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A trash can burns as people take part in a protest against police brutality, late Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021, in downtown Tacoma. The protest came a day after at least two people were injured when a Tacoma Police officer responding to a report of a street race drove his car through a crowd of pedestrians that had gathered around him. Several people were knocked to the ground and at least one person was run over. (Ted S. Warren / The Associated Press)
A trash can burns as people take part in a protest against police brutality, late Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021, in downtown Tacoma. The protest came a day after at least two people were injured when a Tacoma Police officer responding to a report of a street race drove his car through a crowd of pedestrians that had gathered around him. (Ted S. Warren / The Associated Press)
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Protesters march in Tacoma, in response to officer driving through crowd

A large crowd gathered in Tacoma on Sunday evening to protest against the police department, in response to an incident the night before where a police officer drove through a crowd that had gathered for street racing, hitting people and injuring at least two.

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Tacoma Police and other law enforcement stand in a intersection near the site of a car crash Saturday, Jan. 23, 2021, in downtown Tacoma, Wash. At least one person was injured when a police car plowed through a crowd of people Saturday night who were watching a downtown street race, the Tacoma News-Tribune reported. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) WATW103 WATW103
Crime

Tacoma police officer under investigation after driving SUV through crowd

Under sunny and rainless skies, a woman reads a book in her hammock at Golden Gardens Park Friday, January 15, 2020. Rain won’t be back until next Thursday and there’s a 30% chance of snow next Friday. 216143
Weather

Dusting of snow possible for Western Washington this week

President-elect Joe Biden unveils his economic stimulus package in WIlmington, Del., on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021, as Vice President-elect Kamala Harris looks on. The plan has been praised — even by conservative-leaning businesses, lobbying groups and analysts — for its size and scope, matching the current economic crisis with a historically unique response. (Amr Alfiky/The New York Times)
Local Politics

What a Biden administration might mean for Washington

In this image from video, Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Wash., speaks as the House debates the objection to confirm the Electoral College vote from Pennsylvania, at the U.S. Capitol early Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021. (House Television via AP) WX414 WX414
Local Politics

Can Republican Reps. Dan Newhouse and Jaime Herrera Beutler survive their Trump impeachment votes?

Times Watchdog

Friday, January 15, 2021 Retired Physician Amy Sing at right gets the Moderna VOVID-19 vaccine jab from another retired physician, Dr. Frederi Hoffer. Amy of Seattle was volunteering at a clinic in Winslow organized by Bainbridge Prepares. 216135

How a delayed software launch hindered Washington's vaccine rollout | Times Watchdog  VIEW

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Kyong Barry, Albertsons front end manager, disinfects shopping carts for customers during a busy afternoon rush at the store in Auburn, Wash. Monday, April 27, 2020. 213765

Seattle City Council approves $4 per hour mandatory pay boost for grocery workers during COVID-19 pandemic

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Project Homeless

Wed. Sept. 18, 2019. The Georgetown tiny house village located near Boeing Field. 211532

Private companies pledge $1 million to build tiny house villages in Seattle

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

Using kitchen tongs, Pauline Van Senus, known as the “Transit Fairy,” picks up even the smallest pieces of glass in the planter area of a bus stop near Dexter and Aurora. To do this volunteer work she rides a bus three-hours roundtrip from White Center. Ref to more photos online Thursday January 14, 2021 216104

Seattle’s ‘Transit Fairy’ beautifies bus stops during the COVID-19 pandemic | Stepping Up  VIEW

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A Tsimshian tribal member leading the march for Indigenous peoples rights and respect pauses before a Native People’s mural at the corner of Yesler and Second Avenue. He drummed along the winding route from Occidental Square through nearby streets. Ref to more photos online Saturday Jan 23, 2021 216217
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Calls for Indigenous rights echo through Seattle streets  VIEW

A little squirrel focuses on a snack at Volunteer Park in Seattle Monday, January 4, 2021. Rain is predicted until a lull on Thursday and then again for the foreseeable future. 216051
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A marvelous morsel at Volunteer Park

A red umbrella brightens up the muted tones of King Street in the Chinatown-International District neighborhood of Seattle as rain associated with a weather event called the “atmospheric river” brings wind and wet weather to Western Washington Saturday January 2, 2021. 216044
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‘Atmospheric river’ flows over Seattle, bringing rain and wind

A bald eagle flies over Howard Miller Steelhead Park in Rockport Washington this week. The Skagit Eagle Festival 2021, cancelled this year due to the pandemic, doesn’t mean the eagles are not showing up along the Skagit River. Eagles can be seen in the trees above and feeding off of salmon in the Skagit River. An adult bald eagle has a wing span ranging from 5.9 – 7.5 feet. Photographed on December 29, 2021.
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Eagles flying high in Skagit County

Education

The coronavirus is surging, but Canada is keeping schools open

Education Lab

Legislators in Washington state sink their teeth into pandemic-era issues for schools

Why did Inslee and health officials ease guidance for reopening Washington schools?

