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The former San Francisco supervisor who put his city on the path to banning itself from conducting business with over half the country is having second thoughts. Then-Supervisor Scott Weiner, now a California state senator, passed an ordinance in 2016 banning San Francisco from doing business with any company based in any state with "anti-LGBT laws" or from funding travel to any such sta...

Two Pierce County Sheriff’s Department (PCSD) deputies were shot south of Spanaway Tuesday during a SWAT operation. The 40-year-old suspect, identified as Jeremy Dayton, was shot and killed, according to a spokesperson for the Pierce County Force Investigation Team. Deputy Dominique Calata was in critical condition Tuesday night and died Wednesday, according to the PCSD. Calata, 35, has a wife and...

Chick-fil-A is causing some squawking in southern California, one of multiple locations across the U.S. where the fast-food chain is finding itself to be a victim of its own success.  In Santa Barbara, the city is close to dubbing its sole Chick-fil-A a "public nuisance" due to long drive-thru lines that often has cars filled with hungry customers backed into the street for hours at a ti...

Gangs of South American 'crime tourists' are being blamed for at least two home burglaries in California this week - as well as similar raids across the country in recent months, including sprees in Indiana, Texas, New York, Virginia, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. The criminals target wealthy neighborhoods in places with lax criminal justice laws to conduct their home burgl...

Protesters gathered outside a Nike store in downtown Portland Saturday as part of a “Global Day of Action” in a campaign to draw attention to the use of kangaroo leather in soccer cleats. In 2020, the Center for a Humane Economy launched the “Kangaroos Are Not Shoes” campaign, their effort to get Nike to stop using kangaroo leather. On Saturday, people gathered outside Nike facilities and stores i...

A federal judge last week issued a preliminary injunction blocking Oregon’s ban on so-called real estate ‘love letters,’ personal notes from prospective homebuyers to home sellers. In his court order issued last Friday, U.S. District Judge Marco A. Hernández said the law violates the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution by restricting free speech too broadly, The Oregonian/OregonLive reported....

Linda Navarre moved to Sandpoint, Idaho, from Cleveland in 1978, when the town consisted of people in the timber industry and hippies “and they all got along.” Now she barely recognizes the small resort community near the Canadian border that is quickly growing as people disenchanted with big city life move there. Many are conservatives fed up with liberal politics in blue states. “The division ge...

President Joe Biden had a crystal clear message for Russian oligarchs: We're coming for your assets. "The United States Department of Justice is assembling a dedicated task force to go after the crimes of the Russian oligarchs. We're joining with European allies to find and seize their yachts, their luxury apartments, their private jets. We're coming for your ill-begotten gains...

A jury awarded $150 million to the victims and their families in the deadly 2019 crane collapse in Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood. The jury found Northwest Tower Crane and Omega Morgan largely responsible, according to the attorney for one of the victim's families. The $150 million will be split among five victims and their families. LIKE & SUBSCRIBE for new videos everyday....

Newly elected Seattle City Attorney Ann Davison announced Tuesday a new initiative that will address frequent offenders in the city’s criminal justice system. The program aims to identify people responsible for repeat criminal activity and reduce their public safety impacts and time spend in the court system. LIKE & SUBSCRIBE for new videos everyday. https://bit.ly/3fs6dBU Support the show 🛍️...

Amazon announced on Friday that it has decided to relocate office staff in downtown Seattle due to a sustained uptick in violent crime, with other businesses in the area opting to stick with remote work for the same reason. The location that office workers are being moved from employs around 1,800 people, the company confirmed to KOMO News. However, it is currently unclear how many are being reloc...

Makeshift shelters abut busy roadways, tent cities line sidewalks, tarps cover broken-down cars, and sleeping bags are tucked in storefront doorways. The reality of the homelessness crisis in Oregon’s largest city can’t be denied. “I would be an idiot to sit here and tell you that things are better today than they were five years ago with regard to homelessness,” Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler said re...

The annual free medical clinic that was formerly held at the Key Arena, before it was bought by Amazon and renamed to the Climate Pledge Arena, will not return in full this year.  The Seattle/King County Clinic, usually scheduled during the month of October, provided vision, dental, and general medical care to hundreds of patients who were either low-income, underinsured, or homeless.  The clinic...

