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Lawsuit over Indonesia 737 crash claims autothrottle problem

A lawsuit filed in Seattle against Boeing alleges that a malfunctioning autothrottle system on an older 737 jet led to the ...

Washington state gov. warns of fourth COVID-19 wave

Homeless Americans finally getting a chance at COVID-19 shot

Homeless Americans who have been left off priority lists for coronavirus vaccinations — or even bumped aside as states ...

Amazon claims social network Parler trying to conceal owners

Amazon has accused Parler, the social network known as a conservative alternative to Twitter, of trying to conceal its ...

Washington state prisoners released after drug law is voided

Gov. Jay Inslee has commuted the sentences of more than a dozen drug offenders in the past few days, freeing them from prison ...

Siblings find closure a year after COVID-19 thrashed choir

With dish soap, brushes and plastic water jugs in hand, Carole Rae Woodmansee’s four children cleaned the gravestone their ...

Year after superspreader event, family has closure

Researchers say a COVID-19 superspreader event in Mount Vernon, Washington in 2020 was a key episode in understanding ...

Gun control, gun rights reaction on Biden plan

President Joe Biden has announced a half-dozen executive actions aimed at addressing a proliferation of gun violence across ...

Stray cats get second chance in prison

An episode of short feline film series "The Cats That Rule The World" looks at the stray cats being nursed back to health by ...

Gov. Inslee signs bill to restore voting rights to parolees

Gov. Jay Inslee on Wednesday signed a bill automatically restoring voting rights to people who have been released from prison ...

Neo-Nazi pleads guilty in journalist threat case

An organizer of a neo-Nazi campaign to threaten journalists and Jewish activists in three states has pleaded guilty in ...

LEADING OFF: A's and Braves winless, Tatis on IL, Paxton out

A look at what’s happening around the majors today: ___ SLOW STARTS Both winless teams in the majors are defending division ...

Piece of SpaceX rocket debris lands at Washington state farm

A piece of burning rocket debris seen streaking across the Pacific Northwest sky last week crashed on a farm in eastern ...

What cold? Frigid temps can't stop joy as fans return to MLB

Wearing a Chicago Cubs jacket and hat, Marc Passoni took in the moment. His buddy, Greg Cooper, stood nearby on his 59th ...

Colorado is latest to weigh ban on Native American mascots

Colorado lawmakers are considering a proposal that would ban Native American mascots in public schools and colleges amid a ...

The Latest: 6 more COVID cases found in local China outbreak

BEIJING — Health officials in China say six more people have become ill with COVID-19 in a southwestern Chinese city on the ...

No prison time for transgender ex-neo-Nazi in threat case

A federal judge declined to impose prison time Wednesday on a former member of a neo-Nazi ring that threatened journalists, ...

Amazon to bring workers back to offices by fall

Amazon plans to have its employees return to the office by fall as the tech giant transitions away from the remote work it ...

'My soul is lighter': Serial killer's death brings closure

Serial killer Joseph Edward Duncan III died in U.S. prison recently, having admitted to slaughtering seven people — including ...

GOP governors ignore Biden's latest plea on mask mandates

President Joe Biden's pleas for states to stick with mask mandates to slow the spread of the coronavirus were being largely ...