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FILE - In this Sept. 10, 2019, file photo, workers are shown in the kitchen of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Tacoma, Wash., during a media tour. After years of litigation and pandemic-related delays, jury selection is underway in a trial to determine whether GEO Group must pay minimum wage to detainees at its immigration detention center in Washington state. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

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Immigrants in Tacoma detention center fight for minimum wage

Prisoners are typically paid $1 per day for cooking, cleaning and other tasks.

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Feds: Seattle man arrested trying to join ISIS

He came to the Justice Department’s attention when members of a Seattle-area mosque reported concerns.

In this Oct. 23, 2019, photo, apples collected by amateur botanists David Benscoter and EJ Brandt of the Lost Apple Project, rest on the ground in an orchard at an abandoned homestead near Genesee, Idaho. Benscoter and Brandt recently learned that their work in the fall of 2019 has led to the rediscovery of 10 apple varieties in the Pacific Northwest that were planted by long-ago pioneers and had been thought extinct. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus)

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Apple varieties thought lost are found in Eastern Washington

Among them are the Almota, the Ivanhoe and the Eper. Others were located in Oregon and Idaho.

FILE - In this Dec. 6, 2016 file photo, a dusting of snow sits on the statue of Marcus Whitman in Walla Walla, Wash. For generations, Whitman has been viewed as an iconic figure from early Pacific Northwest history, a venerated Protestant missionary who was among 13 people killed by the Cayuse tribe near modern-day Walla Walla, Washington, in 1847. But this past year has seen the continued reappraisal of Whitman, whose actions are now viewed by many as imperialistic and destructive, and the Washington Legislature voted to remove a similar statue of Whitman from Statuary Hall in Washington, D.C. (Michael Lopez/Walla Walla Union-Bulletin via AP, File)

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Scrutiny mounts of pioneering Northwest missionary’s legacy

Long venerated as a martyr, Marcus Whitman is increasingly viewed as a destructive colonizer.

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Northwest Briefly: Man fatally shot at Seattle homeless camp

Also, a man is fatally shot outside Vancouver home, a kayaker is rescued from Puget Sound and 13…

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Arrested: Man accused of stealing $350K from state unemployment

Abidemi Rufai, 42, tried to travel from New York to Nigeria, where he likely wouldn’t be extradited.

The headquarters for the Tacoma Police Department is shown Thursday, May 27, 2021, in Tacoma, Wash., south of Seattle. The Washington state attorney general on Thursday charged two Tacoma police officers with murder and another with manslaughter in the death of Manuel Ellis, a Black man who died after repeatedly telling officers he couldn't breathe as he was being restrained on March 3, 2020, in Tacoma. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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3 Tacoma officers plead not guilty in death of Manuel Ellis

Christopher Burbank, Matthew Collins and Timothy Rankine appeared in orange jumpsuits.

FILE - In this Oct. 1, 2020, file photo, Idaho Gov. Brad Little gestures during a press conference at the Statehouse in Boise, Idaho. Gov. Little has issued an executive order repealing a mask-mandate prohibition put in place while he was out of the state by the lieutenant governor, describing her actions as a tyrannical abuse of power and an "irresponsible, self-serving political stunt." The Republican governor on Friday, May 28, 2021, rescinded Republican Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin's executive action taken Thursday. (Darin Oswald/Idaho Statesman via AP, File)

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Idaho governor nixes lieutenant governor’s mask-mandate ban

In fact, he called it a tyrannical abuse of power and an “irresponsible, self-serving political stunt.”

FILE - In this May 19, 2021, file photo, Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin announces her candidacy to become governor of Idaho at a rally on the Statehouse steps in Boise, Idaho. Lt. Gov. McGeachin on Thursday, May 27, 2021, issued an executive order banning mask mandates statewide among state political entities and schools. McGeachin is acting governor while Republican Gov. Brad Little is out of state at the Republican Governors Association conference. (Darin Oswald/Idaho Statesman via AP, File)

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Idaho lieutenant governor bans masks while governor is away

The order applies to government buildings, public schools and libraries, but not hospitals.

