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PHOENIX (AP) — A judge has approved a $15 million settlement against a doctor in a lawsuit by the parents of an incapacitated woman who was sexually assaulted and later gave birth at a Phoenix long-term care center, marking the last of several deals to resolve legal claims over the rape. The settlement made on…

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Startup electric truck maker Lordstown Motors said Tuesday that it’s still on track to begin production this fall despite a management shakeup this week and a warning just days earlier that it may not be in business a year from now. Angela Strand, the company’s new chairwoman, said the upheaval from…

CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago nonprofit formed to highlight the lack of leaders of color within the city’s arts and cultural systems has added a new program, aiming to imagine what the nation’s third-largest city could look like without stubborn inequities in art, theater and other institutions. The first phase of Enrich Chicago’s new program,…

Ocean ecosystems will have difficulty retaining functional integrity throughout the climate crisis this century, and these ecosystems need the strongest protections we can provide. Top Featured Tags: – Washington News Press Release Distribution Service

Through June 21, Inspection and repair work on the Ballard Bridge will close one lane to cars and require cyclists traveling through the construction zone to walk their bikes. Top Featured Tags: – Washington News Press Release Distribution Service

The rookie delivers perhaps the best performance of his season as the Mariners end a 12-game road trip with a 6-2 win in Cleveland. Top Featured Tags: – Washington News Press Release Distribution Service

ATLANTA (AP) — Doc Rivers isn’t revealing his plan for replacing Danny Green in the Philadelphia 76ers’ lineup. Rivers said Sunday “some of the unintended good consequences of having injuries during the regular season” are having options for Game 4 of the Eastern Conference semifinal series against the Atlanta Hawks on Monday night. Green’s injury…

A Seattle police officer was killed Sunday in Bellevue during a traffic incident, a Washington State Patrol spokesman and another law enforcement source said. Top Featured Tags: – Washington News Press Release Distribution Service

CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago bus driver looking for a way to relieve stress during the coronavirus pandemic jumped into Lake Michigan for a 365th straight day on Saturday. Dan O’Conor said he started jumping into the lake at Montrose Harbor on the city’s North Side last year to relieve stress. “It was during the…

DETROIT (AP) — Felix Rosenqvist was taken to a Detroit hospital following a wall-smashing crash Saturday early in the IndyCar race on Belle Isle. The throttle appeared to stick in Rosenqvist’s car as he entered the sixth turn at the Raceway at Belle Isle Park. With no way to stop or slow his car, the…

ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — A northern Virginia county near the nation’s capital is paving the way to rename a major highway that currently shares a name with Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. The Arlington County Board said at its Saturday meeting that it plans to vote next month to rename Lee Highway for abolitionist John…

I worked for 20 years in King County as a Chemical Dependency Professional  (CDP) with the mental-health department for the recuperation of alcoholics and drug addicted persons, many of them homeless. Now I am retired. Based on my experience, I  suggest to  legislators the creation of a homelessness department for an experimental period of  five…

When the Montreal Canadiens were one goal away from being eliminated in the first round, and then again when they were one goal away from reaching the Stanley Cup semifinals, Cole Caufield set up the overtime winner each time. Caufield was dominating college hockey just two months earlier and suddenly at age 20 had become…

For Seattle’s 2019 and 2020 budgets, Mayor Jenny Durkan’s administration rejected proposals by staff to fund text archiving projects. Top Featured Tags: – Washington News Press Release Distribution Service

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — One of the jurors who convicted Derek Chauvin of murder in George Floyd ’s death says expert testimony about asphyxiation and the former Minneapolis police officer’s own body camera video convinced her he was guilty. Journee Howard, a 25-year-old acting and modeling student, told the Minneapolis Star Tribune that the video footage…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Julio Jones turned 32 in February, missed seven games with a nagging hamstring issue in his 10th year in the NFL and now finds himself with a new team in the Tennessee Titans. The seven-time Pro Bowl wide receiver had a message Thursday for anyone doubting him. “I know what I…

The Metropolitan Opera showed a tax return revealing it is $31 million in the black during the fiscal year that ended last July 31, but the company said the figure included mostly pledges for future years. The company’s tax return, released Thursday, showed revenue fell by $13 million for the season that included the initial…

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Opioid distribution companies and federal regulators pointed the finger at each other as a contributing factor in the nation’s opioid epidemic during a landmark civil trial in West Virginia. A former Drug Enforcement Administration official and the distributors each argued Wednesday that the other side disregarded requests to comply with regulations…

Jake Bauers hit the road early Thursday to get to Detroit in time to play his first game with the Mariners. He’ll drive back to Cleveland after the game to finish the transition to a new team. Top Featured Tags: – Washington News Press Release Distribution Service

The policy change comes as the state’s job market continues its slow but steady recovery from the pandemic. Top Featured Tags: – Washington News Press Release Distribution Service