Hospitals across Washington state were alerted Friday to pull select N95 masks off their shelves and send them for analysis after an investigation uncovered knockoffs, said the state’s hospital association. The fake masks closely resemble N95 masks manufactured by a company called 3M. The Washington State Hospital Association (WSHA) and other hospital executives told […]
A Washington state hospital is apologizing for giving deep-pocket donors special access to the COVID-19 vaccine — even though appointments for the public were reportedly booked through March. Overlake Medical Center in Bellevue acknowledged Wednesday that roughly 100 donors were included in a list of 4,000 emailed invitations to the […]
A Washington state father is accused of killing his daughter’s boyfriend after finding the young man in her room, prosecutors said. Charles Heller, 49, was charged with second-degree murder Monday in the fatal 2019 shooting of 20-year-old Dustyn Hunt — after he discovered his daughter tried to sneak Hunt into […]
People in Washington state can now literally push up daisies after their death — as the first human composting efforts in the country recently began there, according to a new report. Two facilities in the Evergreen State received their first bodies for human composting — also known as “natural organic […]
A Democratic mayor in Washington state spoke out this week against the protests supporting the Black Lives Matter movement — after a group of vandals damaged her home. Cheryl SelbyCity of Olympia Mayor Cheryl Selby of Olympia, the state’s capital, told The Olympian this week that she was “really trying […]
Seattle activists just can’t settle on a name for their cop-free protest pace. Once known as the “Capital Hill Autonomous Zone,” or CHAZ, the protesters behind the festival-like takeover of a six-block radius around an emptied-out police precinct in the neighborhood are now pushing a new acronym for the space: […]
President Trump on Thursday said Washington Gov. Jay Inslee looks like a “fool” – a day after Inslee responded “that’s news to me” to a question about protesters carving out a police-free zone on a section of Seattle. During a news conference on Wednesday, Inslee, a former Democratic presidential candidate, […]
Fake signs warning of murder hornets are popping up around Washington State hiking trails. Wildlife officials in the state spent their Memorial Day weekend debunking the rumors and removing the signs from nature trails after receiving “several reports” of the legitimate-looking laminated warnings, according to the state’s Department of Agriculture. […]
