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TACOMA, Wash. — The defense rested its case on Monday in the criminal misdemeanor trial of Pierce County Sheriff Ed Troyer, who returned for a second day of testimony. The sheriff is accused of filing a false report that a Black newspaper carrier threatened to kill him. On his second day on the witness stand, Troyer said he never requested the big police response when he called a back line to dispatch about a confrontation with a suspicious man in his neighborhood who Troyer said threatened him. “I knew one or two units was all I needed to handle the...

26-year old son taken to ER with Covid - please pray for him. Healthy, fit conservative Christian. Got Covid last Saturday and confirmed on Monday. He lives nearby and he said he was doing okay. Checked in on him mid-week with some food and talked with him through the window and said he was about the same. He tried to take the ivermectin and other vitamins that I gave him on Saturday but he couldn't keep them down. Dropped by this morning with some more stuff and said he was a little worse but he would be okay. I asked...

Forget the 26-year-old zero who murdered 10 innocents at Umpqua Community College on Thursday morning. The Chris to remember is 30-year-old Chris Mintz, the student and Army vet who was shot at least five times while charging straight at the gunman in an effort to save others. Mintz did so on the sixth birthday of his son, Tyrik.

During a solo kayak trip, intended to go from from Ketchikan, Alaska to Petersburg, Alask, a bear attacked my kayak. This incident occurred outside of a US Forest Service cabin in Berg Bay, Wrangell District, Alaska.

The Plano [Texas] Police Department is asking for the public's help to locate a missing, endangered man. Christopher David Tennyson, a 47-year-old white male, was last seen at his residence on Saturday afternoon. He has blonde hair and blue eyes, is 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighs between 130 and 150 pounds.

Excerpt: Boeing machinists (Washington State) rejected a contract Wednesday that would have exchanged worker concessions for years of secure jobs.

NEAR GIG HARBOR, Wash. [video at link] By Alison Grande Detectives say a homeowner shot an intruder in the back as the man entered his house near Gig Harbor. The shooting happened in the 5700 block of Ray Nash Dr. Northwest around 5 p.m. on Thursday. The homeowner told investigators he confronted a man in his driveway and told him to leave. The man didn’t respond. Instead, he kept walking toward the house. The man’s wife and children were inside the house. Police say the man kept going and went in the front door; the homeowner fired one shot and...

WASHINGTON — Taxpayers will get an extra three days to file their federal tax returns this year, and they can thank the nation's capital for the extra time. The filing deadline is delayed because the District of Columbia will observe Emancipation Day on Friday, April 15. By law, local holidays in the nation's capital impact tax deadlines the same way federal holidays would, the Internal Revenue Service said. Taxpayers will have until midnight Monday, April 18, to file their 2010 returns....

Communiqué #1 From The Weatherman Underground From /The Berkeley Tribe/, May 21, 1970. The Red Mountain Tribe. Hello. This is Bernardine Dohrn. I'm going to read A DECLARATION OF A STATE OF WAR. This is the first communication from the Weatherman underground. All over the world, people fighting Amerikan imperialism look to Amerika's youth to use our strategic position behind enemy lines to join forces in the destruction of the empire. Black people have been fighting almost alone for years. We've known that our job is to lead white kids into armed revolution. We never intended to spend the next...