Gracie Reynolds said she could just make out the two people standing on a balcony of an apartment building downtown, waving their hands as a thick column of smoke billowed out a nearby window.
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Daniel Gilbert / The Seattle Times
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5/16/22
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VAN ZANDT, Whatcom County — For 49 years, Jeff Margolis and his late wife, Amy, ran Everybody's Store, a gas station and sandwich stop in this community east of Bellingham. They never made much …
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David Kroman / The Seattle Times
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5/16/22
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A scuba diver was found dead after he didn't resurface Saturday during a class in American Lake on Joint Base Lewis-McChord.
The student diver, a veteran, was participating in a class for …
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Mike Reicher / The Seattle Times
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5/15/22
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An Aberdeen Police Department officer saved the life of an older disabled man in January from a house fire on the outskirts of Downtown Aberdeen.
Officer Brandi Slater, a five-year veteran of …
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By Matthew N. Wells / The Daily World
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5/15/22
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The black Dodge Charger, its red-and-blue emergency lights flashing while chasing another car on Portland’s North Marine Drive, looked like an unmarked police car, but the driver had no license …
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Maxine Bernstein / Oregonlive.com (TNS)
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5/15/22
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The call arrived at the emergency dispatch center at 1:06 a.m. Wednesday. A man yelled that “bunch of smoke and flames” was coming from the roof of a building in Southeast Portland.
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Tom Hallman Jr. / Oregonlive.com (TNS)
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5/15/22
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The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is offering a reward for information leading to the arrest of people responsible for the theft of a truck and trailer containing dozens of …
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Griffin Reilly / The Columbian
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5/15/22
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For those hoping to break out the shorts any time soon, weather forecasters have some bad news.
A cool trough of low pressure continues to draw storm systems through the region, with rain …
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Mike Reicher / The Seattle Times
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5/15/22
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In a message to Alaska Airlines employees Thursday evening, CEO Ben Minicucci said the high level of flight cancellations since April will continue through this month but added that stability should …
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Dominic Gates / The Seattle Times
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5/14/22
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Taking a new approach to bringing attention to how Amazon uses individuals' data, a shareholder is suing Jeff Bezos, Andy Jassy and 17 other Amazon leaders he claims knowingly allowed the company to …
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Lauren Rosenblatt / The Seattle Times
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5/14/22
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A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by 314 Hanford nuclear reservation and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory workers in Richland over COVID-19 vaccine requirements.
The lawsuit was …
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Annette Cary / Tri-City Herald
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5/14/22
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LOS ANGELES — Four people have been arrested on suspicion of arson after firefighters responded to dozens of small fires in Northern California last weekend.
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Christian Martinez / Los Angeles Times (TNS)
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5/14/22
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Spokane police officers replaced a 7-year-old girl's bicycle after three teenagers reportedly pushed her off her bike, kicked her in the stomach, called her vulgar names and rode off with it Friday …
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Garrett Cabeza / The Spokesman-Review
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5/14/22
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Milana Li left on one of her usual walks Sunday in the Southwest Beaverton neighborhood where she lived, but her family started worrying when the 13-year-old didn’t make it back to the …
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Savannah Eadens / Oregonlive.com (TNS)
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5/14/22
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A King County Superior Court judge on Friday handed down a decades-long prison sentence to a Tacoma man who killed a stranger nearly four years ago in a plot to take over the victim's property and …
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Sara Jean Green / The Seattle Times
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5/14/22
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A Vancouver man stands accused of urinating into milkshake mix, which was then served to between 30 and 40 people, while working as a manager at the Mill Plain Arby's restaurant in October.
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Becca Robbins / The Columbian
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5/14/22
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Childhood vaccination rates have fallen 13% during the COVID-19 pandemic compared to pre-pandemic levels, particularly among young children, according to a statement by the Washington State …
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By The Chronicle staff
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5/13/22
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Sunday's full moon is the first so-called supermoon of the year, when the moon is closest to Earth in its elliptical travels around our planet.
Though the odds currently aren't great that …
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By The Seattle Times
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5/13/22
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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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