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The King County Prosecutor’s Office does not typically request criminal investigations by law enforcement, but outgoing Prosecutor Dan Satterberg is making an exception in the case of the missing text messages of Seattle’s former mayor. “On July 28, Dan Satterberg asked King County Sheriff Cole-Tindall to put together a structured investigation into the missing text messages, and we’ve been told t...

Portland continues to be in the grips of deadly crime, despite millions of dollars invested in community-based prevention programs, police specialty teams, and a recently declared state of emergency. Mayor Ted Wheeler and his designee to stop the scourge of violence, Mike Myers, said they are committed to slowing the violence and then reversing the deadly trend within the next 12 months. LIKE &amp...

Two members of the "Squad" of progressive House lawmakers raked in tens of thousands of dollars in rental income in 2021 while leveraging their power as members of Congress in an attempt to cancel rent and mortgage payments nationwide. LIKE & SUBSCRIBE for new videos everyday. https://bit.ly/3KBUDSK Support the show 🛍️ Merch - https://Store. ReasonableTV.com/ 🌟 Go PREMIUM with Reaso...

Multnomah County sheriff’s deputies seized about 4 ounces of multi-colored fentanyl powder from a safe in a Northeast Portland apartment last week, prompting a public safety warning Tuesday that the potentially deadly rainbow-colored chunks of powder can be easily mistaken by children for candy. LIKE & SUBSCRIBE for new videos everyday. https://bit.ly/3KBUDSK Support the show 🛍️ Merch - https:...

Downtown Portland is recovering slower than other cities, researchers from University of California Berkeley found after studying GPS data from cell phones. The data was taken from 2019 and studied all the way up until this year. Out of 62 cities, Portland came in at No. 60. Researchers say downtown Portland only has 41% of the activity it did in 2019.  LIKE & SUBSCRIBE for new videos everyday...

For sale signs line what were once sought-after neighborhoods in North Portland. Many families are selling their homes due to an increase in violence and homeless camps in that area. “It makes you not feel that great about living here,” said Greg Dilkes, who has lived in North Portland for 30 years. “It makes living in the neighborhood harder, not as congenial as it could be.”  LIKE & SUBSCRIB...

Dan Price, the so-called “Best Boss in America,” resigned as chief executive of Seattle-based Gravity Payments on Wednesday, saying that his “presence has become a distraction” and that he would “focus full time on fighting false accusations made against me.” A day later, the timing of his departure appeared not to have been a coincidence. It turns out Price announced his resignation the same day...

A murder suspect on the run from police in Georgia was arrested Friday after he called 911 to complain about his McDonald’s fries being too cold. Antoine Sims, 24, entered into a dispute with McDonald’s staff in Kennesaw, Georgia that resulted in both him and management calling the police. When officers arrived at the scene, they discovered Sims had an outstanding warrant for failure to appear in...

Citing a rash of thefts that have plagued the location, a Trader Joe's grocery store in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood has announced that it will stop selling liquor in an effort to curb the crime. The manager of the store, located on Madison Street, says the site will stop selling hard liquor but will continue to sell wine and beer. Store officials did not provide details about any...

Seattle’s “One Seattle Homelessness Action Plan” quarter two results show that work towards its goal of housing the homeless isn't keeping pace with the actual problem. Mayor Bruce Harrell launched the action plan website in May to provide transparent details of his office’s approach to the city’s homelessness crisis.  “Our goal is to ensure all Seattle residents have access to shelter – make...

Hotel owners in Los Angeles are becoming increasingly worried as residents are expected to vote on a proposal that would mandate housing the homeless in vacant rooms across the city.  President of the Northeast Los Angeles Hotel Owners Association Ray Patel joined "America's Newsroom" on Tuesday to discuss his concern surrounding the policy and the impact it could have on the touris...

Progressive Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon is facing mounting efforts to oust him amid outrage that his “reckless” policies left a violent gangbanger free to gun down two cops. The woke prosecutor — already facing recall efforts — was blamed for cop-killer Justin Flores, 35, being free when he gunned down El Monte police Cpl. Michael Paredes and Officer Joseph Santana on Tuesday. LIKE...

