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The view from the cupola on the International Space Station brings home just how fragile the Earth's atmosphere is, said astronaut Kayla Barron.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Tuesday arranged a …
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Annette Cary / Tri-City Herald (TNS)
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12/21/21
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The majority of Northwest residents polled in a survey commissioned by Northwest RiverPartners said they oppose tearing down the four Snake River dams in Eastern Washington.
The findings, …
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Annette Cary / Tri-City Herald (TNS)
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12/21/21
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The city of Portland is poised to pay $100,000 to settle a federal lawsuit filed against police by a man who said he was pepper sprayed, thrown to the ground and unlawfully arrested during a …
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Maxine Bernstein / Oregonlive.com (TNS)
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12/21/21
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A Portland man who pulled over on Interstate 5 after his car stalled was hit and killed by a suspected drunken driver in Clark County, according to court documents.
Ying Ting, 36, was outside …
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Savannah Eadens / Oregonlive.com (TNS)
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12/21/21
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A Multnomah County jail deputy who stole blank COVID-19 vaccination cards from a clinic at the downtown jail where he worked pleaded guilty Tuesday to official misconduct and was sentenced to six …
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Maxine Bernstein / Oregonlive.com (TNS)
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12/21/21
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Eight months before he was found shot to death in the bedroom of his $2 million riverfront mansion, Jimmy Pearson drafted a new will.
He cut out his two daughters. In their place, he named a …
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Noelle Crombie / Oregonlive.com (TNS)
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12/21/21
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A 71-year-old Pasco woman attacked her elderly husband with a hatchet during an argument last week, say police.
Bonnie Ritchie brought the hatchet into her 81-year-old husband's den shortly …
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Cameron Probert / Tri-City Herald (TNS)
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12/21/21
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North Idaho is out of crisis standards of care after nearly four months.
Faced with a surge of patients with the highly contagious delta variant of COVID-19, North Idaho hospitals went into …
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Arielle Dreher / The Spokesman-Review
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12/21/21
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A 29-year-old Auburn man waited nearly an hour to call 911 after shooting a man in the chest last week with a flare gun, killing him, according to King County prosecutors.
Philip Urban was …
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Sara Jean Green / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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12/21/21
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A Shelton man, who died following a single-vehicle crash in Pacific County, has been identified, according to Washington State Patrol.
Donald E. Williams, 65, crashed his vehicle on Dec. 14 and …
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Rolf Boone / The Olympian
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12/21/21
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When Donna Barker went through her coronavirus protocol last week for this year's Christmas gathering, she realized she was missing something — enough rapid COVID-19 tests for all her guests.
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Elise Takahama and Amanda Zhou / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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12/21/21
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The intense flames and smoke could be just the beginning of hazards caused by the Schneider Springs Fire.
A lightning strike in early August started the fire, which burned 107,322 acres 18 miles …
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Luke Thompson / Yakima Herald-Republic
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12/21/21
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Yakima police arrested a 24-year-old man on Saturday, accusing him of first-degree assault, recklessly driving through residential neighborhoods and hitting a fire engine.
On Thursday, officers …
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Vanessa Ontiveros / Yakima Herald-Republic (TNS)
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12/20/21
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The death of Washington State Sen. Doug Ericksen on Dec. 17 will have the local Republican party busy during the holidays to fill the seat before the legislative session begins next month.
The …
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Dave Gallagher / The Bellingham Herald (TNS)
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12/20/21
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The owner of Smuggler's Inn in Whatcom County was sentenced to time served and probation in a Canadian court for his role in helping seven people illegally cross the border, according to Canadian …
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David Rasbach / The Bellingham Herald (TNS)
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12/20/21
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Pierce County deputies seized cash, thousands of counterfeit pills and pounds of drugs in Burien last week while executing search warrants as part of a drug investigation.
Total, deputies …
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Peter Talbot / The News Tribune (TNS)
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12/20/21
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A Renton man may have been alive up to five days after his two teenage daughters died before the bodies of all three were found in their apartment last Saturday, police said.
While it could be …
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Daisy Zavala / The Seattle Times
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12/20/21
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A state medical board withdrew allegations of unprofessional conduct against a Tri-Cities doctor after he completed relevant coursework.
The Washington state Department of Health announced this …
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Kristin M. Kraemer / Tri-City Herald
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12/20/21
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State Sen. Doug Ericksen, who represented Whatcom County with a strong conservative voice for more than two decades in the Legislature, has died, according to a Saturday afternoon press release from …
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Robert Mittendorf / The Bellingham Herald
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12/20/21
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Just days after a huge blaze lit up downtown Olympia, taking a five-story building with it and damaging a handful of others, hundreds of people have banded together to donate money through GoFundMe …
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Ty Vinson / The Olympian
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12/20/21
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