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SEATTLE (AP) — A 48-year-old man was found unresponsive in his King County Jail cell in downtown Seattle and later died at Harborview Medical Center. That’s according to the Department of Adult and Juvenile Detention. The King County Medical Examiner’s Office on Monday identified the man as Dustin Rand. They said his cause and manner

By SARA CLINE Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland, Oregon, has had 67 homicides so far this year and the city has surpassed its previous full-year record of 66 in 1987. Police are struggling to keep up amid an acute staffing shortage and budget cuts. The liberal Pacific Northwest city is trying

By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Claude Giroux and Travis Konecny scored and Carter Hart stopped 24 shots and spoiled former Flyers coach Dave Hakstol’s return to Philadelphia in a 6-1 win over the Seattle Kraken on Monday night. Joel Farabee, Derick Brassard, Ryan Ellis and Justin Braun also scored for the

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Washington State has fired football coach Nick Rolovich and four of his assistants for refusing a state mandate that all employees get vaccinated against COVID-19. Rolovich becomes the first major college coach to lose his job over vaccination status. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, a Democrat,

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — AP source: Washington State has fired football coach Nick Rolovich for refusing state’s vaccination mandate.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s new congressional districts are receiving national attention as a Democratic group pushes back against Republican claims that the state’s political boundaries are gerrymandered. Oregon Public Broadcasting reports that in a filing on Monday, the National Democratic Redistricting Committee urged a judicial panel to approve the map — which was passed

By ANDREW ENGELSON InvestigateWest Retrofitting programs make a difference in Cascadia, but results are not enough to meet climate goals.

SEATTLE (AP) — The city of Seattle reported Monday morning that 99% of its employees are in compliance with the mayor’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. The Seattle Times reports by 11:59 p.m. Monday, all Seattle city employees have to be vaccinated against COVID-19, per an August order by Mayor Jenny Durkan. As of Monday morning, 94%

RENTON, Wash. (AP) — The Seattle Seahawks say tests on linebacker Darrell Taylor’s neck have come back clear and are not ruling him out of playing next Monday against the New Orleans Saints. Seattle coach Pete Carroll said that both a CT scan and an MRI have shown that Taylor does not have an injury

SEATTLE (AP) — Thousands of Seattle families scrambled to get children to and from school Monday after Seattle Public Schools suspended 142 bus routes. The Seattle Times reports the cutbacks announced Friday are necessary because of a national bus driver shortage and because some drivers are not getting the mandated COVID-19 vaccine. The cuts are

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Last week, police in southern Oregon raided a site that had roughly two tons of processed marijuana and 17,500 pot plants. Jackson County Commissioners say the surge in industrial-scale illegal marijuana growing operations is so serious that they asked Gov. Kate Brown to send in the

REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Microsoft has confirmed that executives in 2008 warned Bill Gates to stop sending flirtatious emails to a female employee but dropped the matter after he told them he would stop. The Wall Street Journal was first to report that Brad Smith, then Microsoft’s general counsel and now its president and vice

By RACHEL LA CORTE Associated Press OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Monday is the final day for thousands of workers in Washington to prove they’ve been fully vaccinated for COVID-19 in order to keep their jobs. Washington’s vaccine mandate was issued by Gov. Jay Inslee in August and covers more than 800,000 workers. The mandate applies

By MATT OTT and MARCY GORDON AP Business Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — House lawmakers are threatening to seek a criminal investigation of Amazon, saying the tech giant has a “final chance” to correct previous testimony by executives on its competition practices. They sent a letter to Amazon President and CEO Andy Jassy, marking an escalation

By AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer Gonzaga is the preseason No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 men’s college basketball poll. The Bulldogs held the No. 1 ranking all last season and reached the national championship game. They earned 55 of 63 first-place votes. UCLA is No. 2 and received the other eight first-place

NEW YORK (AP) — Gonzaga is No. 1 in preseason AP Top 25 men’s basketball poll; UCLA, Kansas, Villanova and Texas round out top five.

YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — The city of Yakima will begin taking out the Nelson Dam on Monday, following nearly three months of preparation and years of planning. City of Yakima Water and Irrigation Manager David Brown said the $18.1 million project on the Naches River has seen only a few delays. Contractors expect to complete

ARLINGTON, Wash. (AP) — Search and rescue and fire crews rescued seven people after the vehicle they were in went over a cliff on the road to the Boulder River Trailhead, southeast of Arlington, Snohomish County. Crews responded around 6 p.m. Saturday and retrieved all seven people from the vehicle. That’s according to the Snohomish

By DAN SCIFO Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — Seattle Seahawks’ quarterback Geno Smith saw an opening in the offensive line and took off down the middle of the field. Unfortunately for Smith, he didn’t see Pittsburgh Steelers outside linebacker T.J. Watt. Watt strip-sacked Smith in the waning minutes of overtime on Sunday night. That overtime

By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer PITTSBURGH (AP) — Chris Boswell hit a 36-yard field goal with 2:50 left in overtime to give the Pittsburgh Steelers a 23-20 victory over the Seattle Seahawks. Boswell’s third field goal of the game came three plays after Steelers outside linebacker T.J. Watt forced Seattle quarterback Geno Smith to