FILE--This undated artist sketch shows the skyjacker known as D.B. Cooper from recollections of the passengers and crew of a Northwest Airlines jet he hijacked between Portland and Seattle on Thanksgiving eve in 1971. Nearly 50 years after skyjacker D.B. Cooper vanished out the back of a Boeing 727 into freezing Northwest rain, wearing a business suit, a parachute and a pack with $200,000 in cash, a crime historian is conducting a dig on the banks of the Columbia River in Vancouver, Washington, in search of evidence. (AP-Photo/File)

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Crime historian conducts dig for D.B. Cooper case evidence

Eric Ulis and his crew are searching near to where a boy found $6,000 of Cooper’s ransom money…

Ketchikan Volunteer Rescue Squad personnel land and disembark from a Hughes 369D helicopter on Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021, at Temsco Helicopters Inc in Ketchikan, Alaska. The KVRS, U.S. Coast Guard, Alaska State Troopers and U.S. Forest Service responded to a radio beacon alert from a downed Southeast Aviation de Havilland Beaver float plane that was carrying five passengers from the Holland America Line cruise ship Nieuw Amsterdam, according to Coast Guard, Holland America and KVRS information. The sightseeing plane crashed Thursday in southeast Alaska, killing all six people on board, the U.S. Coast Guard said.  (Dustin Safranek/Ketchikan Daily News via AP)

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Reduced visibility hampers Alaska plane wreckage effort

Six people died when the sightseeing tour of Misty Fjords National Monument crashed.

FILE - In this June 8, 2021, file photo, a car approaches one of the few lanes open at the Peace Arch border crossing into the U.S. in Blaine, Wash. Canada is lifting its prohibition Monday, Aug. 9 on Americans crossing the border to shop, vacation or visit, but the United States is keeping similar restrictions in place for Canadians. The reopening is part of a bumpy return to normalcy from COVID-19 travel bans.  (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

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Canada begins allowing vaccinated US citizens to visit again

But the United States is keeping its restrictions in place for Canadians.

Violent protesters, loyal to President Donald Trump, storm the Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

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2 Seattle cops who were at U.S. Capitol in January are fired

Seattle Police Chief Adrian Diaz said they crossed police barriers at “a violent, criminal riot.”

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3 teens killed, 4 hurt in vehicle rollover near Yakima

A truck driver lost control after cresting a hill and four teens were ejected from the vehicle.

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Seattle police fatally shoot man while serving a warrant

Officers shot and killed a 22-year-old man on Thursday while serving a warrant in a homicide case.

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Legal memo says reform law doesn’t prevent police response

Some police agencies signaled their intent to stop responding to calls for non-criminal activities.

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Washington Supreme Court to hear Seattle police public records case

The court will hear a case involving officers who were in Washington, D.C., during the Capitol riot.

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King County Sheriff: Staff must work remotely amid violence

It is unsafe around the courthouse, parking garage, administrative building jail in downtown Seattle.

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Lighting starts 9 small fires across North Central Washington

A second potentially dangerous weather system is moving into the region.

FILE - This Nov. 13, 2018 file photo a South Lake Union streetcar with an advertisement for Amazon.com's same-day delivery service passes by an Amazon office building in Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood. Amazon has pushed back its return-to-office date for tech and corporate workers until January 2022 as COVID-19 cases surge nationally due to the delta variant. The Seattle Times reported on the tech giant's delay in returning to offices from internal messages. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren,File)

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Amazon pushes back return to office to January due to COVID

Amazon has pushed back its return-to-office date for workers until January as COVID-19 cases surge.

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Colvilles sue federal government over 2015 wildfire damage

The Tribes say parts of the reservation in northeastern Washington were turned into a “moonscape.”

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Brewster farm to pay more than $2 million after COVID deaths

It’s one of the largest workplace safety and health fines in state history.

FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2019, file photo, Bill and Melinda French Gates pose together in Kirkland, Wash.  The divorce of Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates has been finalized. The Microsoft co-founder and his wife announced in May 2021 they were ending their 27-year marriage and on Monday, Aug. 2,  a King County Superior Court judge signed the dissolution decree. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

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Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates finalize their divorce

The two have said they will continue to work together as co-chairs of their foundation.

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Southern Resident orca near Washington state presumed dead

The cause of death for the pod’s oldest male, known as Cappuccino or K21, is still undetermined.

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Wildfire burning in North Cascades park near Canadian border

The Bear Creek Fire is estimated to have burned about 150 acres.

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Washington hospitals ‘quite full’ amid surge in COVID-19 cases

The unvaccinated continue to make up nearly all of the new cases, hospitalizations and deaths.

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Woman pleads guilty to terror charge in train track incident

She and another are accused of putting a shunt on railroad tracks near Bellingham.

A group of candidates in the race for Mayor of Seattle takes part in a forum focused on arts and culture, Thursday, July 22, 2021 at the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute in Seattle. The city's mayoral primary election will be held on Tuesday, Aug. 3. (Dean Rutz/The Seattle Times via AP)

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Seattle mayoral primary will be test of progressive movement

Policing, equity, disorder and homelessness are animating Tuesday’s election in the Emerald City.

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Diver’s body found near West Seattle site woman went missing

The Seattle Fire Department said private divers recovered the body at Seacrest Cove.