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Planned protests for a “Youth Day of Action and Solidarity with Portland” take place in Seattle Saturday July 25, 2020. Tensions are high in reaction to federal law enforcement officers stoking clashes in Portland, escalating ongoing Black Lives Matter demonstrations into violent displays of force. (Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)
(Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)
Law & Justice

Judge dismisses lawsuit from protester who claimed she was denied medication in jail

A federal judge has dismissed a civil-rights lawsuit filed by a former Seattle woman arrested during during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests on Capitol Hill.

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Flowers, candles and cards are seen at a memorial outside Rainier Teriyaki, located at 3330 Rainier Ave S., in Seattle Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2023. 222797
Law & Justice

Seattle business owner killed during robbery was popular singer’s father

Kelly Aramaki Kelly Aramaki, an award-winning educator and longtime area teacher and administrator, was named the next superintendent of the Bellevue School District on Thursday January 26, 2023.
Education Lab

Next superintendent of Bellevue schools announced

07272011_cbr_SUfilePhotos File photos of the Seattle University campus, in Seattle, WA, Wednesday, July 27, 2011. This is Seattle University School of Law Sullivan Hall.
Education

WA law schools pull out of U.S. News rankings over equity concerns

Councilmember Kshama Sawant announces her intent introduce legislation to combat caste discrimination in Seattle at a press conference in the Seattle City Hall lobby, January 24, 2023. 222866
Local Politics

Sawant pushes law banning caste discrimination in Seattle

Times Watchdog

Northwest School of Innovative Learning in Tacoma, WA. Photo by Ramon Dompor / The Seattle Times

Judge orders private special education school to turn over records to Seattle Times

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Politics

The Green Lake branch of the Seattle Public Library will close Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023 for renovations and will not open again until early 2024. 222919

Green Lake library in Seattle closing until 2024 for seismic retrofit

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Project Homeless

The parking lot of Lake Washington United Methodist Church in Kirkland, Washington host a safe place for clients to park overnight.

$8 billion to end homelessness in WA? Officials aren’t saying no — yet

About Project Homeless

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

745 people died on WA roads last year. Now lawmakers are tackling ‘crisis we can’t ignore’

For at least one day, lawmakers from both parties agreed something needs to be done about what Gov. Jay Inslee called the “carnage” on the roads.

Photography

DO NOT USE – UNDER EMBARGO UNTIL SUNDAY, JAN. 29, 2023 747 Functional Test Engine & Landing Gear SME (Subject Matter Expert) Technician Jeff Miller readies the mount before engine number three is moved into place on the final 747. 221238
Boeing & Aerospace

In photos: The assembly and flight of the final Boeing 747 WATCH

Natalie Allred jumps into Lake Union during 36 degree F. air temperatures from a hot tub boat on Lake Union in Seattle on Sunday, January 29, 2023. “It was a shock, but a good shock,” says Natalie about her polar plunge. Two companies operate hot tub boats on Lake Union – Lake Union Hot Tub Boats, where Natalie and friends rented from, and Hot Tub Boats – and are among the few operating as rental companies in the United States. “There’s fewer boat traffic,” says Pete Heinrich of Lake Union Hot Tubs. “This is the off season and it’s perfect. You have the whole lake to yourself.” Lake Union Hot Tub Boats have a wood fired stove that heats the water and an electric powered motor to propel it.
Local News

Getting into hot water on Lake Union

Some of the 50 people who gathered Sunday, Jan. 29, 2023 in Seattle, for a rally at the South Lake Union intersection where Jaahnavi Kandula was struck and killed by a Seattle Police officer driving in response to a medical incident. The protest against police violence was organized by the Seattle Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, but others from several different organizations participated. Protest speakers demanded justice in all police-related killings and want the Seattle Police Department to identify the officer involved in Kandula’s killing immediately, and convicted. People hold signs demanding justice for Tyre Nichols as well.
Local News

Seattle protesters rally against police violence where pedestrian was struck, killed by officer

Washington Huskies center Braxton Meah passes along the baseline through the defense of Arizona Wildcats forward Azuolas Tubelis during the first half. (Jennifer Buchanan / The Seattle Times)
Husky Basketball

Photos: UW men’s basketball vs. No. 6 Arizona VIEW

Education

Roger Jacob, a teacher, quizzes his class by holding up a white board with Ichishkiin language phrases during an Ichishkiin 3 level class at Wapato High School November 2, 2022. More schools are offering classes in tribal languages, including Wapato School District where the language of the Yakama Nation, Ichishkiin, has become a multi-year offering in middle and high school grades as well as in the elementary. As the state makes it easier for tribes to work directly with schools, teachers and tribes say it’s an important component of respecting and recognizing tribal sovereignty and making schools more culturally competent places for Native students’ learning.

