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Impaired driving arrests declined during pandemic, though you're not drinking less
Impaired driving citations dropped sharply across Oregon and Washington this spring during the coronavirus pandemic. There are multiple possible...
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Seattle bar reopens after Covid-19 shutdown: Not a lot of people 'but it's 15 more than zero'
The Streamline tavern is just one of the Seattle businesses coming back after the coronavirus shutdown.
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Reopening stores highlight the joy of non-essential things
In King County, stores are reopening. Now, they just have to convince customers it's safe to return. We visited stores in Seattle's Wallingford neighborhood to see how that's going.
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'Counselors, not cops': Seattle students and staff call for district to get police out of schools
Seattle Public Schools' 11-year-old School Emphasis Officer program claims to help keep youth out of gangs and in school. Critics say it is part of the school-to-prison pipeline, and makes schools feel like jails.
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'They've given us the precinct.' Seattle Police backs away, and protesters take back Pine
The Seattle Police Department announced Monday afternoon that the barricade near the East Precinct -- where officers have used pepper spray, tear gas and flash bang grenades on demonstrators in recent days--would be removed.
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Sharing is caring, unless it’s misinformation
Down the informed public rabbit hole with Ryan Calo
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Pierce County prosecutor wants state involved now in Manuel Ellis case
The Pierce County prosecutor is pushing back at the governor’s promise of state review of any charges – or lack of them – in the case of Manuel Ellis.
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Physician balances pandemic and activism: 'We need to think of racism as a disease'
Voices of the pandemic features people in the Seattle area who are on the front lines of the coronavirus outbreak.
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Car drives into Seattle protest; driver shoots 27-year-old male protester
A car sped into protesters on Sunday evening in Seattle on Capitol Hill, just before 9 p.m.
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Seattle Police will stop using tear gas on protesters, chief says
Carmen Best, chief of the Seattle Police Department, announced on Friday that her officers would stop using tear gas on protesters.
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Looking back at one week of protesting in Seattle
KUOW Reporters Casey Martin and Esmy Jimenez discuss protests in Seattle that have lasted one week so far. The protests are among a range of demonstrations that have swept the country, and the globe, opposing police brutality and killings of Black people.
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Why one Black Lives Matter group in Seattle has hesitated to march
Friday marks one week of protests in Seattle against the police killings of black people in the U.S. and against racial injustices. But Black Lives Matter groups in Seattle have NOT been organizing the protests.