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Seattle Police officers working with stores involved the city’s Retail Theft Program conducted a citywide shoplifting emphasis on Thursday that yielded 49 arrests. Eight businesses, including major brands like Home Depot, Lowe's, Target and Fred Meyer, participated in the undercover operations. The emphasis was part of the Mayor’s "Operation New Day" which is intended to focus on cr...

Hunter Biden is apparently spending his father's presidency living in luxury in Malibu -- and so is his taxpayer-funded security detail. The Secret Service detail protecting the president's controversial son has been paying more than $30,000 a month to rent out a swanky Malibu, California, mansion for nearly a year, sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News. The agency responsible f...

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) sparked outrage among a crowd of homeless Americans late last week when she told them to 'go home' during a tense confrontation in Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Times, which reported on the incident, claimed the the 83-year-old progressive congresswoman tried to stop the outlet from publishing the story by warning its investigative reporter they would 'h...

Washington is committing to going green as the state passed legislation to only allow the sale of electric cars beginning in 2030. The move is part of a larger climate change plan that focuses on overhauling the state’s transportation system.  Washington state lawmakers passed “Move Ahead Washington,” a package that includes major shifts to move the state’s transportation system to a cleaner, more...

A 13-year-old Seattle boy watched his father who was suffering from cardiac arrest die while waiting more than 20 minutes for help to arrive - in a tragedy that critics say was caused by a shortage of cops and medical personnel staff resulting from the woke mayor's vaccine mandates and defund the police movement.  The unidentified boy called 911 earlier this month when his 45-year-old father...

Wonders never cease. First the New York Times. Then CNN. Now the Washington Post has caught up with the Hunter Biden laptop story — only 18 months after the New York Post broke the scandal, and too late for the 2020 election. But now, after our story was censored by Big Tech and dismissed as “Russian disinformation” by Democratic prevaricator Adam Schiff, and 51 former spooks led by former CIA Dir...

The population of Multnomah County fell by 12,494 people last year, the largest decline of any county in the larger Portland region, according to U.S. Census figures released Thursday, March 24. Multnomah County’s population declined by 1.5% compared to an overall 0.2% decrease for the seven-county region that includes Clark County in Washington. Portland is the largest city in Multnomah County. T...

Violent crime in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood is up, according to the latest Seattle police data from its crime dashboard. But the latest numbers don’t even capture the recent string of shootings in about a half-mile area of Ballard in March. There have been at least four recent shooting incidents, with three that ended with someone shot. Meanwhile, businesses are also coping with property crime...

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a bill into law Wednesday banning transgender girls and women from playing on female sports teams, cementing the state as the the 13th nationwide to enact such a measure.  As he signed the “Save Women’s Sports Act,” Stitt was surrounded by young girls, female athletes and other conservative lawmakers holding signs that read “Save women's sports.” He said that...

There is a push across the country, including in western Washington, to reform the cash bail system through nonprofit groups that post bail for those who can’t afford it. These groups are drawing criticism from victim advocates and the crime victims they serve. There are approximately 100 charitable bail organizations in the country, including the Seattle-based Northwest Community Bail Fund (NCBF)...

Salem police have arrested 24-year-old Enrique Rodriguez, Jr., the driver who crashed into a homeless camp early Sunday morning, killing four people and injuring two others. Rodriguez was booked at Marion County Jail and is facing 14 criminal charges, including four counts of first-degree manslaughter and six counts of reckless endangerment. Police responded to the scene of the crash near Front an...

Disney is scrubbing the use of "ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls" from its theme parks to make them more welcoming, a company executive said in a video posted online. Vivian Ware, Disney's diversity and inclusion manager, made the remarks in a video posted to Twitter Tuesday by writer Christopher F. Rufo. The video comes as the entertainment giant has found itself in the middle...