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

The Pfizer vaccine is given as Amazon partners with Virginia Mason creating a pop-up COVID-19 vaccine clinic in Amazon’s 7th Avenue meeting center in Seattle, Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021. 216188

Demand for COVID-19 vaccines floods Seattle-area health systems as federal supply remains limited

Loaded with Lead

Loaded with Lead

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. 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

A driver with FedEx carries a package away from a van, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020, in Seattle. Store are warning online shoppers that if holiday purchases aren’t made soon, they may not be delivered in time for Christmas. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) WATW205

Seattle tops nation for COVID-19-era increase in online spending | FYI Guy

Crime

Lisa Ledbetter, mother of Dustyn Hunt-Bagby, a 21-year-old Seattle man who was shot and killed six months ago, protests his death with other friends and family outside Snohomish County Superior Court Monday August 26, 2019. The rally, which they called “Justice for Dustyn” was to put pressure on the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office to make an arrest in the shooting. 211288

Everett man charged with second-degree murder, nearly 2 years after daughter’s date was killed

Shielded by the Law

Nearly impossible to charge police for wrongful killings in Washington

Seattle Sketcher

At a COVID-19 testing site in Renton, driver after driver learns how to properly swab

There’s more to the emptiness at this airport-shuttle lot than the absence of passengers’ cars

For the owner of Deez Dogz, it’s all about connection (and cream cheese)

Expedia creates its own coastal destination with a park along Elliott Bay Trail

Eastside

Brad Smith, president of Microsoft Corp., speaks during a meeting in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, May 29, 2020. President Donald Trump unleashed an executive order targeting social media companies like Twitter that have drawn his wrath of late — a move that raised immediate doubts about its constitutionality and whether it would actually deliver its intended punch. Photographer: Erin Schaff/The New York Times/Bloomberg

As pressure mounts, Microsoft hints it may end political giving to Republicans who voted to overturn election

Environment

In an undated photo provided by Wildlife Conservation Society, A Swinhoe’s softshell turtle. Conservationists confirmed that a Swinhoe’s softshell turtle found in Vietnam is female, reigniting hope for saving the species. (Wildlife Conservation Society via The New York Times) — NO SALES; FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY WITH NYT STORY SCI-TURTLE-SPECIES BY RACHEL NUWER FOR JAN. 25, 2021. ALL OTHER USE PROHIBITED. —

"The legend lives on"

Weather

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Science

FILE — A participant in a Novavax COVID-19 vaccine trial receives an injection at Wits RHI Shandukani Research Centre in Johannesburg on Dec. 8, 2020. Moderna’s vaccine is effective against new variants of the coronavirus that have emerged in Britain and South Africa, the company announced on Monday, Jan. 25, 2021. (Joao Silva/The New York Times)

As Virus Grows Stealthier, Vaccine Makers Reconsider Battle Plans

Earthquakes

Get ready to rumble: A guide to quake preparedness

Northwest Wanderings

Dirt bikers Tyler Hedberg, left, Kody Clark and Blake Trimble prepare for their final run on the course in Carnation at the winter Tour de Farm. Wanderings_Mud_Run Saturday January 2, 2021 216045

Tour de Farm: a playground for muddy buddies on wheels in Carnation  VIEW

Tamara Harris, at work in Pioneer Square says, “once I got my card I became the ultimate flagger and joined the union hall.” Harris loves the responsibility and being outside.. Ref to more photos online Northwest Wanderings Friday Oct 16, 2020 215379

Street smarts: ‘Flagging changed my life,’ says Seattle business owner

Remus gets a comb-out following his bath. A barely audible growl was heard. Or maybe it was a purr. Alex the cat Groomer Alex Perry at work Friday Oct. 2, 2020 Likely Northwest Wanderings 215251

Woodinville cat groomer puts his finicky clients at ease  VIEW

Les Schnick is building a hidden internal structure along with Ric Brenden (CQ) to keep the skull, jaw bones and neck bones together. The skull is 8-feet, 3-inches long and weighs 500-pounds and is in Schnick’s workshop in Port Townsend. REF to more photos online (Schnick and Brenden are friends of Stefanie Worwag and Mario Rivera who own the skeleton. They live near Port Hadlock) REF to more photos online (The coil of safety rope on the skull is where the eye would be) Northwest Wanderings The skeleton of a 42-foot whale with skull at the workshop pf Les Schnick in Port Townsend, and the rest of the skeleton at the home of Mario Rivera and Stefanie Worwag. Also includes Ric Brenden Wednesday September 2, 2020 214930

A gray whale’s massive, bone-dry remains have a home in a Washington yard. The owners named him ‘Gunther.’  VIEW