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Sgt Casey Hiam of the Bellevue. WA police department on an anti-shoplifting stakeout operation during the holiday shopping season

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It's peak shopping — and shoplifting — season. Cops are stepping up antitheft tactics

5:01am November 29, 2023

by Martin Kaste

Merchants say retail thefts have become more frequent and brazen. Law enforcement is now putting more money into things like store stakeouts and task forces that track organized retail crime rings.

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A Seattle Police Department vehicle in 2021.

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Seattle officer recorded joking about woman's death, saying 'she had limited value'

6:25pm September 13, 2023

by Laurel Wamsley

In bodycam footage, the officer is heard making callous remarks about a woman who died after being hit by a police cruiser. He reportedly told investigators he was mocking what city lawyers might say.

This undated photo provided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Portland Field Office shows the interior of a makeshift cinderblock cell in Klamath Falls, Ore., allegedly used as a prison cell from which a woman eventually escaped and found help.

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Woman's escape from cinder block cell likely spared others from same fate, FBI says

2:58am August 03, 2023

by The Associated Press

A woman who escaped her kidnapper by punching her way out of a homemade cell in southern Oregon likely saved other women from a similar fate, authorities said.

Nick Barrera says stigma from the medical system has kept him from accessing critical health care.

Few are tackling stigma in addiction care. Some in Seattle want to change that

7:05pm June 07, 2023

by Katia Riddle

A program in Seattle is helping people in drug and alcohol recovery overcome barriers to medical care in an effort to keep them off the street. A key piece is battling stigma from medical providers.

A visitor at the Connections Museum works the kind of switchboard system that first connected American phone users.

National

Remembering America's first social network: the landline telephone

5:08am May 10, 2023

by Brian Mann

Young tech nerds in Seattle are trying to preserve the mysterious machines — many of them almost lost forever — that made America's landline telephone system work before the age of computers.

Tents are pitched on Camp 2, as climbers rest on their way to summit Mount Everest on May 16, 2013. University of Washington officials say a retired Seattle doctor died on Monday, May 1, 2023, while climbing Mount Everest. Dr. Jonathan Sugarman was climbing the mountain as part of an expedition arranged by Washington state-based International Mountain Guides.

A Seattle professor died during a climb up Mount Everest

12:43pm May 03, 2023

by Ayana Archie

The U.S. citizen did not die from a climbing-related accident or inclement weather, his group said. Mount Everest, located across Nepal and Tibet, is the world's highest point above sea level.

JustCARE outreach worker Kendra Tate (left) helps Starr Draper complete paperwork necessary for her to move from a homeless encampment into a temporary home.

National

One camp at a time, a Seattle group is transforming its approach to homelessness

1:52pm April 11, 2023

by Katia Riddle

During the pandemic, a nonprofit in Seattle took a different approach to solving homelessness: helping whole encampments of unhoused people themselves make a plan to get housing.

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A Seattle police officer walks past tents used by people experiencing homelessness, March 11, 2022, during the clearing and removal an encampment in Westlake Park in downtown Seattle.

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Seattle and Justice officials seek to end most oversight of city's police

4:46am March 29, 2023

by The Associated Press

U.S. Justice Department and Seattle officials seek an end to most federal oversight of the city's police department, saying its sustained reform efforts are a model for other cities.

This combination of 2017-2022 photos shows the logos of Facebook, YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat on mobile devices. On Friday, Jan. 6, 2023, Seattle Public Schools filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court, suing the tech giants behind TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Snapchat, seeking to hold them accountable for the mental health crisis among youth.

Seattle's schools are suing tech giants for harming young people's mental health

5:30am January 08, 2023

by The Associated Press

The public school district in Seattle has filed a novel lawsuit against TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Snapchat, seeking to hold them accountable for a mental health crisis among youth.

The sun shines near the Space Needle, Monday, June 28, 2021, in Seattle.

Environment

Seattle just had one of its hottest nights on record

5:52am August 19, 2022

by Ayana Archie

The nightly temperature reached 71 degrees Fahrenheit, one of only three nights in the city's climate record where the nighttime temperature rose above 70 degrees.