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Ryan Berry, right, leads Everett NewGuild members through a chant during the second day of their strike on Tuesday, June 25, 2024 in Everett, Washington. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)

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Everett Herald strike continues, as owners aim to resolve layoffs

Carpenter Media Group hoped to sit down with striking workers by the end of the week, to bargain…

Everett NewsGuild members cheer as a passing car honks in support of their strike on Monday, June 24, 2024 in Everett, Washington. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)

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Everett Herald newsroom strikes amid layoffs

“We hope that people who live in these communities can see our passion, because it’s there,” said Sophia…

A house fire seriously injured two people Friday evening, June 14, in Edmonds, Washington. (Courtesy of South County Fire.)

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1 killed, 1 with life-threatening injuries in Edmonds house fire

South County Fire crews pulled the man and woman from the burning home around 6 p.m. Friday, near…

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5 Snohomish County sisters accused of $1M fraud scheme

For two years, the women used online return postage to get gift cards, then returned the physical items…

Marysville

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Marysville high school office manager charged with sex abuse of student

Carmen Phillips, 37, sent explicit messages to a teen at Heritage High School, then took him to a…

Bothell

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Charges: ‘Reckless’ high-speed crash killed man, hurt infant near Bothell

Kona Stephan Lee Ah Ping Tom, now 36, was going double the speed limit when he slammed into…

Traffic moves along Highway 526 in front of Boeing’s Everett Production Facility on Nov. 28, 2022, in Everett, Washington. (Olivia Vanni / Sound Publishing)

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Everett transgender mechanic alleges Boeing treated her ‘like a zoo animal’

For years, Boeing allowed toxicity “to fester and grow” at its Everett factory, according to Rachel Rasmussen, an…

A Snohomish County sheriff’s deputy walks down a hill toward 112th Street SW on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024 in Everett, Washington. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)

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Everett police in standoff with gunman who fired at officers

Officers reported an exchange of gunfire shortly before 2 p.m. Wednesday, at a home on Paine Field Way.

Dr. J. Matthew Lacy along the wall of unsolved cold cases at the Snohomish County Medical Examiner's office on Dec. 4, 2019 in Everett, Wash. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)

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Snohomish County medical examiner moving to King County job

Dr. J. Matthew Lacy’s impressive resume and “deeply humane leadership qualities” got him the job as the new…

A fire at the Brightwater Treatment Plant in Woodinville, Washington on Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2023. (Annie Barker / The Herald)

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Fire breaks out in underground pipes at Brightwater Treatment Plant

Workers were fusing plastic piping, sparking a fire that shot down pipes. Dozens of firefighters rushed to the…

Everett

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Accountant guilty of stealing $2.5M from Everett manufacturer

Christin Guillory’s scheme lasted 10 years, with millions of dollars funneled through fake Square and PayPal accounts.

A school photo of Gary Lee Haynie as a child, left, courtesy of his cousin Hal Thayne. Artist Natalie Murry's drawing based on Haynie's remains, right, courtesy of Snohomish County Medical Examiner's Office. Haynie was identified as The Spencer Island John, a man who's body was found north of Everett in January 1979.

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‘Relief and closure’ for family of Spencer Island John Doe from 1979

Gary Lee Haynie was identified through forensic genealogy. How he ended up dead in Snohomish River mudflats remains…

Jay Cook (left) and Tanya Van Cuylenborg of Vancouver Island were found slain in Washington in 1987.

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High court reinstates guilty verdicts in 1987 murders of Canadian couple

The state Supreme Court announced a 9-0 ruling on alleged juror bias Thursday in the double murder case…

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Pulitzer winner’s new book digs into Snohomish County cold case killings

The Everett library will host a talk with Edward Humes on “The Forever Witness,” about a double murder…

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42 years later, authorities unmask identity of ‘Stilly Doe’

Advances in DNA technology, paired with forensic genealogy research, helped identify Othaniel Philip Ames, 82, a dairy farmer.

Michelle Koski (Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office)

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Genealogy helps crack 1990 Snohomish County homicide of Seattle teen

Michelle Koski was 17. Her body was recovered near Maltby. A Seattle neighbor was identified as the suspect…

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A brief timeline of Pacific Northwest boarding schools

The Tulalip Indian School had roots as a Catholic mission founded in 1857. Its history is intertwined with…

Detective Jim Scharf, left, of Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office with David Mittelman, CEO of Othram Inc. announces the identification on two cold cases Thursday afternoon in the Snohomish County Courthouse in Everett, Washington on June 16, 2022. (Kevin Clark / The Herald)

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Forensic genealogy cracks Snohomish County cold cases from 1977, 1981

Alice Williams’ skull was found in woods near Skykomish. Blaine Has Tricks’ remains were crushed in a Tulalip…

William Talbott II pleads his innocence before a judge sentences him to life with out parole at the Snohomish County Courthouse on Wednesday, July 24, 2019 in Everett, Wash. A Snohomish County judge sentenced William Talbott II to life in prison without parole, for murdering a young Canadian couple in 1987. (Andy Bronson / The Herald)

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1987 slaying of Canadian couple heads to state Supreme Court

Justices granted a motion Wednesday to review William Talbott’s overturned conviction in a landmark forensic genealogy case.

Rick Thurmer's completed his life-long goal of summiting the seven highest summits on seven continents.  (Kevin Clark / The Herald)

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Mukilteo climber who summited peaks worldwide dies in Cascades

Dr. Richard Thurmer had gone solo hiking over the weekend on Dragontail Peak. His body was recovered from…