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Ted S. Warren/The Associated Press fileThe Washington Supreme Court has narrowly upheld an $18 million fine against an association of large food brands that funneled dark money into a state political campaign. The 5-4 decision found that the penalty against the Grocery Manufacturers Association did not violate the U.S. Constitution’s excessive fines ban. -
Lilly Ana Fowler/KNKXTwo women have sued the prominent Seattle nonprofit Casa Latina – known for dispatching undocumented workers to day labor jobs – over sexual harassment allegations.
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A federal lawsuit claims Washington state officials unlawfully granted Native American casinos a "discriminatory tribal gaming monopoly” over sports betting and other types of gambling. -
A Neo-Nazi who helped lead a campaign to threaten journalists and Jewish activists in three states was sentenced Tuesday to seven years in federal prison — the longest prison term handed out to the participants in the conspiracy.
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Three dozen criminal charges have been filed against Electron Hydro and its chief operating officer Thom Fischer in connection with a 2020 spill of crumb rubber into the Puyallup River.
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A prominent immigrant rights nonprofit based in Seattle is heading to the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday.
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King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg has announced that after four terms in office, he won't seek re-election this year. Satterberg has spent his entire career in the office, having joined it as an intern in 1984 and taking a full-time job the next year.
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Seattle police exchanged detailed fake radio transmissions about a nonexistent group of menacing right-wing extremists at a crucial moment during 2020 racial justice protests, an investigation by the city’s police watchdog group shows.
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An assistant police chief in Kent has been disciplined for posting a Nazi insignia on his office door and joking about the Holocaust.
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Masyih Ford and Armando Farinas, two Tacoma police officers involved in the killing of Manuel Ellis in March 2020, have been exonerated of any wrongdoing following an internal investigation into their conduct in the case.
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Newly unsealed federal court orders show that a veteran King County sheriff's detective made several false statements in a search warrant application — resulting in a man's false arrest on drug charges. Detective Kathleen Decker was looking for a murder weapon when she obtained a search warrant for the car and apartment of Gizachew Wondie in 2018.
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The first coroner’s inquest into a deadly shooting by police in King County under a new, expanded process has stalled amid concerns by all involved — the officers, the families of those killed and city officials — over the transparency and integrity of the proceedings.
