The Mariners haven't been the playoffs since 2001. So how does one prep for a victory party? Great spot feature reporting by Adam Jude seattletimes.com/sports/mariner…

Six women accused a Seattle hip-hop artist of sex trafficking. Police knew for years but “did virtually nothing,” they claim. Investigation from Rebecca Moss and Ashley Hiruko: seattletimes.com/seattle-news/t…

BREAKING: Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez has defeated Republican Joe Kent in Washington's 3rd Congressional District. st.news/3UBqdVU

Wrong journalist Jonathan Martin. I think you mean this one Jonathan Martin

THREAD Consider this a plea to reporters. We MUST do better when it comes to in-custody deaths. Let's start with this press release issued by King County, Washington back in April. Seems fairly simple right? 1/

So I requested records from this private special education school that only accepts students from public districts, whose tuition is paid for by taxpayers. They rejected the request, and we sued. A judge agreed the school is acting as a public agency. seattletimes.com/seattle-news/t…

New: parents go to extraordinary lengths to get districts to pay for residential special ed schools. In the 2020-21 school year, at least 15 students in WA got placements that cost more than $300,000. W/ ⁦Lulu Ramadan⁩ ⁦⁦ProPublica⁩ seattletimes.com/seattle-news/t…

"The lawsuit cited Seattle Times coverage of the issue, which revealed a number of issues in the jail resulting from severe understaffing, pandemic restrictions on visitation and flawed bunk designs that heightened suicide risks." Nice work by my teammate Sydney Brownstone

How Snapchat's tech is complicating a sexual abuse investigation at a Seattle-area high school via Patrick Malone seattletimes.com/seattle-news/t…

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🧵Carrie Davidson has chased after every scrap of information about her great-grandmother’s life, searching for a missing piece of her family legacy. projects.seattletimes.com/2023/local/los…

UW regents just scheduled a special meeting tonight, an executive session to discuss legal issues. The end of the #pac12? washington.edu/regents/meetin…

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“Lost Patients,” our podcast about what has gone wrong in society’s treatment of serious mental illness is: - The No. 1 documentary podcast on Apple Podcasts - In the top 10 “society and culture” podcasts - Among the top 50 podcasts overall

It's World Press Freedom Day. Evan Gershkovich, has had his freedom deprived for more than 400 days, simply for doing his job as a reporter. He is sitting in a Russian prison instead of chronicling events outside of it. We cannot say it loud enough: Free Evan. #IStandWithEvan

Some monsters are real. Just ask Saylor. seattletimes.com/nation-world/a…

New: Ken Paxton has repeatedly used laws that are supposed to protect people from fraudulent or deceptive practices to pursue entities he disagrees with politically, including hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and LGBTQ+ groups. propub.li/3Vmdx7W

As cities across the country search for ways to keep people with mental illness out of the criminal justice system, a WA law bounces people in crisis from hospitals to jail, a Seattle Times and Marshall Project investigation found. st.news/45jCBjy