SEATTLE — Joe Gaydos remembers the beautiful minke whale that washed up on the shore of a San Juan Island in 2022. Illuminated by a pink and orange sunrise, its injuries were consistent with a …
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Isabella Breda / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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2/22/24
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A man has been charged in the fatal shooting of his ex-girlfriend in Lakewood after she allegedly stole several of his narcotic pills, Pierce County prosecutors say.
Prosecutors charged Larie …
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Puneet Bsanti / The News Tribune (TNS)
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2/22/24
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When her stepfather moved across the street from her in late summer 2021, Skylar Faith Crowe got scared.
She said she had endured years of sexual abuse from Richard Higheagle starting in grade …
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Maxine Bernstein / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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2/21/24
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A Washington man was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison for posing as a 15-year-old boy on Snapchat, traveling to Portland and recording himself having sex with underage girls he met on the app …
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Maxine Bernstein / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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2/21/24
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Two girls have been arrested and booked into juvenile detention in connection with a series of bomb threats made against area schools over the weekend, according to the Thurston County Sheriff's …
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Rolf Boone / The Olympian (TNS)
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2/21/24
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OLYMPIA — On a drizzly day in Olympia, hundreds of people gathered on the Capitol steps and called on state legislators to take action supporting peace in Gaza.
Palestinian and Israeli …
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Jacquelyn Jimenez Romero / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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2/21/24
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A Federal Way man allegedly shot a Washington State Patrol trooper nine times, including with the trooper's own firearm after stealing it from him, according to King County prosecutors.
Jason …
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Lauren Girgis / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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2/21/24
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PEORIA, Ariz. — The two-word phrase was rarely mentioned during last year's spring training. As if the mere mention of it might mutter it into existence. And when the struggles came early in …
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Ryan Divish / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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2/21/24
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This is a simple question with perhaps not so simple an answer.
Scientists do expect rising global temperatures to influence the weather patterns known as La Niña and El Niño …
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Conrad Swanson / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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2/21/24
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What began as the largest wind project ever proposed in Washington — the Horse Heaven Hills wind farm — will likely soon be cut to a fraction of the original vision.
Why?
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Conrad Swanson / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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2/21/24
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People incarcerated by Washington have to work for as little as $1 per hour while paying unfair costs to stay healthy and connected with the outside world, says a new report by Columbia Legal …
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Daniel Beekman / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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2/21/24
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Majority party Democrats' proposed supplemental House and Senate budgets each contain a provision for $150 million in energy rebate vouchers that would be funded by revenue from carbon auctions that …
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By Brett Davis / The Center Square
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2/20/24
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A bill that calls for stiffer penalties for interference or intimidation by threats or use of force at schools and athletic activities in Washington state gained unanimous approval in the House of …
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Randy Bracht / The Center Square
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2/20/24
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Clark County deputies shot and killed a man in Brush Prairie early Tuesday morning after receiving a welfare call, the sheriff’s office said.
A woman called 911 around midnight because she …
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Fedor Zarkhin / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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2/20/24
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A Ferndale woman is accused of attempting to bribe a Whatcom County Sheriff's Office deputy with drugs and threatening deputies after being detained earlier this month.
Police were called after …
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Jack Belcher / The Bellingham Herald (TNS)
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2/20/24
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Skeletal remains found in 2022 off the Columbia River near Temco Kalama have been identified as an Oregon man reported missing that January.
Cowlitz County Coroner Dana Tucker states in a news …
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By The Daily News
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2/19/24
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Two veteran Seattle police officers have been given a day off without pay for their lackadaisical response to a priority report of a shooting at a Sodo nightclub.
The two officers and a police …
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Mike Carter / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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2/19/24
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A 44-year-old Olympia man emerged from a two-vehicle crash unhurt on Thursday, but the woman who tried to pass him was killed, according to Washington State Patrol.
About 9:45 a.m. Thursday, …
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Rolf Boone / The Olympian (TNS)
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2/19/24
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A 40-year-old Arlington man, suspected of driving under the influence, is now accused of vehicular homicide after he drove the wrong way on I-5 and crashed into another car, according to the …
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Rolf Boone / The Olympian (TNS)
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2/19/24
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It's been nearly 30 years since Democrats last represented Eastern Washington in Congress. Now with incumbent Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers not running for re-election, some in the party see a …
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Emry Dinman / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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2/19/24
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