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During Thursday night’s mayoral debate, Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell said he wouldn’t jail aneight-time convicted offender and would rather learn about that person’s life story. Faced with a shockingly high number of prolific offenders severely harming the city of Seattle’s quality of life, Harrell’s comment was one of the most jaw-dropping, tone-deaf moments I’ve ever seen from a sitting mayor—and that bar is already subterranean in this city. Harrell delivered the kind of response that makes you wonder if he even lives in the same city the rest of us do. No jail time for eight-time repeat criminal The moderator...

Congressional candidate Kshama Sawant’s husband is facing assault charges after allegedly shoving a young staffer for a Washington Congressman in August. Police video obtained by KOMO News showed Sawant’s husband, Calvin Priest, leading a group of protesters who forced their way into a Renton town hall meeting at the Renton Technical College held by Congressman Adam Smith, with whom Sawant is competing for a congressional seat. Priest, 54, pushed Smith’s 22-year-old staffer as she attempted to block him and the other protesters from entering. The town hall was canceled once the protesters disrupted it, resulting in the arrest of Priest...

Nicholas John Roske is the armed suspect accused of threatening to kill U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Roske’s name was released via an unsealed arrest affidavit. Online records say Nicholas Roske, 26, is from Simi Valley, California. A LinkedIn page in the name of Nicholas Roske of Simi Valley says that he worked as an office manager at a pest control company. A criminal complaint accuses Roske of “attempts to kidnap or murder, or threatens to assault, kidnap or murder a United States Judge, to wit: a current Justice of the United States Supreme Court.” It outlines a number...

On Sept. 8, the DOJ sent a letter to Hobbs requesting a copy of the state's voter registration database within 14 days. The request included sensitive personal data for each registered voter: full name, date of birth, residential address, driver's license number, or the last four digits of their Social Security number. Washington Secretary of State Steve Hobbs has no intention of complying with a U.S. Department of Justice request for information from the state’s voter registration list. On Sept. 8, the DOJ sent a letter to Hobbs requesting a copy of the state's voter registration database within 14 days....

PARADISE RIDGE, Mount Rainier — They were a scientific odd couple, a perfect pair to make a breakthrough discovery. Geologist Dave Lescinsky knew glaciers, and his sure-footed mountain-climbing friend Tom Sisson had seen more of Rainier's oddities than most scientists. For years, it was assumed Mount Rainier's 25 mightiest glaciers chewed Washington's tallest volcano into its irresistibly craggy form. As lava spewed from Rainier's gullet over the eons, the theory went, fiery molten rock gushed from the summit, filling the valleys. Then the rivers went to work, sluicing out new valleys, ultimately exposing Rainier's signature ridgelines. Lescinsky and Sisson weren't...

The Lynnwood Times has received a report of local Kamiak High School staff members and a teacher allegedly pleased with the assassination of Charlie Kirk. If you are a student, educator, parent, or witness to any school staff, teachers or administrators condoning political violence, contact us directly at 425-931-1374. We will be following up with the Mukilteo School District on this matter. Below is the snapshot sent to us by a concerned resident and parent listed the following Kamiak High School staff liking the post: Reese Casson - Kamiak High School Office Assistant Simone Buell - Kamiak High School Office...

As educators and public servants, we believe symbolic acts such as lowering the flag should reflect the principles we work to instill in our students and community. When a person has made public statements that conflict with the values of inclusivity, respect, and student safety that we as a District strive to uphold, we may choose to not fly the flag at half-staff. Our decision reflects both our compliance with Washington State law and our unwavering commitment to ethical leadership and educational equity.

SEATTLE, Wash. — Washington state currently holds the highest gas prices in the nation, with the average cost for a gallon of regular gasoline at $4.66, according to AAA. This figure far surpasses the national average of $3.18.

If Brock Purdy’s game-winning touchdown pass to Jake Tonges against the Seattle Seahawks in Week 1 felt like an improbable play, it’s because it essentially was. The completion, which had a 14.7 percent chance per NFL Next Gen Stats, gave San Francisco a 17-13 lead with 1:34 remaining in the game. >>Brock Purdy's game-winning TD to Jake Tonges had a completion probability of 14.7%, the most improbable completion of the week entering SNF. Purdy was traveling 15.98 mph when he let it go, while Tonges had 0.4 yards of separation when the ball arrived.<< The 49ers quarterback connected with the...

