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Docs: Man accused of killing housemate before setting fire to home had history of domestic violence with the victim

The 45-year-old victim was also the victim in the October assault case, according to court documents.Srey was on electronic home monitoring for unlawful possession of a firearm and attempting to elude a pursuing police vehicle, according to court records.Police confirmed the other six people who lived in the home were not there at the time of the fire.Follow this link to read additional stories from KIRO 7His ankle monitor, GPS, and phone records placed him at the home at the time of the fire, a

DOJ says it’s reviewing whether any Epstein-related records were mistakenly withheld

The Justice Department said Wednesday that it was looking into whether it had improperly withheld documents from the Jeffrey Epstein files after several news organizations reported that some records involving uncorroborated accusations made by a woman against President Donald Trump were not among those released to the public.This comes as Bill and Hillary Clinton are slated to testify Thursday and Friday in a House investigation into Epstein, part of a deal with Republicans after it became clear

Instagram says it will notify parents if teens ‘repeatedly’ search for terms related to suicide

<block>Instagram said Thursday it will start alerting parents if their kids repeatedly search for terms clearly associated with suicide or self-harm. The alerts will only go to parents who are enrolled in Instagram’s parental supervision program.Instagram says it already blocks such content from showing up in teen accounts’ search results and directs people to helplines instead. The announcement comes as Meta is in the midst of two trials over harms to children. A trial underway in Los Angeles questions whether Meta’s platforms deliberately addict and harm minors. Another, in New Mexico, seeks to determine whether Meta failed to protect kids from sexual exploitation on its platforms. Thousands of families — along with school districts and government entities — have sued Meta and other social media companies claiming they deliberately design their platforms to be addictive and fail to protect kids from content that can lead to depression, eating disorders and suicide. Meta executives including CEO Mark Zuckerberg have disputed that the platforms cause addiction. During questioning by the plaintiff’s lawyer, in Los Angeles, Zuckerberg said he still agrees with a previous statement he made that the existing body of scientific work has not proved that social media causes mental health harms.The alerts will be sent via email, text or WhatsApp, depending on the parent’s contact information available, as well as a notification through the parent’s Instagram account. “Our goal is to empower parents to step in if their teen’s searches suggest they may need support. We also want to avoid sending these notifications unnecessarily, which, if done too much, could make the notifications less useful overall,” Meta said in a blog post. Meta said it is also working on similar notifications to parents about their kids’ interactions with artificial intelligence. “These will notify parents if a teen attempts to engage in certain types of conversations related to suicide or self-harm with our AI,” Meta said. “This is important work and we’ll have more to share in the coming months.”</block>

Two teens with a history of felonies arrested after Seattle shooting, SPD searching for more suspects

Two teenage boys were arrested Wednesday afternoon for their alleged involvement in a shooting in Seattle’s Mount Baker neighborhood.According to the Seattle Police Department (SPD), a shooting occurred at approximately 1 p.m. near S. Byron Street and Westmore Avenue S. When officers arrived, they found multiple shell casings at the scene. Both Franklin High School and John Muir Elementary School were placed on lockdown after the shooting.Multiple witnesses saw two teenagers running from the area of the shooting.<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Seattle police are investigating a shooting near the 3300 block of Wetmore Ave S. Police detained two subjects and recovered a gun. No injuries reported. Officers actively searching for suspect(s). Please avoid the area.— Seattle Police Department (@SeattlePD) <a href="https://twitter.com/SeattlePD/status/2026775167859568842?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">February 25, 2026</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>Officers were able to track down the fleeing suspects, two boys aged 16 and 17, and a modified handgun with an extended magazine and a “switch,” which allows the gun to become fully automatic. The two teenagers were previously convicted felons and were prohibited from having guns. They were booked into juvenile detention at the Judge Patricia H. Clark Children & Family Justice Center.SPD is looking for two more possible suspects.This is a developing story, check back for updatesFollow Frank Sumrall <a href="https://x.com/FMSumrall" target="_blank" rel="noopener">on X</a>. Send <a href="https://mynorthwest.com/contact-us">news tips here.</a>

The Latest: DOJ says it’s reviewing whether any Epstein-related records were mistakenly withheld

adults continue to view Iran’s nuclear program as a threat — but they also don’t have high trust in Trump’s judgment on the use of military force abroad.About half of U.S. adults are “extremely” or “very” concerned that Iran’s nuclear program poses a direct threat to the United States, according to the new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. About 3 in 10 are “moderately” concerned and only about 2 in 10 are “not very” concerned or “not concerned at all.”The s

