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Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced the creation of the Organized Retail Crime Theft Task Force on Thursday. The Task Force will focus on sophisticated, organized crime rings and work to stop them. According to the Retail Industry Leaders Association, organized theft cost Washington’s retailers around $2.7 billion last year. Given the magnitude of losses, Ferguson says it’s vital th...

A passenger with a ticket on an oversold Delta flight said he and other passengers were offered $10,000 to give up their seats and travel at a later date, according to a report in Inc. magazine. Inc. tech columnist Jason Aten said he and his family recently traveled on a Delta Air Lines flight to Minneapolis, and that passengers on the oversold flight were offered a whopping $10,000 in cash — not...

A six-time felon who allegedly bragged that he steals “for a living” was arrested for busting a photographer’s camera just moments after he was released from jail on a robbery charge on Friday. A Manhattan Criminal Court judge promptly released him from jail yet again the following day, the New York Post. Laron Mack, 50, has at least 200 prior arrests on his record, according to WNYW. LIKE & S...

A business owner in Chicago, Illinois tells Fox News Digital that skyrocketing crime in the city forced him to quit doing business in town adding to the list of individuals and businesses that have fled Illinois over the past couple of years amid surging crime. Gary Rabine, founder of the Rabine Group and owner of 13 businesses, told Fox News Digital this week that surging crime in Chicago was a d...

Mayor Ted Wheeler plans to issue an emergency declaration to summon extra help to curb gun violence as summer gets underway. He’s also assembled a team of people who will work out of the city’s new Community Safety Division to try to better coordinate community-based outreach with police enforcement efforts for an initiative called Safer Summer PDX. LIKE & SUBSCRIBE for new videos everyday. ht...

A man was arrested Monday after attempting to shoplift 11 cases of beer from Safeway, according to the Seattle Police Department. At about 9:38 a.m. on June 27, officers responded to a report of a man walking into a Safeway with his own cart. The incident report did not specify which Safeway. According to the report, the man loaded 11 cases of beer onto his cart and attempted to leave the store. L...

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that a former Washington state high school football coach had a right to pray on the field immediately after games.  The 6-3 ruling was a victory for Joseph Kennedy, who claimed that the Bremerton School District violated his religious freedom by telling him he couldn’t pray so publicly after the games. The district said it was trying to avoid the appearance that the...

If there’s one place that we’ve come to know for their rioting, it’s Portland, Oregon, with maybe Seattle, Washington as a close second. Antifa in Portland has continued their violence in May, attacking a GOP gubernatorial campaign rally and injuring two people. So of course, you could count on the rioters that we’ve seen come out over the past few years going into full destruction mode over the S...

Catalytic converter thefts are rising in Washington state with a new report indicating a 10,000 percent jump in cases logged since 2019. According to new data released from Been Verified, Washington is now the leading state with the highest number of catalytic converter thefts in the nation. The report shows in the first four months of 2022, there were 1,533 thefts. LIKE & SUBSCRIBE for new vi...

Berkeley, Calif., has removed more than 75 tons of garbage, human waste, and drug paraphernalia from homeless camps since September, according to the city's latest budget proposal. The 2023-2024 budget describes the work of Berkeley's Homeless Response Team, which it says "performed at least weekly garbage collection and debris removal from encampments across the City, removing over...

Joe Biden has been successful in keeping his approval rating out of the 20% margins. Barely, as polls frequently have put him into the 30s. Kamala Harris, as vice president, has been getting approval ratings even lower than Biden's, dipping occasionally into the 20s. But perhaps one of the clearest confirmations of her vast talent for unpopularity came this week with word that the Democratic...

A man accused of wrestling a bike away from a cyclists and riding it onto Interstate 5 last week, has been charged. On Wednesday, the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office charged Jason Lis with assault in the third degree and theft in the first degree. His bail was set at $25,000. According to court documents, Lis was apparently upset about not being allowed on a bus near 7th Ave NE and...

Americans largely avoided CNN during Father’s Day weekend as the network continued to hemorrhage support from the demographic most coveted by advertisers.  CNN managed only 67,000 average viewers between ages 25-54 from June 18-19 for its smallest weekend audience since 2000 in the category that pays the bills. It was the network’s third-worst performance in the critical demo during a weekend sinc...

