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Seattle's Roosevelt High School sanctioned for illicit recruiting of football players

District staff, coaches, and students at Seattle’s Roosevelt High School face wide-ranging sanctions after the state’s school athletics regulatory body found that the football program illicitly recruited students.
- Ann Dornfeld
Family of Garfield High student fatally shot on campus sues Seattle Public Schools

The family of a 17-year-old Garfield High School student shot and killed at lunchtime last year is suing Seattle Public Schools, alleging negligence.
- Ann Dornfeld
Seattle's e-scooters are hot. Helmets are not. The brain injuries can be 'profound'

Seattle’s popular ride-share electric scooters are sending tens of thousands of people zipping across town — and some to Harborview with serious injuries. Last year, the city’s trauma hospital saw 163 serious injuries from e-scooters or e-bikes, many of them head injuries.
- Ann Dornfeld
From blubber to bone: How a whale decomposes on land

The story of the Lobby Whale at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture.
- Brandi Fullwood
Washington lawmakers consider bill to prevent abuse in youth sports

A bill before Washington state lawmakers aims to prevent abuse in youth sports by making coaches mandatory reporters of abuse and requiring them to receive annual training on the law.
- Ann Dornfeld
Whistle blown: Fraud allegations over elite basketball program at Seattle public school with $22,000 tuition
- Ann Dornfeld
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New KUOW podcast takes kids behind the scenes at the Burke

Hosts Paige Browning and Brandi Fullwood have fun learning and exploring
- Kim Malcolm
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King County Council calls for audit of nonprofit-managed juvenile diversion

The King County Council has asked the county auditor to examine a controversial, $16 million program that puts community-based organizations in charge of juvenile criminal diversions.
- Ann Dornfeld
Seattle's Roosevelt High finally made the football playoffs, but did they recruit players to get there?

Roosevelt High School in Seattle is under investigation by the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association for alleged football recruiting violations as the team heads to state playoffs for the first time in a decade.
- Ann Dornfeld
Father of Garfield student killed at school begs witnesses to 'do the right thing'

On June 6, 17-year-old Amarr Murphy-Paine was fatally shot outside Seattle's Garfield High School during lunchtime. His father, Arron, sat down with KUOW for his first media interview since Amarr's death to remember his son's life — and seek information from the public to help police solve the case.
- Ann Dornfeld
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