Recall Petition Targets Katie Wilson After Bite of Seattle Shooting Fallout
SEATTLE — Two Seattle residents filed recall charges against Mayor Katie Wilson on Tuesday, August 11, alleging she has neglected her legal duty to maintain public safety and peace in the city. Melinda Jacobson and Dale Osterud submitted the charges to the King County Elections Office, accusing Wilson of dereliction in addressing crime, gun violence, […]
Check your vaccine record for National Immunization Awareness Month
SNOHOMISH COUNTY—August is National Immunization Awareness Month, and the school year is right around the corner. Your child deserves the best protection before the next school year starts. Routine immunizations such as Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR), Tetanus, Diphtheria and Pertussis (Tdap), and others protect against a long list of diseases with an even longer […]
27-year-old charged with murdering 2-year-old girl and assaulting her 6-year-old brother
SNOHOMISH — Prosecutors in Snohomish County charged 27-year-old Samuel Adonis Cardoza-Menjivar with second-degree murder and second-degree assault of a child in connection with the December 2025 death of a nearly three-year-old girl and injuries to her older brother, according to court documents filed Wednesday. Cardoza-Menjivar, also referred to in records by his middle name Adonis, […]
CMS ends federal Medicaid and CHIP funding for transgender procedures on children
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Tuesday finalized a rule prohibiting the use of federal Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program funds for what the agency terms “sex-rejecting procedures” provided to children and youth, referencing weak evidence of benefits and significant risks of irreversible harm. The rule, scheduled for publication […]
43-year-old woman accused of fatally running over boyfriend with car
MARYSVILLE – A 43-year-old woman was arrested after allegedly killing her boyfriend by running him over with her car near Marysville Tuesday evening. The Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office Major Crimes Unit (MCU) responded to a report of a person down at a residence in the 12800 block of 1st Avenue Northwest, near Marysville in unincorporated […]
Lynnwood’s Olympus Spa asks US Supreme Court to reverse Ninth Circuit ruling forcing men into women-only nude spa
LYNNWOOD—Attorneys with the Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) and Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) on Monday, August 10, asked the United State Supreme Court to review a Ninth Circuit ruling that upheld Washington state’s enforcement of its public-accommodations law against Olympus Spa, a traditional Korean women-only spa in Lynnwood and Tacoma, requiring transgender women into its facilities. […]
