Washington news

• Largemouth bass state record held for more than 39 years broken by Bothell angler

  12-08-2016 23:55
  
  It didn’t take Bill Evans of Bothell very long to set a new state record for a largemouth bass. The long-time bass angler who moved to the Seattle area a few years ago, just started to pursue bass in local waters and managed to catch a big one on Lake Bosworth in Snohomish County on […]
  
  Read more

• Mountlake Terrace man gets 15 years in child porn case

  12-08-2016 23:01
  
  David Stephens also will have to undergo treatment while he’s in prison.
  
  Read more

• Judge overturns conviction of nephew in ‘Making a Murderer’

  12-08-2016 22:28
  
  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A judge on Friday overturned the conviction of a Wisconsin man found guilty of helping his uncle kill a woman in a case profiled in the Netflix series “Making a Murderer,” ruling that investigators coerced a confession using deceptive tactics. U.S. Magistrate William Duffin in Milwaukee ordered Brendan Dassey freed within […]
  
  Read more

• Those cute little Smart cars get towed a lot in Seattle; here’s why

  12-08-2016 21:14
  
  Smart cars are the fourth most-towed vehicles in Seattle, despite barely more than 100 registered to private owners. Why? Car2Go, of course.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• KPLU renamed KNKX (pronounced ‘connects’)

  12-08-2016 21:13
  
  The newly saved public-radio station KPLU has a new name: KNKX, or “Connects.” Plans are for it to officially launch Aug. 30.
  
  Read more

• Semi-truck crash closes eastbound I-90 near Issaquah

  12-08-2016 19:52
  
  A crash involving a semi is blocking eastbound Interstate 90 near Issaquah. The Washington state Department of Transportation has no estimate on when the road will reopen. Find alternate routes. This post will be updated.
  
  Read more

• Semi crash delays traffic on eastbound I-90 near Issaquah

  12-08-2016 19:52
  
  Eastbound Interstate 90, which was closed after a collision Friday morning between a semi truck and a car, reopened at 2 p.m., according to the Washington State Patrol. The crash happened around 10:15 a.m. Martin said witnesses reported that the driver of a Toyota Camry lost control of her vehicle, swerved across the freeway lanes […]
  
  Read more

• Semi crash closes eastbound I-90 just past Issaquah

  12-08-2016 19:52
  
  A crash involving a semi is blocking all lanes of eastbound Interstate 90 near Issaquah, and state troopers say the travel disruption will be lengthy. Washington State Patrol spokeswoman Sgt. Tina Martin said calls reporting a collision between a car and a semitruck near High Point started coming in around 10:17 a.m. Friday. Martin said […]
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Semi crash blocks most of eastbound I-90 just past Issaquah

  12-08-2016 19:52
  
  Just one lane is open on eastbound Interstate 90 after a crash this morning involving a semi, and state troopers say the travel disruption will be lengthy. Washington State Patrol spokeswoman Sgt. Tina Martin said calls reporting a collision between a car and a semitruck near High Point started coming in around 10:17 a.m. Friday. […]
  
  Read more

• 18-year-old suffers life-threatening injuries in I-90 crash near Issaquah

  12-08-2016 19:52
  
  Eastbound Interstate 90, which was closed after a collision Friday morning between a semi truck and a car, reopened at 2 p.m., according to the Washington State Patrol.
  
  Read more

• Inaugural cannabis fair being set up in Oregon

  12-08-2016 19:42
  
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — In a sign of how mainstream the once-illicit marijuana industry is becoming in Oregon — one of four states to have legalized it — exhibitors are heading to the state capital to set up for the inaugural Oregon Cannabis Grower’s Fair. Winners of the pot-plant competition at the Oregon Cannabis Grower’s […]
  
  Read more

• Police corporal cited in Oregon doughnut shop crash

  12-08-2016 19:36
  
  No shop employees or customers of the Dough Nut in Bend were injured in the March crash.
  