The story of a Portland man who has now recovered 62 stolen vehicles has taken another turn. This week, he was successful in returning a truck to its rightful owner, but this time there was an armed confrontation and it was caught on a surveillance camera. Nick Haas works on cars for a living, but due to an increase in car thefts in Portland, he’s started searching for stolen cars in his spare tim...

Seattle Mayor's police assisted homeless encampment sweeps cleaning up DT  Around 9 a.m., crews came in, cleaned up and cleared people out. A small group of people looked on during the early morning cleanup and for some, it was tough to watch. Others tell KIRO 7 the cleanup was necessary for everyone’s safety. Activists and protestors have said people need services, not sweeps that uproot the...

Americans feeling the price at the pump told Fox News that President Biden’s claim that he "can’t do much" about soaring gas prices does not add up. "That’s a bunch of bull," Chester from Kentucky said. Lynn, of South Dakota, told Fox News: "There has to be reserves here in the states, that they can release." LIKE & SUBSCRIBE for new videos everyday. https://bit.l...

As daily life gets more expensive, workers are having a harder time making ends meet. While wage growth is high by historical standards, it isn’t keeping up with the increased cost of living, which is growing at the fastest annual pace in about four decades. “Wages are up 5.1% over the past year, which is trailing the pace of inflation,” said Bankrate.com senior economic analyst Mark Hamrick. “Ind...

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says a motion will be presented in the legislature to call on Ottawa to end "pointless" COVID-19 travel measures. In a six-minute video posted to Twitter Sunday afternoon, Kenney said pre-departure COVID-19 testing requirements and vaccine mandates had served their purpose. As jurisdictions learn to live with the disease, Kenney added that the measures now hu...

In Marina di Carrara, a small Italian town on the Tuscan coast, one of the world’s biggest, newest and most expensive superyachts — called the Scheherazade — is under scrutiny by the Italian police. Almost as long as a U.S. guided-missile destroyer, it dominates the waterfront. The yacht, estimated by the website SuperYachtFan to cost about $700 million, has two helicopter decks and is studded wit...

Sean digs into his Real Estate knowledge of evictions, tenant law, prospective tenants screenings, and tenant background checks, as he discusses a new Netflix documentary, "Worst Roommate Ever" produced by Jason Blum.  The documentary surfaces a story about Jamison Bachman, a serial squatter, who targeted vulnerable tenants on Craigslist across the East Coast. Bachman avoided tenant back...

A Seattle grocery store is hoping to see more police patrols in the neighborhood after its ATM was stolen in a brazen manner. The ATM was stolen from Ken's Market on Greenwood Ave., in Seattle's Phinney Ridge neighborhood on Feb. 20. Security camera footage provided to KING 5, shows three people involved in the theft. LIKE & SUBSCRIBE for new videos everyday. https://bit.ly/3fs6dBU S...

As California cities struggle to address a homelessness and mental health crisis on their streets, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration on Thursday unveiled a proposal to push more people with severe psychiatric disorders and addiction issues into court-ordered care that includes medication and housing. The proposal, which Newsom is calling the Community Assistance, Recovery and Empowerment Court, i...

Oakland is often touted as the “bright side of the Bay” because of its sunny skies and moderate year round temperatures. But a rise in violent crime has cast a dark shadow on the 430,000 people who call Oakland home. Your chance of being a victim of violent crime in Oakland, California is 1 in 77, nearly three times higher than the state of California at large, according to a statistical analysis...

Many people live in the area of SE 94th and Pardee, not far from Portland’s Lents Park. Some live in homes. Some live in tents. Fernando is one of those who live under tents and tarps along that stretch. The night before KOIN 6 News went to the area, Fernando was burning a candle to keep warm. His tent caught on fire. He and his girlfriend barely escaped. “I woke up to the smoke,” Fernando said. “...

Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne are done with L.A. ... in fact, they're bailing from the U.S. Ozzy and Sharon are moving to the U.K. ... Ozzy told The Mirror it's because the tax rate is too high.  He wasn't specific if it was the CA tax rate (which is insanely high), the U.S. tax rate or both. It's a big move ... they've lived in Bev Hills for a quarter-century. LIKE & SUBSC...