Shen Yun Performing Arts gave audiences a glimpse of traditional Chinese culture at the Marion Oliver McCaw Hall in Seattle, Washington, on April 3 and April 4. Audience members commended the performers for their artistry and said they felt uplifted after seeing the show. “The dancing and the harmonious spirit it brought, and the music […]
A widely recognized kiosk near the Lincoln Memorial dedicated to spreading awareness about prisoners of war and other military-related causes was destroyed in a fire Thursday, sending a man to the hospital with serious injuries, authorities said. The fire took place around 7 a.m. ET, DC Fire and EMS Department spokesman Vito Maggiolo said. It […]
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash.—An Army helicopter crashed at a military base in Washington state during a routine training exercise Monday night, sending the two pilots to a hospital. A Joint Base Lewis-McChord spokesperson told The News Tribune Tuesday that what the person called an “aviation mishap” on Monday night involved a U.S. Army AH-64E Apache […]
President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had a phone call this week, with Israeli officials slated to head to Washington. According to David Wurmser, a Middle-Eastern affairs analyst at the Center for Security Policy, Israel has a plan for humanitarian evacuation ahead of its impending ground operation into the city of Rafah. […]
INDEX, Wash.—The bodies of two people recovered over the weekend after they fell into the water at a dangerous swimming area in Washington state made popular by TikTok have been identified as men from Japan. The Snohomish County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the men Tuesday as Hiroya Konosu, 21, and Takayuki Suzuki, 34, the Daily […]
WASHINGTON—Two people have been killed and five others injured in a shooting in the nation’s capital early Sunday. Police were looking for a single gunman after the seven people were shot around 3 a.m. in the Shaw neighborhood of Washington. The five people who were injured were all taken to local hospitals, said Jeffrey Carroll, […]
New York-based Shen Yun Performing Arts took to the stage on March 9 and 10, bringing a revival of 5,000 years of traditional Chinese culture to Spokane, Washington. The dance company performed at the First Interstate Center for the Arts, leaving audience members inspired by their artistry. “That was crazy, just to see how so […]
LOS ANGELES—A coroner’s investigation into the death of a man in Los Angeles last month revealed that he was a suspect in a 2008 Washington state child rape who was believed to have jumped to his death from a bridge on Puget Sound years ago, authorities said. Christian Robert Basham was living under the alias […]
A federal judge in Washington state struck down a legal bid by a pro-gun rights group to block a new regulation that opens firearm manufacturers to lawsuits for crimes committed with their products. U.S. District Court Judge Mary Dimke on March 8 dismissed a lawsuit against Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson brought by the […]
MEREDITH, N.H.—As temperatures plunged on Mount Washington and ferocious winds made it near impossible to see, hiker Cole Matthes began to drift away from the trail. Then he hit a patch of snow-covered ice and slid hundreds of feet down a ravine. His fall Saturday sparked a rescue mission that would last 11 hours, utilize […]
OLYMPIA, Wash.—The Washington state attorney general announced a $149.5 million settlement Wednesday with drugmaker Johnson & Johnson, more than four years after the state sued the company over its role in the opioid addiction crisis. “They knew what the harm was. They did it anyway,” Attorney General Bob Ferguson told reporters Wednesday. The attorney general’s […]
With record numbers of illegal immigrants crossing the southern border, House Speaker Mike Johnson and 60 other Republican lawmakers visited Eagle Pass, Texas to address the border crisis. At the same time, the DOJ filed a lawsuit against Texas over a law that grants police more power to arrest, prosecute, and deport illegal immigrants.
Three Tacoma, Washington, police officers on trial for the death of 2020 death of Manuel Ellis were cleared of all criminal charges on Dec. 21 following a months-long trial. Two of the police officers, Matthew Collins, 40, and Christopher Burbank, 38, had been charged with second-degree murder and manslaughter in the death of Mr. Ellis, […]
