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K. Wyking Garrett, CEO of Africatown Community Land Trust, speaks at the decommissioned Fire Station 6 in June. The Trust has long planned to transform the station into a cultural innovation center to boost Black-owned businesses. (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)

Local Politics

Seattle moves to give 3 Central District properties to Black-led community organizations

The city of Seattle and Mayor Jenny Durkan announced plans to transfer two former fire stations and a senior center properties to Black-led organizations.

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Video shows car pulling stunts, striking spectators near Space Needle
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King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg explains why they are not seeking the death penalty for Michele Anderson, who is charged with murdering six of her family members. News conference at King County Courthouse Wednesday July 29, 2015.

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King County prosecutor settles lawsuit over wrongly withheld sexual assault investigation records, agrees to change policy

Tahlequah’s new baby, right, is confirmed to be a male. The baby was seen playing and frolicking last evening at Point Roberts, Washington.

Environment

It’s a boy: Tahlequah’s baby orca is frolicking, healthy

In this Dec. 30, 2019, photo provided by the Washington State Department of Agriculture, a dead Asian giant hornet is photographed in a lab in Olympia, Wash. The world’s largest hornet, a 2-inch long killer with an appetite for honey bees, has been found in Washington state and entomologists are making plans to wipe it out. Dubbed the “Murder Hornet” by some, the Asian giant hornet has a sting that could be fatal to some humans. It is just now starting to emerge from hibernation. (Quinlyn Baine/Washington State Department of Agriculture via AP) SEA205 SEA205

Local News

New study determines ‘aggressive efforts’ needed to prevent spread of Asian giant hornet in Washington

Sailboat in Puget Sound with a view of the Olympics.

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Weather

Wet, windy week in Western Washington to give way to sunny weather soon

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

Protesters in Jimi Hendrix Park listen to attorneys representing them in a multi-plaintiff suit against the city of Seattle for actions taken against them during by police.

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Lawsuit alleges city, state failed to protect Seattle protesters from drivers who could hurt or kill them VIEW

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The giant Pacifc octopus the Seattle Aquarium named Kraken explores his public exhibit tank. He weighs 35-pounds and only has seven arms, having lost one in an encounter possibly with a harbor seal or ling cod (second arm down, top left) It’s not likely to grow back but is healed and does not hinder him. He’s estimated to be about 1 1/2 years old. Typically they live 3-5 years, during which they grow from the egg size of a grain of rice to up to 150 pounds. But, most in Puget Sound only reach 40-50 pounds. He’s a mature adult at 35-pounds. The aquarium releases the giant Pacific octopuses back into their home waters when they start to reach breeding maturity, so they can find a mate before their end of life.
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How do you introduce an octopus to his new home? Carefully. VIEW

The Corinthian Yacht Club of Seattle’s floating clubhouse makes its way via tugboat through the Fremont Cut toward Lake Union on Tuesday. The floating clubhouse was making a seven plus mile, five hour journey from the north end of Shilshole Marina to the Lake Union Drydock Company in South Lake Union. The 50-year old floating clubhouse will spend three months at the drydock for a $500,000 repair and remodeling project. Founded in 1945, the Corinthian Yacht Club has over a 1,000 members including sailors at all skill levels from novices to Olympic competitors. It promotes the sport of sailing through education, racing and cruises.

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Local News

Corinthian Yacht Club of Seattle floats away — for now

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Photos: Wall around Seattle Police Department’s East Precinct grows taller VIEW

Volvo 1800’s from the 1960’s have their own line up a the 12th annual Swedish National Holiday Classic Car Show at the Swedish Club on Dexter Avenue North.
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Education

Candidate for Washington state schools chief claimed to run a nonprofit. Now she says there is no tax-exempt status

A candidate for Washington state education chief who claimed to operate a nonprofit now says her organization does not have federal tax-exempt status. Maia Espinoza made the clarification Wednesday after repeated inquiries from The Associated Press.

Education Lab

Why Washington state’s guidelines to open schools are more cautious than others

Seattle-area families of color are talking about improving remote education. Here are some of their ideas.

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

Health

Minnesota mayor disputes harassment of COVID-19 survey team

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The mayor of a southern Minnesota city is disputing state health department claims that a COVID-19 survey team was threatened there earlier this month. State health officials on Friday reported cases of health workers being subjected to hostility — including racial slurs — in several Minnesota communities, as the teams surveyed households...

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The Times investigates lead poisoning at gun ranges

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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

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Tyffani Murillo, her daughters Rylie Dickinson, 9, and Emmie Dickinson, 12, with their grandmother Kareen Huffman are photographed near some freshly cut trees on Huffman’s property in Lake Stevens. The young granddaughters are holding a photograph of their great grandma Darlene Mach who passed away earlier this year at the age of 83. The girls great-great grandmother, Kathleen Chappell died last year at the age of 103.

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Nursing homes in Washington state struggled with adequate staffing for years. Then coronavirus struck. | Times Watchdog

Crime

Video shows car pulling stunts, striking spectators near Space Needle

Several spectators appeared to have been hit by vehicles spinning donuts at an intersection near the Space Needle late Saturday. Seattle police say no one has reported the incident, and there is no investigation underway.