Harger: Amazon keeps shrinking in Seattle. Mayor Katie Wilson hasn’t even started taxing yet

Fair warning: I got a little fired up today. This one runs long. But if you want the short version: Amazon keeps shrinking in Seattle, and Bellevue keeps winning. Mayor Katie Wilson’s tax agenda is just warming up, and Olympia is working on an income tax that could make the whole “just move to Bellevue” strategy a lot less comforting. Now, the long version…Amazon confirmed this week it won’t renew its lease on a seven-story building just blocks from its Seattle headquarters. There are estimates that roughly 1,500 employees will pack up and move. After May, it’s just another empty building in a city that already has plenty of them.Not long ago, Seattle was the crane capital of America. Three years running. More construction cranes in the skyline than in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, and Phoenix combined. You could spin around downtown and count a dozen of them from one spot.That was the boom. Look up now. This is the bust.<div class="related alignright"><div class="col_label"><h2>RELATED STORIES</h2></div><ul><li><a class="related-link" href="https://mynorthwest.com/kiro-opinion/copper-wire-theft/4208510"><img decoding="async" width="719" height="404" src="https://mynorthwest.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Untitled-design-2026-02-25T115419.714-420x236.jpg" class="sub_art" alt="Harger: Copper wire theft is crippling Sound Transit. Olympia had a fix, but they didn't vote on it" loading="lazy"></a><div class="sub_story"><h3><a class="related-link" href="https://mynorthwest.com/kiro-opinion/copper-wire-theft/4208510">Harger: Copper wire theft is crippling Sound Transit. Olympia had a fix, but they didn't vote on it</a></h3></div></li><li><a class="related-link" href="https://mynorthwest.com/kiro-opinion/millionaire-tax-income-vote/4207836"><img decoding="async" width="719" height="404" src="https://mynorthwest.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Untitled-design-2026-02-24T055439.576-420x236.jpg" class="sub_art" alt="Harger: They call it a 'millionaire tax.' It's income tax. And they won't let you vote on it." loading="lazy"></a><div class="sub_story"><h3><a class="related-link" href="https://mynorthwest.com/kiro-opinion/millionaire-tax-income-vote/4207836">Harger: They call it a 'millionaire tax.' It's income tax. And they won't let you vote on it.</a></h3></div></li><li><a class="related-link" href="https://mynorthwest.com/kiro-opinion/trump-democrats-crazy/4208422"><img decoding="async" width="719" height="404" src="https://mynorthwest.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Untitled-design-2026-02-25T065007.570-420x236.jpg" class="sub_art" alt="Harger: Trump calls Democrats 'crazy' in 2026 State of the Union address, missing a chance to unite the country" loading="lazy"></a><div class="sub_story"><h3><a class="related-link" href="https://mynorthwest.com/kiro-opinion/trump-democrats-crazy/4208422">Harger: Trump calls Democrats 'crazy' in 2026 State of the Union address, missing a chance to unite the country</a></h3></div></li></ul></div><h2>Amazon isn’t leaving the region. Just Seattle … for now</h2>Since 2020, Amazon has given up more than a million square feet of office space in Seattle. A million. And they’re not going far. They’re crossing the lake.Amazon’s Bellevue workforce is growing from 14,000 to a planned 25,000. Three downtown Bellevue towers that sat empty for more than a year are being built out right now. The region gets to keep Amazon. Seattle doesn’t.And Amazon isn’t alone. The list of Seattle tech companies moving to Bellevue and the Eastside keeps growing. TikTok went to Bellevue. OpenAI went to Bellevue. Snowflake moved hundreds of employees to the Eastside. Robinhood, Meta, Shopify, Zoom. None of them chose downtown Seattle. The reasons are always the same: taxes, crime, homelessness. One real estate executive summed it up plainly: Clean and safe is everything, and Seattle isn’t that right now.The numbers back that up. Bellevue’s office vacancy rate in 2025 was around 16%. Seattle’s downtown was already pushing 35. The market isn’t subtle.<h3>This is what “clean and safe” actually means</h3>The numbers tell part of the story. The people who work downtown tell the rest.Employees are getting harassed while walking from the parking garage to the office. Open-air drug use on Third Avenue has become part of the daily commute for anyone working downtown. Seattle’s downtown property crime rate remains among the highest of any major American city, and businesses that have stayed have spent thousands on private security just to make their lobbies feel safe. Some have given up on that, too.It’s not one incident. It’s the cumulative weight of a thousand small decisions employees make every morning. Do I want to walk two blocks from the light rail? Do I want to eat lunch outside today? Is the parking garage going to feel safe at 7 p.m.? When enough of those answers come back as “no,” remote work stops being about flexibility and becomes about avoidance. And when enough employees are avoiding downtown Seattle, the conversation with HR about relocating to Bellevue gets a lot shorter.The homelessness crisis that Seattle has spent billions trying to solve with services and sanctioned encampments has not been solved. What’s visible on Seattle’s streets is the intersection of three crises at once: housing, addiction, and mental illness. They feed each other, and treating one without addressing the others hasn’t worked. That’s a genuine tragedy for the people living it. But it is also a business reality that no amount of good intentions has managed to separate from the bottom line.