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SEATTLE (AP) — Washington says it’s looking into a sideline incident between coach Jimmy Lake and a player during the first half of Saturday night’s loss to No. 7 Oregon. Lake appeared to fling his right arm toward Ruperake Fuavai during a brief skirmish on the Washington sideline. Fuavai was exchanging words with Oregon’s Jaylon

By JACK THOMPSON Associated Press GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Lawson Crouse’s second goal of the night with 1:05 remaining gave the Arizona Coyotes their first win of the season, 5-4 over the expansion Seattle Kraken. The Coyotes avoided breaking the franchise record for most losses to start a season. Phil Kessel’s power play goal with

By TIM BOOTH AP Sports Writer SEATTLE (AP) — Travis Dye rushed for a career-high 211 yards and one touchdown, Anthony Brown ran for one score and passed for another and No. 7 Oregon overcame a sluggish start to beat Washington 26-16. A year after the border rivals didn’t play due to a COVID-19 outbreak

SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle University has placed basketball coach Jim Hayford on administrative leave. Citing unidentified sources, Stadium reported a Black player for Seattle alleged Hayford used a racial slur during a scrimmage Thursday. The report stated the player used the slur during the scrimmage and, after being informed by game officials, Hayford repeated it

CHENEY, Wash. (AP) — Isaiah Ifanse rushed 32 times for 217 yards and a touchdown to key Montana State’s big-play offense in a 23-20 win over Eastern Washington; a battle of Top 5 FCS teams. Quarterback Matthew McKay scored on a 56-yard run on the Bobcats’ first possession and he found Lance McCutcheon, who made

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana appeal court has thrown out the 90-year prison sentence for a drunken driver who struck nine bicycle riders near a Mardi Gras parade route in 2019, killing two of them. The state 4th Circuit Court of Appeal said the judge who sentenced Tashonty Toney

PULLMAN, Wash. (AP) — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is disputing Nick Rolovich’s statements that the Democrat targeted the former Washington State University football coach with his statewide COVID-19 vaccine mandate for all public employees. The Spokesman Review reports Inslee spokesperson Mike Faulk said of the coach: “He’s just wrong.” That’s in response to Rolovich’s 34-page

COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho (AP) — Two missing Oregon women were found in an Idaho forest Friday, the mother dead from the elements and the disabled daughter alive with their broken down vehicle. The Spokesman Review reports a hunter discovered the mother’s body in the Solitaire Saddle area of the Panhandle National Forest and reported it

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press MISSION, Kan. (AP) — School board candidates opposing mask mandates and lessons about racism in U.S. history won in red states and some politically divided districts, but often came up short in their bids to shape policy for school districts over the newest culture war issue., The

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Three Black women who work for the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department have filed a lawsuit against the county alleging a long-standing pattern of discrimination, harassment and retaliation against minority employees. The News Tribune reports Lt. Charla James-Hutchison and Sgts. Dione Alexander and Sabrina Braswell-Bouyer are the highest-ranking African American women in

NEW YORK (AP) — Current and former Boeing directors have settled a shareholder lawsuit that accuses the directors of poor oversight before two of the company’s jets crashed, killing 346 people. The settlement in the shareholder lawsuit was filed Friday in a Delaware court. Insurers for the directors will pay more than $230 million. The

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — The company that runs a for-profit immigration jail in Washington state has suspended its detainee work program, rather than pay the detainees minimum wage for cooking, cleaning and other tasks. A federal jury last week ruled that the GEO Group must pay the detainees minimum wage instead

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An organization that hosted the dissection of a human body for a ticket-buying audience says it had a contract saying the cadaver could be used for education. And Death Science says its “Cadaver Lab Class” was appropriately educational, despite criticism from the man’s widow. Elsie Saunders of Baker, Louisiana says her

By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer Opponents of the Oregon Ducks are keying in on defensive end Kayvon Thibodeaux, including Washington coach Jimmy Lake, who called Thibodeaux a “game-wrecker.” Seventh-ranked Oregon visits the Huskies on Saturday after earning the No. 4 spot in the initial College Football Playoff rankings of the season. But it’s

By RACHEL LA CORTE Associated Press OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington state senators and staff will have to provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination or submit to regular testing when on campus when the new legislative session starts in January. Under new regulations approved by a Senate committee Friday, senators will conduct their work through a

By JEFFREY COLLINS and MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press The United States is steadily chipping away at vaccine hesitancy and driving down COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations to the point that schools, governments and corporations are lifting mask restrictions yet again. Nearly 200 million Americans are fully vaccinated. Nearly 98% of the over-65 population has received at

NEWBERG, Ore. (AP) — The teachers union in Newberg, Oregon, has filed a lawsuit over a policy passed narrowly by its school board, limiting what kinds of images or signs school employees can display on campus. The “Ensuring Safe Environments To Learn” policy bars school employees from displaying images “relating to a political, quasi-political, or

ANACORTES, Wash. (AP) — Anglers and paddlers can now safely use Pass Lake on the south end of Fidalgo Island in Deception Pass State Park. Recent Washington state Department of Health lab tests show safe levels of anatoxin-a in the lake’s water. The toxin is found in blue green algae. A level of 2,576 micrograms

By TIM BOOTH AP Sports Writer SEATTLE (AP) — Jordan Eberle had the first hat trick in franchise history by scoring three goals in less than 10 minutes of the second and third periods, and the Seattle Kraken beat the Buffalo Sabres 5-2. The loss capped a long, emotional day for the Sabres that began