Washingtonians whose data was exposed in a hack of the state auditor will soon receive individual email notifications - and an offer for a year of free credit monitoring.
WASHINGTON — Here’s how state members of Congress voted on major issues during the legislative week that ended Saturday. HouseApproving $1.9 trillion in virus relief: Voting 219 for and 212 against, the House on Saturday approved a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, HR 1319, that would expand unemployment benefits by $400 a week from March...
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.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippines is due to receive its first batch of COVID-19 vaccine Sunday, among the last in Southeast Asia to secure the critical doses despite having the second-highest number of coronavirus infections and deaths in the hard-hit region. President Rodrigo Duterte and top Cabinet officials will welcome the arrival of 600,000...
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — An arrest warrant has been issued for a suspect in the slaying of a Yale graduate student, authorities said Friday. Qinxuan Pan is wanted in the Feb. 6 killing of Kevin Jiang, who was found lying outside his car on a New Haven street with multiple gunshot wounds. Pan, 29, is...
Prosecutors say Trevor Smith, 27, of Everett, exchanged graphic messages with a woman he believed was the mother of two young girls. He was arrested after buying condoms and showing up to the hotel where he thought the girls were staying.
A pandemic-era crush of new interest in clamming on the California coast and widespread adoption of simple hydraulic pumps that allow people to harvest the shellfish faster and in greater numbers has put abundant clam stocks in newfound jeopardy, prompting state regulators to step in with emergency prohibitions. The state Fish and Game Commission this...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican government said Saturday it is considering reducing the protection area for the vaquita marina in the upper Gulf of California, an apparent admission that the tiny porpoise may never return to the entire historic range of its habitat. The move would cut the area where gill nets are banned...
