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Seattle Police officers make their way down Pine Street in formation on one side, and put arrested protesters in a van outside of the East Precinct during demonstrations on Saturday July 25. (Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times) — Seattle Police officers make their way down Pine Street in formation on one side, and put arrested protesters in a van outside of the East Precinct during demonstrations on July 25. (Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)

Local Politics

374 Seattle Police Department employees made at least $200,000 last year; here’s how

Twenty employees -- all of them officers, sergeants or lieutenants -- grossed more money than police Chief Carmen Best in 2019.

U.S. judge: Cities cannot fine people for living outside Updated 3:46 pm
In Portland’s tumultuous summer, police face surge in gun violence as well as nightly protests Updated 2:59 pm
Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best says City Council drove her decision to abruptly retire VIEW Updated 3:43 pm
Farewell, old Waterfront Park: Shifting pier means park stays closed until 2024
LiveCoronavirus daily news updates, Aug. 11: What to know today about COVID-19 Updated 3:38 pm
Seattle brings back lifeguards at 4 beaches, with some COVID-19 guidance for swimmers VIEW

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In this Friday, April 17, 2020, photo, a vial used to collect a nose swab sample is put into a collection bag as members of a team of University of Washington medical providers conduct coronavirus testing at Queen Anne Healthcare, a skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility in Seattle. More than 100 residents were tested during the visit, and the results for all were negative, according to officials. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) NY632

Health

Washington’s coronavirus data reporting problems persist: State hasn’t had complete testing tallies since Aug. 1

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Health

Promising COVID-19 treatment sends Seattle biotech company’s stock soaring

A nurse, right, who was providing volunteer medical care to protesters, comes to the aid of a person who was knocked down by police, Saturday, July 25, 2020, in Seattle as police clashed with protesters during a protest in support of Black Lives Matter and against police brutality and racial injustice at Seattle Central College in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) OTK OTK OTK

Local Politics

Seattle agrees police can’t use riot declaration to justify indiscriminate force at protests, can’t target medics

Tuesday, July 28, 2020 Zach Pugh, an RN is handing out phones to the homeless Neighborcare clients at the SW Michigan Street encampment under the 1st Ave. S. Bridge in the hopes of getting them better connected with the provider’s Telehealth services. Zach is handing over a phone to Devon Moore. 214624

Project Homeless

A COVID ‘silver lining’: You can start drug treatment over the phone — and more people are starting to VIEW

Times Watchdog

Venus Mills, Executive Director of Drug Free Business in Bothell has had her workers hit by false unemployment claims and faces possible costs increases herself, due to the fraudulent payments.

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How a Nigerian fraud ring dubbed 'Scattered Canary' targeted Washington state's unemployment system

Federal court rules against Yakama tribe in policing dispute

Project Homeless is a new Seattle Times initiative that explores and explains the region’s complex, troubling problem of homelessness. With strong watchdog reporting and vivid storytelling, Project Homeless seeks to spotlight what is working, and what is not working, in responding to homelessness. We will also feature solutions-oriented reporting from elsewhere in the country.

Transportation

Bellevue, using camera technology to identify problematic intersections and reduce crashes, added flashing yellow arrows to the street lights warning cars turning left onto 124th Avenue Northeast from Northeast 8th Street that they have to yield to oncoming traffic unless the arrow shines solid green. The green arrow only comes on if cars are still waiting to turn left then the lights are ready to turn red.

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Bellevue uses AI technology to identify problem intersections and make them safer

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Preparator (CQ) Vickie Vellinga hangs an oil painting by Alfredo Arreguin on the upper level at Linda Hodges Gallery in Pioneer Square, part of the Seattle Deconstructed Art Fair. The annual art fair at CenturyLink Event Center has been cancelled and 40 local galleries will be showing work throughout the city during the month. At right is a mixed media piece by David Hytone. More information at Seattle Deconstructed Art Fair, 2020 (SDAF)

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Photos: Seattle Deconstructed Art Fair

Ahjeawnna Sterling (CQ), captain of the Washington Diamonds Drill Team & Drumline, gets help with her ostrich feather headdress before the Ujoma Fest parade leaves 23rd and Union for Jimi Hendrix Park.
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Photos: Umoja Fest parade dances and trots through Seattle’s Central District VIEW

Jasmine Brown gets in a water blast before Lela Lee can refill as they improvise play with a homemade water slide, wading pool and water supply borrowed from a neighbor on Phinney Ridge.

Water battles, water slide. Weather.

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Sliding and splashing on Seattle’s Phinney Ridge

A Peregrine Falcon chick that still has baby fuzz on the top of its head, looks out from a service platform under the west end of the West Seattle Bridge where it landed after its first flight last week. The chick decided that was enough flying for one day and laid down to take a nap after its maiden flight. The Falcon baby came from a man made nest installed under the bridge by the Department of Transportation about 20 years ago. The Falcon parents recently had three chicks. One landed on West Marginal Way after it tried to fly from its nest and was killed by a vehicle. The second chick landed on the low bridge and was taken to PAWS until it is ready to fly, and this chick, waiting for its wings to mature so it can safely fly, hunt, and survive.

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Falcon family living under West Seattle Bridge grows with fledging chicks

Education

Wed. July 29, 2020 Wed. July 29, 2020 The first hour in the morning after breakfast kids worked on computers and todays subject was math. Assistant teacher Mataniufeagaimaleaia Savelio (cq) was helping 8-year-old Terelle Conner. 214632

When the school day goes remote in Washington state, what does that mean for the child care industry? Lots of de facto teachers. VIEW

Education Lab

Here we go again: King County schools announce intentions to go online-only come fall

CDC calls for reopening schools, departing from earlier assessment of risks

About Education Lab

Education Lab is a Seattle Times project that spotlights promising approaches to some of the most persistent challenges in public education.

Health

What’s keeping Washington from a virus deal, explained

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hopes that talks on a huge COVID-19 relief deal would generate an agreement soon are fizzling, with both the Trump administration negotiating team and top congressional Democrats adopting hard lines and testy attitudes. Now that President Donald Trump has issued a series of executive edicts and the national political conventions are set...

Loaded with Lead

The Times investigates lead poisoning at gun ranges

More Special Reports

A photograph of stepfather Sean Rowe and mother Carmen Rowe is taken in downtown Seattle Monday, Dec. 12, 2016. Their son Andrew Westling, 19, died while in the Nisqually Jail earlier this year. They described Westling as friendly and that he loved music, horses and fishing.

Times Watchdog

Fatal confines? A teen’s troubling death in Nisqually tribal jail

Monday, October 31, 2016. Hundreds of untested Rape Kits fill a freezer isle in the Seattle Police Departments evidence room (kits kept at 5 degrees).

Crime

Rape-kit backlog grows at state crime lab — despite new money WATCH

Tom Wales, assistant U.S. Attorney and president of the gun-control group Washington CeaseFire, was the apparent victim of an execution-style slaying Thursday night in his Queen Anne home. The gunman shot Wales through a basement window, hitting the prosecutor in the neck and side.

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Crime

Unsolved slaying of Seattle prosecutor 16 years ago today has ‘hallmarks of a hit’

Special Report

‘My God, that’s Kimberly!’: Scientist solves perplexing mystery of identity thief Lori Ruff

Data

Washington’s coronavirus data reporting problems persist: State hasn’t had complete testing tallies since Aug. 1

Crime

In Portland’s tumultuous summer, police face surge in gun violence as well as nightly protests

Police are concerned that responding to protests is making it more difficult to tackle another big challenge -- heading off gun violence, which in July accounted for most of the 15 homicides in Portland.