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The King County Sheriff’s Office in Washington state honored five teens for saving the life of one of its deputies.

Rachel Dolezal, the white woman who claimed to be black in 2015, is now saying that she has been “vindicated” by the Black Lives Matter movement — or at least that is what she claims people have been telling her.

A woman furloughed from her job at a menswear store in Gig Harbor, Washington, decided to turn to her favorite comfort food for help.

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee dodged a bullet when Politico failed to ask him during an interview about the police-free autonomous zone occupied by many anarchists in the state’s largest city of Seattle.

The South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Wednesday that the Democrat governor of Washington state, Jay Inslee, wrote a personal letter to Chinese dictator Xi Jinping in early April asking China to use its “enormous productive capacity” to provide “critically needed medical supplies” including masks, gloves, and gowns.

Washington State University (WSU) is working to provide “emergency” funding for illegal alien students in the wake of the Chinese virus pandemic.

A spa owner told her staff she qualified for more than $200,000 in stimulus loans, but staff knew they would be making less than what they would under unemployment.

SEATTLE (AP) — Inmates at a Washington state prison staged a large protest following new coronavirus diagnoses at the facility and health officials say they continue to see high numbers of cases in the state’s long-term care facilities.

A 90-year-old woman from Washington state is praising God, her family, and her homemade potato soup for helping her overcome the coronavirus.

Officials in the hardest-hit states in the U.S., like New York, are prepared to impose legal penalties on individuals who flout restrictions implemented to stem the spread of the widening novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.

Washington state health officials announced Monday that three more people have died from the coronavirus, bringing the total number of U.S. deaths to five. 

Washington state health officials announced a possible coronavirus outbreak in a nursing facility in Kirkland. The officials stated that 52 people in the facility are displaying some coronavirus symptoms and two tested “presumptive positive” for COVID-19.

Washington Governor Jay Inslee (D) declared a state of emergency on Saturday following the announcement of the first coronavirus-related death in his state and the nation. The governor directed all state agencies to use all resources necessary. He also authorized the use of National Guard troops.

Health officials in Washington State announced the first coronavirus-related death in the United States on Saturday morning.

Democrat lawmakers in Washington State will consider an “assault weapons” ban this week, as well as an end to ammunition magazines holding 11 rounds or more.

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) is pushing a ban on “assault weapons” and “high capacity” magazines as state lawmakers convene this week in legislative session.

A two-year-old boy and his grandfather were among 11 injured on Monday during a getaway gone wrong in Burien, Washington.

Washington State is debating a bill that would restrict school sports athletes to participating only in the gender category of their birth.

A Washington State University student died in a fraternity-related incident, marking the second fraternity death in the past week and the fourth campus death in a month.

Teachers’ unions are continuing to see a decline in membership and revenue since the Supreme Court’s decision in Janus v. AFSCME in June 2018.

Drag queens recently raised funds for Planned Parenthood with a “slave-style auction” of Christian pastors and activists.

A school bus driver in Washington state is accused of driving under the influence after a child called 911 to report her.

A recently passed law in the state of Washington will effectively end a campus firearm storage program at Washington State University.

A KR2 single propeller airplane was forced to make an emergency landing on a busy highway in Parkland, Washington, on Thursday. 

A 20-year-old uncle is suffering from second-to-third degree burns in the hospital after he ran into his burning home in Aberdeen, Washington, to save his niece.

A recently passed Washington law will force colleges to reschedule exams for Muslim students who are celebrating religious holidays.

A cougar in central Washington state pushed a four-year-old boy to the ground while they were on a walk through a park around 9 p.m. on Saturday.

On Tuesday a federal judge rejected a motion to dismiss a lawsuit against Washington’s gun control Initiative 1639.

Officials who oversee Seattle’s transit system moved to ban political, religious, and other ads from its facilities and public transportation vehicles soon after Pamela Geller’s American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) prevailed in a freedom of speech lawsuit against the city, earning the right to run FBI’s Most Wanted terrorist posters, Breitbart News has learned.

The Motel 6 hotel chain will pay $12 million to the state of Washington for cooperating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

A judge sentenced a teenage girl to two days in jail on Wednesday for pushing her friend off a 60-foot bridge in Washington state, causing her to suffer serious injuries from the fall.

The Washington state Senate passed a measure this week that would keep President Trump’s name from appearing on the 2020 presidential election ballot until he makes his tax returns available to the public.

Lawmakers in Washington state are considering a bill that would give the homeless state-issued ID cards free of charge.

Several winter storms that have pounded Washington state have killed about 1,600 dairy cows in the area, a group of dairy farmers said Tuesday.

Washington State is poised to become the first state in the Union to allow “human composting,” or the “accelerated conversion of human remains to soil.”

The Georgia Department of Public Health (GPH) has confirmed three cases of measles in the metro Atlanta area. Two were identified on January 13 and one on January 26. All three cases were for individuals who were members of the same family and were not vaccinated, according to GPH.