A high-level aide to former Los Angeles City Councilman Jose Huizar gave jurors a vivid look at the pay-to-play schemes allegedly pursued by his boss, describing paper bags filled with bribe money and demands for concert tickets and other gifts. George Esparza, appearing Friday in the first of three trials dealing with the Huizar case, told jurors that he took part in two “money drops” in 2017, pi...

A Missouri lawsuit adds a new twist to the kind of “bodily harm” in a car that’s covered by insurance. This week, a three-judge panel of the state’s Court of Appeals, Western District, affirmed a $5.2 million settlement by a woman who caught a sexually transmitted disease from her former boyfriend in his car. The woman, identified in court documents as M.O., said she contracted HPV, the human papi...

Catalytic converter thefts are rising in Washington state with a new report indicating a 10,000 percent jump in cases logged since 2019. According to new data released from Been Verified, Washington is now the leading state with the highest number of catalytic converter thefts in the nation. The report shows in the first four months of 2022, there were 1,533 thefts. LIKE & SUBSCRIBE for new vi...

The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a New York gun law enacted more than a century ago that places restrictions on carrying a concealed handgun outside the home – an opinion marking the widest expansion of gun rights in a decade. “Because the State of New York issues public-carry licenses only when an applicant demonstrates a special need for self-defense, we conclude that the State’s licens...

A bullet went through a window of the Portland Spirit while passengers were on board Monday, according to Portland police. Officers responded to the shooting at around 9:10 p.m. Monday evening. Portland police said the vessel was going north on the Willamette River between the Burnside Bridge and the Morrison Bridge when the bullet came through an east-facing window. LIKE & SUBSCRIBE for new v...

Just before he sentenced Malik Fard Muhammad, a federal judge Tuesday wanted to understand what drove the 25-year-old man to hurl Molotov cocktails at police in Portland and break windows during mass protests in the city’s downtown in 2020. “Everybody wants to know what happened with you?” U.S. District Judge Marco A. Hernandez asked. “How did this happen?” Muhammad, who traveled with his girlfrie...

A Seattle resident critically injured by a driver during a Black Lives Matter demonstration has filed a lawsuit against the state, city and suspected driver. Dawit Kelete is accused of hitting two protesters, killing one of them, after driving around roadway barricades and taking an offramp onto Interstate 5 on July 4, 2020. The King County Superior Court lawsuit filed by Diaz Love — who sustained...

The city of Seattle has settled with the father of the 19-year-old man killed near the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) paying him $500,000. Horace Anderson, the father of Lorenzo Anderson, who was killed, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city, saying that when the police left the East Precinct during the BLM protests in 2020, they were negligent in their duties of ensuring public sa...

Caterpillar Inc., the producer of iconic yellow construction and mining equipment, is moving its headquarters to the Dallas-Fort Worth area, effectively ending its century-long history calling the state of Illinois its home. The machinery producer believes the move will help it attract new talent and improve global access to its employees, customers and dealer network due to the two major airports...

As quickly as mortgage rates are rising, the once red-hot housing market is cooling off. Home prices are still historically high, but there is concern now that they will ease up as well. All of this has people asking: Is today’s housing market in the same predicament that it was over a decade ago, when the 2007-08 crash caused the Great Recession? LIKE & SUBSCRIBE for new videos everyday. http...

The class of 2022 is making their voices heard. Graduating students at Seattle Pacific University handed the school's interim president Dr. Pete C. Menjares rainbow Pride flags in lieu of shaking his hand during Sunday's commencement ceremony in protest of the Christian school's anti-LGBTQ+ policies for employees. LIKE & SUBSCRIBE for new videos everyday. https://bit.ly/3KBUDSK...

If the famous Unidentified Amarillo Object (UAO) reappears at the Amarillo Zoo, some new security cameras can help solve the mystery that captured worldwide attention, the city of Amarillo announced in a news release. Wyze, a Seattle-based company specializing in smart home products and wireless cameras, is donating 80 Wyze Cam v3 cameras to the Amarillo Zoo. The Wyze Cam v3 is a top-seller among...