The FBI is helping investigate an attack by several suspected white supremacists on a black disc jockey at a tavern in Washington state over the weekend, authorities said Monday. Continue reading →
{FD} ‘Explorer at heart’: American missionary killed in India
John Allen Chau spent summers alone in a California cabin as a wilderness emergency responder, led backpacking expeditions in the Northwest’s Cascade Mountains, almost lost his leg to a rattlesnake bite, and coached soccer for poor children in Iraq and… Continue reading →
{FD} A life of adventure, religion for American killed in India
John Allen Chau spent summers alone in a California cabin as a wilderness emergency responder, led backpacking expeditions in the Northwest’s Cascade Mountains, almost lost his leg to a rattlesnake bite, and coached soccer for poor children in Iraq and… Continue reading →
{FD} Owners of Seattle electronics recycler charged in fraud case
The owners of a large Northwest electronics recycler are facing a federal conspiracy charge, after investigations found the company lied to customers by having mercury-containing flat-screen monitors shipped overseas instead of disposing of them safely… Continue reading →
{FD} Washington Supreme Court upholds most of charter school law
The Washington Supreme Court upheld most of the state’s charter school law Thursday, eliminating the specter that a dozen schools serving about 3,400 students might have to close. Continue reading →
{FD} Prosecutors file charges in 2 sex assault cases on airplanes
Two men have been charged in separate cases with sexually assaulting women on commercial flights bound for Seattle earlier this year, cases prosecutors said Thursday they hope will encourage victims and others to report such attacks. Continue reading →
{FD} Former Seattle Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen dies at 96
Retired Seattle Archbishop Raymond G. Hunthausen, whose outspoken support for nuclear disarmament, gay rights and an expanded role for women in the church made him one of the most controversial U.S. bishops, has died at 96. Hunthausen died Sunday at hi… Continue reading →
{FD} Judge orders Washington prison to provide Ramadan meals
A federal judge has ordered the Washington Department of Corrections to provide nighttime meals to all Muslim inmates who have been fasting during the month of Ramadan, after several said prison officials refused to do so. Continue reading →
{FD} US again seeks to cancel immigrant’s deportation protection
Immigration officials forced by a court order to reinstate a Mexican man’s participation in a program designed to protect those brought to the United States illegally as children are again trying to revoke it. Continue reading →
{FD} Judge shows scant patience for military transgender ban
President Donald Trump’s move last week to tweak his ban on transgender people joining the military might not save it from being struck down, a federal judge in Seattle suggested Tuesday. Continue reading →
{FD} Prisoner mistakenly released early sues over re-arrest
A man who was released early from a Washington state prison due to a software glitch is suing the Department of Corrections, saying his re-arrest three years later to serve the remaining time was illegal. Continue reading →
{FD} Lawsuit: Detained immigrant beaten for role in hunger strike
A guard at a privately run immigration jail beat a detainee because the man joined a hunger strike protesting conditions at the facility, the Washington state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union said in a federal lawsuit Friday. Continue reading →
{FD} Reward raised, new attention on US prosecutor’s 2001 slaying
Sixteen years after federal prosecutor Thomas Wales was shot to death in his Seattle home, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said Wednesday the unsolved case remains a top priority of the Justice Department. Continue reading →
{FD} ICE lawyer due in court on charges he stole immigrants’ IDs
The now-former chief counsel for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Seattle is due in court to face charges that he stole immigrants’ identities. Continue reading →
{FD} Washington, other states will sue over immigration move
Washington state’s attorney general says he will file a lawsuit involving multiple states over President Donald Trump’s plan to end a program protecting young immigrants from deportation — an act he said was “a dark time for our country.”Continue reading →
{FD} Elderly Seattle brothers in court on child **** charges
One of a trio of elderly Seattle brothers facing child *********** charges pleaded not guilty Thursday, while another missed the court hearing because he’d been hospitalized and the third was ordered to face a competency evaluation because he suffers f… Continue reading →
Court rejects appeal from praying football coach
A Washington state high school football coach took advantage of his position when he prayed on the field after games, and he’s not entitled to immediately get his job back, a federal appeals court said Wednesday. Continue reading →