A months-long investigation by the Beaverton Police Department may have completely dismantled a local organized crime ring responsible for a large portion of catalytic converter thefts up and down the West Coast, police said Thursday. Two alleged ringleaders and at least 12 of their suspected accomplices were indicted July 29 by a Washington County grand jury on dozens of aggravated theft, rackete...

For three years, Natomas Unified School District in Sacramento permitted an avowed socialist and member of the local “antifa” chapter to teach AP American Government at Inderkum High School. Last September the Globe reported on teacher Gabriel Gipe, who proudly admitted to politically indoctrinating his students in Marxism/Communism, in undercover Project Veritas video. KCRA now reports Gipe “has...

A Portland Cracker Barrel abruptly shut down this week, with employees reporting that the closure is due to security issues in the area.  "There's a lot of theft," local man Steve Goodwin told KGW when news of the closure spread in town. "People on drugs." Cracker Barrel confirmed to Fox News Digital on Wednesday that its location at the Jantzen Beach mall shuttered, expla...

With crime raging across the state, Gov. Kathy Hochul just showed her true priorities by signing legislation to purge the word “inmate” from state law. It’s not merely abuse of the English language to substitute the ridiculously cumbersome “incarcerated person” for a perfectly fine term (that’s even gender-neutral!). It’s a pander to the same sentiments that gave us the botched criminal-justice “r...

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler said his recent emergency declaration may provide the best chance yet at intervening in the ongoing violence in Portland. The program, Safer Summer PDX, will target potential shooters and is funded with $2.4 million in taxpayer money. Despite millions in intervention and prevention investments since April 2021 and several new police teams focused on violence, shootings h...

Amazon is the latest business to close one of its stores over "safety concerns" in downtown Seattle. Amazon is temporarily closing its Amazon Go store at Fourth Avenue and Pike Street for "the safety of our store employees, customers, and third-party vendors." Six other Amazon Go stores throughout Seattle have not been slated to close and will remain open. Employees from the Fo...

The newest bridge in Los Angeles, a $588-million architectural marvel with views of the downtown skyline, opened to great fanfare on July 10. It has already been closed, to great dismay, several times since then amid chaos and collisions. The 6th Street Viaduct — which soars over the concrete-lined Los Angeles River to connect downtown to the historic Eastside — quickly became a hotspot for street...

The owner of a home in Southeast Portland is trying to sell the property but says that he can’t — ever since some strangers moved in and refused to leave. It started back in January when the homeowner left town and the property was empty. “Some guys, they just basically walked into the property, took it over,” said Nathan Jones, a realtor with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices. Jones took over the l...

Back on Saturday, July 16 members of Antifa followed through on vows to try disrupting a gathering at the HonkyTonk Bar in Salem, Oregon. The result of the far-left group’s actions is what some are predicting to be a war between them and several motorcycle clubs throughout Oregon. If that sounds to you like a confrontation which would be wise to back away from, you’re not alone. What happens next...

These days, it feels like many stores are fortresses. Most of the products on the drug store shelf are behind lock and key, even everyday items such as deodorant, toothpaste, candy, dish detergent, soap and aluminum foil. Manufacturers that supply lock cases and devices to chain stores have seen their businesses boom. Walgreens and Rite Aid have said that the problem of organized retail crime — ri...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Monday rejected calls from a Brooklyn bishop who was robbed mid-sermon of $1 million in jewelry for special gun permits for members of clergy.  During an unrelated press conference announcing the expansion of the city’s speed camera program, Adams listened to a reporter’s question about Bishop Lamor Miller-Whitehead's recent call for pastors and other members...

Business and property owners in Seattle are installing 1-ton concrete blocks on city streets to prevent RVs and homeless encampments from forming or returning to an area. "Individual businesses and residents are putting ecology blocks out as taking matters in their own hands because if they call the city and say there are RVs out in front of their business or out in front of their home, they...

Washington Post columnist Megan McArdle dismissed the semantics debate over whether the U.S. was officially in a recession and warned Democrats that such "word churn" about the state of the economy was not an effective political strategy.  In her Friday piece, titled, "Enough with the ‘is this a recession?’ blather," McArdle began by asking, "Are we in a recession? Does it...