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Mar. 13—The Legislature has approved $500,000 to fund genetic genealogy and DNA testing for the backlog of unidentified remains in Washington. A total of 163 unidentified remains await further testing in Washington, according to a news release from the state Attorney General's Office. The National and Missing Unidentified Persons System, a publicly accessible database commonly known as NamUs, ...

Mar. 13—A federal judge on Friday ruled that most of a Washington state law meant to enhance state oversight of the privately-run immigration detention center in Tacoma is not constitutional. Judge Benjamin H. Settle in U.S. District Court for Western Washington granted a preliminary injunction to the contractor that owns and operates the facility, the GEO Group, hobbling a law passed last ...

Mar. 13—Toby had just moved to Bellingham from Seattle when, in September of last year, he went out of town for work. When he got back, Toby, who asked that his last name be left out to not alert potential burglars of the break-in, and his wife couldn't find their mountain bikes. "I basically found a window pushed through, a door opened and the bikes I guess just kind of got wheeled out," Toby ...

Jessie Thompson, a 36-year-old mother of two in Chicago, is reminded of the COVID-19 pandemic every day. Sometimes it happens when she picks up her children from day care and then lets them romp around at a neighborhood park on the way home. Other times, it's when she gets out the shower at 7 a.m. after a weekday workout.