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Oct. 1—A trio of King County sheriff's deputies tasked with flying a new Bell 407GXi helicopter from northeastern Tennessee to Renton last month experienced an anxious moment when they thought they were about to be stranded in the New Mexico desert. "We landed almost out of gas, with 30 minutes of fuel on board," said Deputy Tony Mullinax, one of the pilots assigned to the sheriff's Air ...

While officials are still figuring out how much drivers will pay to cross the proposed Interstate 5 Bridge replacement, they are considering a range from $1.55 to $4.70 for a one-way trip.

DETROIT — Two candidates who hope to be the country's next vice president fielded a question during Tuesday night's debate that referenced the criminal convictions of James and Jennifer Crumbley, the parents of the Oxford High School shooter. Earlier this year, separate juries in Oakland County found the Crumbleys guilty of involuntary manslaughter after their son gunned down four classmates ...

Five weeks before the final day of voting in the U.S. presidential election, Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate represents what will probably be the last face-to-face showdown between the Democratic and Republican tickets for the White House. At the start of their nationally televised debate Tuesday night, Sen. JD Vance and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz each said that the other’s party was to ...

Spokane-area residents breathed the healthiest air this past summer since 2016.

PHILADELPHIA — Polls give Vice President Kamala Harris a slight edge in Pennsylvania over former President Donald Trump, which means the election could hinge on turnout. And in a race this tight, Philadelphia’s large Catholic base could make the statewide difference. That’s why Nuns On the Bus & Friends, or NOTB, kicked off its Vote Our Future 2024 cross-country tour in Philly on Monday. Their ...

MEXICO CITY — Claudia Sheinbaum, a climate scientist who jumped from academia to the rocky world of politics, took office Tuesday as Mexico’s first woman president. Her inauguration shatters a political glass ceiling in a nation with a long legacy of machismo, where women did not win the right to vote until 1953. “For a long time, women were sidelined,” Sheinbaum said after taking the oath of ...

Soon, 379 workers at a Lamb Weston Holdings, Inc. potato processing plant in Connell, Washington, will be out of a job.

Three family members escaped a house fire early Thursday in Spokane Valley by crawling through their basement window, the Spokane Valley Fire Department said in a news release.

ATLANTA — Nearly a decade ago, Jimmy Carter said he hoped to outlive a parasitic worm once responsible for inflicting pain on millions of people around the world every year. At the time, as the former U.S. president successfully battled cancer, Guinea worm disease had nearly been wiped out thanks in large part to the efforts of the Carter Center, the Atlanta-based nonprofit he founded with his ...

Police arrested a 15-year-old Lewis and Clark High School student Tuesday for allegedly bringing a BB gun to school.

Eastern Washington University is warning students and staff of “date rape drugs” circulating around campus, the school said in an email late Monday.