Latest Washington Headlines
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Pastor Pleads Guilty to Setting Fire to His Washington D.C. Rental Apartment
Aug 29 2018 // The pastor of a Baltimore, Md., church has pled guilty to setting fire to an apartment he rented in Southeast Washington in a plan to collect insurance money. Jamel Carelock, the pastor of Lead Church, pled guilty in the...
Washington City, Insurer Settle with Utility over Fire Started by Police
Aug 27 2018 // A city in eastern Washington state has agreed to a settlement with a power company after a large fire started last year during a gun-shooting training exercise for local police officers. The Yakima Herald-Republic reports...
Boeing Sued Over Contamination of Washington River
Aug 22 2018 // A new lawsuit says the Boeing aircraft company is poisoning the Duwamish River by pumping out pollution that is far and away above the legal limit. KOMO-TV reported environmental groups Puget Soundkeeper and Waste Action...
Gellermann Named Chief Deputy Commissioner in Washington
Aug 21 2018 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler has named AnnaLisa Gellermann chief deputy commissioner. She begins Aug. 27. Gellerman is currently the deputy commissioner for the policy and legislative affairs division....
Washington Lawmaker Sues University, Investigator over Firing
Aug 20 2018 // Republican Rep. Matt Manweller is suing Central Washington University and the investigator it hired to look into allegations of inappropriate conduct. Manweller, a political professor at the college since 2003, was fired...
Washington Lawsuit Says College Dean Raped Assistant
Aug 17 2018 // A woman has filed a lawsuit against Bellevue College claiming the school, and by extension Washington state, fostered a hostile work environment by failing to protect her from a former dean. SeattlePI.com reported the...
Heffernan Opens Retirement Services Office in Washington Led by Thibault
Aug 10 2018 // Heffernan Insurance Brokers has opened a retirement services location in Seattle, Wash., to be overseen by Blake Thibault, managing director of Heffernan’s financial services division. Also located in the office are...
Serious Worker Injuries at Lead to $250K in Fines for Washington Manufacturer
Aug 9 2018 // A Seattle, Wash. company that manufactures electronics mounting systems and other products is facing more than $250,000 in fines for multiple serious and willful worker safety and health violations. The state’s...
Stone Creek in California Names Bornstein Commercial Producer in Washington
Aug 9 2018 // Lafayette, Calif- based Stone Creek has named Joe Bornstein a commercial producer in its Spokane, Wash. office. Bornstein’s emphasis will be on small business on the West Coast. Bornstein comes to Stone Creek by from...
Two Women Sentenced in Washington for Insurance Fraud
Jul 26 2018 // Two Washington state women have been sentenced after pleading guilty to committing insurance fraud, the state insurance department announced. The sentencing is the result of an investigation conducted by the Criminal...
Trump, EU Agree to Trade Talks; Place Auto Tariffs on Hold
Jul 26 2018 // In what the EU chief called a “major concession,” U.S. President Donald Trump agreed on Wednesday to refrain from imposing car tariffs while the two sides launch negotiations to cut other trade barriers, easing...
Second Group Reaches $11.5M Settlement in Washington Landslide
Jul 24 2018 // A second group of relatives of people killed in the deadly Oso landslide has reached an $11.5 million settlement with Washington state and a timber company that logged an area above the site of the collapse. The Daily...
Jury Awards $640K to Washington Man in Excessive Force Case
Jul 23 2018 // A federal jury has awarded a Federal Way, Wash. man $640,000 after finding a police officer used excessive force when arresting him at an accident scene in 2014. The Seattle Times reported that the jury gave Josiah Hunter...
Washington Asbestos Removal Company Fined $229K for Unsafe Conditions
Jul 17 2018 // An Edmonds, Wash.-based asbestos removal contractor has been cited by the Washington Department of Labor & Industries for multiple willful safety violations for improper handling of asbestos. Along with the citations,...
Trump Administration Forms Financial Frauds Task Force
Jul 16 2018 // In forming a new task force to protect consumers from fraud, the Trump administration made clear that one of the greatest threats to the public is just emerging: red-hot markets for crypto coins. The inclusion of virtual...
PEMCO Insurance in Washington Adds Geurts to Marketing Department
Jul 13 2018 // PEMCO Insurance has named Diane Geurts a communication manager for the company’s marketing department. Geurts has spent 20 years working in marketing and communications roles. Geurts will support PEMCO’s...
Stone Creek Names Lesser Account Manager in Washington
Jul 11 2018 // Stone Creek Insurance Agency has named Rochelle Lesser as junior account manager in the downtown Spokane, Wash. office. Lesser will help grow the Spokane office. She comes to Stone Creek with prior experience at both...
Amtrak Rail Cars in Fatal Washington Crash Had Safety Waiver
Jul 11 2018 // The passenger rail cars on an Amtrak train that derailed near Seattle, Wash. last December, killing three people, were allowed by federal regulators to stay in service even though they didn’t meet current...
Washington’s Skagit County Gets New Tsunami Planning Maps
Jul 9 2018 // Skagit County officials in northwestern Washington have a new resource to help plan for potential big waves caused by large earthquakes along the West Coast. Skagit County Department of Emergency Management Director Doug...
Washington Dockworker’s Widow Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit
Jul 6 2018 // The widow of a Washington state dockworker killed when a mooring line snapped on a cargo ship has filed a $15 million wrongful death lawsuit against the ship’s owner and operators. Byron Jacobs, of Longview, was...
