A Bellevue home slid off its foundation and partially collapsed Monday. Bellevue police said water gushed down a hillside from an unknown source. (Bellevue Police Department) (Bellevue Police Department / )
A Bellevue home slid off its foundation and partially collapsed early morning on Monday. Bellevue police said water gushed down a hillside from an unknown source. (Bellevue Police Department)
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Friday, January 14, 2022. Student organizers Mia Dabney, left and Nya Spivey are student emcees speaking at the student sickout and rally demanding stricter safety protocols. The rally was held at the John Stanford Center. 219337
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A jogger runs past the Legislative Building just before dusk, Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2021, at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. Tuesday was Winter Solstice and the shortest day of the year. Although it wasn’t visible in the sky, the sun set just before 4:30 p.m. Tuesday. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) WATW105
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Husky Stadium – University of Washington Huskies vs. Arizona State University Sun Devils – 111321 Washington Huskies linebacker Carson Bruener, left, and linebacker Alphonzo Tuputala combine to tackle Arizona State Sun Devils running back Rachaad White to keep him out of the end zone during the second quarter Saturday, Nov. 13, 2021, in Seattle. 218772
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Martin Luther King Jr., during his visit to Seattle in 1961. Seattle Times file photo by Larry Dion. Also appears on the Seattle Times web gallery.
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Monday, January 18, 2021 The 39th annual Martin Luther King Jr. march works it’s way down E. Yesler Way near 14th Ave. S. coming from Garfield High School to downtown Seattle. 216142
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Martin Luther King, Jr Day celebrants gather at Garfield High School before marching downtown, January 18, 2021. Therese Hill hugs her child, Kaz Hill, 11, during a rally at Garfield High School before marching downtown. The 39th annual gathering theme was “Make Good Trouble”. 216149
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Washington State Cougars wide receiver Gabe Marks (9) warms up before the first half of an NCAA college football game Saturday, Nov. 19, 2016, in Boulder, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
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Kayla Wolfe (l) and Cydney Moore, former partners of Des Moines City Councilmember Anthony Martinelli, both say that they were abused by Martinelli when they were in relationships with him. Shot Monday, December 20, 2021. Martinelli was arrested in October on domestic violence charges. His council colleagues have censured him and asked him to resign but he’s pleaded not guilty and hasn’t stepped down. 219126
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From left center, John Lewis (holding bottle), Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph Abernathy, march for civil rights from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, March 19, 1965. Others unidentified. (AP Photo)
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Fund for Those in Need

Survivor services advocate Asha Potter looks at clothes to give to participants of the Holiday Shop event at the LifeWire office in Bellevue on Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021. LifeWire is an organization that offers support services from domestic violence survivors. During the holidays LifeWire has their Holiday Shop event through donation allow survivors to choose from an array of toys, warm clothing and household items. Due to the pandemic, the Holiday Shop event has gone virtual. 219017
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Blandy Inzunza, a 22-year-old Seattle University student, poses with her two children, Kaelani, 7, (l) and Mia, 3 (turns 4 on Dec. 10) in the Student Center on the S. U. campus Friday, December 3, 2021. Blandy has gotten help from Treehouse since she was a teenager in foster care. She is the only one of eight siblings to have graduated from high school, and says she would not have done so with Treehouse’s support. The organization now helps her with groceries, gas, clothes and moral support as she takes pre-med classes at Seattle University. 218958
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Maxim Isaev plays around with his five-month-old son Adam in the kitchen of the family’s Bothell home Friday, November 26, 2021. He, his wife and their two young children are a family of asylum-seekers from Chechnya. They live in a transitional shelter provided by Hopelink. They’re unable to work because of their immigration status and they don’t have health insurance — Hopelink fills in the gaps. 218911
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They fled their home country, and found housing and help for their son in King County

Thursday, December 10, 2021. Fund For Those In Need. looking down at the iPad, Yuriko Ueda works out with the ACRS zoom call to exercise with instructor Lily Singh. Earlier this year ACRS launched the zoom exercise classes for older clients. 219031
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Politics

FILE – Flowers lay in front of the birthplace of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on Jan. 18, 2021, in Atlanta. The annual Martin Luther King Jr. service is set to be held at his old congregation in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Branden Camp, File) TKMY104 TKMY104

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Freddie Washington holds a photo of his grandson Dante King, 22, who was fatally shot in July in Pioneer Square, outside his home in Kirkland on Monday, Dec. 20, 2021. Dante was helping his grandfather build his house in Kirkland and spent much of his time there.

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Business & Tech

FILE – An Amazon distribution center is heavily damaged after a strong thunderstorm moved through the area, Dec. 10, 2021, in Edwardsville, Ill. The family of a delivery driver who died last month when a tornado collapsed the central Illinois Amazon facility where he worked filed a wrongful death lawsuit Monday, Jan. 17, 2022 in Madison County. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson) NYPS213 NYPS213

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Nation & World

This satellite image taken by Himawari-8, a Japanese weather satellite operated by Japan Meteorological Agency and released by National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), shows an undersea volcano eruption at the Pacific nation of Tonga Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022. (NICT via AP) TOK604 TOK604

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Sports

Mark Giordano, left, celebrates with Joonas Donskoi after Donskoi got what would be the winning goal from overtime penalty shots Monday. The Chicago Blackhawks played the Seattle Kraken Monday, January 17, 2022 at Climate Pledge Arena, in Seattle, WA. 219270

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Monday, January 18, 2021 The 39th annual Martin Luther King Jr. march works it’s way down E. Yesler Way near 14th Ave. S. coming from Garfield High School to downtown Seattle. 216142

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Washington’s Nate Roberts puts on the emphatic jam as the Huskies become the aggressors to strt the game against Cal. The bucket gave Washington a quick 4-0 lead on the Golden Bears. The California Golden Bears played the University of Washington in NCAA Men’s basketball Wednesday, January 12, 2022 at Alaska Airlines Arena, in Seattle, WA. 219287
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Russell Wilson takes a victory lap around State Farm Stadium after the Seahawks defeated the Arizona Cardinals 38-30 i the season finale The Seattle Seahawks played the Arizona Cardinals in the regular season finale for both teams Sunday, January 9, 2022 at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, AZ. 219255
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First time on skis, Sujal Bhandari gets instructions in bending and learning control from John Thomsen at the Mini Mountain Indoor Ski Center in Bellevue. They’re on an angled moving carpet controlled by Thomsen. Sujal is seven. Ref to more photos online Indoor ski lessons on a moving carpet at Mini Mountain in Bellevue. LO linesonly Saturday January 8, 2020 219275
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Lumen Field – Seattle Seahawks vs. Detroit Lions – 010222 Seattle Seahawks running back Rashaad Penny draws a crowd of Detroit Lions during the first quarter Sunday, Jan. 2, 2022, in Seattle, Wash. Penny had 170 yards rushing on the day. 219228
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