A sign that reads “Gone but not forgotten” is shown on a cross displayed May 27 at a memorial that has been established at the intersection in Tacoma, where Manuel “Manny” Ellis died on March 3, 2020, after he was restrained by police officers. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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Murder charges filed against Tacoma cops in Black man’s death

The final words spoken by Manuel Ellis — “I can’t breathe, sir!” — were captured by a home…

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Ex-State Patrol sergeant decertified over sex on duty

Some of the encounters were deemed nonconsensual. Also, he’s married to the patrol chief’s daughter.

FILE - This Nov. 7, 2017, file photo provided by the National Park Service shows a wolf in Yellowstone National Park, Wyo. The Humane Society and other groups filed a legal petition Wednesday, May 26, 2021, asking Interior Secretary Deb Haaland to use her emergency authority to return thousands of wolves in the region to the endangered species list. (Jacob W. Frank/National Park Service via AP, File)

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New wolf killing laws trigger push to revive US protections

A petition seeks to restore protections in all or parts of Idaho, Eastern Washington, Eastern Oregon and elsewhere.

FILE - In this May 2, 2021, file photo, Austin Kennedy, left, a Seattle Sounders season ticket holder, gets the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic in a concourse at Lumen Field prior to an MLS soccer match between the Sounders and the Los Angeles Galaxy. Air travel in the U.S. hit its highest mark since COVID-19 took hold more than 13 months ago, while European Union officials are proposing to ease restrictions on visitors to the continent as the vaccine rollout sends new cases and deaths tumbling in more affluent countries. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

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Seattle shutting down mass vaccination sites; 60% vaccinated

Clinics at Lumen Field, Rainier Beach, West Seattle and North Seattle College will close in June.

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FAA sees increase in violent conduct at airports, on planes

More than half of the reported cases involved a dispute over masks.

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Washington asks state high court to uphold tax on big banks

The 1.2% business and occupation surtax applies to banks that make more than $1 billion in annual profits.

Amber Coole, right, a medical assistant with Peninsula Community Health Services, gives Omar Rodas, left, the first shot of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, Tuesday, May 25, 2021, in the galley area of a Washington state ferry sailing from Bremerton, Wash. to Seattle. Tuesday was the first day of several dates that the vaccine would be offered to people on ferry sailings between the two cities. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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COVID vaccinations offered aboard Washington ferries

Shots will be available aboard the Seattle-Bremerton run.

One of three bobcats, that were orphaned, looks back after leaving its crate and heads back into the wild on Thursday, May 20, 2021 in Acme, Washington. The bobcats were cared for the past year at the PAWS Wildlife Center in Lynnwood. (Andy Bronson / The Herald)

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Orphaned bobcats get a second chance at life in the wild

The trio was brought to PAWS in Lynnwood, where they grew and learned to hunt. Then they were…

Kaloni Bolton, 12, died from an asthma attack after waiting over an hour for help at an urgent care center in Renton. (Kristina Williams)

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Girl dies from asthma waiting for help at Renton urgent care

The family of Kaloni Bolton, 12, wants answers to why the urgent care staff didn’t treat her.

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Federally administered vaccinations not in statewide count

More than 600,000 active-duty military and veterans live in Washington, or about 8% of the population.

FILE - In this March 3, 2020, file photo, is the Iron Gate Dam, powerhouse and spillway are on the lower Klamath River near Hornbrook, Calif. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation said this week that it won't release water into the main canal that feeds the massive Klamath Project irrigation system, marking the first time in 114 years that no water has flowed in the so-called A Canal. The agency announced last month that irrigators would get dramatically less water than usual, but a worsening drought picture means water will be completely shut off instead, the agency said. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus, File)

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Water crisis ‘couldn’t be worse’ on Oregon-California border

Irrigators have reacted with disbelief as the news of a water shut-off in the canals spread.