Inside the movement to revitalize tribal languages in WA schools VIEW

Education Lab

Next superintendent of Bellevue schools announced

WA kids deserve 45 minutes of recess time, new bill proposes

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

MAH JONGG PLAYERS AT CROSSROADS MALL 081707 The Friday morning Mah Jongg group at Crossroads Mall stirs the tiles at the start of another round. “it’s like shuffling the cards.” Story ID: 76445 portrait14 Sunday, 14 October 2007 Ñ Fourth edition ROP Pacific Northwest Ñ page 6 Mahjong / With clicketing tiles and time to talk, the play’s the thing Portraits By Paula Bock Pacific Northwest magazine staff writer

New study finds 6 ways to slow memory decline and lower dementia risk

Times Watchdog

A still from a video shows former Tukwila police officer Nick Hogan used an unsanctioned takedown against Alvin Walker in 2011, breaking Walker’s elbow. Hogan was fired after multiple investigations found he violated department policy, and later pleaded guilty to violating a suspect’s civil rights, but he retained his state certification.

Fired, but still a cop: How Washington state’s decertification process leaves troubled officers with their guns

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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. Thomas Wales
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

Only one WA county met target for vaccinating kindergartners | FYI Guy

In the 2021-22 school year, only one Washington county reached the federal target of 95% of kindergartners receiving all required vaccinations, FYI Guy writes.

Law & Justice

A portrait of Andrea Churna and her child Michael: Churna who was a Redmond mother of a 7-year-old at the time was shot and killed by law enforcement officers after calling dispatchers for help in Sept. 2020. 219048

Redmond City Council approves $7.5M settlement to family of woman killed by police in 2020

Shielded by the Law

Nearly impossible to charge police for wrongful killings in Washington

Seattle Sketcher

Even on a hot summer day, these golfers are up for some clubbing

Check out eye-popping exotics every week at Redmond Town Center car show

Seattle’s Uptown got a new name, but a historic landmark shines on

The return of ‘Alki Fridays’ coed volleyball brings energy back to the beach

Eastside

Sammamish couple charged with manslaughter in toddler’s fentanyl death

A 21-month-old girl died in July from an apparent drug overdose. High levels of fentanyl and meth were later found in her blood, according to prosecutors.

Environment

Wendsler Nosie, a former chairman of the San Carlos Apache Tribe, who considers the rolling hills and hidden canyons under which more than 1 billion tons of copper lie, an area known as Oak Flat, to be a corridor to God inhabited by holy spirits, near Superior, Ariz, Jan. 21, 2023. Tribal groups in Arizona are fighting a copper-mine project, which they say would scar their sacred land, but that proponents say would increase the supply of a metal crucial to batteries and reduce fossil-fuel use. (Tamir Kalifa/The New York Times) XNYT16

A copper mine could advance green energy but scar sacred land VIEW

Weather

See the latest weather news and forecasts

Science

In an undated image provided by Kenji Suetsugu and Hiromu Hashiwaki, B. yuwanensis fruit. The B. yuwanensis fruit does not perform photosynthesis, but leaches its energy from the roots of other plants. (Kenji Suetsugu and Hiromu Hashiwaki via The New York Times) – NO SALES; FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY WITH NYT STORY PARASITIC PLANT RABBITS BY JASON BITTEL FOR JAN. 26, 2023. ALL OTHER USE PROHIBITED. –

How rare island bunnies do a parasitic plant’s bidding

Earthquakes

Get ready to rumble: A guide to quake preparedness

Northwest Wanderings

The astronaut replica suit Ted Huetter of the Museum of Flight gets into is a special-commission for around $10,000 but is not suitable for use in space. It’s lightweight but warm. from the Museum of Flight, Make-A-Wish people, virtual reality headsets at the Infinite experience. Saturday July 23, 2022 221069

A spacesuit, a dream and virtual reality meet at ‘The Infinite’ in Tacoma VIEW

Paul Lundy cleans the surface of each key on Muriel Erickson’s 1968 Hermes in for its annual tuneup. Paul Lundy at his Bremerton Office Machine Co. typewriter repair. Thursday January 13, 2022

The owner of Bremerton Office Machine Company finds focus and fulfillment among timeworn typewriters — and their fans VIEW

Eleventh-grader Naazneen Vemmerath Kulangara (CQ) asks NASA astronaut Megan McArthur a question from the Museum of Flight. McArthur is aboard the International Space Station during a video hookup Saturday. Ref to more photos online Northwest Wanderings Saturday October 16, 2021 218537

Seattle students virtually Zoom into space for a chat with astronaut Megan McArthur

Professional drummer Chris Anderson is into the beat he’s providing at First Avenue and Pike Street across from the Pike Place Market, busking for five hours. Northwest Wanderings Friday July 16, 2021 217681

Busker brings A-list drumming pedigree to Pike Place Market WATCH