It wasn’t Santa Claus delivering Christmas presents, but on Thursday afternoon, voter advocacy group Let’s Go Washington turned in 419,699 signatures for Initiative 2109, which would …
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By Brett Davis / The Center Square
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12/22/23
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A Washington state House Republican lawmaker is speaking out after an 87-page investigation was released Monday afternoon regarding the lawmaker’s alleged pattern of bullying.
The …
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By Shauna Sowersby /The Olympian
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12/22/23
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A woman taken to OHSU Hospital after a court hearing escaped from a deputy by removing a ceiling tile in a restroom, crawling into another room, changing her appearance and walking away undetected, …
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The Oregonian / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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12/22/23
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A private immigration prison in Tacoma must pay more than $23 million in back pay and penalties for violating Washington's minimum wage law by paying people it detains just $1 a day, a unanimous …
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David Gutman / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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12/22/23
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The jury trial for a Blaine woman accused of torturing and sexually assaulting four children known to her has been rescheduled until early spring.
Tana Perkins Reneau, 52, was charged June 5 in …
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Denver Pratt / The Bellingham Herald (TNS)
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12/22/23
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The state Public Disclosure Commission has dismissed two complaints against Attorney General Bob Ferguson over his efforts earlier this year to transfer $1.2 million in "surplus" campaign funds to …
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Jim Brunner / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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12/22/23
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Efforts to keep gender-affirming care data in Washington private continue despite out-of-state demands to share it, per a lawsuit Seattle Children's filed against the Texas Attorney General's office …
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Elise Takahama / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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12/22/23
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It's been nearly a decade since an accused child rapist fled Benton County ahead of his trial. Now he's headed back in handcuffs.
Alexander B. Callahan, 34, was caught in early December by the …
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Cameron Probert / Tri-City Herald (TNS)
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12/22/23
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A Tri-Cities gang leader will be allowed to withdraw his guilty plea for sex trafficking, which came with a sentence of 25 years, after an appeals court found "race-based prosecutorial misconduct."
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Cory McCoy / Tri-City Herald (TNS)
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12/22/23
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State prosecutors are seeking a summer 2024 trial for Bryan Kohberger, who is accused of killing four University of Idaho students.
In a motion filed Thursday, Latah County Senior Deputy …
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Alexandra Duggan / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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12/22/23
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The medical examiner's office determined 65-year-old Carol Streit's cause of death was from an arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy, a disease in which fatty tissue replaces parts of the …
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Alexandra Duggan / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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12/22/23
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TACOMA — A Pierce County jury Thursday acquitted three Tacoma police officers charged in the death of Manuel Ellis, concluding a grueling, historic trial that tested the state’s new …
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By Claire Whitcomb, Sydney Brownstone, Lulu Ramadan, Patrick Malone and Alex Yoon-Hendricks / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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12/22/23
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OLYMPIA — According to an announcement from the Association of Washington Business, several employer groups in Washington state filed a lawsuit Dec. 4 in U.S. District Court for the District of …
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Gabriel Davis / Columbia Basin Herald (TNS)
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12/22/23
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TACOMA — A Pierce County jury Thursday acquitted three Tacoma police officers charged in the death of Manuel Ellis, concluding a grueling, historic trial that tested the state's new police …
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Patrick Malone / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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12/22/23
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Washington is headed toward another grim milestone as the year ends. Deaths involving motor vehicles have nearly doubled in the last decade, with the pace this year likely to pass 2022's 33-year-high …
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By The Seattle Times Editorial Board (TNS)
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12/22/23
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RENTON — If one were to rank the best Seahawks drives since Russell Wilson departed two years ago, the only question is what No. 2 would be.
The top one occurred Monday night, when Drew …
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Matt Calkins / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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12/22/23
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A Delta flight from London to Seattle was diverted to Yakima's airport Wednesday because of inclement weather and low fuel.
Flight DL21, an Airbus A330 carrying 166 passengers and 13 crew …
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Santiago Ochoa / Yakima Herald-Republic (TNS)
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12/22/23
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Imagine being 10 years old and spending Christmastime in the hospital.
Imagine being a parent of a child spending Christmastime in the hospital.
Geno Smith can.
The Seahawks' …
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Gregg Bell / The News Tribune (TNS)
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12/22/23
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Shortly after the verdict acquitting three Tacoma police in the death of Manuel Ellis was announced, Ellis family members and others gathered beneath the Manny Ellis mural at South 11th Street and …
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Craig Sailor / The News Tribune (TNS)
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12/22/23
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To the crowd of towering Washington rowers gathered on the sidewalk outside the SIFF Cinema Downtown in early December; the wait was over. It was finally time to see the story of UW's greatest …
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Shane Lantz / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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12/22/23
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