  Read more

• Junk food fight: Science tests how birds compete for Cheetos

  12-08-2016 19:19
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s the early bird that gets the Cheetos. But it’s the bigger bird that steals it away. Behavioral ecologist Rhea Esposito used the snack food to see how two types of smart birds— smaller magpies and bigger crows — interact and compete for food. Birds, like many of us when we’re forced […]
  
  Read more

• Family of Gig Harbor man killed by fallen tree files lawsuit

  12-08-2016 18:48
  
  The suit claims developers were negligent for failing to properly log the area and remove the tree, which had suffered from extensive root rot.
  
  Read more

• Southern California having smoggiest summer since 2009

  12-08-2016 18:28
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Southern California is having its smoggiest summer in nearly a decade and hospitals report an increase of people with breathing problems. The South Coast Air Quality Management District says ozone levels exceeded federal standards for all but four days in June. July had only one clean-air day, and there hasn’t been […]
  
  Read more

• US declares health emergency in Puerto Rico due to Zika

  12-08-2016 17:41
  
  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The U.S. government on Friday declared a public health emergency in Puerto Rico as a result of a Zika epidemic. The declaration allows the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to award grants, access emergency funds and temporarily appoint personnel where needed, among other things. “This administration is […]
  
  Read more

• Puerto Rico reports 10,690 Zika cases amid ongoing epidemic

  12-08-2016 17:41
  
  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The U.S. territory of Puerto Rico has reported 1,914 new Zika cases over the past week. Health Secretary Ana Rius said Friday there are 10,690 cases altogether, including 1,035 involving pregnant women. Zika has been tied to severe birth defects. Rius said 90 people have been hospitalized because of […]
  
  Read more

• DIVIDED AMERICA: Global warming a more polarizing issue than abortion

  12-08-2016 17:06
  
  Surveys show 17 percent of Americans are alarmed by climate change and want action now, with another 28 percent concerned but viewing it as a more distant threat. But there's an often-vocal 10 percent who are dismissive.
  
  Read more

• 3rd new Legionnaires case confirmed at Illinois veteran home

  12-08-2016 15:55
  
  QUINCY, Ill. (AP) — State officials have confirmed a third new case of Legionnaires’ disease at a western Illinois veterans’ home since an outbreak there last year killed 12 people and sickened 54. The directors of the Illinois departments of veterans’ affairs and public health said in a statement Thursday that three residents have tested […]
  
  Read more

• USGS reports magnitude 4.0 earthquake in northwest Oklahoma

  12-08-2016 15:10
  
  HELENA, Okla. (AP) — The US Geological Survey reports a 4.0 magnitude earthquake has stuck northwestern Oklahoma. The USGS says the quake was recorded at 12:27 a.m., 12 miles northeast of Helena, about 85 miles northwest of Oklahoma City. There have been no reports of injury or damage. The USGS says the earthquake was widely […]
  
  Read more

• You ask, we answer: Time for the next round of Education Lab IQ

  12-08-2016 15:05
  
  Readers are full of interesting questions about education, and we want to hear yours.
  
  Read more

• Bill Bryant’s challenge: Topple Washington’s dynasty of Democratic governors

  12-08-2016 15:00
  
  GOP challenger Bill Bryant has an uphill climb to unseat Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee. He’s introducing himself as a moderate with environmental, education and business credentials while downplaying his GOP ties - and avoiding talk of Donald Trump.
  
  Read more

• 1981, when state’s last GOP governor took office, was a different world

  12-08-2016 15:00
  
  MTV was just getting its start the last time a Republican took the keys to the Washington governor’s mansion.
  
  Read more

• College denounces black student’s non-white roommate request

  12-08-2016 14:29
  
  CLAREMONT, Calif. (AP) — A small liberal-arts college near Los Angeles is denouncing a Facebook post made by a black student who was seeking out a non-white roommate. The Claremont Independent reports Pitzer College student Kare Urena asked in the post that only people of color apply to live in her off-campus residence, adding that […]
  
  Read more

• Dig extended at site of 1750s British, American encampments

  12-08-2016 13:25
  
  LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. (AP) — An archaeological dig that was supposed to wrap up this week at an 18th century military site has yielded such intriguing artifacts the project has been extended, the archaeologist leading the excavations said. The six-week project was supposed to end Friday, but state officials have granted an extension for excavations […]
  
  Read more

• Bellevue man unable to cancel phantom insurance plan he never signed up for, feds step in

  12-08-2016 09:07
  
  Jim Ziegler, 47, turns to the Department of Labor after spending weeks trying to find out why his previous employer activated a health insurance plan after he left the company.
  