<h3>What Bellevue offers sounds boring. That’s kind of the point</h3>No surprise payroll taxes. No proposals to force grocery stores to stay open against their will. Predictability. Businesses prefer boring, and Bellevue has earned its moment.But tech companies do what’s right for their bottom line. Always have. Bellevue’s cleanliness and convenience got them across the lake. That same cold calculation could take them further.Keep in mind: Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson is just seven weeks into her first term. She hasn’t even gotten to the tax proposals yet. She’s already talking about expanded payroll taxes, a $30 minimum wage, and city-owned grocery stores. Companies hear that agenda coming and they don’t argue. They don’t write op-eds. They just quietly update their address.<h3>Katie Wilson’s tax agenda is just getting started</h3>The budget math is driving all of it. Seattle faces a $125-140 million deficit next year, a hole that could balloon to $300 million or more by 2029. Wilson’s newly appointed City Budget Office director told the finance committee this week that the city is “undertaking a clear-eyed multi-year process to resolve the structural deficit” and that “all options are on the table.”In her State of the City address on Feb. 17, Wilson celebrated the $115 million haul from the existing 5% tax on compensation of more than $1 million, more than double projections. Then she told the audience: “You can expect to hear a lot more about budgets and revenue in the months ahead.”Consider yourself warned.Based on her campaign platform, which she has not walked back, city staff are already turning these ideas into draft legislation. What’s coming: a local capital gains tax projected to raise around $30 million, a vacancy tax targeting empty commercial buildings, further expansion of the JumpStart payroll tax, and possible new levies on high earners and professional services.Downtown Seattle Association CEO Jon Scholes put it plainly last Friday: “We don’t need more taxes. We need more businesses paying taxes, and we’re pushing jobs outside of our city right now.”That’s the loop Seattle can’t seem to break out of. Fewer businesses mean less tax base. A smaller tax base means a bigger deficit. A bigger deficit means more taxes. More taxes mean fewer businesses.<h3>WA income tax could follow Seattle businesses all the way to Bellevue</h3>Seattle’s been losing companies to Bellevue for years over taxes and livability. Katie Wilson’s agenda threatens to accelerate that. But Olympia is now competing with Seattle to see who can make Washington less attractive to business first.The state legislature is moving fast on a new income tax. While Wilson is drawing up vacancy taxes and payroll tax expansions at the city level, state lawmakers are working on something that would follow these companies across the lake, across the state, wherever they run.They’re calling it a millionaire’s tax, which is smart marketing. But the threshold is written into statute, not the state constitution. Any future legislature can lower it with a simple majority vote the moment the next budget shortfall arrives. And in Washington, the next budget shortfall is always arriving. The state passed a $9 billion tax increase last year and was back in a deficit hole almost immediately.So the pitch that has kept companies in Washington, no income tax, lower cost of doing business than California, stable and predictable, is now under pressure from both directions. The City of Seattle is piling on new taxes, and the state is building a framework for an income tax that could follow businesses wherever they relocate within Washington’s borders.Leaving Seattle for Bellevue used to solve the problem. Olympia is working on changing that math.The companies that moved their U-Haul across the lake are still in Washington. Texas has no income tax. Florida has no income tax. Nevada has no income tax. At some point, 15 minutes across a bridge stops being far enough.A million square feet of Seattle office space has been abandoned since 2020. Another quarter million gone in May.Seattle used to count its cranes. 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Spring cleaning heads up: Snohomish County transfer station closing for most of March

