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  Behind the FBI's search for the 'Manhattan 8'

  “Oppenheimer” opened this weekend, Hollywood’s version of the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb.” While the movie paints a compelling picture of how the Manhattan Project came to be, it only gives a cursory look into the lives of the scientists who moved to the remote places involved in building the first nuclear weapons.
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  King County Sheriff urged to provide more interpreters for non-English speakers

  An oversight committee is urging the King County Sheriff's Office to do better around how it communicates with people who don’t speak English.
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  An investigation into Washington's Native Boarding Schools

  Throughout the early-to-mid 20th century, Washington state was home to 15 Native American boarding schools. The schools have been the source of cultural erasure and generational trauma for Native people for over a century. But the specifics of what went on in those schools has been largely ignored or forgotten by many, including government officials. KUOW Investigative Team members Ashley Hiruko and Isolde Raftery have been collecting information and stories about what went on at these schools, and they’ve spoken with survivors and their families.
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  'Just one of many tragic stories': Uncovering the story of Chemawa Indian School

  For 150 years, the federal government operated more than 400 boarding schools for Indigenous children who had been forcibly removed from their families. One example of the brutal legacy of these boarding schools lies in Oregon, in the unmarked grave of Charlie Fiester. Soundside caught up with KUOW investigative reporter Ashley Hiruko to talk about Charlie's story.
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  A 12-year-old boy was shot running from a Native boarding school. His tribe mourns him today

  This is the first in a series of stories KUOW is publishing on the Native boarding school experience in the Pacific Northwest.

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  FBI warned of neo-Nazi plots as attacks on Northwest grid spiked

  As a string of attacks on electrical substations unfolded in Oregon and Washington in 2022, the FBI was warning utilities of white supremacists’ plots to take down the nation’s power grid. A KUOW/OPB investigation reveals the scope of the threat to the Northwest grid.
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  A man dies of an overdose. Then chaos ensues at his swank Seattle apartment building

  Bobby Hawran was a retired longshoreman with a handsome face and an even handsomer pension.

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  The untold story of Herbert Hightower, and Seattle Police’s history of killing people with knives

  Castill Hightower woke to red and blue lights ricocheting off her bedroom walls. It was the middle of the night in north Seattle, and Hightower, then 17, saw police officers and flashing emergency vehicles outside her window.

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  6 women accused a Seattle hip-hop artist of sex trafficking, allege police ‘did virtually nothing’

  The tape recorder clicked on. It was a cold night in early December 2020 when William Guyer, a veteran Seattle Police detective, asked a young woman to recount months of alleged abuse and sexual assault.
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  Youth program led by convicted sex offender loses county funding after KUOW investigation

  A youth program funded by King County program has lost its contract to work with young people at risk of gun violence after a KUOW investigation found its leader had false credentials — and is a convicted sex offender facing a new charge of felony insurance fraud.

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