Washington state governor OKs bill banning for-profit jails
OLYMPIA, Wash. — One of the country’s largest for-profit, privately run immigration jails would be shut down by 2025 under a bill signed Wednesday...
‘Major’ announcement planned in student’s 1996 disappearance
LOS ANGELES — A sheriff on California's Central Coast plans to make a major announcement Tuesday in the nearly 25-year mystery of the disappearance...
Skeletal remains identified as man who disappeared in 1979
In 1979, Kenneth Bell, a 22-year-old California man, went missing as he was apparently traveling to Washington state to visit family.
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Tensions rise in water battle along Oregon-California line
PORTLAND, Ore. — One of the worst droughts in memory in a massive agricultural region straddling the California-Oregon border could mean steep cuts to...
Prosecutors seek 5-year term for ex-leader of neo-Nazi group
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Federal prosecutors in Virginia are seeking a five-year prison sentence for a former neo-Nazi group leader who pleaded guilty to conspiring...
A year after COVID-19 superspreader, family finds closure
SEDRO-WOOLLEY, Wash. — With dish soap, brushes and plastic water jugs in hand, Carole Rae Woodmansee’s four children cleaned the gravestone their mother shares...
Pearl Jam guitarist McCready proud of 30 years of ‘Ten’
The Pearl Jam songs that would end up as tracks on the “Ten” album were played live at clubs along the West Coast for...
Steep decline in giant sea turtles seen off US West Coast
MONTEREY, Calif. — Scientists were documenting stranded sea turtles on California's beaches nearly 40 years ago when they noticed that leatherbacks — massive sea...
Portland leaders to re-establish anti-gun violence unit
The mayor of Portland, Oregon, and city commissioners have reached a deal on proposals intended to stem a spike in gun violence over the...
Neo-Nazi pleads guilty in journalist threat case
SEATTLE — An organizer of a neo-Nazi campaign to threaten journalists and Jewish activists in three states has pleaded guilty in federal court in...
