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King County prosecutors have notified schools of 69 felony gun charges against students

The King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office has started notifying schools when students are charged with felonies involving guns. The Safer Schools Strategy began this school year, partly in response to campus shootings.
- Ann Dornfeld
Fatal drug overdoses declining slightly in King County after 2023 surge

Officials in King County say after a bleak year of increased drug overdoses in 2023, they are starting to see signs of hope. At the county’s fourth annual conference on substance use Thursday, officials said fatal drug overdoses are trending down slightly in 2024.
- Amy Radil
Despite threats of removal, asylum-seekers in Kent remain at camp next to empty hotel

For now, asylum-seekers camping out in front of a vacant county-owned hotel in the city of Kent are not going to be relocated.
- Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez
Controversial county effort to divert youth criminal cases to community groups not meeting goals

A $16 million effort by King County to send most juvenile criminal cases to community-based diversion programs, rather than the court system, is having trouble meeting its goals, a county report shows.
- Ann Dornfeld
Juvenile crime is up in King County. Officials can’t agree about how to handle it

As juvenile crime rates surge in King County, there is little consensus over what is causing the trend or how to respond to it.
- Ann Dornfeld
King County Council raises minimum wage in unincorporated areas

The King County Council approved a new hourly minimum wage of $20.29, close to the base pay in cities like Seattle and Renton.
- Casey Martin
Yes, hiking. No, traffic. Trailhead Direct offers car-free travel from Seattle to the mountains

This year, Trailhead Direct features one route to Mount Si and the return of a second route, after a two-year absence, to the Issaquah Alps.
- Stephen Howie
Bring on the dancing zorses: North Bend continues search for 'wayward zebra'

A zebra has now become embedded in North Bend pop culture after four zebras escaping from their trailer along I-90 through North Bend.
- Dyer Oxley
Auburn police officer’s murder trial tests new state law for police misconduct

The first police officer charged with murder in Washington under a new legal standard for police misconduct is heading to trial. Jury selection is scheduled to begin April 22 in the trial of Auburn police officer Jeffrey Nelson.
- Amy Radil
King County prosecutors 'rush filed' charges against UW football player accused of two rapes

University of Washington running back Tylin Rogers has been charged with one count of rape in the second degree and one count of rape in the third degree after allegedly forcing himself on two woman last fall. Rogers, an 18-year-old freshman, was arrested Friday and released on bail the next day.
- Katie Campbell

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