Four Democrat-run states have issued their own vaccine guidelines after Florida banned all mandates. The governors of California, Oregon and Washington state announced this week they have formed the West Coast Health Alliance in an effort to 'ensure residents remain protected by science, not politics.' The alliance plans to review scientific data and make vaccine recommendations for residents in these states that are independent from federal guidelines. These guidelines will sidestep those enacted by the Trump administration and vaccine skeptic Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, including recent restrictions on the Covid shot. It's the first blue-state...

A lawsuit filed this summer in the state of Washington paints a devastating picture of one Jewish teenager’s unfolding nightmare of anti-Semitic torment and abuse at the hands of her classmates. The girl—a freshman during the 2023-2024 school year at Nathan Hale High School, a public school in the Seattle area—was ostracized, spat upon, targeted with anti-Semitic slurs and swastikas and beset by threats of physical violence. Instead of protecting her—and discipling the Jew haters who had her in their sights—school administrators stood by and let it happen. “The Nathan Hale High School curriculum offers students a balanced educational experience...

Grand juries in Washington, D.C. refused to indict two people accused of threatening the life of President Donald Trump, prosecutors confirmed to Fox News Digital Tuesday. Officials from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington said both cases involved threats against the president while jurors rejected charges, preventing the cases from moving forward to trial. One case involved Nathalie Rose Jones, who is accused of posting online threats to assassinate Trump and later repeating those threats directly to Secret Service agents during an interview. U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C., Jeanine Pirro, whose office pushed for the indictment, blasted the jury’s refusal...

@docrich Black People Are Standing Up To Defend Trump They Can't Argue With This demoRATS, liberTARDS, sososocilists, woke fellow travelers, BLMer's For the last seven days their have been no black lives lost?

3 days ago I would never leave my door open while pumping gas in this part of DC. Video:

As of this week, Washington, D.C. has now gone nine consecutive days without a single murder — a striking and rare milestone in a city long plagued by violent crime. While the left-wing media hesitates to give credit where it's due, the facts are clear. This sudden drop in violence follows directly on the heels of President Donald Trump's decisive federal crackdown on crime in the nation’s capital. It has been nine days without a murder in Washington, D.C. pic.twitter.com/U0lem9tzHp— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) August 24, 2025Just weeks ago, President Trump declared a crime emergency in D.C., authorizing federal intervention...

I'm sorry you're selfish ass doesn't believe that people in some neighborhoods deserve to be protected. But they believe they deserve to be protected. This one man has been shot four times since moving to DC. Maybe they would like their neighborhoods protected.

Earlier today, the Gateway Pundit reported that Bed Bath & Beyond is bailing on Gavin Newsom’s California. Now it is being reported that Kroger is closing a number of their supermarkets in Washington state due to crime. BREAKING: Grocery stores closing in Everett, Washington due to high crime and open air drug markets. — Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) August 20, 2025 This is what people on the left don’t seem to understand about crime. When you tolerate it, everyone suffers for it. The people in Washington who depend on these stores for the goods they need are now going to suffer...

The Indian immigrant truck driver accused of killing three people in a crash when he made an illegal U-turn across a Florida highway badly flunked English fluency and road sign tests following the smash-up, the US Department of Transportation revealed. Harjinder Singh answered just two of 12 questions correctly when being tested for English language proficiency by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration after the April 12 crash. And when asked to read highway signs and their meanings, Singh could only identify one out of four signs shown to him, the US Department of Transportation (DOT) announced Tuesday. Despite these...

A father accused of trying to strangle his teenage daughter in a Muslim 'honor killing' has been jailed for almost three years. Ihsan Ali, 44, stood trial for second-degree attempted murder alongside his wife Zahraa Subhi Mohsin Ali, 40, over the October 18, 2024, attack. A Thurston County Superior Court jury found them not guilty on July 31, but convicted Ihsan of lesser charges against his daughter Fatima Ali. Ihsan was jailed for 14 months for second-degree assault, 12 months for unlawful imprisonment, and 182 days for fourth-degree assault. He was also ordered to complete a parenting class, do 18...

Left-wing journalists and their Democrat friends have been shrieking since Monday about how gloriously safe Washington, D.C., is, and how, as one particularly low-IQ White House correspondent stated, there is a “nonexistent crime crisis” in the nation’s capital. Homelessness? “Not a problem,” they say. Homicide? “What homicide?” they’ll interject, despite the city having clocked its 100th homicide this year on Monday. The cowardice and shame in their voices are palpable. First, because they know, from their own life experience, that they are lying, and, second, because, even if they have not experienced D.C.’s crime in a while, it just means...