nicholas VanDuren, 32, and his fraternal twin, …
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By Martín Bilbao / The Olympian
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12/14/22
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A 61-year-old Spanaway man was sentenced Tuesday in federal district court for his role in a drug ring bringing fentanyl and methamphetamine into Western Washington.
Dwayne Douglas George was …
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Peter Talbot / The News Tribune
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12/14/22
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Seattle police last week arrested two prolific graffiti taggers accused of causing more than $300,000 in damage citywide, according to prosecutors.
Casey Cain, 36, and Jose Betancourth, 37, were …
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Sara Jean Green / The Seattle Times
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12/14/22
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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed legislation to enshrine same-sex marriage rights in law, punctuating a dramatic shift in U.S. public opinion over the past decade. But …
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Orion Donovan-Smith / The Spokesman-Review
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12/14/22
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Investigators took a moment Tuesday to reflect on the homicide investigation of four University of Idaho students were killed in an off-campus home one month ago.
Moscow police Capt. Roger …
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Emma Epperly / The Spokesman-Review
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12/14/22
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DEER RIDGE TRAIL, OLYMPIC NATIONAL FOREST — Little in the Olympic Mountains comes easy.
Ask the members of the 1889-90 Press Expedition, who took six months to traverse the range from north …
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Gregory Scruggs / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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12/13/22
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