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OLYMPIA — Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson said Tuesday he is asking the state legislature for $1.5 million annually to fund the creation of a 10-member organized retail crime unit, …
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By The Columbia Basin Herald
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11/27/22
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A 48-year-old woman was killed early Saturday morning when the car she was in sped off a rural road in east Roy, hitting a fence and two trees.
The driver, a 43-year-old woman, was likely …
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Kristine Sherred / The News Tribune
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11/27/22
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Washington State Patrol troopers arrested a 19-year-old man in connection with a road rage shooting Friday on Interstate 5 near the Tacoma Mall, the agency reported.
The shooting wounded an …
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Lulu Ramadan / The Seattle Times
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11/27/22
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Utah investigators have identified a Yakima man as a suspect in the 1972 Thanksgiving weekend murder of an Army veteran and the rape of his companion.
Daniel Arthur Bell, who died at age 87 on …
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Tammy Ayer / Yakima Herald-Republic
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11/27/22
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Ranked-choice voting appears poised to be adopted in Seattle as November election results near certification, but city voters won't feel the effects of the decision for up to five more years.
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Sarah Grace Taylor / The Seattle Times
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11/26/22
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Members of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe and the community gathered to honor recipients of the Cowlitz Tribal Foundation grants at the ilani annual holiday tree lighting ceremony on Wednesday.
This …
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Nika Bartoo-Smith / The Columbian
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11/26/22
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OLYMPIA — Ahead of the next Legislature's budget writing year, Washington's tax collections are again higher than expected.
Despite concerns that revenues were slowing with a possible …
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Laurel Demkovich / The Spokesman-Review
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11/26/22
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An 11-year-old child was injured Friday in a road rage shooting on Interstate 5 near the Tacoma Mall, according to the Washington State Patrol.
It's the second highway shooting in the region to …
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Daniel Beekman / The Seattle Times
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11/26/22
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OLYMPIA — Not much will change in the Washington state Legislature next session, despite hopes from Republicans that they could take control of at least one chamber.
Democrats will enter …
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Laurel Demkovich / The Spokesman-Review
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11/25/22
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Mark James doesn't deny that he stole more than $5,000 from 13 mental patients he counseled at Western State Hospital in 2020 and 2021 — but he doesn't admit it, either.
"That would be …
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Sean Robinson / The News Tribune
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11/25/22
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Rain and mountain snow expected to hit Western Washington this weekend could make holiday travel difficult, especially on Sunday in the Cascade mountain passes, the National Weather Service warned …
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Peter Talbot / The News Tribune
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11/25/22
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The Washington State Department of Health has reported a rapid rise of flu cases across the state, following nationwide trends. Flu hospitalizations are at the highest rates seen in 10 years at this …
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Nika Bartoo-Smith / The Columbian
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11/25/22
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Washington makes voting easy as pie. Every registered voter gets a ballot mailed to them. Sending them back is free. You can even register and vote on Election Day.
Still, roughly 1.7 million of …
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Jim Brunner / The Seattle Times
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11/25/22
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Spring recreational black bear hunting was banned indefinitely by the state last week.
The state Fish and Wildlife Commission voted 5-4 on Friday against recreational black bear hunting in the …
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Nicholas Turner / The Seattle Times
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11/24/22
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A 40-year-old North Idaho man accused of killing a 70-year-old man in 2021 pleaded guilty to second-degree murder Monday in Bonner County District Court.
In June, a judge dismissed a related …
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Garrett Cabeza / The Spokesman-Review
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11/24/22
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During every election in Washington, tens of thousands of ballots are rejected because ballot envelope signatures are flagged as not matching how they've looked in the past.
In the Nov. 8 …
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Jim Brunner / The Seattle Times
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11/24/22
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Washington state has confirmed its first pediatric flu death of the 2022-23 influenza season, pushing public health leaders to more urgently sound the alarm on the region's steep rise of respiratory …
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Elise Takahama / The Seattle Times
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11/24/22
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Jordan Jackson had a caring and helpful disposition.
"He was someone who was always there for you at the drop of a hat," said Dan Degginger, a close friend of Jackson who's known him since about …
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Daisy Zavala Magaña / The Seattle Times
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11/24/22
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When Sam Robinson arrives at a public event in his distinctive cone-shaped Chinook hat to sing, play his drum and tell stories, what seems like a cultural, broadly spiritual moment is something else …
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Scott Hewitt / The Columbian
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11/24/22
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Want to skip the Black Friday sales and get outside instead? Washington state parks will offer free entry Friday for Native American Heritage Day.
A Discover Pass — normally $10 for a day …
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Taylor Blatchford / The Seattle Times
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11/24/22
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