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3 former Notre Dame women’s basketball players selected to WNBA All-Star Game
WNDU - Indiana
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July 7, 2025
INDIANAPOLIS (WNDU) - Three Notre Dame alums have been selected for the 2025 WNBA All-Star Game in Indianapolis. While the roster features plenty of big names like Caitlin Clark, Aliyah Boston and Paige Bueckers, fans of the Irish will recognize...
DOJ Sues Washington State Over Child Abuse Reporting Law Affecting Priests
The Seattle Medium - Washington State
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July 4, 2025
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has initiated a lawsuit against the state of Washington regarding a recently enacted law that requires priests to breach the seal of confession if they learn about child abuse during the sacrament of reconciliation....
How the Jehovah’s Witnesses sex abuse crisis in Pennsylvania unfolded
Delaware County Daily Times - Pennsylvania
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July 9, 2025
Long after a young woman stepped forward to say she was raped and beaten by a member of a Jehovah’s Witness congregation, law enforcement agents finally confronted Eric Eleam three years ago at his home in Butler County. They questioned him about...
Washington State Launches Hotline for Reporting Hate Crimes
KONA - Washington State
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July 2, 2025
(The Center Square) – The Washington State Office of the Attorney General has launched a taxpayer-funded hotline in three counties that would allow residents, including foreign nationals and illegal immigrants, to report U.S. citizens for engaging...
How conservatives beat back a Republican plan to sell off public lands
Anchorage Daily News - Alaska
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An aerial view of federal land near Nine Mile Canyon, Utah. (James Roh/For The Washington Post) To his surprise, Patrick Payne had ended up in a group text with Mike Lee. Payne is a conservative Idaho outdoorsman who voted for President Donald...
Washington State Patrol is Nominated for a Sexy Cruiser Award
97 Rock - Washington
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July 2, 2025
Attention, all Washingtonians and fans of police cruisers! The American Association of State Troopers (AAST) is running its annual Best Looking Cruiser contest, and Washington State Patrol (WSP) needs your vote to take the top spot. Washington...
Obituary: Georgia Spencer
The Seattle Medium - Washington State
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July 9, 2025
Georgia Spencer Sunrise: March 17, 1938- Sunset: June 28, 2025 Georgia Spencer was born on March 17, 1938, in Kansas City, Kansas, to the union of John E. Spencer and Addie B. Chew Spencer. She was the eldest of two daughters and, from the...
Historic Washington State Park to host 19th Annual Red River Heritage Symposium 7/26/25
Swark Today - Arkansas
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By Zane Freeman This year’s theme is ‘Trail of Tears in the Red River Region” (WASHINGTON, Ark.) – Historic Washington State Park will host the 19th Annual Red River Heritage Symposium on Saturday, July 26, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. This year’s theme...
Washington state to buy new hybrid electric ferries from Florida shipyard
The Columbian - Washington State
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For the first time in more than 50 years, Washington State Ferries will contract with an out-of-state shipyard to build new vessels. Democratic Gov. Bob Ferguson made the final call to accept the low bid from Florida-based Eastern Shipbuilding...
Big Tech, NYC teachers union join forces in new AI initiative that's drawing concerns
Gothamist - New York
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July 9, 2025
A new partnership between New York City’s teachers union and Big Tech companies has some educators wondering whether they’re at the forefront of improving instruction through artificial intelligence or welcoming a Trojan horse that threatens...
Slog AM: Burning Down The (Frat) House, Earthquakes At Our Volcano Are Fine Actually, Grok Called Itself MechaHitler, Which Is Not Fine
The Stranger - Washington State
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July 9, 2025
Full Steam Electricity Diesel? Ahead: Washington wants its ferries totally emission free by 2050, but we’re way off course. By 2040, we need to convert six ferries to hybrid-electric power, build 16 new plug-in boats, and add shore charging to as...
Despite cuts, State parks promise full summer access
Port Townsend Leader - Washington State
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By Emily Fitzgerald/Washington State Standard Though Washington State Parks, like other parts of state government, did not make it through this year’s legislative session with its budget unscathed, park visitors shouldn’t notice any staffing or...
Man sentenced to 10 years in prison for Washington state trooper’s 2024 death
The Daily Chronicle - Washington State
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Sara Jean Green / The Seattle Times (TNS) Despite efforts by Raul Benitez Santana’s defense team to persuade a Snohomish County Superior Court judge to impose a sentence of just under eight years in prison for the 2024 high-speed crash that killed...
'It looked like a volcano went off': Evacuations ordered as 2,000-plus-acre wildfire burns in Eastern Washington
The Daily Chronicle - Washington State
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Garrett Cabeza / The Spokesman-Review (TNS) A 2,161-acre fire burning near the Columbia River between Kettle Falls and Northport, Washington, forced evacuations Tuesday, according to officials. The Hope fire is primarily burning in timber just...
Green Brief Commentary: Celebrating natural heritage alongside human imprints
Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber - Washington State
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July 9, 2025
Editor’s note: Green Briefs is a regular series of commentaries by eco-leaders on Vashon, presented in The Beachcomber in partnership with The Whole Vashon Project. Efforts to share the amazing natural and social heritage of the...
ICE transfers detainees from Alaska prison back to Washington state
Nisqually Valley News - Washington State
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July 3, 2025
By Corinne Smith / Alaska Beacon The Alaska Department of Corrections announced that 35 men arrested and detained by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from out of state and held at the Anchorage Correctional Complex were transferred out...
WA’s members of Congress react to passage of Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’
Port Townsend Leader - Washington State
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By Jerry Cornfeld /Washington State Standard Bold, beautiful, bloated, ugly. How the legislation is described depends who you ask. But Republicans’ “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” is now on its way to becoming law. The nearly 1,000-page legislation...
New laws, fees, taxes go into effect in Washington state
OregonLive.com
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July 3, 2025
Washington state legislators had an action-packed 2025 session, leaving Gov. Bob Ferguson to sign loads of bills into law. Some new laws took effect immediately while others had a longer wait time. A number of them kick in this week, including a...
Seattle emerges as a top 4th of July destination, 2nd only to Orlando in new report
KOMO News - Washington State
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SEATTLE — Seattle is becoming a destination for the Fourth of July, according to a new report. AAA says Seattle tops the list of domestic destinations for the holiday, only behind Orlando, citing the “17 cruises departing Seattle from June 28-July...
New Washington state school discipline rules leave families, advocates wary
The Daily Chronicle - Washington State
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Claire Bryan / The Seattle Times (TNS) The Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction adopted new student discipline rules last month, despite pushback among families and advocates who believe the new rules will send schools back in...