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Severed Toe Found in Gift Box at a Washington State Park
Juan 92.5 - Washington
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July 10, 2025
A “TOE” was found gift-wrapped in a box, abandoned in a Washington State park last month. Was it a gift gone wrong? A type of ‘mob message’? What we know and what we can speculate below. The severed toe was found by Kevin Ewing at the Dash Point...
Preventing crashes, protecting wildlife is goal of new Washington state plan
The Daily Chronicle - Washington State
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Emily Fitzgerald / Washington State Standard Two Washington state agencies are looking to improve corridors for wildlife while cutting down on traffic risks for motorists and animals. The Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Department of...
Timberland Bancorp Third Fiscal Quarter Net Income Increases To $7.10 Million
MENAFN
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July 22, 2025
(MENAFN- GlobeNewsWire - Nasdaq) Quarterly EPS Increases 22% to $0.90 from $0.74 One Year Ago Quarterly Net Interest Margin Increases to 3.80% Quarterly Return on Average Assets Increases to 1.47% Quarterly Return on Average Equity Increases to...
Post Rebrand, Seattle Reign FC Is Looking for the Jewel in Its Crown
Adweek
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July 16, 2025
One year since Seattle Reign FC was sold back to Seattle-based owners, the National Women’s Soccer League team is settling into a refreshed brand. But as the Reign fights to stay in the running for the national championship this November, it’s...
Ronnie Coleman reveals terrifying medical episode, credits young daughter for saving his life with quick action
The Times of India
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Ronnie Coleman details life threatening sepsis. Image via: Charley Gallay/ Getty Images Legendary bodybuilder Ronnie Coleman has broken his silence on a life-threatening health scare that nearly claimed his life. The eight-time Mr. Olympia...
How Latinos in Washington state are coping with ICE crackdowns: ‘I don’t have time for therapy’
The Spokesman-Review - Washington State
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Alejandra Guzman-Mercado was just weeks away from graduating college – the first in her family to do so – when a judge denied her father’s request to remain in the United States and ordered his deportation. Now, two months later, Guzman-Mercado...
Where Cancer Rates Are Highest in Washington State
94.5 KATS - Washington
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July 9, 2025
Cancer sucks. There’s no way around it. Everyone has had it impact their life in one way or another. If it wasn’t personally, it was through a family member or friend, and even though medical science has made leaps and bounds in the ongoing...
GOP Wrecking Ball Slams Through Medical System
The American Prospect
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July 15, 2025
Patients and medical centers are already feeling the pain as several provisions in the GOP’s deadly spending law take immediate effect, either as required or in practice. Hospitals are closing or actively considering doing so, cutting programs,...
Washington joins coalition of states suing Trump over access to public benefits
KOMO News - Washington State
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OLYMPIA, Wash. — The Trump administration is facing a legal challenge from 20 states, including Washington, over new restrictions on health, education, and social services programs. The states allege that the federal government is overstepping by...
Designed with every mind in mind. Seattle firm transforms office spaces for neurodiversity
KUOW 94.9 - Washington State
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July 15, 2025
Eight years ago, a client asked Kay Sargent, the director of thought leadership for interiors at global design firm HOK, “How do you design space for someone who has ADHD?” As the mother of five children, two of whom have been diagnosed as...
FOLLOWUP: West Seattle Saunter success!
West Seattle Blog - Washington State
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July 15, 2025
Last month, we noted that a Seattle walking fan named Holden was organizing “saunters” around the city and that his next one would be in West Seattle. Last Saturday was the big day, and it was a success! Holden sent this West Seattle Saunter...
Here’s how the mayor answered West Seattle Indivisible questions about ‘one of the most offensive gestures against human rights that we’ve ever witnessed’
West Seattle Blog - Washington State
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July 14, 2025
(WSB photo) By Tracy Record West Seattle Blog editor Steps away from the sun-splashed grounds of West Seattle Summer Fest, more than 60 people devoted the heart of their Sunday afternoon to a topic that was anything but festive. They were invited...
How SNAP Changes Impact Food Assistance In Washington State
1340 The Hawk - Washington
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July 8, 2025
Back when I was younger, we just called it food stamps, but now it's the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP. I consider myself lucky that I've never been in a financial situation where I needed SNAP, although if I was in a tough...
Deadly ICE raid | Tree Top wage theft | Rural hospitals
The Stand - Washington State
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July 14, 2025
Monday, July 14, 2025 STRIKES ► From Truthout — Sanitation Workers Demand Higher Wages as Trash Pickup Strikes Spread Nationwide — The Teamsters said in an email on Friday that about 550 sanitation workers were on strike in multiple cities while...
Protein signatures may one day tell brain diseases apart before symptoms
Science News
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July 15, 2025
A large-scale study of proteins in blood and cerebrospinal fluid could pave the way for improved blood tests to diagnose multiple brain diseases — and potential early warning signs of disease risk — researchers report July 15 in several papers in...
As Washington state whooping cough cases soar, families tell of misery and grief
The Daily Chronicle - Washington State
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Sujena Soumyanath / The Seattle Times (TNS) When Chelsey Charles learned whooping cough cases were surging in Washington, like many other parents, she worried for her family’s health. But this 31-year-old mother has had a longer, more complicated...
How Happy is Washington Compared To Other States
99.5 The Apple - Washington
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July 22, 2025
Remember the catchy tune "Don't Worry, Be Happy" by Bobby McFerrin or more recently, Pharrell's "Happy"? I probably just gave you an ear worm, so you may be humming the melody the rest of the day. But how happy are you with life? A recent study...
Bryan Kohberger and his victim's families will have a chance to speak at his sentencing
WSLS - Virginia
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July 22, 2025
BOISE, Idaho – Bryan Kohberger, the masked man who snuck into a rental home near the University of Idaho campus and stabbed four students to death in late 2022, is expected to face the families of his victims in court Wednesday at his sentencing...
Prescribed burns are an essential tool for forest health
Mercer Island Reporter - Washington State
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July 14, 2025
When I first moved to Seattle in the summer of 2003, I fell in love with the sunny, mild days splitting my life between vibrant city life and the great outdoors that the Cascade mountains offer. For years, there was a sense that Seattleites stayed...
Medicaid cuts projected to heavily impact, strain local hospitals
Federal Way Mirror - Washington State
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July 15, 2025
84 hospitals across the state — including those in Renton, Federal Way, Auburn, Snoqualmie, Enumclaw and more — are expected to continually lose millions in Medicaid revenue. Data from the National Academy for State Health Policy shows that...