Randy Weaver, the white supremacist who became a hero of the modern militia movement after an 11-day standoff with federal agents at Ruby Ridge in North Idaho, has died.
The 74-year-old passed …
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By The Spokesman-Review
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5/13/22
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Washingtonians can receive a DUI for driving while high, the state's Supreme Court concluded Thursday, a decision that upholds the state's decade-old law regulating marijuana use behind the wheel of …
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David Kroman / The Seattle Times
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5/12/22
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WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats on Wednesday failed to pass a bill to enshrine in law the right to terminate a pregnancy, a largely symbolic vote held in response to a leaked document that …
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Orion Donovan-Smith / The Spokesman-Review
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5/12/22
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Anglers will get another shot at a better-than-expected spring chinook salmon run on the Columbia River.
Bolstered by a 30% uptick in the spring run at Bonneville Dam, Oregon and Washington …
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Bill Monroe / Oregonlive.com (TNS)
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5/12/22
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Law enforcement busted large-scale illegal marijuana grow operations near Shelton and Lacey on Monday.
The Mason County Sheriff’s Office served warrants along with the Washington …
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Martín Bilbao / The Olympian
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5/12/22
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A woman killed her two young children in their Gresham apartment this week as she was in the midst of an acrimonious custody battle with her former spouse, according to family members, police and …
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Noelle Crombie / Oregonlive.com (TNS)
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5/12/22
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A tool to combat the worst effects of wildfires has come back to Washington state: prescribed burning.
For the first time in 18 years, the state Department of Natural Resources (DNR) in fall …
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By Sydney Brown / The Daily News
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5/11/22
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The FBI has arrested a fugitive Auburn couple who fled on the eve of their sentencing last month after being convicted of operating a Ponzi-like scheme through the now-bankrupt Northwest Territorial …
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Mike Carter / The Seattle Times
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5/11/22
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A dispute over large stereo speakers or boxes containing some items resulted in an exchange of pepper spray and gunfire in a gravel lot near Providence St. Peter Hospital Monday morning.
About …
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Rolf Boone / The Olympian
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5/11/22
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The suspect in an early Monday drive-by shooting was caught after his car broke down less than a mile away from where he allegedly opened fire.
Armando Alvarado, 28, reportedly was in a Subaru …
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Cameron Probert / Tri-City Herald
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5/11/22
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Help has come in the eleventh hour for Grays Harbor EMS & Trauma Care Council (GHEMS).
The nonprofit, which provides emergency medical service training to county first responders, was set to …
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Erika Gebhardt / The Daily World
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5/11/22
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An Auburn woman who in 1988 was sentenced to 90 years in prison in a product-tampering case that left two dead and prompted national recalls of over-the-counter drugs has filed a petition for …
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Mike Carter / The Seattle Times
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5/11/22
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Jae Coleman has grown obsessed. The Tukwila mother never imagined she would have to worry about whether her preferred baby formula for her 5-month-old twin boys would be available at the store.
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Amanda Zhou / The Seattle Times
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5/11/22
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As the pandemic erased jobs and suddenly left thousands of people without employer-sponsored health insurance coverage, many enrolled in the government's Medicaid program.
Today, as the job market …
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Arielle Dreher / The Spokesman-Review
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5/11/22
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The Spokane County commissioners are giving an Inland Northwest nonprofit $20,000 to help homeless people return to their hometowns.
Volunteers of America, an organization that operates homeless …
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Colin Tiernan / The Spokesman-Review
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5/11/22
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Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler this week will launch his administration’s latest attempt to tame trash, graffiti and other public eyesores by establishing a new …
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Shane Dixon Kavanaugh / Oregonlive.com (TNS)
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5/10/22
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A federal defense attorney who coordinated a national effort to dismantle a FBI-run child-pornography site whose operation was deemed "outrageous misconduct" has been named federal public defender in …
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Mike Carter / The Seattle Times
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5/10/22
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Blizzard, the 26-year-old polar bear who had been at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma since he was orphaned as a cub, was euthanized Sunday due to a rapidly growing cancerous tumor.
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Christine Clarridge / The Seattle Times
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5/10/22
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A 19-year-old soldier from Joint Base Lewis-McChord who was killed Sunday in a two-vehicle collision in University Place was identified Monday by officials from the military base.
Specialist …
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Peter Talbot / The News Tribune
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5/10/22
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Alaska Airlines passengers suffered another bad run of flight cancellations over the weekend.
Internal data from Alaska, obtained by The Seattle Times, showed 47 flights were canceled on Friday …
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Dominic Gates / The Seattle Times
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5/10/22
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