The county is resurfacing the tipping floor, which is the entire concrete slab where you dump your garbage.“You see the front loaders running by, where you dump all the garbage, and they push it into the chute,” project manager Michel Smith said. “That’s the tipping floor, and that’s what needs to get repaired.”The surface was last repaired in 2017, and it’s time for more work. The facility handled more than 250,000 tons of garbage last year, plus the ma

Hillary Clinton is testifying as part of the House investigation into Jeffrey Epstein

Robert Garcia of California, the top Democrat on the Oversight panel, said that both Republican and Democratic administrations “have failed survivors in not getting more information out to the public.” He also said he wanted to ask about Epstein’s possible ties to foreign governments.Democrats are also coming off an effort this week to confront Trump about his administration’s handling of the Epstein files by taking women who survived Epstein’s abuse as their guests to Trump&#8

Weakened by war and protests, Iran could still inflict pain in response to a US attack

But its self-described Axis of Resistance suffered major losses in the fighting that rippled across the region after Hamas’ October 2023 attack from Gaza.A global pressure pointAnother close-in target could allow Iran to inflict wider pain.Around one-fifth of all traded oil passes through the Strait of Hormuz, just off Iran’s shore. The U.S. Navy is committed to keeping it open, but Iranian attacks could disrupt trade, as the far-weaker Houthis managed to do in the Red Sea for much o

Third victims dies from wounds suffered in Rhode Island ice rink attack, police say

(AP) — A deadly shooting during a youth hockey game in Rhode Island last week has claimed a third victim, a grandfather whose daughter and grandson were also killed in the attack, authorities said Wednesday.Gerald Dorgan, who had been in critical condition, has died from his injuries, according to Pawtucket police. Pawtucket Mayor Donald Grebien said he was heartbroken that another person has died because of the shooting.“Our thoughts and prayers remain with the victim’s family, friends, and all

Judge orders changes to Columbia and Snake river dam operations to help ‘disappearing’ salmon

“The order increases the risk of harm to infrastructure, listed species, and public safety while failing to demonstrate that there will be benefits to listed salmon and steelhead,” the organization said in a written statement.However, the dams are also a main culprit behind the decline of salmon, which regional tribes consider part of their cultural and spiritual identity.The dams for which changes are being sought are the Ice Harbor, Lower Monumental, Little Goose and Lower Granite on the Snake

Memorial services for Jesse Jackson begin at Chicago headquarters of his civil rights organization

He scored diplomatic victories with world leaders, and through his Rainbow PUSH Coalition, he channeled cries for Black pride and self-determination into corporate boardrooms, pressuring executives to make America a more open and equitable society.“We honor him, and his hard-earned legacy as a freedom fighter, philosopher, and faithful shepherd of his family and community here in Chicago,” Mayor Brandon Johnson said in a statement.Next week, Jackson will lie in honor at the South Carolina Stateh

Kilmar Abrego Garcia asks US judge in Tennessee to dismiss his criminal case, saying it’s vindictive

(AP) — Attorneys for Kilmar Abrego Garcia will try to persuade a federal judge in Tennessee on Thursday to throw out human smuggling charges against him.Abrego Garcia, whose mistaken deportation has galvanized both sides of the immigration debate, claims that the criminal prosecution is vindictive, pushed by officials from President Donald Trump’s administration to punish him after they were forced to bring him back to the United States. While Abrego Garcia is a Salvadoran citizen, a court

Most Americans see Iran as an enemy but doubt Trump’s judgment on military force, AP-NORC poll finds

adults continue to view Iran’s nuclear program as a threat — but they also don’t have high trust in President Donald Trump’s judgment on the use of military force abroad.About half of U.S. adults are “extremely” or “very” concerned that Iran’s nuclear program poses a direct threat to the United States, according to the new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. About 3 in 10 are “moderately” concerned and only about 2 in 10 are “not very”