A famed British historian has hit out at 'moronic' Washington National Archives staff who decided to erect a 'trigger warning' next to the Declaration of Independence for fears its 'outdated' content could cause offence. Professor Andrew Roberts said that a rare copy of the 18th century document, which represents the founding papers of the United States, is now adorne...

Mayor Eric Adams unveiled a shocking photo of a homeless encampment littered with around 500 used syringes as he vowed Wednesday to continue cracking down on makeshift shelters across the city. “Look at this condition!” a clearly exasperated Adams said during a news conference at City Hall. “And I’m supposed to act like I don’t see this?” The unidentified location is among 244 sites where homeless...

A troublesome homeless camp that’s been the source of several violent crimes near Seattle’s Little Saigon neighborhood was cleared again on Friday. It’s part of a campaign led by the Mayor’s office to remove encampments that have been declared a public safety hazard and an obstruction. About 50 structures and tents had been erected on a hillside at 10th Avenue South and Dearborn Street over the la...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed the Parental Rights in Education bill, dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill by critics. The bill bans classroom instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity in kindergarten through third grade and states that any instruction on those topics cannot occur "in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students i...

On 24 March last year, hundreds of police officers descended on Los Angeles’ Echo Park Lake to evict the community of unhoused residents that had swelled there during the pandemic. After police arrested protesters opposing the evictions and cleared the encampment at the popular city park, the local councilman pushing for the sweep said his office had found “housing solutions” for roughly 200 of th...

A thief who smashed his way into jewelry store got surprised by the owner, who had spent the night in the shop after dealing with a series of recent break-in attempts. The latest incident was the fourth time in three weeks MK Byrne has had to call police. She said there’s not enough officers to respond to all the crime and felt it was up to her to protect her store. The hand-crafted jewelry she ma...

As spring budget season begins, city bureaus are asking the Portland City Council to fund the projects they deem most necessary. One of the requests: Protect City Hall from gun violence by making the century-old building partly bulletproof. The city’s Office of Management and Finance is requesting $2.2 million in one-time general funding to increase security at City Hall, asserting that “the measu...

Amid staffing challenges, the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) is ramping up efforts to hire more officers. In a press conference Wednesday, Chief Chuck Lovell said the bureau is investing in recruitment efforts to bring in the city's next generation of officers.  PPB is down to a historic low of about 780 sworn officers. Last week, Mayor Ted Wheeler said his plan to address staffing issues by re...

More than half of people removed from encampments by the city of Seattle rejected the offer of shelter in 2021, according to a report from PubliCola. According to the report, the city's Homelessness Outreach and Provider Ecosystem (HOPE) team referred 1,072 people to a shelter during the year, but only 512 people actually "enrolled" and spent at least one night there. By comparison,...

On Saturday afternoon KOMO poverty porn reporter Jonathan Choe tweeted out a soft-focus montage of a Proud Boys rally in Olympia and advertised a Q&A session the hate group planned to hold afterward as if he were talking about some kind of humanitarian organization. "THAT'S A WRAP: Proud Boys and other marchers say they will stay on the Capitol campus in Olympia for a few more hours...

Officials at Sea-Tac Airport are hoping a new pilot program will help curb the homeless crisis that's been growing inside.  The Port of Seattle Police Department (POSPD) says before the pandemic, homeless people tended to seek shelter near baggage claim and mostly at night.  Now they're moving to other nonsecure areas like ticketing and in public restrooms causing public safety concerns...

Chances are your local news affiliate has already reported on it happening in your neighborhood: criminals drilling into and draining gas tanks to steal the sweet, expensive nectar inside, leaving their victims with not only no fuel but also a hefty repair bill. It happened to one Pennsylvania woman, who said the thief stole the gas right out of her Nissan Rogue as it sat parked outside her home....

It was once routine that damning reports about the president published by The New York Times would lead nearly every news program. That is no longer the case, at least under President Biden.  The Times ran a lengthy story Wednesday diving into the Justice Department's ongoing investigation of Biden's son Hunter and how a grand jury is still collecting witness testimony and records regard...