  Read more

• Bellevue man unable to cancel phantom insurance plan, asks Department of Labor to step in

  12-08-2016 09:07
  
  Jim Ziegler, 47, turns to the Department of Labor after spending weeks trying to find out why his previous employer activated a health insurance plan after he left the company.
  
  Read more

• Cornish officials name interim leader as they search for president

  12-08-2016 06:53
  
  Chris Kevorkian will serve as interim president while the college’s board of trustees searches for a permanent one. The former president announced her departure in December.
  
  Read more

• State wildlife staff kill two adult female wolves in Northeastern Washington

  12-08-2016 05:50
  
  Wolves began recolonizing Washington about a decade ago, and this is the third time the department has removed some of them.
  
  Read more

• Lack of psychiatrists creates access problem in Oregon, U.S.

  12-08-2016 05:36
  
  A study found that from 2003 to 2013, there was a 0.2 percent decline in the number of practicing psychiatrists in the U.S. In contrast, there was a 14 percent increase in the total number of doctors.
  
  Read more

• Tukwila police: Officers fatally shoot man after he opened fire on them with shotgun

  12-08-2016 05:34
  
  Police negotiated with the man for about an hour Thursday night, according to the police department. When he refused to surrender, they shot him.
  
  Read more

• An evening of dance amid Seattle’s waterfront sculptures

  12-08-2016 05:19
  
  The free, public event at Olympic Sculpture Park on Thursday, Aug. 11, was a collaboration with Seattle Art Museum and Pacific Northwest Ballet Artistic Director Peter Boal for the Summer at SAM series.
  
  Read more

• Local researchers may see benefits from easing of pot rules

  12-08-2016 05:12
  
  While pot advocates were disappointed by the federal government’s decision to keep marijuana classified as a dangerous drug with no medical use, there is potential research-related benefit in Thursday’s news for Washington.
  
  Read more

• ‘Ineffective’ Seattle City Light may have misbilled big developments, audit finds

  12-08-2016 04:57
  
  The audit looked at 100 projects for new electric hookups, services high in demand because of the city’s building boom.
  
  Read more

• DEA says marijuana has no medical use; pot remains listed as dangerous

  12-08-2016 04:22
  
  The long-awaited decision by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration keeps intact a 1970 law that lists marijuana as a Schedule 1 drug, one defined as having no medical value.
  
  Read more

• New UW program tackles the teaching of Natives, culture

  12-08-2016 03:54
  
  The Native Education Certificate Program’s first cohort — 69 in total — will learn how to better teach Native issues in their schools, as well as better work with Native youth and families in their communities.
  
  Read more

• Authorities: Heroin-trafficking ringleader tied to Seattle has been returned to U.S.

  12-08-2016 03:30
  
  U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes said in a news release that ringleader, 34-year-old Ricardo Ramacho, was arrested Aug. 9 near Tijuana, Mexico, after eluding authorities for weeks.
  
  Read more

• Ride the Ducks crash victim’s parents allege discrimination in 1909 law

  12-08-2016 02:29
  
  The Korean parents of a student who died in the Aurora Bridge crash in Seattle on Sept. 24, 2015, are challenging in federal court the constitutionality of sections of the state law, calling the language discriminatory.
  
  Read more

• Former rival Joe McDermott endorses Brady Walkinshaw for 7th District seat

  12-08-2016 01:16
  
  Primary loser Joe McDermott on Thursday endorsed former rival Brady Walkinshaw in Walkinshaw’s general-election race against Pramila Jayapal for Washington’s 7th Congressional District seat.
  
  Read more

• #EnoughSeattle takes off after Capitol Hill panel on sexism and online harassment

  12-08-2016 00:19
  
  A Wednesday night panel discussion on online harassment of women extended onto Twitter with the hashtag #EnoughSeattle. It put parts of the enlightening conversation in front of those who couldn't attend — but not everyone got it.
  
  Read more

Follow @newsWashington_ on Twitter!