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Seattle-area Muslim groups host interfaith gathering tonight in response to...
Community members of all faiths and backgrounds are welcome to attend, the organizers said.
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Investigators open probe into four companies involved in dismantling Seattle...
Investigators will likely be trying to determine how closely construction crews had been following the manufacturer's instructions for disassembling the crane, two crane safety experts said.
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Investigation into fatal crane collapse in Seattle now spread to 5 companies
Seaburg Construction, which employed the operator of the tower crane before workers began to dismantle it, will be among the companies investigated in connection with the collapse at Mercer Street and...
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Local resident with measles spent time in King, Pierce counties, health...
A Pierce County man diagnosed with measles spent time while contagious in both Pierce and King counties last week, including Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, health officials said Sunday evening.
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Washington state clears one of several firms involved in deadly crane collapse
Washington state authorities have closed its investigation into one of the five companies involved in the South Lake Union construction project where a tower crane collapsed in late April, killing four.
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White Center shooting leaves 3 wounded
The King County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a shooting incident in White Center that left three people wounded, a spokesman said Sunday.
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Seattle police investigate after man fatally shot in Belltown
Seattle homicide detectives were investigating the death of a 32-year-old man who was shot to death in Belltown early Sunday morning.
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Everett police make arrest in fatal shooting
Everett Police arrested a suspect for second-degree murder after a shooting Saturday night left a victim dead.
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Family shocked as trailer burned in fatal Port Angeles fire; husband arrested
Police arrested Matthew T. Wetherington on suspicion of first-degree arson and four counts of first-degree murder. There are no other suspects.
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PROLOGUE: A primer on the mental-health crisis in Washington state
Published on August 23, 2019
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Rosemary Torgesen’s last months
https://projects.seattletimes.com/2019/public-crisis-private-toll-timeline
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PART ONE: How a company’s push to expand psychiatric care brought peril
Published on August 25, 2019
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Massachusetts health-care system conducting a review of US HealthVest after...
A health-care system in Massachusetts said it was conducting a review of US HealthVest, its partner in a proposed psychiatric hospital, two days after a Seattle Times investigation of the company’s...
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Behind Joint Commission’s ‘Gold Seal of Approval,’ a history of missed safety...
The Joint Commission's "Gold Seal of Approval" is one of the most visible signs the public has of a psychiatric hospital's quality. But regulators routinely find serious violations the accrediting...
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PART TWO: At private psychiatric hospitals, a hidden safety record, a human cost
Published on September 8, 2019
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Gov. Inslee urges stronger oversight of Washington’s private psychiatric...
Gov. Jay Inslee said the state’s oversight of private psychiatric hospitals is “inadequate” in response to a Seattle Times investigation.
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Family of Burien man killed in fatal head-on collision with a stolen car...
Carlos Recinos' wife and daughter passed by the scene of the fatal wreck just minutes after it occurred and realized the pickup truck was his.
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Public Crisis, Private Toll: Key findings of The Seattle Times’ investigation...
Washington state has approved or expanded 10 private psychiatric hospitals since 2012, promising to transform the way mental-health care is delivered in a state with a chronic shortage of treatment...
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Free to check in, but not to leave: Patients seeking mental-health treatment...
In hundreds of cases, patients seeking mental-health treatment in Washington state have been held against their will or threatened with involuntary commitment.
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‘Totally avoidable’: state faults, fines companies in collapse of Seattle...
Among those killed in the collapse were two ironworkers who had been working on the crane and two people traveling in cars on Mercer Street. Crews were working to disassemble the crane, which had been...
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