Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan and police chief Carmen Best are at odds over the city's handling of the self-declared autonomous zone set up by protesters spanning several blocks surrounding a police precinct.Best has accused the mayor of shirking her responsibilities as an elected official and allowing protesters to oust police officers from a precinct located inside the…
A judge ruled in favor of a Black Lives Matter group on Friday, banning Seattle police from using tear gas, pepper spray and flash-bang devices to disperse crowds at protests.The ruling comes after a tense few weeks between law enforcement and protesters and legally reinforces a similar temporary ban by the city's Mayor Jenny Durkan…
Protesters in Seattle have declared an autonomous zone by setting up borders around Seattle's Capitol Hill Police Precinct. In response, President Trump threatened to send in troops. Jonathan Vigliot…
Coronavirus nearly killed Michael Flor.After he got out of the hospital following a 62-day stay, the bill he received nearly killed him too.“I opened it and said, ‘Holy (expletive)!,” the Washington state resident recalled, according to the Seattle Times.The 181-page bill came with a total charge of $1.1 million, the report said.WSJ REPORT HIGHLIGHTS HOW…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…