Former Seattle police Chief Carmen Best (Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times)
Former Seattle police Chief Carmen Best. (Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times)
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Not just the mayor: Text messages of Seattle police and fire chiefs from June 2020 also missing

The texts of three top Seattle leaders during a contentious period last year weren't retained and now can't be reviewed, attorneys suing the city say they recently learned.

A woman walks down a long hallway in The Lodge at Saint Edward State Park in Kenmore Wednesday, May 5, 2021. Many meeting and conference rooms are at right in photo. The Lodge opens this weekend, concluding a years-long process over what to do with the former Catholic seminary, which closed in the 1970s and was neglected for years. 217062
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After decades of neglect, old seminary at Saint Edward State Park reopens as $57M hotel

The new Kenmore hotel — among the most expensive of any built in Washington state, according to its developer — has 84 guest rooms, a restaurant, two bars, 9,000 square feet of event space and a history of uncertainty. VIEW

Dan Hughes is back in the huddle for Seattle. The Los Angeles Sparks played the Seattle Storm in WNBA action Friday, June 21, 2019 at Angel of the Winds Arena in Everett, WA. 210626 210626
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Two people walk along Bellevue Avenue while the sun sets in Capitol Hill on Thursday, April 22, 2021. LO
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Noriko Nasu is photographed with her dogs Chico, 12, left, and Goro, 15 months, right, at Seattle’s Carkeek Park Tuesday, May 4, 2021. 217029
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The NHL Seattle Kraken logo flies from the Space Needle shortly after the name was announced, Thursday, July 23, 2020 in Seattle. 214575 214575
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Flower vendors are back at the Pike Place Market filling their stalls with bouquets. How is the Seattle economy doing since the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic took hold? Thursday, July 16,2020 214520
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Packed up and leaving, a residents makes his way through the muddy conditions. The location of the encampment next to an I-5 offramp was considered a health hazard. Sweep of a homeless encampment near South Dearborn Street and 10th Avenue South. on I-5, located in the cloverleaf of an entrance ramp to I-5 North. It?s south of Dearborn and 10th Ave, Tuesday Jan 28, 2020 212799
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This May 4, 2021, photo shows a sign outside the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice building in Washington. The Trump Justice Department secretly seized the phone records of three Washington Post reporters who covered the federal investigation into ties between Russia and Donald Trump’s campaign, the newspaper said Friday, May 7. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) WX131 WX131
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Mayor Jenny Durkan comes out of City Hall after a meeting with activist and attorney Nikkita Oliver during “Defund Seattle Police March and Rally for Black Lives” event that marched from Cal Anderson on Wednesday, June 3, 2020. 214145
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Local middle schooler Adam Dhalla created Find the Birds, an app that educates users on birds and conservation.

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An undated photo provided by Kevin Adams shows Ernie Adams, center, who built a shrunken but street-legal replica of a 1949 Mercury that is always a crowd-pleaser at car shows. (Kevin Adams via The New York Times) — NO SALES; FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY WITH NYT STORY SLUGGED SCRAP HEAP HOOPTIES BY MERCEDES LILIENTHAL FOR MAY 6, 2021. ALL OTHER USE PROHIBITED. —

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Relatives carry an oxygen cylinder for a COVID-19 patient who is waiting in an ambulance outside the government run hospital in Jammu, India, Friday, May 7, 2021. With coronavirus cases surging to record levels, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is facing growing pressure to impose a harsh nationwide lockdown amid a debate whether restrictions imposed by individual states are enough. (AP Photo/Channi Anand) JMU103 JMU103

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A woman pasts a police barricade along a blocked street in a zone where the COVID-19 cases are rising sharply in Trapeang Thloeng village outside Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Sunday, May 2, 2021. Cambodia that recently locked down its capital region has opened an online store to deliver food to people as the government suggests citizens not to go out and buy food, following a sharp rise in COVID-19 cases. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith) HS104 HS104

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Bethany Jean Clement’s springtime fritatta for Mother’s Day is photographed in Seattle Monday, May 3, 2021. 217016

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Jade Jones, Co-AD of the Annex Theatre on Seattle’s Capitol Hill, sits in the theater’s bar area Tuesday, April 6, 2021. The Annex Theatre is a spunky little theater that has survived in Seattle for nearly four decades, overcoming many obstacles. 216797

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Friday, April 2, 2021. The Adams Nielson Solar Farm looms over the town of Lind in central Washington State. Called the Adams Nielson Solar Farm, it produces 28 megawatts of electricity from it’s 200 acres of solar panels, enough to prower 4,000 homes. 216802

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After shattering rock’s glass ceiling in the ’70s, Heart guitarist Nancy Wilson delivers her first true solo album “You and Me.”

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“I’m so relieved,” said Elaine Stevens as she gets her second vaccine shot from Dawda Cham, a nurse practitioner with 6M Geriatrics and Hospital Medicine, the sponsor of the clinic. “I’m just ready for this to all be over,” said Stevens about the pandemic. Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle hosts a coronavirus vaccine clinic for the community Thursday May 6, 2021. 217039
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Keira Sweeney looks up at an Allosaurus, the largest meat eater during the late Jurassic Period, featured in the Dinosaur Discovery exhibit at the Woodland Park Zoo on Thursday, May 6, 2021. The zoo’s new exhibit features dozens of “the world’s largest and most life-like dinosaurs.” Visitors are able to learn more about the historic creatures as the dinosaurs move, breathe and roar throughout the exhibit. The exhibit was created by Dino Don Inc., the only maker of full-sized robotic dinosaurs, which are featured in zoos and museums around the world, according to the Woodland Park Zoo.
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LINESONLY For the first time since closing in the pandemic, the pedestrian bridges at the Ballard Locks were open to foot traffic Wednesday, April 28, 2021. So too was the first floor of the Visitor’s Center. The pedestrian bridges connected two neighborhoods separated by the canal. The U.S. Army Corp of Engineers said the fish ladder however will remain closed due to an impending maintenance project. 216958
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LO Deputy Mayor of Des Moines Matt Mahoney, left, and Vice President of Washington Scuba Alliance Randy Williams come out of the water after searching for trash with a traffic cone and a dish washer lid during the Underwater Cleanup Day event near Redondo Pier in Des Moines on Saturday, April 24, 2021. Dozens of divers turned out and collected 65 pounds of trash to help protect marine wildlife near the Redondo Beach Pier on Saturday. Divers pulled up items such as fishing lures, a traffic cone, a dishwasher lid, plastics, batteries and automotive parts. The amount of trash was smaller than previous cleanup days where divers have pulled anywhere from 100-400 pounds at sites such as the Des Moines Marina and Seacrest Ferry Dock in West Seattle. “It’s nice when you can pull up a lot, but really any little bit makes a difference,” SR3 executive director Casey Mclean said. “Sixty-five pounds of trash is now out of the ocean” which helps protect marine wildlife and “prevent micro plastics from getting into the fish and into humans.” The cleanup day was organized by Seattle Dive Tours, SR3 (Sealife Response, Rehabilitation & Research), and MaST Center Aquarium.
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Redondo Pier cleanup day yields 65 pounds of trash, including a dishwasher door VIEW