Jeff Galloway, who inspired people with his run-walk method, dies at 80

<block>Jeff Galloway, a member of the 1972 U.S. Olympic team who for decades inspired elite athletes and countless everyday runners by promoting a <a href="https://www.jeffgalloway.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">run-walk-run strategy</a>, whether in a marathon or just a neighborhood jog, died Wednesday at age 80.Galloway had a hemorrhagic stroke and died at a hospital in Pensacola, Florida, daughter-in-law Carissa Galloway said.His influence was evident in the final days of his life: Throngs of people posted videos online, hoping for Galloway’s recovery from emergency neurosurgery and thanking him for advice that boosted their confidence and took them to race starting lines.Galloway’s family announced the surgery on Feb. 20 and invited the public to <a href="https://www.tribute.co/jeff-galloway/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">express support.</a>Jim Vance, an elite endurance sports consultant in San Diego, said Galloway was a “pioneer” in getting people to run.“He removed the barrier to entry, which was mostly mental,” Vance told The Associated Press. “Running isn’t supposed to be a suffer-fest. It should be something peaceful, something enjoyable, so people can enjoy running and not dread it.”Galloway survived heart failure in 2021 and was still hoping to complete another marathon after logging more than 230 during his lifetime.“My mission now, at the age of 80-plus, is to show that people can do things that are normally not done, and can do them safely,” <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/well/move/jeff-galloway-marathon.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">he told</a> The New York Times in December.Galloway’s run-walk-run method began in 1974 when he agreed to teach a running class through Florida State University, two years after competing in the 10,000 meters at the Olympics. He figured it might attract customers to Phidippides, his new store for runners.“None had done any running for at least five years. So we started walking with a few one-minute jogs,” Galloway said on his website.“I spent some time with each group, during the runs, to adjust the frequency of walk breaks so that no one was huffing and puffing — even at the end,” he said. “Walk breaks kept the groups together. Everyone passed the final exam: finishing either a 5K or a 10K with smiles on their faces.”Galloway believed walking during a run reduced the risk of injury, conserved energy and kept confidence afloat.“I’ve been using them ever since,” he said, “continuing to fine-tune the ratios of running to walking based upon pace per mile and individual needs.”And Galloway even had his own recipe. He walked through every water station during the 1980 Houston marathon and finished with a faster time, 2:16:35, than his previous run-only 26.2 mile (42.1 kilometer) races, the Times reported.He shared his running philosophies through books, websites and retreats. Galloway was the official training consultant for runDisney, a series of races at Walt Disney Co. resorts, and would be among the runners. Many admirers went online to offer tributes after his recent surgery.“I never thought I would be a runner. I never thought I’d run a half marathon,” Karen Bock-Losee of Jacksonville, Florida, said in a video. “I’m 70 years old and I’ve run several since my 60th birthday when I discovered Galloway running. I just want to say thank you.”Susan Williams recalled seeing Galloway as she struggled toward the end of a half marathon in Murray, Kentucky, in 2011.“You passed me, and my butt was cramping,” she said. “You turned around and came back. You talked me through it. It was awesome.”Bobby McGee, a Colorado-based running coach, said Galloway’s run-walk-run approach made running more accessible to the masses.“When a group of people in any kind of run — from marathons to fun runs — get together afterwards they talk about their time,” McGee said. “Nobody asks them if they ran the whole thing.” Galloway is survived by two sons and six grandchildren.___Associated Press reporter Audrey McAvoy in Honolulu contributed to this story.</block>

Curley: AI will give us back our free time. Will you waste it or embrace a new renaissance?

So they tried to reject anything having to do with the industrialization and the Enlightenment age.So you get stuff like this: I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high o’er vales and hills, and when all at once, I saw a crowd, a host of golden daffodils beside the lake, beneath the trees, fluttering and dancing in the breeze.That’s William Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.”Ford gave workers free time, and they didn’t spend it on symphoniesSo

Kirkland man held on $150K bail after pleading not guilty to child molestation

Repeated sexual contact with a child and a profound breach of trust,” the victim’s mother said.Bail was set at $150,000, and Hurne was ordered to have no contact with children.“Children, by their nature, are vulnerable individuals in our society, and the fact that an adult would prey upon children, especially one as young as 10 years old, I think does demonstrate, clearly, that he poses an extreme danger to the community,” Judge Brian McDonald said.RELATED STORIESAuburn m

FBI fires agents who worked on Trump classified document investigation, AP sources say

WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI has fired additional agents who worked on an investigation into President Donald Trump, this time terminating employees who participated in the probe into the Republican’s hoarding of classified documents, people familiar with the matter said Wednesday.The firings are part of a broader personnel purge under the leadership of Director Kash Patel, a Trump appointee who, over the last year, has pushed out dozens of employees who either contributed to investigations o

Auburn man arrested in mother’s murder, told police demon ‘possessed him to kill’

in a bedroom and was taken into custody.Detectives interviewed the suspect at SeaTac City Hall.RELATED STORIES'I didn't say light up': Deputy smashes window to arrest suspect smoking narcotics in Snohomish County2 armed teens arrested after shooting near South Seattle schools; more suspects on the looseArmed robber hits Puyallup bank; police searching for suspectSuspect confessed to killing, blamed demon possession in statementAccording to the probable cause statement, the suspect told them he t

Old Apollo rocks shed new light on the moon’s magnetic field long ago

With Artemis astronauts exploring the moon’s south polar region instead of the low-latitude lava plains of Apollo days, the new samples should shed even more light on the moon’s ancient magnetism.Nichols and her team pored over earlier measurements of the Apollo samples and found that high titanium levels corresponded with preserved traces of high magnetic activity. Rocks from the first and last moon landings — Apollo 11 and Apollo 17 — were loaded with titanium.“We have found a miss